Re: Luria conference

From: N (VYGOTSKY@CHARTER.NET)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 19:13:17 PDT


So is that a young luria and freud in the photos.

Mike Cole wrote:

>A lot of interesting things, some of them very disappointing, happened at the
>Luria conf.
>
>The big disappointment was the failure to get an interactive web connection
>or any streaming. Vis a vis the web connection, everything that could go wrong
>went wrong. CUNY's server was down for three days. The electricity at Moscow
>U Psych faculty was turned off for a day, the first day of the conference.
>The guy who was supposed to test with CUNY left for vacation. The Russians
>were worried about money that they believed had to paid to someone in new
>york, but neither Joe nor I understand what they were talking about, and
>money was available in sufficient amounts for any scenario I could think of.
>
>The Russian organizers simply could not imagine what streaming was and never
>got help to find out. They had their hands full just getting printed programs
>and registrations and taking care of foreign visitors.
>
>This foreign visitor gave a talk which is at luria.ucsd.edu twice-- once at
>the main conf in English, once in Russian at the new Pedagogical University
>headed by Rubstov.
>
>To me, personally, the most interesting talk was about Luria and use of the
>twin method where new materials have been turned up from the 1930's and a
>talk by Eugene Sokolov on general and specific memory, a talk by Eugene
>Subbotsky on magical thinking in Britain and the USD (which is coming out in
>British J of Dev Psych). I spent a lot of time completing gathering of material
>for the luria web site we are amateurly putting together which kept me away
>from a lot of the action.
>
>The closing ceremony was very interesting. They arranged for about 100 students
>to submit papers and gave prizes to the best students in several categories.
>Seems like something the ch-sig might want to adapt.
>
>I have followed the discussion on readings which I will attend to beginning
>tomorrow. There was a lot of interest in an international course and it turns
>out that a number of Russians follow xmca via internet and hope to start up
>their own, internal version.
>
>The Russian edition of Nature of Human Conflicts appeared in Russian in time
>for the conference and was met with a lot of interest. But it costs an arm and
>a leg in rubles.
>
>I managed to catch a nasty cold going in and out of the metro in constantly
>different kinds of cool weather but the metro is virtually the only way to
>travel in central moscow these days. The traffic is horrendous, even by,
>say, New York or SF standards.
>
>We still have not figured out how to get a voting mechanism which will keep
>Nate out of the Chicago mafia but we are working on it. Good advice never
>turned away.
>
>The weather in San Diego compares quite favorably with that in Moscow, I
>re-discovered.
>
>Achew.
>mike
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