Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies
What is V-NYI?

The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies is an advanced live program focusing on underrepresented and interdisciplinary fields of study, including critical cultural studies, theoretical linguistics, and more.

When?

every January and July

Where?

The Virtual Sky (Zoom)

Language:

English

Seminars, General Lectures, Interactive Workshops

Students select 3-5 Seminars and/or Workshops

All classes synchronous and LIVE only

Seminars/Workshops meet 5-6 times over 2 weeks (M/W/F or T/Th/S)

V-NYI Certificate upon completion

V-NYI#8 Critical Cultural Studies Seminars and Workshops

Mary (Polly) Gannon
Elizabeth, Emily and Gwendolyn. Proper Names and Foretellings: Reading Poetry Reading Us

Mary (Polly) Gannon
NYI. Academic Director of Critical Cultural Studies

Kevin Potter
Palestinian Literature as World Literature

Kevin Potter
University of Vienna

Tulika Chandra Abdur Rehman Khan
Global Folklore

Tulika Chandra
Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNU)
Abdur Rehman Khan
NYI

Kyle Bester
The securitisation of cybersecurity and the role of the human factor

Kyle Bester
University of South Africa

Danille Arendse Sayan Dey
Decolonization, Spaces and Everyday Life

Danille Arendse
Stellenbosch University
Sayan Dey
Alliance University, Bangalore

Danille Arendse Stephen Temitope David
Trauma and Memory

Danille Arendse
Stellenbosch University
Stephen Temitope David
Stellenbosch University

Dinara Yangeldina
Politics of protest and the dynamics of race, gender and sexuality in the ongoing Russian musical exile

Dinara Yangeldina
University of Bergen

Razvan Sibii
Covering vulnerable and underrepresented populations in international journalism

Razvan Sibii
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Quentin Williams
Afrikaaps Linguistics in South Africa: from slavery to decolonial futures

Quentin Williams
University of the Western Cape

Dinara Asadulina Christos Kakouros
Placemaking: Pages, Images and Text

Dinara Asadulina
Morley House
Christos Kakouros
Central Saint Martins

Masha Godovannaya
Diary Film, Autoethnography, and Poetic Film Writing

Masha Godovannaya
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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V-NYI#8 Theoretical Linguistics & Cognitive Science Seminars

Nina Feygl Semushina
Language and Gesture

Nina Feygl Semushina
University of Chicago

Petr Kusliy Ekaterina Vostrikova
Introduction to Formal Semantics

Petr Kusliy
University of Göttingen
Ekaterina Vostrikova
University of Göttingen

Sigríður Björnsdóttir
Mechanisms in language acquisition and change

Sigríður Björnsdóttir
University of Konstanz

Irina Burukina
Introduction to Syntax

Irina Burukina
ELTE & Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics

Danko Sipka
Cross-Linguistic Lexicology and its Lexicographic Treatment

Danko Sipka
Arizona State University

Masha Esipova
Omni Linguistics

Masha Esipova
Bar-Ilan University

John Frederick Bailyn Hedde Zeijlstra
Alternatives to Phasality

John Frederick Bailyn
Stony Brook University
Hedde Zeijlstra
University of Göttingen

Andreas Blümel
Theoretical and empirical aspects of labeling theory (advanced)

Andreas Blümel
Humboldt University Berlin / Göttingen University

Vincent Czarnecki Scott Nelson
Introduction to Mathematical Linguistics

Vincent Czarnecki
Rutgers University
Scott Nelson
Stony Brook University

Noam Faust
Strict CV metrics or how to live without moras (advanced)

Noam Faust
Université Paris 8, CNRS SFL

Aron Hirsch
Puzzles in Formal Semantics (advanced)

Aron Hirsch
University of Maryland

Markus Pöchtrager
Open questions in the representation of vowels (advanced)

Markus Pöchtrager
University of Vienna

Ur Shlonsky Adam Szczegielniak
Ellipsis-related puzzles (advanced)

Ur Shlonsky
University of Geneva
Adam Szczegielniak
University of Gdansk

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