Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers

Dale-- A talented grad student here at UCSD is writing one of his orals
papers on the contributions Conquergood could make to
understanding intersubjectivity and development. We are seeing lots of
connections too.

Remember, from a Cult-Hist perspective, "in the beginning was the deed" and
one seeks in instruction to enable "performance before competence." There
are important connections to our interests in play, in changing
consciousness, and in relating what we do to the social environment in which
we find ourselves.

I think a symposium at AERA around this set of issues would be great.
Includes, but is perhaps broader than (and inclusive of)
our long standing interests in play.

How about taking the lead in organizing something? I am keeping local UCSD
folks with these interests abreast of this discussion.

mike
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Dale Cyphert <Dale.Cyphert@uni.edu> wrote:

> Mike,
> I guess I see really fundamental connections. I stick around XMCA because
> it seems like folks are applying the principles derived from what
> Conquergood was observing and theorizing. Of course, the Russian
> psychologists were observing and theorizing as well, but it seems like
> they've done it from a more micro level. The CHAT unit of analysis is the
> child learning the culture. Conquergood was more interested in the cultural
> performance, both in the sense that a community performs its own culture in
> its rhetorical practices and in the sense that performative behaviors are
> the mechanism of a cultural existence.
>
> dale
>
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>
>
> Mike Cole wrote:
>
>> Yep, that is the guy. Dale?
>> So what about the relation between performance ethnography and CHAT
>> approaches to
>> education?
>> mike
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> That's probably Dwight Conquergood, who studied street gangs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dwight Conquergood R.I.P.
>>> DWIGHT CONQUERGOOD, 55
>>> Professor of the Year in 1993
>>> Read Dwight's Power of Symbols
>>>
>>> By Tom Rybarczyk
>>> Chicago Tribune staff reporter
>>> Published November 19, 2004
>>>
>>> Northwestern University Professor Dwight Conquergood took his desire to
>>> understand the disenfranchised to a Thai refugee camp, a dangerous
>>> Chicago
>>> neighborhood and vigils outside scheduled Death Row executions.
>>>
>>> And even if he was thrust into danger, as he was in the 1980s when he was
>>> beaten while living in an Albany Park apartment complex, he kept coming
>>> back.
>>>
>>> "He was scared," said his friend and fellow NU Professor Micaela di
>>> Leonardo
>>> of his stay in the apartment complex known as Big Red. "It was dangerous
>>> and
>>> it was unpleasant ... But he found a community."
>>>
>>> Professor Conquergood, 55, of Chicago, died Saturday, Nov. 13, in Rush
>>> North
>>> Shore Hospice in Skokie after a prolonged battle with colon cancer.
>>>
>>> Friends and colleagues said his ability to communicate and understand
>>> were
>>> his greatest gifts. Whether it was giving a lecture to graduate students
>>> or
>>> speaking to the Latin Kings street gang's inner circle, Professor
>>> Conquergood worked to see how the disadvantaged view the world and then
>>> show
>>> that to the privileged decision-makers.
>>>
>>> "What I thought was remarkable about him was he was one of those rare
>>> people
>>> who could move between these different worlds," said Michelle Citron, an
>>> NU
>>> professor and friend. "There's not many academics who take their work out
>>> to
>>> communities and people."
>>>
>>> Born in Canada, he moved with his family to Terre Haute, Ind. at age 3.
>>>
>>> As a teen, he began to show his intellectual ability, earning the highest
>>> marks in high school and college, said his brother Larey.
>>>
>>> "He was such an overachiever," his brother said.
>>>
>>> After graduating from Indiana State University in the early 1970s,
>>> Professor
>>> Conquergood received his doctorate from Northwestern.
>>>
>>> In 1978, he was back at Northwestern as a professor. He taught classes on
>>> anthropology and folklore. He also lectured on performance studies, a
>>> field
>>> that combines anthropology and such performance disciplines as theater
>>> and
>>> dance.
>>>
>>> His intense work ethic left little time for a wife and family, his
>>> brother
>>> said.
>>>
>>> Instead, Professor Conquergood would develop a number of surrogate
>>> families,
>>> first among the Hmong in Southeastern Asia and then among Albany Park
>>> residents, including members of the Latin Kings, di Leonardo said.
>>>
>>> His knowledge of performance studies helped him teach Hmong refugees in
>>> Thailand the importance of public health and sanitation, di Leonardo
>>> said.
>>> Professor Conquergood was able to use their mythology in a theater
>>> setting
>>> to get his points across, she said.
>>>
>>> Professor Conquergood used film and writing to help others communicate,
>>> di
