CEERES of Voices: Cynthia Haven - Czesław Miłosz: A California Life
October 28, 2021 | 6:00PM
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About the book
Czesław Miłosz, one of the greatest poets and thinkers of the past hundred years, is not generally considered a Californian. But the Nobel laureate spent four decades in Berkeley--more time than any other single place he lived--and he wrote many of his most enduring works there. This is the first book to look at his life through a California lens. Filled with original research and written with the grace and liveliness of a novel, it is both an essential volume for his most devoted readers and a perfect introduction for newcomers.
About the Author
Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.
About the Interlocutor
William Nickell is a cultural historian at he University of Chicago, specializing in mid-19th to mid-20th century Russia. His research focuses on media studies and cultural production, with close attention to the effects of large scale social, economic and technical change.
The event will be held at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, located at 1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637 (near the East entrance of the Regenstein Library). Please use the above link to RSVP as in-person attendance is limited.
