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Butler Library,
Room 523
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages, the East Central European Center, the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Polish Student Society at Columbia University and Barnard College.
An exhibition of Czeslaw Miłosz (1911-2004) correspondence, books, and memorabilia held at the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and Eastern European History and Culture will be the second event at the Columbia University celebrating Milosz’s Centennial Year established by UNESCO. The opening of the exhibition about the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980 will coincide with a multilingual reading of his poetry by members of the Columbia University community.
PROGRAM
Professor Alan Timberlake, Director of the East Central European Center, will open the event. Dr. Anna Frajlich of the Department of Slavic Languages will address the question of the significance of the items in the exhibition. After that, members of the Columbia community will be given the opportunity to read their favorite Milosz poems in the language of their choice. Professor Helen Vendler of Harvard University, prominent scholar and friend of Miłosz, will be an honorary guest at the event.
