Invited Lectures ;V. Conferences and Invited Lectures A. Conferences organized: 1. JULY 2009: We won a bid from the U.S. Department of Defense to host their LEARN conference, devoted to Russian language and linguistics. I was one of the keynote speakers. Other participants will be from universities and government organizations (see Appendix A). 2. Head of organizing committee for CSEEES 2010 conference: Russian Futures. B. Conference presentations, concert performances and invited lectures (2008): 1. Invited Plenary for Integration und Explosion. Perspektiven auf die Kultursemiotik Jurij Lotmans. Universität Konstanz (Germany), October 23-25, 2008. „Lotman and the Cognitive Sciences. The Role of Autocommunication in the Language of Memory.” 2. “Underspecificity of speech sound: production and perception.” Invited presentation for spring 2009 in Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University. 3. Concert of Russian classical and folk music. St. Petersburg, Russia, Бродячая собака (площадь Искусств); February, 2008.