Yes, Sasha and Michael. My thoughts too, are turning to ISCAR.
Not all of XMCA will be present. Those who will be might pick ohe seminar
or paper to report back to the list on. but what are our questions ahead of
time?
The theme of the meeting is "Activity in a changing world: learning,
communication,
and intercultural activity."
Visiting the sites suggested by Sasha seems worthwhile. But in addition, I
wonder what
those on XMCA want to learn, whether they go or not. This sort of meeting,
under various
names, has been occurring at least since 1986 and by some accounts before.
Almost 20
years during which the world has changed a lot.
What has CH/AT accomplished? Do we know what an object is: A subject? The
difference between
an action and an activity? Do we care? Is anything we have to say relevant
to the theme's of the
conference?
I am not sure how many of you have noticed, but if you go to the xmca page
at lchc.ucsd.edu <http://lchc.ucsd.edu> you will
find a cluster map that shows what parts of the world xmca messages have
been coming from. Kind of
interesting given ISCAR's theme. Not uniform, but not entirely regional or
loca either. Almost intercultural,
in some ways.
It would be really interesting if every member of xmca sent just a brief
note with their most burning question
about the role of culture and activity in human development and its relation
to the current human condition-- then
we would be able to see what bits of the world had turn,....... red! :-)
mike
On 9/3/05, Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Sasha,
> I may have missed it--is there a specific time and place that we meet
> in Seville; and is there an official subscription etc.?
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> On 3-Sep-05, at 5:35 PM, Alexander Surmava wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> > inasmuch as Sevilla's congress is approaching
> > and its schedule will contain a meeting of newborn sections
> > I decide to address to all with a little announcement.
> >
> > Dear colleges,
> >
> > it's a little bit late to congratulate all of us with the
> > registration of
> > our newborn "Dialectical psychology section" - the event took place
> > in the
> > last midsummer - and it's high time to begin to work.
> > Soon in Seville most of us will have a possibility to take a closer
> > look at
> > each other and to discuss our plans. But it will be helpful to get
> > ready to
> > our meeting and to begin our discussion immediately.
> > As it strikes me we have to discuss several questions:
> > 1. Information.
> > I mean we can inform each other about all new ideas, publications,
> > seminars, online or offline discussions wherever they take place.
> > For example today I know three such events:
> > a) Mike Cole's XMCA (in case of such constantly functioning
> > forums as
> > XMCA we can point at the topics of our closer interest)
> > http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Mail/index.html ;
> > b) Peters Moxhay's XBDG group discussing the E.V.Ilienkov's
> > "Dialectic
> > of abstract and concrete in Marx's "Das Kapital"
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xbdg
> > (besides the texts you can find there some interesting photos
> > http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/xbdg/lst
> > c) Offline "Moscow wide seminar on cultural-historical
> > psychology". The
> > audio records, photos and texts from seminar (in Russian) is
> > available on my
> > website http://www.voxnet.ru/~monada/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=6
> > d) Hope that some of section's members can prolong this list.
> > 2. Technical means of our future communication.
> > a) We have to open a registration list to have a possibility for
> > E-mailing all interesting information to sections members;
> > b) We have to organize a special website with web conference (a
> > listserve discussion group), useful links, library of classic
> > texts, audio
> > and video records, photos, an electronic journal for current
> > publications
> > which lately can transform into a full size paper journal etc.; the
> > replenishment of our site with materials of common interest will be
> > the goal
> > of all of us.
> > c) Temporarily (before we will organize such a website) I invite
> > everybody to my website
> > http://www.voxnet.ru/~monada/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=11 and
> > http://www.voxnet.ru/~monada ;
> > d) To inform all ISCAR members of section activity we will
> > prepare a
> > special part of the ISCAR Newsletter;
> > 3. The most difficult problem is a problem of common language
> > (English-Russian and Russian-English translation). Unfortunately
> > among a
> > group of Russian philosophers and psychologists - members of our
> > section - I
> > with my middling English am the best English speaker :-(. So if we
> > wish to
> > begin a real common international discussion we will need to solve
> > a problem
> > of funding of translation of our future conversations. Most of Russian
> > philosophers know German, but still I think that working languages
> > in our
> > Dialectical community must be English and Russian.
> > 4. Themes and order of our discussions. I do not want to
> > forestall the
> > colleges with this meaty question. Let's form the preliminary list of
> > theoretic problems desirable to discuss in the immediate future
> > collecting
> > each voce.
> > 5. The organization of summer schools for students and post
> > graduates
> > looks very useful.
> > 6. One day we'll organize special symposia on the future ISCAR
> > congresses, or organize a special section conferences or working
> > meetings.
> > 7. Finally I recommend for all participants of our section to
> > pay
> > attention to a new Newton Duarte's section because as far as I
> > understand
> > the subject of our sections is practically identical.
> > If I've probably forgotten something essential I'll be grateful
> > for
> > specifications and additions.
