Avenali Lectures

Ivan Klima, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 1997-1998

Novelist, essayist, and critic Ivan Klima, who makes his home in Prague, was the Avenali Chair in the Humanities in April 1998. His novels, written in Czech and widely translated, include First Loves, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, Love and Garbage, and The Ultimate Intimacy.

Panelists: Poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980, is the author of numerous works of poetry, criticism and biographical prose, including The Captive Mind and Provinces. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. Martina Moravcova is a member of the faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. Michael Henry Heim is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the UCLA. He is a specialist in Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, and Russian languages and literatures, his published work including a well-known textbook in contemporary Czech.

An Occasional Paper of the lecture and panel discussion is available.