Affiliated Institutions

Adam Michnik and Vaclav Havel
Adam Michnik and future Czech President Vaclav Havel at a meeting with communist opposition in 1988.

Czeslaw Milosz Institute and Archive
In 2009, the Gould Center and the Czeslaw Milosz Institute and Archive formed a partnership that will promote and preserve the large and significant body of work of Czeslaw Milosz, one of 20th century's most prominent writers. The Gould Center/Milosz Institute will be the focal point for scholars interested in the study of Milosz and the literature related to his work.

Read an article in The New York Review of Books by the late historian Tony Judt on the enduring power of Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind.

Adam Mickiewicz Institute
The Gould Center also collaborates with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. During the summer of 2009, three CMC students received Mickiewicz Fellowships through the Gould Center and the Mickiewicz Institute to study in Poland. Ian McGinnity '11 conducted research on human rights, while Meghanna Reddy '10 and Jessica MacKay '09 studied the life and work of Czeslaw Milosz.