Mickiewicz Conference at University of Chicago

[David Kaiser]

The Polish Language Program at the University of Chicago presents:

On the Brink of the Modern. In Commemoration of the
200th Anniversary of the Birth of Adam Mickiewicz

A Conference sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of
Chicago, and Members of the Polish community in the United States.

Saturday, October 23, 1999
Ida Noyes Hall, Theater

9:00 - 9:30 am
Coffee

9:30 am
Welcoming words

9:45 - 10:40 am
Panel I: Mickiewicz's European Sources and Influences
Joanna Kurowska-Mlynarczyk, University of Chicago
The Sea-Imagery in Selected Poems of Adam Mickiewicz and in the Fiction
of Joseph Conrad
Megan Dixon, Principia College
Reconsidering the Problem of Pushkin in Mickiewicz Studies

10:40 - 11:40 am
Panel II: Ethics and Aesthetics in Mickiewicz's Works
Maciej Urbanowski, Jagiellonian University
The Virtuous Writer? - Mickiewicz Under Gombrowicz's Eyes
Maria Zadencka, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Myth of the Deed and of the Sacrifice by Adam Mickiewicz and
Stanislaw Wyspianski. Towards the Renovation of the Polish National
Thought

11:45 - 1:30 pm
Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 pm
Panel III: Mickiewicz's Literary Landscapes
Jadwiga Maurer, University of Kansas
Autumn on the Bosphorus
Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
"Man baser than reptiles": Orientalism in Adam Mickiewicz's Crimean
Sonnets

2:30 - 3:40 pm
Panel IV: Crossing the Boundaries between Cultures
Michael J. Mikoss, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Subterranean Streams: On Translating Mickiewicz's Poetry
Piotr Wilczek, University of Illinois at Chicago
Two Versions of Death: Mickiewicz translates Byron
John Merchant, University of Chicago
What Does Mickiewicz Mean to American Readers?

3:40 - 4:40 pm
Panel V: "Between the Real and the Role": Mickiewicz's Experiments with
Theatre
Halina Filipowicz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
When Mickiewicz Sleeps with Mnemosyne: Transgressive Performativity in
Part 4 of Forefathers' Eve
Polish Actor, Andrzej Krukowski presents selected excerpts from Adam
Mickiewicz's Forefathers' Eve, Part 4
4:40 pm
Coffee


5:00 pm
Keynote Address:
Professor Samuel Sandler
University of Chicago
Recurrent Motif in Mickiewicz's Works:
Between Olden and Newer Days

Reception to follow

Sunday, October 24, 1999
Ida Noyes Hall, Cinema
9:30 - 10:00 am
Coffee
10:00 - 11:00 am
Anna Frajlich Zajac, Columbia University
Adam Mickiewicz - A Romantic Portrait of the Poet
A lecture and presentation of slides
11:00 - 11:30 am
Adam Mickiewicz, film (in English)
11:30 - 12:30 pm
Polish-American Actors: Agata Paleczny, Rafal Bielobradek, Andrzej
Krukowski, present the poetry of Adam
Mickiewicz (in Polish and English)
12:30 pm
Closing remarks
"A shared purpose did not claim my identity.
On the contrary, it enlarged my sense of myself."
        Senator John McCain