Re: [xmca] ISCAR CALL FOR PROPOSALS

thank you, peter. Anyone interested in the details can log on to the
ISCAR website at
iscar2008.com.
olga

>CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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>The 2nd Congress of the International Society
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>for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR)
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>Ecologies of Diversities: The Developmental
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>and Historical Interarticulation of Human Mediational
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>Forms
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>University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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>September 8-13, 2008
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>The Southern California Planning Committee is
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>proud to announce the Second Annual ISCAR
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>Conference taking place at the University of
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>California, San Diego in September, 2008. All
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>those interested in theory and research on
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>culture and activity are invited to attend. The
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>conference is hosted by a coalition of six Southern
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>California universities: CSSM, SDSU, UCLA,
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>UCSD, UCSB, and USD. We look forward to your
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>visit.
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>We are born, inhabit, and create multiple
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>worlds reflecting our biological, sociocultural,
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>and interpersonal roots. We are both the subjects
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>and objects of the ecologies that constitute
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>our existence and conscious capacities as
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>humans. As humans, we create and are created
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>by our social and cultural institutions as well as
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>our mundane representations of our everyday
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>world of actions and experiences.
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>ISCAR 2008 is a celebration of this awareness
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>and its potentials for understanding the human
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>condition in today's liquid modernity and
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>for resolving the challenges we face in creating
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>conditions for a pieaceful and prosperous
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>world - a world that is in balance with our
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>needs for respect, dignity, and harmony within
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>and across social identities, cultures, languages,
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>and nations. It celebrates variations of opinion,
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>the old and the new, and what's to come.
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>The program committee invites researchers to
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>send proposals that correspond to one of the
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>conference themes. The conference themes
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>include A (Theory and research approaches
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>within and across local and global social contexts),
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>B (Contexts, complexities, challenges, and
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>collaborations of culture and activity), and C
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>(Theoretical and methodological explorations).
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>A proposal may be submitted for:
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>. A paper that corresponds to one of the
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>congress themes or subthemes
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>. A symposium that corresponds to one of
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>the congress (sub)themes
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>. A poster that corresponds to one of the
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>congress (sub)themes
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>See the conference website, http://www.
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>iscar2008.com/home.html, for more detailed
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>information about conference themes and subthemes.
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>Proposals must be submitted by email and sent
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>to: Iscar2008.com. The deadline for submissions
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>is January 31, 2008.
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Olga A. Vasquez
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