The year 2006 marks one hundred years since the birth of
Jerzy Giedroyc and sixty years since the establishment of the Literary Institute in Rome. Also this year, we mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Juliusz Mieroszewski (1906-1976) - a great political writer who was one of Giedroyc's closest collaborators. In a tribute to this distinguished Pole and his life's work, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland proclaimed 2006
The Year of Jerzy Giedroyc.
The Editor, as Giedroyc's friends and admirers affectionately called him, refused to observe anniversaries, was loath to celebrate birthdays, but enjoyed marking the publication of round-numbered issues of "Kultura" by gathering together the journal's regular contributors and collaborators. Following his example, we invite all who esteem Jerzy Giedroyc's oeuvre and political thought, all who have turned these into the subject of their interpretations and reflections, to participate in an International Academic Conference devoted to the Editor of "Kultura" as one of the great Europeans who was a factor in the global changes that occurred in the 20th century.
Honorary Patronage:
President of the Republic of Poland
Minister of Culture and National Heritage
President of Warsaw University
PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE
25 September 2006 (Monday) 1st day - Warsaw University (Old Library Building)
- 9:30 am - Official opening: President of Warsaw University, Prof. Katarzyna Chalasinska-Macukow, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz M. Ujazdowski
Letter from Lech Kaczynski, President of the Republic of Poland
Letter from Henryk Giedroyc
- 10:00 am - The Significance of Jerzy Giedroyc's Political Vision
Addresses:
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Jerzy Kloczowski
Krzysztof Pomian
- 11:30 am - Unveiling of a plaque commemorating Jerzy Giedroyc as a one-time student of, and recipient of an honorary doctorate from, Warsaw University (Old Library Building)
- 12:00 pm - Among Friends and Neighbors (part I)
Lithuania: Vytautas Landsbergis, Egidijus Aleksandravicius
Ukraine: Bohdan Osadchuk, Jaroslav Hrycak
Belarus: Stanislas Shushkevich, Lavon Barsceuski
- 3:00 pm - Among Friends and Neighbors (part II)
Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Germany: Heinrich Olschovsky, Basil Kerski
France: Daniel Beauvois, Maria Delaperierre
Israel: Shevach Weiss
Hungary: Csaba G. Kiss
- 6:00 pm - An Evening for Editors
Czeslaw Bielecki ("cdn"), Jacek Bochenski ("Zapis"), Miroslaw Chojecki ("Kontakt"), Krzysztof Czyzewski ("Krasnogruda"), Wojciech Duda ("Przeglad Polityczny"), Tomasz Jastrun ("Wezwanie"), Jan Malicki ("Oboz"), Jerzy Pomianowski ("Novaya Polsha"), Jerzy Stachurski ("Archipelag"), Barbara Torunczyk ("Zeszyty Literackie")
Host: Leszek Szaruga
26 September 2006 (Tuesday) 2nd day - Special Collections Exhibit Room of the BUW (The Warsaw University Library; Dobra Street No 56/66, room 316)
- 9:30 am - Opening of an exhibition JERZY GIEDROYC AND WRITING FOR 'KULTURA' exploring Jerzy Giedroyc and the Literary Institute
(Organization: Towarzystwo Opieki nad Archiwum Instytutu Literackiego / Society for the Protection of the Instytut Literacki Archive in Paris, the Warsaw University Library)
- 10:00 am - Jerzy Giedroyc: A Compound Portrait (session I)
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Juliusz Mieroszewski": Adam Michnik; Andrzej Friszke
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Czeslaw Milosz": Marek Zaleski; Andrzej Franaszek, Aleksander Fiut
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Jerzy Stempowski": Malgorzata Szpakowska
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Konstanty Jelenski": Piotr Kloczowski; Andrzej Skrendo
- noon - Discussion
- 3:00 pm - Jerzy Giedroyc: A Compound Portrait (session II)
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Adolf Bochenski": Kazimierz M. Ujazdowski; Dariusz Gawin
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Jan Nowak-Jezioranski": Adolf Juzwenko; Jaroslaw Kurski
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski": Leszek Szaruga; Zdzislaw Kudelski
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Andrzej Bobkowski": Pawel Rodak; Waclaw Lewandowski, Joanna Podolska
- 5:00 pm - Discussion
- 6:00 pm - An Evening Jubilee for Bohdan Osadchuk
Host: Bogumila Berdychowska
Basil Kerski, Jerzy Kloczowski, Myroslav Popovych
27 September 2006 (Wednesday) 3rd day - Special Collections Exhibit Room of the BUW
- 10:00 am - Jerzy Giedroyc: A Compound Portrait (session III)
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Witold Gombrowicz": Janusz Marganski; Jozef Olejniczak
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Jozef Czapski": Andrzej S. Kowalczyk
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Wiktor Weintraub": Jerzy Jarzebski
"Jerzy Giedroyc - Melchior Wankowicz": Janusz Korek; Pawel Kadziela, Malgorzata Ptasinska-Wojcik
"Towards Polish London": Rafal Habielski
- 1:00 pm - Discussion
- 2:00 pm - Conference roundup
Bohdan Osadchuk, Krzysztof Pomian, Jerzy Pomianowski, Leopold Unger
- 6:00 pm - Dom Literatury (House of Literature), Krakowskie Przedmiescie 87/89
Evening with poetry - Natalya Gorbanevskaya
The Conference is open to all interested people. The office of the Conference will be open from 24th to 28th of September, 2006 - building of the Institute of Polish Culture:
Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, room 13.
Programme and the Conference's organization:
Prof. Andrzej Mencwel, Prof. Andrzej S. Kowalczyk, Prof. Leszek Szaruga, Bogumila Berdychowska, Jan Malicki, Malgorzata Litwinowicz, Ph.D., Zuzanna Grebecka Ph.D., ("Katedra Kultury" Association),
Katarzyna Hagmajer, MA, Pawel Majewski, Ph.D., Igor Piotrowski, MA, Anna Ptak, MA, Joanna Zieba, MA
Official homepage of the Conference:
www.giedroyc.uw.edu.plOrganizators:
Faculty of Polish Studies of the Warsaw University, Institute of Polish Culture, Institute of Polish Literature,
Centre for East European StudiesCooperation:
The Warsaw University Library;
Towarzystwo Opieki nad Archiwum Instytutu Literackiego w Paryzu / Society for the Protection of the Instytut Literacki Archive in Paris
Media patronage:
Polish Radio, "Rzeczpospolita" Daily, TVP Kultura, www.culture.pl
Source: Institute of Polish Culture of the Warsaw University | |