Communicative Strategies of Culture: an Event and its Interpretation in Narrative

Dates: 1-21 August 2002

Host Institution/Location: Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

 

Eligibility

Disciplines: Literature Studies, History, Sociology, Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy, Education, Political Science

Region/Countries: NIS, Baltic States, Mongolia

 

Language(s): Russian and English (with translation into Russian)

 

Course Director: Dr. Igor Silantev, Science and Education Center, Novosibirsk State University

 

Contact Information for Applicants:

Postal Address: Novosibirsk State University, Science and Education Center, ul. Pirogova 11, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia

Telephone/Fax: +7 3832 303 011

E-mail: sum@sscadm.nsu.ru

Web Site: http://www.nsu.ru/education/virtual/summer_e.htm

 

The goal of the School is to introduce a narratology approach to communicative strategies and discursive practices of modern culture through a system of lecture courses, seminars, tutorials, and roundtable panels. The School provides opportunities for interdisciplinary synergies, and brings together young university teachers in literature studies, history, sociology, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, education, and political science. The School program includes three courses: The Narrative: from Communicative Strategies to Discursive Practice; The Author in the Space of The Narrative Text; Narratology of Political and Historical Texts. Two methodological seminars will discuss: Topicality in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and The Institute for Critical Social Studies and the Renovation of Humanities Education.