Reading and commenting on unpublished protocols of meetings at the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (Moscow, 1922–1930)
Seminar
The Seminar Program of philologist, specialist in the history of verse and in the history of Russian philological science of the 20th century, Marina Akimova, includes 8 seminars and consists of commenting on unpublished minutes of meetings in the section of theoretical poetics at the State Academy of the Artistic Sciences (GAKhN, 1922–1930).
Marina Akimova
Marina Akimova
Seminar schedule:
- 3, 10, 17 February at 15.00 CET
- 2, 16 March at 15.00 CET
- 6, 13, 27 April at 15.00 CET
Meetings took place:
February 3, 2024 – watch on YouTube
February 10, 2024 – watch on YouTube
February 17, 2024 – watch on YouTube
March 2, 2024 – watch on YouTube
March 16, 2024 – watch on YouTube
April 6, 2024 – watch on YouTube
April 13, 2024 – watch on YouTube
April 27, 2024 – watch on YouTube
Philosophers, literary historians, and linguists discussed both literary and philosophical problems, including philosophy of language and philosophy of culture. This and other groups within GAKhN brought together individuals who were at the forefront of humanities of their time, while the Academy itself was conceived as an experimental institution that developed the latest trends in European art science, primarily influenced by German scholarship.
For contemporary humanitarian knowledge, these materials are important because the study of the formal-phenomenological school presented in GAKhN is just beginning. Many archival materials remain unpublished and unexplored. Our project will contribute to the development of these highly relevant issues. They are valuable not only for their historical significance but also for their contemporary relevance, as they can stimulate the latest humanitarian thought. Among the discussed concepts and problems are artistic form, image and representation, methodology of literary science, structure, style, verse, inner formalist polemics, classicism and romanticism in culture, and others. Participants in the GAKhN were, for instance, Gustav Shpet, Mikhail Petrovsky, Boris Gornung, Boris Yarkho, Mikhail Stolyarov, Rosalia Shor, Viktor Zhirmunsky, and others.
To grasp the context and specificity of GAKhN and its place in the history of culture, it is possible to go beyond the section on theoretical poetics and discuss topics such as biography and culture, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. The goal of the seminars is to create historical and scholarly annotations to the corpus of discussion minutes texts in GAKhN, in order to prepare and publish a collection of these materials.
February 3, 2024 – watch on YouTube
February 10, 2024 – watch on YouTube
February 17, 2024 – watch on YouTube
March 2, 2024 – watch on YouTube
March 16, 2024 – watch on YouTube
April 6, 2024 – watch on YouTube
April 13, 2024 – watch on YouTube
April 27, 2024 – watch on YouTube
Philosophers, literary historians, and linguists discussed both literary and philosophical problems, including philosophy of language and philosophy of culture. This and other groups within GAKhN brought together individuals who were at the forefront of humanities of their time, while the Academy itself was conceived as an experimental institution that developed the latest trends in European art science, primarily influenced by German scholarship.
For contemporary humanitarian knowledge, these materials are important because the study of the formal-phenomenological school presented in GAKhN is just beginning. Many archival materials remain unpublished and unexplored. Our project will contribute to the development of these highly relevant issues. They are valuable not only for their historical significance but also for their contemporary relevance, as they can stimulate the latest humanitarian thought. Among the discussed concepts and problems are artistic form, image and representation, methodology of literary science, structure, style, verse, inner formalist polemics, classicism and romanticism in culture, and others. Participants in the GAKhN were, for instance, Gustav Shpet, Mikhail Petrovsky, Boris Gornung, Boris Yarkho, Mikhail Stolyarov, Rosalia Shor, Viktor Zhirmunsky, and others.
To grasp the context and specificity of GAKhN and its place in the history of culture, it is possible to go beyond the section on theoretical poetics and discuss topics such as biography and culture, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. The goal of the seminars is to create historical and scholarly annotations to the corpus of discussion minutes texts in GAKhN, in order to prepare and publish a collection of these materials.
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