The XVth International Bakhtin conference (Stockholm, July 23-27, 2014)

The article represents a review of recent international conference devoted to comprehensive studying of M. M. Bakhtin's biography, creativity and scientists of "Bakhtin Circle" (V. N. Voloshinov, P. N. Medvedev etc.). About 200 scientists from Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Finland, Great Britain, Israel, Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, China, India, Japan and other countries attended Stockholm conference (literary critics, linguists, philosophers, culturologists, psychologists, translators). During 5 days plenary reports (C. Emerson, A. Ponzio, G. Tihanov etc.) were heard; sessions of several panels, round tables have taken place; bright art presentations of the "plots" connected with bakhtinology and the modern art were held. The greatest interest of international audience was caused by discussion on completed multivolume Bakhtin's "Collected works" and analysis of an intellectual phenomenon of "Bakhtin Circle" in the works of deceased researcher J. P. Medvedev. Conference took place in the walls of the Royal Institute of Art.