professor Michael Holquist
A colloquium honoring the many dimensions of the intellectual work of longtime Yale professor Michael Holquist will be held on Saturday, Jan. 22, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
Holquist, professor emeritus of comparative literature and of Slavic language and literature, is best known for his original and collaborative work on the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin. The event in Holquist's honor is titled "Art and Answerability" after a renowned collection of essays by Bakhtin.
The "Art and Answerability" colloquium, write the organizers, "mirrors two fundamental concerns in the humanities. Art embodies the desire to reconstruct one's universe, to express new meanings and forge an innovative aesthetic. Answerability focuses on a series of questions and tensions between the responsibility of self-expression and the ethical problems suggested by individual freedom. Linguistic creativity and its ethical and political implications will be explored on several different levels in this colloquium."
Scholars from institutions from throughout the world will take part in the colloquium, which will begin with opening remarks by the current and former directors of the Whitney Humanities Center: María Rosa Menocal and Peter Brooks (now of the University of Virginia).
There will be four sessions: "Philology and Politics," 9:15-10:45 a.m.; "Remembering Bakhtin," 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; "From Text to Context: Literature, Theory, History," 2-3:30 p.m.; and "Dialogism: New Perspectives," 4-5:30 p.m. The event will conclude with a public reception 5:30-7 p.m.
The colloquium, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Further information about the event is available online at www.yale.edu/whc/calendar.htm or by contacting Manana Sikic at manana.sikic@yale.edu or (203) 432-0673.
Holquist holds a B.A. (1963) from the University of Illinois, Urbana and a Ph.D. (1968) from Yale where, as a junior faculty member, he helped found the literature major. In the decade after 1975, Holquist was chair of the Slavic departments at the University of Texas and Indiana University. Upon his return to Yale in 1986, he chaired the Russian and East European Studies Program and the Department of Comparative Literature.
In addition to a number of articles on a wide range of subjects Holquist has written, co-authored, edited or translated eight books, including "Dostoevsky and the Novel," "Mikhail Bakhtin" and "Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World."
He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Stockholm and the Byrnes/Sewell Prize for Excellence in Teaching in Yale College. He was recently elected second vice president of the Modern Language Association.
Holquist retired in December 2004. He is currently at work on two projects: a book on modern German and Russian philology; and -- with his wife, Elise -- the operation of an importing company that seeks to introduce Americans to the joys of Loire wine.
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