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From: Igor Silantev <[log in to unmask]> NOVOSIBIRSK SUMMER SCHOOL COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES OF CULTURE August 3-20, 2000 Novosibirsk academic community is pleased to announce the 3d international Novosibirsk International Summer School 2000 and to invite you to attend its program "Communicative Strategies of Culture". The aim of this Summer School is - in a three week intensive training program, to be held in Novosibirsk - to encourage interested young faculty members and researchers from states of CIS and new Baltic countries to get acquainted with studies in communicative strategies of modern culture. The last decades of the 20th century were marked by the fundamental transformation of the structure and the content of humanitarian science itself and of the methodology of humanitarian research. Phenomenon of communication is clearly assigned an ontological meaning, and culture in general is viewed as a hyper-communicative historical process. The questions of communicative strategies of functioning of the human mind and spheres of spiritual culture of humankind are given the leading roles. Russian thinker Michail Bakhtin, whose heritage had a visible impact on the modern world way of thinking, originated that trend in humanitarian thinking along with the Western philosophers-dialogists M.Buber, F.Rosenzweig, O.Rosenshtok-Hussi and others. Bakhtin's meta-linguistic theory of expression as a communicative act (discourse) was developed in the theory and practice of discourse analysis, widely spread in humanities of the European countries, as well as in the new tendencies of regeneration and transformation of rhetoric (general rhetoric, new rhetoric, live rhetoric). Theory of discourse and general communicative strategies, the differences of which are making up the diversity of the human culture, becomes a common denominator of the above events. In general, the theory of communicative events (communicative culturology) is acquiring a methodological importance to the modern researchers in humanities. The Summer School is addressing the range of problems related to communicative strategies of modern culture. The distinct interdisciplinary nature of the Summer school is becoming its major feature. The problems of communicative culturology is important for the wide spectrum of humanitarian disciplines - history, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature, etc. By that, the Summer School is addressing one of the most important trends in the development of modern humanities, making an effort for methodological and objective synthesis of the earlier separate humanitarian disciplines. Within the framework of the Summer School, lectures on proposed topics given by leading Russian and foreign researchers, conducting seminars and workshops, organisation of the round table discussions, preparation of individual research projects by the School participants, informal research communication are planned. More than 70 young university teachers from 20 Russian cities and 6 countries of the former USSR were participants of the two previous Novosibirsk summers schools in 1998-99. A special issues of the journals 'Discourse' and 'Critique and Semiotics' will publish the proceedings of the Summer School 2000 and primarily research papers of the participants. The Summer School 2000 Program Theory of Communicative Events by Professor Valery Tyupa (Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow). Plurality of Discourses: Problems, Approaches, Status Causae by Professor Rastko Mocnik (University of Liubliana, Slovenia). Rhetoric as an Area of Discourse Studies by Professor Yury Shatin (Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University). Practical Logic and Communicative Strategies by Professor Deyan Deyanov (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Historism and Communicativity by Professor Yury Troitsky (Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow). Discourse of Imposture in Russian Culture by Professor Igor Smirnov (University of Constanze, Germany). Working Languages of the Summer School The languages of the Summer School are Russian and English. Lectures given in English will be simultaneously translated into Russian. Location and Time of the Summer School The Summer School 'Communicative Stategies of Culture' will be held from August 3 to 20, 2000 in the suburb of Novosibirsk on the Berdsky Bay. Participants of the Summer School Citizens of the states of CIS and new Baltic countries, and no more than 35 years of age - young university teachers, as well as postgraduates and researchers involved in teaching at the university level - can compete in the selection process to participate in the Summer School. A general selection criterion for all applicants is to be actively involved in research on a Ph.D. thesis (kandidatskaya). The deadline for submission of applications is June 5, 2000. Selection process will take place in June 6-7, 2000. Selected participants will be sent personal invitations. To facilitate the invitation procedure, the applicants, where possible, are requested to provide, along with a mailing address, their telephone, fax numbers, and e-mail. During the Summer School the participants are preparing their individual research projects, where the topics of the Summer School are linking individual research interests. Qualifying reports of the participants will win them relevant certificates. The School will cover the cost of accommodation and meals in the resort for the participants, as well as their roundtrip transportation by train from places of their residence. Contact Information Preliminary questions should be sent preferably by e-mail. Final application documents should be typed and submitted via regular mail and duplicate by e-mail. Vladimir V. Petrov Administrator Novosibirsk Summer School 2000 'Communicative Strategies of Culture' Mailing address: Tsvetnoi Proezd, 29-28, Novosibirsk 630090 Russia E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.nsu.ru/psych/comstrat/ To participate in the competition, the following 4 documents must be submitted: 1. Personal request To the Organizing Committee of the Novosibirsk Summer School "Communicative Strategies of Culture" Please consider my application for participation in the Novosibirsk Summer School "Communicative Strategies of Culture" from August 3 to 20, 2000. Enclosures: 1. Information sheet. 2. Statement of objectives to participate in the Summer School. 3. List of publications. Signature _____________________ (full name ____________________________) Date _________________________ 2. Novosibirsk Summer School 2000 "Communicative Strategies of Culture" Information sheet 1. Applicant's first and last name ___________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 2. Date of birth ________________________________________________________ 3. Home address _______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 4. Telephone, fax, e-mail _________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 5. Universities attended __________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 6. Place of work and current position ________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 7. Short summary of teaching responsibilities (lecture courses that you teach, seminar series, etc.) ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 8. Previous work experience ________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 9. Research topics _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ including the topic of Ph.D. thesis you are working _______________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 10. Research interests ____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 11. Language skills (English) _____________________________________________ Signature ________________________________ 3. Novosibirsk Summer School 2000 "Communicative Strategies of Culture" Statement of objectives to participate in the School Describe the following: 1. Your motivation for attending the Summer School. 2. Links of your research to the topics and problems of the Summer School. 3. Proposed research topic to work on and defend during the Summer School. The length of the text should be from 2 to 3 pages. Signature ________________________________ 4. Novosibirsk Summer School 2000 "Communicative Strategies of Culture" List of publications Describe the following: 1. Titles of publications. 2. Co-authors. 3. Imprint information. 4. Number of pages. Signature ________________________________ _______________________________ [log in to unmask] mailing list Communicative Strategies of Culture