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One of the publications of the Conrad Festival is the Polish translation of Lindsay Waters’ book Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship (Harvard University Press). On Saturday afternoon (7th November) at the Book Fair in Krakow the author chaired a discussion on the condition of the humanities, the book market and the bureaucratization of universities. The invited guests were Eva Glimer from the German publishing house, Suhrkamp Verlag, and Hugues Jallon from La Découverte publishing house.

On Friday evening a meeting entitled Bruno Schulz’s Dream Republic was held in the Galicia Jewish Museum. The participants were the Polish writers, Jerzy Pilch, Andrzej Stasiuk, Stefan Chwin and Anna Brzezińska, the Polish actor Jerzy Radziwiłowicz and prof. Michał Paweł Markowski. The crucial event culminating the evening was the official presentation of the recently discovered unknown drawing by Bruno Schulz!

A debate on “New Realism” took place in the Lokator Club. The invited guests, Polish writers Jacek Dukaj, Łukasz Orbitowski, Anna Brzezińska, talked to the literary critic Anna Marchewka, who chaired the discussion.

On Friday at noon, in the Wyspiański Pavillion, prof. Michał Paweł Markowski started his Reading lesson for secondary school students, which was the last one in the series of four Reading lesson with… organised during this edition of the Conrad Festival. This time the analysed text was Joseph Conrad’s An Outpost of Progress. The 90-minute session met with huge enthusiasm from the students.

Several meetings with the guests and organizers of the 1st Joseph Conrad International Literature Festival are planned for this weekend within the framework of the Book Fair in Krakow. On Saturday, the Festival’s stall (no P14) will host Polish writers, Andrzej Stasiuk (2:30 pm) and Jacek Dukaj (3:30 pm). On Sunday, at 1 pm, visitors will have a chance to talk to Magdalena Sroka (Director of the Krakow Festival Office), Piotr Mucharski (the Festival’s Programme Director), prof. Michał Paweł Markowski (the Festival’s Artistic Director) and Grzegorz Jankowicz (the Festival Secretary).