Chronicles of post -Soviet humanitarian science. Bath, Lotman, Gasparovsky and other readings

It is difficult to imagine science without conferences, without reports and their discussions. It is in a living dialogue that scientists check their conclusions, express new ideas, get excited and joke, come to an agreement and diverge. But “what remains of the fairy tale later, after they told it?” After all, not all reports acquire a printed form, but from replicas, disputes, private conversations and the very spirit of the discussions there is nothing left but vague memories. Is it possible to be transferred to the past and hear the passions in the first post -Soviet humanitarian conferences boiled? It turns out that it is possible: this atmosphere is stored in the reports of thirty historical and philological readings of 1991-2017, written by Vera Milchina, a leading researcher at the IVGI RSU and the steps of the RANEPA. Her book can be read as a guide for the work of the last twenty -five years, or it is possible - as a fragment of the collective memory of the scientific community and sketches to the portrait of a whole generation of scientists who have left and now live