4th Annual Mironological Gathering

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