Conference Information

Full Title:	10th NY-St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies

Short Title:	NYI 10
Location:	St. Petersburg, Russia
Start Date:	09-Jul-2012 - 27-Jul-2012
Contact:	John Frederick Bailyn
Meeting Email:	click here to access email
Meeting URL:	http://www.nyi.spb.ru/genInfo/
Meeting Description:	NYI is an interdisciplinary institute held every July in St. Petersburg, Russia, open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in comparative and formal approaches to linguistics, psychology as well as a range of topics in cultural and comparative studies. The following linguistics and psychology faculty will offer 3-week seminars this July in St. Petersburg: John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook) Language, Music and the Mind Thomas G. Bever (University of Arizona) Language Universals Rajesh Bhatt (UMass, Amherst) Syntactic Theory: An advanced introduction Roumyana Pancheva (USC) Syntax/Semantics of Comparatives James Hurford (University of Edinburgh) Origins and Evolution of Language Sabine Iatridou (MIT) How to Construct a Theory (Advanced!) Jaye Padgett (UCal, Santa Cruz) Perception and Phonology Irina Sekerina (CUNY) Topics in Cognitive Psychology Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow State University) Introduction to Tense and Aspect Additionally, students may select seminars in Cultural Studies from the following faculty: Robert Crease (Stony Brook) The Quantum Moment: Quantum physics in everyday life Robyn Stein DeLuca (Stony Brook) The From Eve to Khadija: Images of women in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Polly Gannon (St. Petersburg State and Stony Brook University) Straight-up Beauty Heidi Hutner (Stony Brook) The Eco-feminism: Environmental literature and film Konstantine Klioutchkine (Pomona College) Media Studies: A theoretical introduction Gary Marker (Stony Brook) The Heroic National Narratives (in Europe, Russia, and the US) and their Deconstruction Scott Stull (SUNY, Cortland) Houses of Culture: The built environment as embodiment of cultural meaning All courses in English Visa support and accommodations available for out of town students (see website for details) Applications available at the website: http://www.nyi.spb.ru/application NYI is a joint project of St. Petersburg State and Stony Brook Universities.
Linguistic Subfield:	Cognitive Science; General Linguistics
LL Issue:	23.2250


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