The New York-St Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture/title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffcc99" lang=EN-US text="black" link="black" vlink="black"> <div class=Section1> <h3 align=center>The New York-St. Petersburg Institute <br> of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture <br>July 6-24, 2009</h3><o:p></o:p></span> <center> <span style='color:red'><strong><h1>VISIT OUR NEW SITE!!<br><span style='color:blue'> <br><A HREF="http://www.nyi.spb.ru" TARGET=_parent > <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span <strong> http://www.nyi.spb.ru</a></h1> <hr> </center> <center>2009 Information and Applications to be posted soon!</span></a> <br></center> <hr> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.blue'><strong>GENERAL INFORMATION:</strong> </p></strong></span> <p><a href="NYIa.html#pd"><span style='color:blue'>Program Description</span></a> <br></span><o:p></o:p></span> <a href="NYIa.html#AP"><span style='color:red'>Academic Program</span></a> <br> <a href="NYIa.html#prof"><span style='color:blue'></strong>2009 NYI Faculty</span></a> <br> <a href="NYICourses08.html"><span style='color:red'>Last year's Seminars</span></a> <br> <a href="NYIa.html#back"><span style='color:blue'>Background</span></a> <br> <a href="NYIa.html#contact"><span style='color:red'>Contact Information</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p> <hr> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name=pd></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><strong>Program Description:</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><img border=0 width=625 height=187 id="_x0000_i1027" src="river4.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style='color:black'>The New York-St. Petersburg Institute (NYI) is an advanced study program organized every July in St. Petersburg, Russia as a joint project between St. Petersburg State University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Participants take seminars with visiting international scholars in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences, especially those that do not fall neatly into traditional discipline areas. Since 2003, over 500 participants have received certificates for completing the NYI Summer Seminar Program. <p>Participants choose seminars in the following fields: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type=disc> <li><span style='color:blue'>Generative Linguistics <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Comparative Cultural and Historical Studies <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Cognitive Psychology <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Media, Film, and Politics <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Literature & Performance Studios Studies<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul> <a name=AP><p>Academic Program:</span></strong><span style='color:00cc00'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type=disc> <li><span style='color:red'>There is one session of three weeks in 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Students select 4 seminars, creating a program design unique to their own interests <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>US students create seminar "clusters" allowing them to receive 6-9 (transferrable) Stony Brook credits for the seminars<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>In addition to the seminars, there is a cultural program, lecture series and film series <br> <br> <a href="NYICourses08.html"><span style='color:windowtext'> </ul> <hr> </div> <a name=prof><p>2009 Faculty</span></strong> <A HREF="FAC2008.html" TARGET="nyi"> <ul type=disc> <li><span style='color:red'>John F. Bailyn</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Syntax, Cognitive Science) Stony Brook University<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Lisa Diedrich</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Women's and Gender Studies) Stony Brook University <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Polly Gannon</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Translation, Poetry, Literature) SPBGU <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Victoria Hesford</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Women's and Gender Studies) Stony Brook University <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Comparative Literature, East-central European Cinema) Stony Brook University<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Nina Kazanina</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Linguistics, Psycholinguistics) University of Ottawa<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Konstantine Klioutchkine</b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Media Studies, Literary Theory) Pomona College<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Ernest Lepore</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Philosophy of Language, Semnantics, Philosophy of Mind) Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Pavel Levi</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Film Theory) Stanford<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Leah Lowe</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Theater, Performance Studies, Gender) Connecticut College<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Jim McFarland</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Film) Connecticut College<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Loraine Obler</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Neurolinguistics, Bilingualism, Aphasia) CUNY<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Norvin Richards</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Syntax, Linguistic Theory) MIT<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Henk van Riemsdijk</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Phrase Structure, Syntactic Theory) University of Tilburg<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Jon Rubin</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Film, Video, Media) SUNY Purchase<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Philippe Schlenker</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Semantics, Linguistic Theory) CNRS, Paris & NYU<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:red'>Irina Sekerina</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science, Langauge Acquisition) City University of New York<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li><span style='color:blue'>Edwin Williams</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> (Morphology, Syntax, Linguistic Theory) Princeton University<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul> <hr> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a name=back> Background:</span></strong></a><span style='mso-bookmark:back'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style='color:00cc00'>The founders of the New York Institute believe that traditional academic boundaries inadvertently prevent young intellectuals from engaging many important areas of modern inquiry which do not fall neatly into disciplinary frames. Of special importance in this regard are the cognitive sciences, which study the workings of the human mind, and cross-cultural studies, which concentrate on comparative aspects of human societies. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style='color:red'>It is the belief of the New York Institute that without awareness of recent developments in the study of these two central areas of humanity, modern citizens are unable to situate themselves and their ideas in a historical context free of ideology, disciplinary and national boundaries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style='color:00cc00'>NYI is proud to have gathered an international group of faculty who are not only specialists in their fields, but also have experience working in intercultural environments and teaching in non-English speaking countries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <hr> <a name=contact><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:back'><strong>e-mail us!! </span></strong></span><a href="mailto:nyinstitute@gmail.com"><span style='mso-bookmark:back'><span style='color:red'><b>nyinstitute@gmail.com</b></span></span> <span style='color:00cc00'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></strong></span></div> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center'><span style='color:red'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <span style='mso-bookmark:back'></span> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'></a><strong> Contact information:</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='color:00cc00'><i> SUNY Center<br> Rector's Building, Room 217<br> St. Petersburg State University <br> Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya 7-9 <br> St. Petersburg, Russian Federation 199034<br> +7(812)326 4922 tel/fax<br> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center'><span style='color:windowtext'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></div> <br> <a href="NYIa.html">Back to the NYI Home Page</span></a> </strong></b></span><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> </div> </body> </html>