Invited speakers
Abstracts
Conference committee
Schedule
 

Time	Sunday 07.11.	Monday 08.11.	Tuesday 09.11.
09.15		Ivana Marková Verbal interaction Dept. of Psychology University of Stirling, UK A dialogical perspective of democracy.	Martin Nystrand Writing research Center on English Learning and Achievement Wisconsin Center for Education Research Formative and receptive contexts for empirical research on writing.
10.15		Coffee break	Coffee break
10.30		Hannele Dufva Centre for Applied Language Studies  University of Jyväskylä Language, thought and culture - Whorf, Bakhtin and situated embodiment	Per Linell Verbal interaction University of Linköping Recontextualising theories of language - a Bakhtinian analysis
11.30		Craig S. Brandist Russian studies  The Bakhtin Centre and the Dept. of Russian and Slavonic Studies,  University of Sheffield, UK  Bakhtin’s Philosophical Sources and some of their Implications	Hege Faber Art and the computer Trondheim Academy of fine Art Norwegian University of Science and Technology Dialogical thinking and dialogical culture at Trondheim Academy of fine arts
12.00	Registration
12.30		Lunch	Lunch
13.00	Welcome
13.15	Renate Lachmann  Literary Theory Dept. of Comparative Literature University of Constance Towards a rhetoric of the fantastic in Bakhtin's dialogic thinking.
13.30		Lars S. Evensen Writing research Dept. of Applied Linguistics Norwegian University of Science and Technology From dialogue to dialogism: The confessions of a writing researcher	Jostein Børtnes Ontology - ethics  Dept. of Russian Studies University of Bergen Bakhtin's dialogue and the event of being
14.30	Mika Lähteenmäki Dept. of Russian University of Jyväskylä Meaning Potential: Between Relativism and Absolutism	Finn Bostad Communication and computer Dept. of Applied Linguistics Norwegian University of Science and Technology Dialogism, presence and response in digital communication	Beryl Graham Art and design  University of Sunderland  Interactive art.
15.30	Coffee break	Coffee break	Final dialogue
16.00	Beryl Graham Art and design  University of Sunderland  A dialogue with an idiot? Some interactive computer-based art installations.	Monday "dia-log:"  introduction:  Olga Dysthe Writing research  Program of Education Research University of Bergen
17.00	Sunday "dia-log:"  introduction:  Jon Smidt Writing research Dept. of Applied Linguistics Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Practical information:
The conference is to be held at Meeting room 8 (building no. 1, level 5).
Secretary: Unni Ovesen, tlf. +47 73 59 18 35, fax  +47 73 59 17 08,
email: Unni.Ovesen@allforsk.ntnu.no
Conference website: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/anv/Bakhtin/tidsplan.html