Miłosz and America
Czesław Miłosz Conference

Friday, November 4 / Saturday, November 5
Friday, November 4, 2011
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
1:00-2:30 Registration
2:30-2:45 Welcoming Remarks
3:00-5:30 Panel 1: Historical Perspectives
Moderator: Marci Shore ( Department of History, Yale University)
 
  Milosz in America: an unfinished story
Sławomir Sierakowski (Krytyka Polityczna, editor-in-chief)
  California as a failure of Miłosz, incurable European
Marek Zaleski (Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  Miłosz and America: the first encounter
Jerzy Jarzębski (Jagellonian University, Krakow)
5:30-6:30 Keynote Address
Czesław Miłosz: The Great Mediator
Professor Tomas Venclova (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University)
6:30-7:30 Reception
8:00 Whitney Humanities Center - 53 Wall Street - Auditorium
Films
  I Had a Dream of Return (Przyśnił mi się sen powrotu), a documentary by Andrzej Miłosz
  Czarodziejska Góra: Amerykański Portret Czesława Miłosza (A Magic Mountain: American Portrait of Czslaw Miłosz) documentary by Maria-Zmarz Koczanowicz, 2001
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
63 High Street, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 211
9:00-9:30 Light Breakfast
9:30-11:30 Panel 2: Translating Miłosz
Moderator: David A. Goldfarb
(Polish Cultural Institute New York)
 
  Found in Translation:  Czesław Miłosz and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in California's Heartland
Lillian Vallee (Modesto Junior College, CA)
  Miłosz’s Implicit Assumptions about the Limits of Cross-Cultural Understanding: A Translator’s Perspective
Madeline Levine (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Czesław Miłosz: the Poet and the Translator
Bogdana Carpenter (University of Michigan)
11:30-1:00 Lunch (on own)
1:00-3:00

Panel 3: Poetic Resonances
Moderator: Krystyna Lipinska Illakowicz (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University)

 
  Czesław Miłosz--Standing in the Center
Adam Zagajewski (University of Chicago)
  Signature Pieces
Bożena Shallcross (University of Chicago)
  Miłosz and War
Irena Grudzińska-Gross (Princeton University)
3:00-3:30 Coffee
3:30-5:30 Panel 4: Intellectual Legacy
Moderator: TBD
  "I had no right to talk of you that way, Robert” – Czesław Miłosz and American poets
Andrzej Franaszek (Editor of the Tygodnik Powszechny,Krakow)
  American Patmos of Czesław Miłosz
Krzysztof Czyżewski (Director of Fundacja Pogranicze, Borderland Foundation)
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Mark Danner (University of California, Berkeley)
9:00 Whitney Humanities Center - 53 Wall Street - Auditorium
Films
  Issa Valley (Dolina Issy), by Tadeusz Konwicki
   
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