Scientific seminar “Mikhail Bakhtin: approaches to biography”

The M.M. Bakhtin Center at the National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University organized the scientific seminar “Mikhail Bakhtin: Approaches to Biography” which took place on September 22-24, 2022. Reports by leading Bakhtin scholars (culturologists, philosophers, philologists), as well as young researchers, were presented at the discussion platforms and at the round table. In discussions participated Saransk Bakhtin scholars and scientists from research centers and universities in Russia (Belgorod, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Orel, St. Petersburg) and other countries: Belarus (Vitebsk), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Israel (Be’er Sheva), Spain (Barcelona), Italy (Macerata), Iran (Tehran), China (Beijing, Shijiazhuang (Hebei province)). The article gives an overview of the reports made at the seminar, identifies the most important and urgent problems of creating a scientific biography of the thinker.