> > Sasha Surmava
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Mike Cole [mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:29 PM
> > To: Xmca
> > Subject: Fwd: [ISCAR] Section Proposals
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: ISCAR Announcement <iscar-announce@iscar.org>
> > Date: Jun 10, 2005 1:45 AM
> > Subject: [ISCAR] Section Proposals
> > To: iscar-announce@iscar.org
> >
> >
> >
> > Call for ISCAR sections
> >
> > Dear ISCAR Member,
> >
> > As mentioned in the last newsletter (Vol. 3, No. 4),
> > ISCAR will give the possibility to organize sections
> > around topics of particular interest.
> >
> > For more details, see: http://www.iscar.org/sectionnews.html
> >
> > The Executive Committee is requesting that proposals be
> > sent to them by 1 July, so that we can arrange for sections
> > to meet as part of the ISCAR Congress program.
> >
> > As part of preparing such proposals, some groups of persons
> > have proposed the following ideas as potential sections.
> > You are encouraged to contact them if you are interested in
> > participating with them, or if you have suggestions for
> > modifying or expanding their proposals.
> >
> > Please note that all are still welcome to send a proposal
> > for a section, even if they are not included here. Perhaps
> > these proposals will help to inspire other ideas.
> >
> > If you have questions, then you are welcome to write
> > to Seth Chaiklin: seth@iscar.org
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > ______
> >
> >
> > ACTIVITY-THEORETICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
> >
> > Steve Harris and Olav Bertelsen are interested in forming
> > a section on information technology design.
> >
> > Here is a draft text for what will become a proposal for
> > an ISCAR section on ATIT.
> >
> > The ISCAR section on Activity-Theoretical Information
> > Technology Design (ATIT) will aim to bring together researchers
> > and practitioners involved with the use of AT-based methods for
> > the design and evaluation of computer software and hardware,
> > information systems, human-computer interaction,
> > computer-supported cooperative work, and computer-based work
> > processes generally. We see the role of this section as being
> > to promote and support an exciting and innovative
> > multidisciplinary discourse which recognizes that the practical
> > application of activity theory to the development of technology
> > transcends traditional boundaries between the theoretical and
> > applied sciences, and between science, art, and design.
> >
> >
> > They are interested in getting feedback and suggestions, as well
> > as hearing from those who might be interested in participating in
> > such a section. Please write to: Steve Harris <srharris@glam.ac.uk>
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > ______
> >
> >
> > CULTURAL FUNCTIONAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
> >
> >
> > Fran Hagstrom is interested in establishing a section on "Cultural
> > Functional Neuropsychology." The section would be grounded in thematic
> > issues that pertain to the cultural historical correlates of
> > individual
> > mental functioning, particularly as these apply to children and
> > adults with
> > developmental and/or acquired differences. If you are interested in
> > participating in such a section, or would like to discuss possible
> > modifications
> > or extensions of such an idea, then please contact Fran, after 20
> > June, at
> > <fhagstr@uark.edu>
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > ______
> >
> >
> > DIALECTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
> >
> > We are a group of Russian psychologists and philosophers who are
> > already
> > ISCAR members or in process of registration. We want to establish an
> > international section of "Dialectical psychology" (the term belongs
> > to L.S.Vygotsky).
> >
> > Among us are Felix Mikhailov, Lev Naumenko, Alexey Novokhatko,
> > Vladimir Kudriavtsev, Elena and Gennady Kravtsov, Elena E. Sokolova,
> > Elena and Sergey Mareyev, Galina Mishina, Alexander Simakin, Gennady
> > Lobastov and me - Alexander Surmava. Most of us are disciples of
> > Evald Ilyenkov, Alexey N. Leont'iev or/and Vasilij V. Davidov.
> >
> > Each of us is involved in theoretical and experimental investigations
> > in the fields of theoretical, educational and special psychology,
> > methodology and epistemology.
> >
> > We are interested in wide international cooperation in the process of
> > development of cultural historical and activity theory and practice.
> > We are sure, that this development can and must be based on the same
> > theoretical background on which Lev Vygotsky stood, on the basis of
> > high European philosophical rationalism which is marked by names of
> > Plato, Spinoza, Hegel, Marx and Ilyenkov.
> >
> > We are sure that wide international cooperation can give a powerful
> > impulse to the development of our common work. Last year a
> > theoretical seminar concerning problems of cultural-historical
> > psychology was organized in Moscow. We are going to continue it in
> > both off-line and on-line forms as well as to publish the results of
> > our common search, to organize seminars, conferences etc., etc.
> >
> > We invite everybody who is interested to participate in a
> > "Dialectical psychology" section of ISCAR to connect with us
> > through the website:
> >
> > <http://www.voxnet.ru/~monada/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=11>
> >
> > or by E-mail: <monada@netvox.ru>
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > __
> >
> >
> > ISCAR - International Society for Cultural and Activity Research
> >
> > Webpage: http://www.iscar.org <http://www.iscar.org>
> > Queries: info@iscar.org
> >
> > <winmail.dat>
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
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