Schedule of Events

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Wednesday, October 19

W.S. Merwin, Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Security Pacific Dining Room
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 – 6:45 p.m. Buffet Dinner
6:45 – 8:00 p.m. Readings/ Discussion / Questions

Thursday, October 20

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion: Milosz in the United States and Poland
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Security Pacific Dining Room

12:00 - 12:45 p.m.
Lunch Break with Participants
Collins Dining Hall

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Milosz as Poet of Liberation and Hope: A Discussion with Peter Dale Scott and The Art and Nature of Translating Milosz: A Discussion with Lillian Vallee
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Security Pacific Dining Room

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Readings by Piotr Florczyk, Jacek Gutorow, Meghan O'Rourke, Claudia Rankine and Peter Dale Scott
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Security Pacific Dining Room

Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Security Pacific Dining Room
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 – 6:45 p.m. Buffet Dinner
6:45 – 8:00 p.m. Readings/ Discussion / Questions

Friday, October 21

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion: Milosz and Modern Poetry
McKenna Auditorium

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break with Participants
Collins Dining Hall

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Readings by Jacek Dehnel, Mira Rosenthal, Tomasz Rozycki, Dariusz Sosnicki and Joanna Trzeciak
Bauer Center, Mary Pickford Auditorium

3:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Refreshment Break
Founders Rooms, Bauer Center

Milosz: Man Among Scorpions
Adam Michnik, Historian, Political Acitivist and Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza
Bauer Center, Mary Pickford Auditorium
3:15 - 5:00 p.m.

Robert Pinsky, C.K. Williams and Anthony Milosz, Czeslaw Milosz's son
Bauer Center, Founders’ Room
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 – 6:45 p.m. Buffet Dinner
6:45 – 8:00 p.m. Readings/ Discussion / Questions

NOTE:  Times and program subject to change.