I received the following information recently from Mark Ostas regarding a one day event will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Plath's birthday and the 14th Anniversary of Hughes' death. It sounds like a really interesting conference.
Among their guest speakers is Plath's contemporary and author of Bitter Fame Anne Stevenson.
The conference will take place in the city of Katowice, Southern Poland - the seat of the Silesian University as well as the Silesian Library which is the venue of the conference. The conference is the part of the series of events marking the 90 years of the Library, although its present building is as modern as some of the poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
26th October 2012, the Library of Silesia, the Parnassos Room, K-ce, 1 Rada Europy Square
'Bitter fame' – a session on the 80th anniversary of Sylvia Plath's birthday and the 14th anniversary of Ted Hughes’s death.
Host: Dr Paweł Jędrzejko
12.00-12.30 Mark Ostas 'Plath and Hughes from Cambridge to popculture.' (Reading of the letter from Seamus Heaney – the Literary Nobel Prizewinner of 1995.)
12.30-13.00 Prof. Anne Stevenson "Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in the XXIst century."
13.00-13.30 Dr Tara Bergin "The Sound of Translation: The influence of translated poetry on the Ted Hughes' Crow."
13.30-14.00 Coffee Break
14.00-14.30 Dr Gabriela Marszołek "Nature in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes."
14.30-15.00 Prof. Zbigniew Białas "The Prospero's Daughter."
15.00-15.30 Poetry and existence – Dr Maria Korusiewicz in conversation with Dr Paweł Jędrzejko.
15.30-16.00 Discussion
16.00-17.00 The Exhibition "It all began in Cambridge." (The Small Gallery in the Main Hall)
17.00-18.00 Dinner (The Library of Silesia – the Cafeteria)
Among their guest speakers is Plath's contemporary and author of Bitter Fame Anne Stevenson.
The conference will take place in the city of Katowice, Southern Poland - the seat of the Silesian University as well as the Silesian Library which is the venue of the conference. The conference is the part of the series of events marking the 90 years of the Library, although its present building is as modern as some of the poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
26th October 2012, the Library of Silesia, the Parnassos Room, K-ce, 1 Rada Europy Square
'Bitter fame' – a session on the 80th anniversary of Sylvia Plath's birthday and the 14th anniversary of Ted Hughes’s death.
Host: Dr Paweł Jędrzejko
12.00-12.30 Mark Ostas 'Plath and Hughes from Cambridge to popculture.' (Reading of the letter from Seamus Heaney – the Literary Nobel Prizewinner of 1995.)
12.30-13.00 Prof. Anne Stevenson "Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in the XXIst century."
13.00-13.30 Dr Tara Bergin "The Sound of Translation: The influence of translated poetry on the Ted Hughes' Crow."
13.30-14.00 Coffee Break
14.00-14.30 Dr Gabriela Marszołek "Nature in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes."
14.30-15.00 Prof. Zbigniew Białas "The Prospero's Daughter."
15.00-15.30 Poetry and existence – Dr Maria Korusiewicz in conversation with Dr Paweł Jędrzejko.
15.30-16.00 Discussion
16.00-17.00 The Exhibition "It all began in Cambridge." (The Small Gallery in the Main Hall)
17.00-18.00 Dinner (The Library of Silesia – the Cafeteria)