Mickiewicz Conference at University of Chicago

[David Kaiser]

It has been pointed out to me that when I sent out the program for the
Mickiewicz conference, my signature at the bottom, a quote from Senator
John McCain, may have made it look as if Senator McCain is speaking at the
conference. He is not speaking. I am sorry for any confusion this may have
caused.

Dave Kaiser
University of Chicago



At 11:26 PM 10/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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

OOOPS
>"A shared purpose did not claim my identity.
>On the contrary, it enlarged my sense of myself."
>        Senator John McCain
>