State of the art and critical reception of Bakhtin circle

• Grant number: 10/19574-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: April 13, 2011
• End date: May 11, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Elisabeth Brait
• Grantee: Elisabeth Brait
• Visiting researcher: Clive Thomson
• Visiting researcher institution: University of Guelph, Canada
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Letras e Artes. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The visit of Professor Clive Thomson (University of Guelph, Canada) to PUC-SP, in collaboration with other Brazilian Universities, especially USP, aims at discussing the present state and the critical reception of Bakhtin and the Circle, within other Human Sciences. The collaboration of the Post-Graduation Programs of LAEL/PUC-SP, FLP/ DLCV/USP, ELLT/Francês-DLM/USP, Linguística UFSCar, e LLP/ UNESP is the consequence of the common interest that these Programs have in the dialogical theory of the Bakhtin Circle, its reception in the Occident, its relationship with Foucault and psychoanalysis, which are the main fields of research of Professor Clive Thomson. The visiting Professor will participate in four kinds of activities, in order to collaborate with the development of this theoretical and methodological perspective: (i) meetings with senior and junior researchers, in order to discuss the partial or final results of the research projects in progress; (ii) talks that will discuss, basically, the following subjects: "Do we still need Bakhtin?"; "Michel Foucault and psychoanalysis"; "The birth of new knowledge and the emergency of new subjectivities in literary and scientific texts of XIX century"; (iii) Post-Graduation course, registered in the PPG of Philology and Portuguese Language at USP and open to all the PPG that are participating in this invitation "The Bakhtin Circle and the analysis of social discourse"; (iv) final assessment and balance which will establish the affinities and peculiarities of the presented researches and of the perspectives of pursuing a future collaboration of Brazilian and Canadian researchers and groups. This project will be presented in the following sites: http://lael.pucsp.br; www.linguagemememoria.com.br; www.fflch.usp.br/dlcv/lport/site/index.php ; http://posfrances.freehostia.com (AU)