Mary Erdmans presented at two events in Poland this June. She gave a talk, “Blaming, Shaming, and Explaining Early Childbirth in the US” at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology, and Journalism at the University of Gdansk (Poland) on June 1. For more information visit their blog at http://socjologda.blogspot.com/.

On June 7, she presented a paper “The Role of the State: Polish Political Emigration and Re-migration, 1960-2000” at an invited workshop on American Ethnicity and Ethnic Community Building in Krakow, Poland sponsored by the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at Jagiellonian University and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.