An online conference centered on the works of Czesław Miłosz. The event will take place on October 29, 2021 via Zoom. Register for Friday conference events here: https://uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bL7pySYwQ--GT1A_J688Xg
Event schedule:
Thursday, October 28
This event will take place separately and registration info may be found here.
4:30 PM Reading Milosz
Readings of Miłosz’s poetry in Polish, Lithuanian and English by Audre Budrys, Bozena Shallcross, Maryse Meijer and others
6:00 PM Author reading:
Cynthia Haven, Czesław Miłosz: A California Life, with William Nickell (University of Chicago)
Friday, October 29
10:00 AM Welcome: William Nickell (University of Chicago)
10:10 – 11:45: Dialogic Spaces
Karina Jarzyńska ((Jagiellonian University)
Aleksandra Narog (Jagiellonian University)
Dag Lindskog (University of Chicago)
Lunch Break
12:30 – 2:00 Roundtable: The Poet and His Backgrounds
Chair: Bozena Shallcross (University of Chicago)
Laimonas Briedis (author)
Irena Grudzińska-Gross (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Aleksandra Kremer (Harvard University)
Łukasz Tischner (Jagiellonian University)
Joanna Zach (Jagiellonian University)
2:15 – 5:00 Poet – Translator - Exchange
Stanley Bill (Cambridge University)
Lillian Vallee (Modesto Junior College)
Robert Hass (University of California, Berkeley)
