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From: Judith Vera Diamondstone <JDiamondstone@Clarku.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:42:04 -0500
Subject: [ch-sig] 2003 AERA program -- lonng
Hi. I'm happy to report that our program for next year has been completed,
and it looks great! although certainly tilted toward the CH-end of CHAT this
year, due no doubt to the theme of identity. We owe a huge thank you to
Phoebe Stevenson and Charla Copp, who waived the policy guidelines for the
business meeting for us this year. The guidelines have not been enforced in
the past, and I was unaware of them when I invited individual proposals for
the business meeting, to follow our invited speaker. We will indeed include
the 3 top-scoring papers on the theme of identity in the business meeting --
Vitanova & Hicks; Wortham; Lemke. The authors apparently were in contact
with one another beforehand, and their approach to questions raised by
Dorothy Holland's presentation will be complementary. It should be a
terrific session.
*In addition* to the business meeting, the program includes 2 individual
paper sessions, 2 symposia, and 8 paper discussions! (One paper session is
co-sponsored by the Narrative SIG and one symposium is co-sponsored by
Division G.)
SIG-CH-5 Business Meeting
( Other ) Identity in Practice (40 minute presentation: speaker Dorothy
Holland; followed by (3) 15-20 minute presentations
SIG-CH-1 Paper Session
( Individual ) Cultural-Historical Activity Perspectives on Learning &
Identity: Diverse Social & Institutional Contexts
SIG-CH-7 Paper Session --- cosponsored with Narrative SIG
( Individual ) Narratives as Cultural Tools: Critical Perspectives
SIG-CH-9 Symposium -- cosponsored with Division G
( Multiple ) RETHINKING CONTEXTS. OLD QUESTIONS AND NEW ANSWERS?
Symposium
( Multiple ) Bringing Bakhtin to our Lives: Authorship and Dialogism
PLUS 8 paper discussions!!
The most difficult decisions concerned the creation of coherent sessions
out of papers taking diverse approaches to the study of various topics
concerning diverse populations, etc. Co-sponsorship helped to create one
strong session. Our other paper session does indeed represent a diversity of
approaches and concerns, which makes it a fair representation of the USES of
CHAT in papers concerned, more or less, with identity, although it also
includes a few strong proposals not concerned explicitly with identity, and
some very good proposals had to be assigned to individual paper discussions.
We had ONLY ONE AT-influenced proposal; I anticipate a swing in the other
direction in 2004. I am not happy about this commitment to EITHER C-H issues
OR AT issues at the AERA. I hope that our members with similar concerns will
plan together at this year's AERA. We should think in terms of co-sponsored
sessions with the Language Processes SIG, the Semiotics SIG, the Narrative
SIG, the Work SIG, the Organizational Change SIG, Division G, and others. To
co-sponsor a session with another SIG, we need at LEAST 2 papers related to
the concerns of *both* SIGS -- but note that, if someone sends a proposal to
both SIGs, it will eliminate the possibility of co-sponsorship.
Some papers had to be arbitrarily assigned to paper discussions. PLEASE do
not assume that proposals assigned to paper discussions are of lesser
quality. I personally plan to attend as many paper discussions as I possibly
can, because I am keenly interested in all of them. Please ATTEND THE PAPER
DISCUSSIONS for the CH-SIG. Check them out in the program schedule when it
comes out. You will regret it if you neglect to do so.
That's all for now.
Judy, as program chair, with the support of presidents and other officers
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