>>> Leonardo said. His documentary on the struggles in Big Red was filmed
>>> with
>>> the help of Latin Kings members and challenged the notion that gangs were
>>> racially segregated, di Leonardo said.
>>>
>>> Professor Conquergood testified in court on his findings about the Hmong
>>> as
>>> well as his experience with North Side gangs as an expert witness,
>>> according
>>> to Tribune articles.
>>>
>>> In his later years, he would take on the death penalty, publishing an
>>> essay
>>> titled "Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment and the Death Penalty,"
>>> that
>>> garnered him national recognition, di Leonardo said.
>>>
>>> He won the Illinois Professor of the Year award in 1993 and several NU
>>> teaching awards.
>>>
>>> Other survivors include his mother, Dorothea ; two sisters, Carey
>>> Konazeski
>>> and Cheryl Wall; and another brother, Kevin.
>>>
>>> A memorial service is being planned for January at Northwestern
>>> University.
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Smagorinsky
>>> The University of Georgia
>>> 125 Aderhold Hall
>>> Athens, GA 30602
>>> smago@uga.edu/phone:706-542-4507
>>> http://www.coe.uga.edu/lle/faculty/smagorinsky/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Mike Cole
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:56 PM
>>> To: Lois Holzman
>>> Cc: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers
>>>
>>> Vygotsky and Performance Studies in education? Sounds like a fine idea.
>>> I'll check locally. But has anyone else on XMCA heard of Conquergood?
>>> mike
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Lois Holzman <
>>> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Mike, for getting the ball rolling with these suggestions.
>>>> What about reaching out across UCSD to colleagues, like the one who is
>>>>
>>>
>>> into
>>>
>>> Conquergood? Is there something we could do that would
>>>>
>>>
>>> entertain/interrogate
>>>
>>> performance as either/both an ontological or epistemological
>>>> construct/practice? Also are you interested in organizing a site visit
>>>>
>>>
>>> given
>>>
>>> it's in SD?
>>>> Lois
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the reminder, Lois.
>>>>
>>>> AERA is going to be here in San Diego I hear. And the theme is
>>>>> interdisciplinarity?
>>>>> The first thing that circumstance brings to mind is that several people
>>>>> here
>>>>> might be induced to contribute to symposia or
>>>>> discussions. But what kind? Some possible themes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Intervention research as a tool of theory testing: Alternative
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> approaches.
>>>
>>> The role(s) of qualitative research in the conduct of research on
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> learning
>>>
>>> and development.
>>>>> Learning and Development: Any progress in clarifying the issues since
>>>>> 1934?
>>>>> Second life and Other Virtual Environments for education
>>>>> A cultural-historical approach to organizing higher education in the
>>>>> social
>>>>> sciences
>>>>>
>>>>> Who is interested in what?
>>>>> mike
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Lois Holzman <
>>>>> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear XMCA-ers,
>>>>>
>>>>> We want to remind you that there's less than a month to go before AERA
>>>>>>> proposals are due. We are a creative group of folks doing work that
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> worth
>>>>>>> sharing at AERA! So please let us know if there's any way we can
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> support
>>>
>>> you
>>>>>>> to compose proposals and to submit them to the Cultural-Historical
>>>>>>> Research
>>>>>>> SIG. As you know, AERA bases the number and type of session allocated
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> each SIG in part on the total number of proposals received by the SIG
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> -
>>>
>>> so
>>>>>>> please submit your proposals to our SIG!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We also remind you that the quality of the program depends largely on
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> proposal review process, and so we encourage those of you who have
>>>>>>> reviewed
>>>>>>> proposals in the past to do so again this year; we also welcome new
>>>>>>> reviewers, including graduate students and new SIG members.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To submit proposals and to volunteer to review proposals, please log
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> in
>>>
>>> to
>>>>>>> the 2009 AERA Annual Meeting online submission system at
>>>>>>> http://www.aera.net.<http://www.aera.net./> This is also the site
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> for
>>>
>>> volunteering as a discussant or session chair.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Kevin and Lois
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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