Siege DVD
News, Reviews & Events — 2011-2013
This page contains News, Reviews & Events from 2011 through 2013 dealing with the Siege DVD, either in whole or in part. It is a subset of the year listings to be found in the News, Reviews & Events Archive under Media Room in the main menu. Other years for this title can be found under the News, Reviews & Events tab in the menu at the left of this page.
November 21–24, 2013 – Boston, MA – Aquila Polonica was one of the exhibitors at the 2013 Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Conference, which was held in Boston at the Marriott Copley Plaza. Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian was joined in Boston by colleagues Justine Jablonska, Ewa Wojciak and Jarek Garlinski. This was one of the best-attended ASEEES conferences—Boston is always a favorite venue! It was a great opportunity to see old friends and make new ones. All our titles released through that time were on display and available for sale, including the Siege DVD which we screened on a laptop at our booth.
November 22–24, 2013 – St. Louis, MO – Polish Perspectives at National Council for Social Studies – Siege DVD was among the Aquila Polonica titles showcased at the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2013 Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies, held November 22-24, 2013 in St. Louis. MO. As in past years, the Polish Perspectives booth at NCSS was beautifully coordinated and run by Cecilia Glembocki, from Virginia, who volunteers her time every year to organize the booth and attend the conference.
October 21 & 23, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA – Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian taught a class with multimedia elements about The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt by Rulka Langer, for two sections of Professor Patricia Oliver’s course on “The Rhetoric of Women” at Loyola Marymount University. In addition to a PowerPoint of photos and maps, Ms. Tegnazian also showed Aquila Polonica’s Siege DVD, which illustrates with contemporaneous film footage from the Siege of Warsaw in September 1939 what author Rulka Langer describes in The Mermaid. She was joined by the author’s daughter, Barbara Langer, who flew in from her home in Northern California.
November 15–18, 2012 – Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans – Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2012 ASEEES annual convention, marking our third year at ASEEES. All of our titles released through that time were on display and available for sale, including the Siege DVD which we screened continuously on a laptop at our booth. More…
November 16–18, 2012 – Seattle, WA – Polish Perspectives at National Council for Social Studies – Siege DVD was among the Aquila Polonica titles exhibited in the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2012 Annual Conference of the National Council for Social Studies, held November 16-18, 2012 in Seattle, WA.
November 17–20, 2011 – ASEEES Annual Convention in Washington, D.C. – 2011 marked our second year exhibiting at the ASEEES Annual Convention (ASEEES is the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, in case you wondered). This year we were in the nation’s capital, which gave us a wonderful opportunity to connect with the Polish Embassy and other Washington-area friends. All of the titles which we’d released by the time of the conference were on display and available for sale, including the Siege DVD which we screened continuously on a laptop at our booth. More…
April 2011 – Midwest Book Review – In its review of Aquila Polonica’s new Siege DVD, Library Bookwatch concludes: “Siege is a seminal and indispensable addition to public and college library DVD libraries, worthy of the highest recommendation.” Read the review online (scroll down the list) or pdf…
March 3–4, 2011 – Rochester, MN – Polish Perspectives at the Minnesota Council for Social Studies – Siege DVD was among the Aquila Polonica titles exhibited at the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Minnesota Council for Social Studies held March 3-4, 2011 in Rochester, MN.
