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| Humanities Institute Lecture: Caryl Emerson |
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| Start Date: | 4/25/2012 | Start Time: | 4:30 PM |
| End Date: | 4/25/2012 | |
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Event Description
Caryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic
Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, with a
co-appointment in Comparative Literature. Her research interests
include Mikhail Bakhtin, 19th-century Russian literary classics
(Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), and Russian opera and vocal music.
Topic: Bakhtin and the Intra-Humanities
Abstract: For Mikhail Bakhtin, the concept of dialogue was not what we
understand by the word today. In his era it was precious and dangerous;
in ours, it costs nothing and is carried around non-stop on everyone’s
tiny machines. Bakhtin was a technophobe. Are his ideas still
relevant? Drawing on Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman, as well as on Stephen
Greenblatt and Mikhail Epstein, Emerson will suggest some ways that
Bakhtin’s archaic (or timeless) understanding of the activities proper
to the humanities might still speak to us. |
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