Conference at the Bakhtin Centre, October 1999

Wed Sep 15 12:46:10 UTC 1999

Please direct all enquiries to Professor David Shepherd at
d.g.shepherd at sheffield.ac.uk

THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
THE BAKHTIN CENTRE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
'IN THE MASTER'S ABSENCE: THE UNKNOWN BAKHTIN
CIRCLE'

THURSDAY 7-SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER 1999

PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION
INFORMATION

PLEASE NOTE THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE OF 20 SEPTEMBER 1999

All the information in this message may also
be found on the Bakhtin Centre's Website at

http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/master.html

As its title makes clear, the conference will focus on the
significance of the work of members of the Bakhtin Circle other than
Bakhtin himself, thereby resisting the widespread tendency to
underestimate the intellectual independence, scholarly credentials
and, not least, influence on Bakhtin of Voloshinov, Medvedev and
other members of the Circle. We aim to investigate and discuss the
historical contexts, the scope and the impact of their writings, as
well as to allow for the presentation of new archival material
pertaining to their scholarly careers.

The conference is part of the Bakhtin Centre's project `The Russian
and European Contexts of the Works of Mikhail Bakhtin and the
Bakhtin Circle', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Board (AHRB).

The support of the British Academy for the conference is also
gratefully acknowledged.

PROGRAMME
Please note: this programme is subject to
amendment.

THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER
Heathcote Room, Earnshaw Hall of Residence

11.00-12.30: Registration
12.30-2.00: Lunch
2.00-2.10: Opening Remarks (David Shepherd,
Director of the Bakhtin Centre, University of
Sheffield)
2.10-3.00:'Pauline Fairclough (University of
Manchester): 'Sollertinskii and Dialogical
Symphonism'
3.00-3.50: Ben Taylor (Nottingham Trent
University): 'Kanaev, Vitalism and the Bakhtin
Circle'
3.50-4.10: Tea
4.10-5.00: Brian Poole (Free University of
Berlin): 'Towards a Scholarly Edition of the
Works of Matvei Kagan'
5.00-6.00: Nikolai Nikolaev (St Petersburg
State University Library): 'Issues in the
Scholarly Biography of Lev Pumpianskii'

FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER
Heathcote Room, Earnshaw Hall of Residence

9.00-10.00: Iurii Medvedev (St Petersburg):
'Issues in the Scholarly Biography of Pavel
Medvedev'
10.00-10.50: Galin Tihanov (University of
Oxford): 'The Eurasians and Medvedev: From the
History of the Polemics Surrounding The Formal
Method in Literary Scholarship'
10.50-11.10: Coffee
11.10-12.10: Ivan Esaulov (Russian State
Humanities University, Moscow): 'Medvedev's
Formal Method in Literary Scholarship and the
Re-examination of Some Stereotypes in the
Interpretation of Cultural Trends in the 1920s'
12.10-1.00: Craig Brandist (Bakhtin Centre,
University of Sheffield): 'Marxism and
Sociology in the Disputed Texts'
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.00: Dmitrii Iunov (St Petersburg):
'Archival Materials for a Biography of
Valentin Voloshinov'
3.00-3.50: Erik Dop and Karine Zbinden
(Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield):
'Reading Voloshinov in the Absence of the
Master Concept: A Critique'
3.50-4.20: Tea
4.20-5.10: Peter Hitchcock (City University of
New York): 'Voloshinov is not Althusser (or
Zizek): Rethinking Ideology'
5.10-6.00: Marianna Ivanova (Bakhtin Centre,
University of Sheffield): 'Individualistic
Subjectivism and Voloshinov's Theory of the
Utterance'

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER
Floor 8, Arts Tower

9.15-10.00: Informal visit to Bakhtin Centre (room 8.21)

10.00-11.00: Vladimir Alpatov (Institute of Oriental Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; British Academy Visiting
Professor, Bakhtin Centre): 'The Bakhtin Circle and Problems in
Linguistics' (room 8.26)

11.00-11.15: Coffee

11.15-12.45: Roundtable discussion (room 8.26)

12.45-1.00: Closing remarks

TRAVEL INFORMATION AND MAPS

Information about travel to Sheffield by road, rail and air is
available at

http://www.shef.ac.uk/travel/

Maps of Sheffield, and of the University, are available at

http://www.shef.ac.uk/travel/maps.html

General information about Sheffield and its region is available at

http://www.shef.ac.uk/visitors/aboutshef.html

ACCOMMODATION

As the conference will be taking place during the Autumn Semester,
we are unable to offer low-cost accommodation in student halls of
residence. (A small number of rooms may become available, at a cost
of c. stlg20 per night, shortly before the conference. If you would
like us to try to find you a room in a hall of residence, please
indicate this in the 'Other requirements' section of the booking
form. Please note, however, that we can offer no guarantee that your
request will be met.) The following hotels have agreed, subject to
availability, to offer special rates for delegates to the conference
(when booking you should quote 'University of Sheffield'):

Cutlers Inn
George Street, Sheffield
S1 2PF
Tel. 0114 273 9939
Fax. 0114 276 8332
Single room: stlg34.95
Double room: stlg39.95
Breakfast: stlg6.95

Etruria House Hotel
91 Crookes Road,
Sheffield S10
Tel. 0114 266 2241
Single room: stlg36.00 (stlg28.00 with shared
bathroom)

Rutland Hotel
452 Glossop Road,
Sheffield S10 2PY
Tel. 0114 266 4411
Fax. 0114 267 0348
Single room: stlg55.00
Double room: stlg73.00

Information about other hotels in Sheffield is available at
http://www.shef.ac.uk/city/

REGISTRATION

In order to register for the conference, please complete a booking
form form and return it with your payment to Bakhtin Centre
(Conference), Arts Tower, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10
2TN.

The form may be downloaded in several formats from the Bakhtin
Centre's Website at
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/master.html#Registration

Alternatively, please provide all the information requested here and
send it by e- mail to

mailto:bakhtin.centre at shef.ac.uk

Name

Postal Address

Telephone

Fax

E-mail

BOOKING DETAILS (PLEASE INDICATE CLEARLY THE
RELEVANT TARIFF)

Full Conference (includes lunches, coffees,
teas)
stlg55 (stlg35 for postgraduate students/unwaged)

Thursday only (includes lunch, tea)
stlg30 (stlg20)

Friday only (includes coffee, lunch, tea)
stlg30 (stlg20)

Friday and Saturday

stlg35 (stlg25)

Saturday only
stlg10 (stlg5)

Other requirements (e.g. dietary)

Payment, in sterling only, should be by cheque drawn on a UK bank
account or by international money order, to 'University of
Sheffield'. Registration is provisional until payment is received.
Payment must be received no later than 20 September 1999.

AN ADDITIONAL 10% OF THE FEE PAYABLE WILL BE LEVIED ON REGISTRATIONS
RECEIVED AFTER 20 SEPTEMBER.

Cancellations after 20 September: an administrative charge of 50% of
the fee payable (minimum stlg5) will be retained. Receipts will be
issued at registration.

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Bakhtin Centre
Floor 8, Arts Tower
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN, England
Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7415
Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7400
E-mail: Bakhtin.Centre at Sheffield.ac.uk
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html

Director: Professor David Shepherd
AHRB Research Fellow: Dr Craig Brandist
Honorary Research Fellows: Mr Jonathan Hall, Dr Peter Speedwell
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Professor David Shepherd
Chair, School of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Head, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Director, Bakhtin Centre
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN
England

Tel. 0114 222 7401
Fax 0114 222 7416

E-mail d.g.shepherd at sheffield.ac.uk
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/david-shepherd.html

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