V-NYI #12 coming this summer! June 24-July 10, 2026

announcing V-NYI #12!

Advanced Certificate Program

Global Cultural Studies
Theoretical Linguistics
Post-colonial Studies
Creative Workshops

announcing V-NYI #12!

what is 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. NYI programs take place twice a year, in January and in July, LIVE (on Zoom).

V-NYI#12 Theoretical Linguistics

Non-canonical tense: Tenselessness, narrative tense, and evidential tense (advanced)

Emily Knick
University of California, Santa Cruz
Roumyana Pancheva
University of California, Santa Cruz

Topics in Sign Language Linguistics

Viktor Leyn
University of Chicago
Jenny Singleton
Stony Brook University

Chit-Fung (Lawrence) Lam
Chit-Fung (Lawrence) Lam
Syntax, Semantics, and Processing: A Constraint-Based Theory

Chit-Fung (Lawrence) Lam
University of Oxford

Sandra Villata
Sandra Villata
Introduction to Experimental Syntax

Sandra Villata
University of Enna Kore

Magdalena Lohninger
Magdalena Lohninger
Scientific Method and Theory in Linguistics

Magdalena Lohninger
University of Vienna

Masha Esipova
Masha Esipova
Omni-Linguistics

Masha Esipova
Bar-Ilan University

Adam Szczegielniak
Adam Szczegielniak
Intervention Effects in syntax and semantics (advanced)

Adam Szczegielniak
University of Gdansk

Roots in syntax (advanced)

Andreas Blümel
University of Göttingen
Hedde Zeijlstra
University of Göttingen

DeAndre Espree-Conaway
DeAndre Espree-Conaway
Language Documentation & Conservation

DeAndre Espree-Conaway
Leiden University / Bloomfield Language Institute

Sigríður Björnsdóttir
Sigríður Björnsdóttir
Mechanisms in language acquisition and change

Sigríður Björnsdóttir
University of Konstanz

Hongchen Wu
Hongchen Wu
Introduction to Syntax

Hongchen Wu
Georgia Tech University

Jon Rawski
Jon Rawski
Learnability and Linguistic Theory

Jon Rawski
San Jose State University

Laura Kalin
Laura Kalin
Introduction to Morphology

Laura Kalin
Princeton University

Hadil Karawani
Hadil Karawani
Pragmatics (and Semantics) (advanced)

Hadil Karawani
University of Konstanz

Semantics of Attitude Predicates: Through the Lens of Neg-raising (advanced)

Zahra Mirrazi
University of Göttingen
Zhu Ziling
Georg-August Universität Göttingen

Bronwyn Bjorkman
Bronwyn Bjorkman
The Syntax of Syncretism (advanced)

Bronwyn Bjorkman
Queen's University (Kingston)

Jéssica Mendes
Jéssica Mendes
Introduction to Formal Semantics

Jéssica Mendes
University of Göttingen

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V-NYI#12 Global Cultural Studies

Masha Godovannaya
Masha Godovannaya
Film Letter (limited)

Masha Godovannaya
Smolny Beyond Borders

The Spectacle of Violence and the Decolonial Question

Danille Elize Arendse
Stellenbosch University / University of Pretoria
Sayan Dey
Bayan College, Oman

Migration Stories -- Y(ours)

Polly Gannon
Independent Researcher, Berlin
Melis Umut
Stony Brook University

Iuliana Matasova
Iuliana Matasova
Abundance of Accent in Words and Music

Iuliana Matasova
Independent Scholar, Fellow at New Europe College Bucharest

Julio César Díaz Calderón
Julio César Díaz Calderón
Storytelling as Research

Julio César Díaz Calderón
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Polly Gannon
Polly Gannon
Of Webs, Words, and Uprisings: The Politics of Speech and Silence. (Mostly Poetry, But Not Only)

Polly Gannon
Independent Researcher, Berlin

Tulika Chandra
Tulika Chandra
Orality and Social Knowledge

Tulika Chandra
Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNU)

Masha Sokolova
Masha Sokolova
Memories / Futurities

Masha Sokolova
University of Ljubljana

In (another's) Tongues

Abdur Rehman Khan
NYI
Masha Trubitsina
Independent Researcher

Liza Michaeli
Liza Michaeli
To Be or to Please

Liza Michaeli
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Kevin Potter
Kevin Potter
Palestinian Literature as World Literature

Kevin Potter
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Vienna

disability storytelling in times of global crises

Anna T.
Athens, Greece
Katharina Wiedlack
University of Vienna

Opacity, Imperfection, and Other Necessities in the Arts

Dinara Asadulina
Morley House
Christos Kakouros
Morley House

joan scott
joan scott
Living in Translation

joan scott
Institute of Advanced Study

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