Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski was a\u00a0writer shaped by\u00a0various cultures \u2013 first of all Polish, French and English but also German and Russian. His life and fiction have been influencing cultures all over the world for almost a\u00a0hundred years. The purpose of the symposium is to\u00a0investigate the resonance of the figure of Joseph Conrad in\u00a0the 21\u00a0century. Many critics (for ex. Chinua Achebe, Terry Eagleton, Hillis Miller, Adward Said), philosophers and thinkers (for ex. Jacques Ranci\u00e8re, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe), film producers (for ex. Francis Ford Coppola, Rogerio Nunes, Gerald Conn, Ingmar Villqist, Tomasz Man), musicians (for ex. Tarik O\u2019Regan, Philip Glass, Tadeusz Baird, Krzesimir D\u0119bski) and writers (for ex. Caryl Phillips, John Maxwell Coetzee, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ewa Kuryluk, Jacek Dukaj, Patrick Deville) responded to\u00a0his works. Thus one of the symposium objectives is to\u00a0disseminate the responses to\u00a0Conrad\u2019s fiction on\u00a0an international scale and, last but not least, propagate the understanding of his Polish heritage. To\u00a0enhance the effects of the symposium and consolidate the knowledge of the influence of Conrad on\u00a0contemporary world culture, a\u00a0volume of essays that the participants have prepared for the conference will be published.<\/p>\n