Includes Matynia's handwritten lecture and research notes, as well as reference materials, including news bulletins, clippings, manuscripts, and syllabi. Clippings include a Polish newspaper article on the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn. The peace movement of the folder title appears to refer to the movement for nuclear disarmament in western European countries and the U.S. during this period.

Conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities that took place at Indiana University Bloomington Campus.

Includes typescript draft by Andrew Arato, "Civil Society against the State: Poland 1980-81"; a book prospectus by Jeffrey Goldfarb and Ryszard Nowicki, "Remembering Solidarity"; and a typescript of a rough draft of a prospectus by Goldfarb titled, "For Democratic Culture."

A monograph authored by Matynia for the Social Science Research Council Working Paper series.

Handwritten notes and student papers on utopias for classes Matynia taught, probably at Bard College.

Ungraded student papers from a course Matynia taught in spring of 1985, as well as an undated conference typescript by Lucille Cooper.

Fliers and other materials related to the visual artist, Jan Sawka, including a copy of the Polish American monthly magazine, Tygodnik Nowojorski, with a cover by Sawka.

Lecture and research notes for the course, Sociology of Culture, that Matynia taught at Bard College. Includes a syllabus from the Fall 1984 semester, as well as syllabi and course materials from sociology courses taught by Jeffrey Goldfarb.

Handwritten notes and materials for a class that Matynia taught at Bard College. Includes a manuscript by Jeffrey Goldfarb, "Between Utopia and Reality: On the Politics of Post-Modernism and the Polish Renewal" and a paper by a student in Matynia's 1987 course, "Semiotics of Communication."