The North Side of Czesław Miłosz. International Conference in tribute to 100th anniversary of Poet’s birth
What means simbolics of romantic North and classical South for works and biography of Czesław Miłosz? In what way the images of south-east Europe and American nature remained in his writings? How do they link with the world of modern metropolies? Who are the Lithuanians and other Balts for him? What are his feelings about Russia, especially Dostojevsky, but also other contemporary poets? Other questions: Miłosz and Scandinavia; William Blake in Miłosz’s writings. One of the most fascinating issues is the role of Oskar V. Miłosz in the works and life of his famous cousine. These are – amon others – questions that we shall adress during the conference.
Czesław Miłosz had visited Gdansk only a few times, but this city has its place in poet’s biography. Since August 1980 he had seen it as s simbol of Polish longing for freedom. Here, on a Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers a fragment of his poem and a psalm in his translation found their place. In poet’s personal life, this place was also present - nearby, in Sopot Weronika Miłoszowa, his Mother, was buried…
Curaor of the conference
Małgorzata Czermińska, professor of the University of Gdansk
Organisers
The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in cooperation with the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Gdansk (Department of Polish Contemporary Literature).
Participants:
Tadeusz Bujnicki, professor, University of Warsaw
Hieronim Chojnacki, PhD, professor of University of Gdansk
Przemysław Dakowicz, PhD, University of Łódź
Bartosz Dąbrowski, PhD, University of Gdansk
Rolf Fieguth, professor, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)
Aleksander Fiut, professor, Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Andrzej Franaszek, MA
Renata Gorczyńska, MA
Hanna Gosk, professor, University of Warsaw
Anna Janicka, PhD, University of Białystok
Zbigniew Kaźmierczyk, PhD, University of Gdansk
Michał Kłosiński, MA, Silesian University
Ewa Kołodziejczyk, PhD, Institute of Philology of Technical University in Radom
Agnieszka Kosińska, MA
Jarosław Ławski, PhD, University of Białystok
Zbigniew Mańkowski, PhD, Fine Arts Academy in Gdansk
Michał Masłowski, professor, University Paris IV Sorbonne
Elżbieta Mikiciuk, PhD, professor of University in Gdansk
Swietłana Musijenko, professor, Hrodna State University (Belarus)
Józef Olejniczak, professor, Silesian University
Eugeniusz Pańkow, PhD, Hrodna State University (Belarus)
Elżbieta Rybicka, PhD, Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Magdalena Stola, MA, University in Gdansk
Tadeusz Sucharski, PhD, Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk
Magdalena Śniedziewska, MA, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Beata Tarnowska, PhD, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Grażyna Tomaszewska, PhD, University of Gdansk
Feliks Tomaszewski, PhD, University of Gdansk
Marek Tomaszewski, professor, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Oriéntales (INALCO) in Paris
Hans Christian Trepte, professor Universität Leipzig
Tomas Venclova, professor Yale University, doctor honoris causa of University of Gdansk
Monika Wójciak, PhD, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Krzysztof Zajas, PhD, Jagiellonian University
The conference will be held in Polish.
To check the programme, click here (doc.).
Project is co-financed by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
