Reporter Volume 25, No.8 October 21, 1993

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
Maria Koconday, Oct. 25, in the Reinstein Branch of the Cheektowaga
Public Library, 2580 Harlem Road. 
Free of charge and open to the public, the lecture is the second in
UB's 1993 Jagiellonian Lecture Series, in which participants in the
UB-Jagiellonian scholar exchange program discuss economic, cultural
and political issues confronting contemporary Poland.
The series is organized and directed by Peter K. Gessner, UB professor
of pharmacology and therapeutics, and is sponsored in the community by
the UB Council on International Studies and Programs.
Koclish cultural artifacts, despite 19th-century foreign occupation.
She will address how wealthy, aristocratic, 19th-century families,
called the Polish magnates, used their powerful positions and
international connections to collect important Polish culture
artifacts, which they then held in trust for the subjugated nation.
Gessner points out that these private collections were frequently
transformed into museums, archives and libraries that their owners
hoped to donate to the Polish nation. However, because  Poland did not
exist as an independent nation at the time, the collections sometimes
were donated to municipal authorities or remained in private hands
until Poland regained independence.
Kocs on the collection of the colorful Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski,
whose procurements were donated to the municipal authorities of
Krakall 1993 Jagiellonian series will be presented at 7:15 p.m. on
Monday, Nov. 8, at the Reinstein Branch. The speaker will be Andrjez
Szopa, associate professor of economics at Jagiellonian University.
His lecture, "Is it Possible to Invest in Poland?," will look at the
attractions and risks associated with the current wave of European
economic speculation.