Lecture of Prof. Mark Rozell “Obama: His First Year Leadership”
On February 25, 2010 students and lecturers had an opportunity to take part in the discussion on “Obama: His First Year Leadership” with Professor Mark Rozell, Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University.
Professor Mark Rozell is a Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is the author of nine books and editor of ten books on various aspects of American government, including the presidency, religion and politics, media and politics, and interest groups in elections.
Lecture: “The current economic crisis” of Jesús Huerta de Soto
On October 30, 2009 U.S. Economy and Transatlantic Relations Institute hosted a guest lecture by Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto
Jesús Huerta de Soto Ballester is an Austrian School economist and Professor of Political Economy at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. In 2005 Huerta de Soto received the CNE’s Adam Smith Award for lifetime achievement.
The lecture entitled “The current economic crises” arouse a hectic discussion among the lecturers and students.
Professor’s visit was also an occasion to promote his book “Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles”.
Lecture: „The War of Ideas: Rhetoric, Extremism, and Security”
The U.S. Economy and Transatlantic Relations Institute with the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw organized a lecture of Professor Cezar M. Ornatowski entitled „The War of Ideas: Rhetoric, Extremism, and Security”
Cezar M. Ornatowski (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1991) is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University. His research interests include rhetoric and political transformation (esp. in Central/Eastern Europe and South Africa); totalitarian and democratic rhetorics, extremist rhetorics; collective and national identity, and professional communication.
The discussion focused on the ideology of universal jihad, the strategies of persuasion and penetration its proponents use, and the current debates about how to interpret the threat they pose to national and international security and the options to confront it.
Lecture: Tad Witkowicz “How to transform an idea into profitable business”
On November 9th, 2010 Lazarski students and lecturers took part in hectic discussion with Tad Witkowicz on how to transform an idea into profitable business. The meeting arouse a great interest among students.
Tad Witkowicz immigrated in 1964. He studied physics at the University of Toronto. During the study he received a Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship, becoming a student at the Jagiellonian University for the year. He graduated studying in Canada with honors. He started career as scientist but soon he realized that his true vocation is business. As the first Pole he created and introduced on the NASDAQ stock exchange three high-tech companies: Artel Communications, CrossCom and Adlex. He sold them all for tens of millions of dollars.
From several years he is also working in Poland as an investor ready to take risk of financing so-called start-ups, companies just emerging and sometimes only with an innovative idea and business plan.
Lecture: Barack Obama: deepening or deterring the process of moral decay of the American President’s office?
The US Economy and Transatlantic Relations Institute organized a lecture by Professor Zbigniew Lewicki, an outstanding specialist in American Studies and the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies Institute of Warsaw university. The lecture was given on 17th December 2008 (Wednesday) at 14.30 in the lecture hall 130. During his speech, professor Lewicki was trying to give an answer to the questions, why now the American President’s office does not enjoy such respect as years before, and will the new elected President, groundbreaking in many aspects, be able to reconstruct the significance of this office?
Zbigniew Lewicki is a professor at the University of Warsaw, specializing in American Studies. In the mid 90’s he was the Director of the Department of America in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also the Director for International Security in East-West Institute. Later Professor Lewicki was the head of the Warsaw University American Studies Center. He was a scholarship holder of, inter alia, ACLS, Woodrow Wilson Center, Huntington Library and Winterthur Library. He was also a lecturer in a number of American Universities.
Since 2005 Lewicki has been the Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute (Warsaw University). He is also the head of the American Studies Faculty in the Institute of International Relations at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. At present Professor Lewicki is working on a publication titled “The History of the American Civilization”, the first part of which is planned to come onto the market in March 2009.
