After celebrating the 5th Carnival for David, we will revive and expand the Museum of Care’s reading group on Mikhail Bakhtin. This group has always been about exploring Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogue, carnival, and collective imagination — themes that continue to inspire us. 

We’ll start with a lecture by Benjamin Paloff on the 14th of November 2025 4PM London time (3PM UTC). Benjamin is a writer and academic whose latest book, Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning, examines Bakhtin’s thought, linking narrative, ethics, and freedom through the lens of “adventure.  Benjamin’s talk will help us dive back into Bakhtin together and explore how his thought resonates with our current moment. We hope this mix of lecture and collective reading will make the group more alive and open — a space to think, read, and imagine together.”

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