Adam Zagajewski Conference, Univ. of Chicago, 28 April 2006

[David Goldfarb]

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI:   A  TO  Z
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE POET'S WORKS
The University of Chicago
Friday, 28 April 2006

Location: East Lounge at Ida Noyes Hall


PROGRAM

9:00 - 9:30am	   Breakfast

9:30am		Salutations by Dean Danielle Allen, University of Chicago
Keynote address by Shrikanth ("Chicu") Reddy, University of Chicago

10:00am-12:00pm		Panel I

Moderator: Robert Bird, University of Chicago

"'Powrot,' or Two Tales of Rip Van Winkle"
David Goldfarb, Barnard College, New York City

"Adam Zagajewski's `Frohliche Wissenshaft'"
Pawel Kloczowski, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

"Running Out of Time (and into the eternal, joyful moment)"
Marta Napiorkowska, University of Chicago


12:00 - 1:00pm	Lunch

1:00 - 3:30pm		Panel II

Moderator: Irena Grudzinska Gross, Boston University

"Zagajewski, The Shabby & The Sublime"
Robert Boyers, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs

"Adam Zagajewski, a Poet of Aesthetic Criterion"
Marek Zaleski, Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Warsaw

  "Dutch Painters: The Metaphysical Matter of Adam Zagajewski"
Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University, Evanston

"Mysticism and Mist of Words: Poetry and Religious Longing"
Artur Grabowski, University of Illinois at Chicago

3:30-4:00pm            Coffee break

4:00 - 6:30pm		Panel III

Moderator: Lina Steiner, University of Chicago

"The Skeptical Flaneur and Textual Krakow: Reading the Streets in 
Zagajewski's 'Powrot'"
Karen Kovacik, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Modes and Metaphors of Motion in the 
Poetry of Adam Zagajewski"
Kris Van Heuckelom, Catholic University at Leuven, Belgium

"Ideology of Furniture"
Bozena Shallcross, University of Chicago

"The Surprising Space of Simile in Adam Zagajewski's Poetry"
Magdalena Kay, University of California at Berkeley

6:30-7:00pm    Conclusions


The conference is sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and 
Literatures, Franke Institute for the Humanities, CEERES, and the Program 
on Poetry and Poetics.

Conference organizer: Bozena Shallcross <bshallcr at uchicago.edu>
(with the assistance of Meredith Clason and Steve Lund)

Ida Noyes Hall is located at 1212 E. 59th Street. East Lounge is on 2nd 
floor.
Persons with disability please call 773.702.3418.

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