Speaker Background: Dr. Valeri Belianine

Location: Toronto
Profession: Professor of Psycholinguistics

Available for: Speaking engagements anywhere in Ontario, Canada and internationally; research in psychology, culture and linguistics.

Affiliations:
Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto (associate)
Centre for International Education, Moscow State University named after Lomonsov (full professor)

Professional Memberships:
Moscow Psychotherapeutic Academy (Elected member) [Russia]
Academy of Humanities (Correspondence Member) [Russia, International]
National Board of Law Psychologists (Member of the Board) [Russia]
Reading Foundation (Member of the Steering Committee) [Russia]
Association of Psycholinguists (Member of the Steering Committee) [Russia]
Russian Psychological Society [Russia]
International Association of Applied Psycholinguistics [Portugal and international]
International Association of the Teachers of Russian Language and Literature [Russia]
Association of Applied Linguistics [Russia]
"Developing Personality" Professional Psychological Organization [Russia]

Past speaking engagements:
1. Culture Link. Toronto, Canada: 2002.
2. Seminar for New-Canadians. "The Yonge Street Review." Toronto, Canada: 2001.
3. Academy of National Economy. Moscow, Russia: 2001.
4. Teaching Foreign Languages in the Age of Globalization. International Conference. Taipei, Taiwan: 2000.
5. Multimedia in Teaching Foreign Languages. Practical Conference. Moscow, Russia: 2000.
6. Chinese Culture University. Taiwan, Taipei: 2000.
7. Gender, Language and Culture. International conference. Moscow State Linguistic University. Moscow, Russia: 1999.
8. Ethnopsycholinguistic Modeling of Cultures. Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia: 1995.
9. Ethnic and Language Self-consciousness. Conference. Institute of the Peoples of Russia. Moscow, Russia: 1995.
10. Language and Consciousness. International conference. Bulgarian Academy of Science. Varna, Bulgaria: 1995.
11. Teaching Languages and Culture. Conference. University of Seville. Seville, Spain: 1995.
12. Language and Culture. International Symposium. Institute of Russian Language after Pushkin. Moscow, Russia: 1994.
13. Culture and the World of Language. International Symposium. Moscow State University Moscow. Moscow, Russia: 1994.

Titles of past speeches:
Psychology of Immigration
Language and Culture
Language of Manipulation
Ideological Language
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism
Language Frames of Consciousness and Behaviour

Workshops organized/facilitated:
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Empowerment through Communication

Resources produced:
Belianine V. Foundations of Psycholinguistic Diagnostics: Models of the World in Fiction. Moscow, Trivola, 2000: 234pp. (2,000 copies sold).
Belianine V. Introduction to Psychiatric Literary Criticism. Germany, Munchen, Verlag Otto Sagner, 1996: 296 pp.
Belianine V. Psycholinguistic Aspects of Fiction. Moscow, Moscow State University Press, 1988: 120 pp. (3,800 copies).
Belianine V., Butenko I. Anthology of Dark Humour. Moscow, PAIMS, 1996: 192 pp. (1,000 copies).
Belianine V., Butenko I. Living Speech. Moscow, PAIMS, 1994: 183 pp. (12,000 copies).
Psycholinguistics: textbook for students of linguistics and psychology. Russia. Five different editions. 1999-2002. (10,000 copies).
More than 70 articles in scholarly journals, multimedia and newspapers.

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