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Barnard
Professor David Goldfarb to Speak On "The Polish Poet:
Traveler, Exile, Expatriate, World Citizen" As Part of
The Barnard Forum on Migration, Apr. 8
 New
York, NY– Barnard College Professor David Goldfarb will
discuss the roles of exile and displacement in the work of
Polish poets from the Renaissance to the present in a lecture
titled "The Polish Poet: Traveler, Exile, Expatriate,
World Citizen." Sponsored by the Barnard Forum on Migration,
the event will be held on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 7 p.m.
in Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor of Barnard Hall (117th Street
and Broadway). It is free and open to the public.
Goldfarb will explore "exile" as the dominant paradigm
for thinking about the Polish writer outside his native country
since the Romantic period. He will consider other modes of
displacement and what they reveal about the relation of Poland
to the rest of the world in the works of poets, including
Klemens Ianicius, Adam Mickiewicz, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew
Herbert, and Adam Zagajewski.
Goldfarb’s forthcoming works include an article on Nikolai
Gogol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a volume of Tolstoy's short
works to be published in a new paperback series by Barnes
and Noble, and a book on the Marquis de Sade, Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch, and the genre of the pornosophic novel. He
has published articles on Bruno Schulz, Zbigniew Herbert,
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Mikhail Lermontov and narratology,
and East European cinema in "East European Politics and
Societies", "Indiana Slavic Studies", "Philosophy
and Literature", "Prooftexts", "The Polish
Review", and "Slavic and East European Performance."
Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages
at Barnard, Goldfarb holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature
from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
and an M.A. in Slavic, specializing in Polish Literature from
the University of Toronto.
The Barnard Forum on Migration sponsors special events featuring
lectures, readings, and films which explore issues connected
to the movement of people from one part of the world to another.
The Forum hosts distinguished writers and academics who address
a broad range of issues which relate to questions of migration
and social order. The Barnard Forum on Migration is supported
by a bequest establishing the Weiss International Fellowship
Fund to bring distinguished scholars in literature and the
arts to Barnard. It is organized by Caryl Philips, the Henry
R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order.
For more information, please contact the Barnard Forum on
Migration at 212-854-3577.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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