Organizers
Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University
Institute of Polish Philology, Wrocław Univeristy
Indiana University, Bloomington
Partner Institutions
Miron Białoszewski Foundation
Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
4th Annual Mironological Gathering
Warsaw, June 8-9, 2022
“In an unfamiliar language, meanings soar past, swirl…”. The Global Białoszewski
June 8th 2022
Mapping the World
10:00-11:00 Tadeusz Sobolewski, Jeden rym do wszystkiego [One rhyme fits all, in Polish] 11:00-11:30 break
Białoszewski in Romance Languages
Białoszewski in French (session in French)
11:30-12:00 Eric Veaux (translator) – Piotr Sobolczyk (IBL PAN), De la révolution des langages
12:00-12:30 Annick Louis (EHESS) – Agnieszka Karpowicz (IKP UW), La lecture expérimentale
12:30-13:00 discussion
Białoszewski in Spanish
13:00-13:30 Piotr Sobolczyk, A Memoir that in Spain became a Diary (in English)
13:30-14:00 discussion
14:00-15:00 break
The Local/Global Białoszewski (session in English)
15:00-15:30 Beata Śniecikowska (IBL PAN), „ky / oon” in mironū, or how to internationalize Białoszewski
15:30-16:00 discussion
16:00-17:00 Joanna Niżyńska (Indiana University, Bloomington) in conversation with Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University): Americanizing Białoszewski
17:30-18:00 discussion
18:00 An evening of reminiscence with Hank Proeme and Tadeusz Sobolewski (in Polish)
June 9th 2022
Mapping Europe
Białoszewski in German
10:00-10:30 Dagmara Kraus (Universität Hildesheim), O tłumaczeniu Białoszewskiego [On translating Białoszewski, in Polish]
10:30-11:00 discussion
11:00-11:30 break
Białoszewski in Italian (session in English)
11:30-12:00 Luca Bernardini (Universitàdeglistudi di Milano), Some (very loose) remarks on a possible literary history of destruction
12:00-13:00 Helena Janeczek (writer) and Luca Bernardini (translator) in a discussion moderated by Agnieszka Karpowicz and Piotr Sobolczyk: Białoszewski’s Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising and Italian literature
13:00-13:30 discussion
13:30-15:00 break
Białoszewski in Hungarian (session in Polish)
15:00-15:30 GizellaCsisztay (Magyar MűvészetiAkadémia), Przyjaźń Gracji Kerényi i Mirona Białoszewskiego [MironBiałoszewski’s friendship with Gracia Kerenyi]
15:30-16:00 Adam Poprawa (IFP UWr), Motywy węgierskie Białoszewskiego [Białoszewski’s hungarian motifs]
16:00-17:00 Adam Poprawa in conversation with translators: Lajos Pálfalvi (Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem) and Noémi Petneki
17:00-17:30 discussion
