The St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) is an advanced study program organized every July in St. Petersburg, Russia at St. Petersburg State University.  NYI 11 will be held July 15-August 2, 2013

Participants take seminars with international scholars in a range of fields, especially those that do not fall neatly into traditional discipline areas. 2013 will be the 11^th year of NYI.  Since 2003, over 900 participants from 34 countries and 45 Russian Federation cities have received certificates for completing the NYI Summer Seminar Program.

Participants create a program design unique to their own interests, choosing 4 seminars from among the following fields:  

Generative Linguistics

Comparative Cultural and Media Studies 

Cognitive Psychology 

Media, Film, and Politics 

Literature & Performance Studies

NYI is a program of St. Petersburg State University, organized in cooperation with the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Background:  NYI believes that traditional academic boundaries inadvertently prevent young intellectuals from engaging many important areas of modern inquiry which do not fall neatly into disciplinary frames, including the cognitive sciences, which study the workings of the human mind, and critical cultural studies, which concentrate on comparative aspects of human societies.  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.  

NYI would like to express its eternal gratitude to our sponsors, supporters and partners:

• The Consulate General of the United States, St. Petersburg (Bruce Turner, Consul General)

• St. Petersburg State University: