CRAIG BRANDISTIN LUENTO GRAMSCISTA JA HEGEMONIASTA
Professori Craig Brandist luennoi aiheesta "Antonio Gramsci and the Russian debates about Hegemony" Tampereen yliopistossa perjantaina 30.3.2012 klo 13-15 (Linna K103).
Craig Brandist on Sheffieldin yliopiston kulttuuriteorian ja intellektuaalihistorian professori sekä Helsingin yliopiston Aleksanteri-instituutin vieraileva tutkija. Hänen luentonsa keskeinen käsite, hegemonia, on nykyään eräs niin yhteiskuntatieteiden kuin
politiikan ja kulttuurintutkimuksen keskeisiä käsitteitä.
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Craig Brandist was born in Coventry, UK, in 1963. He completed a PhD on the sources of the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle at the University of Sussex in 1995, after which he was Max Hayward Fellow in Russian Literature at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In 1997 he became Research fellow at the University of Sheffield where, in 2007 he became
Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History and, from 2008, Director of the Bakhtin Centre. Professor Brandist has published widely on Russian literature, intellectual history and critical thought, with his books including Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (1996), The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics (2002), (ed. with David Shepherd and Galin Tihanov) The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master’s Absence (2004) and (ed. with Katya Chown) Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938 (2010). He is currently working on a monograph about the entwinement of questions of hegemony and of language in the early years of the USSR based on extensive research in archives and libraries in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. Professor Brandist is also Vice-President of the lecturer’s union (UCU) at the University of Sheffield, and a photographer.