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The New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies 4th Annual Summer Institute
July 3-21, 2006
Application deadline extended: Now May 22, 2006
Opening ceremonies Friday, June 30, 3:00 pm
Program Description:
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. In July, 2005, over 100 participants received certificates for completing 8 Seminars in Cognitive and Cultural Studies at NYI.
Participants choose seminars in the following fields:
* Cognitive Psychology
* Formal Linguistics
* Media and Politics
* Gender Studies
* Film and Literature Studies
* Comparative Philosophy and Religion
Academic Program:
* The is one session of three weeks in 2006
* Students select 3-4 seminars, creating a program design unique to their own interests
* US students create seminar "clusters" allowing them to receive 6 (transferrable) Stony Brook credits for the seminars
* In addition to the seminars, there is a cultural program, lecture series and film series
Background:
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.
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.
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.
Contact information:
The New York-St. Petersburg Institute
Center for American and British Studies
Department of English Philology
St. Petersburg State University
Universitetskaya Nab. 11, Room 182
199034 St. Petersburg
(7) (812) 328-95-15 (tel)
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