Re: [xmca] ISCAR CALL FOR PROPOSALS

>please find the themes and sub-themes in the forms on the pages for

>the papers, poster, and symposium located on the Call for Paper's

>page: http://iscar.ucsd.edu and in the first
>flyer, also on the website:iscar2008.com.

olga

>As the deadline for submissions approaches,I was
>planning to submit a paper proposal and noticed
>that the call for papers says that a proposal
>may be submitted for:
>
> * a paper that corresponds to one of the congress themes or (sub)themes
> * a symposium that corresponds to one of the congress (sub)themes
> * a poster that corresponds to one of the congress (sub)themes
>
>I was looking for the themes and subthemes in
>the website and didn't find them. Are they the
>"strands" mentioned in the opening statement?
>
>David
>
>On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
>
>>CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>>
>>The 2nd Congress of the International Society
>>
>>for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR)
>>
>>Ecologies of Diversities: The Developmental
>>
>>and Historical Interarticulation of Human Mediational
>>
>>Forms
>>
>>University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
>>
>>September 8-13, 2008
>>
>>The Southern California Planning Committee is
>>
>>proud to announce the Second Annual ISCAR
>>
>>Conference taking place at the University of
>>
>>California, San Diego in September, 2008. All
>>
>>those interested in theory and research on
>>
>>culture and activity are invited to attend. The
>>
>>conference is hosted by a coalition of six Southern
>>
>>California universities: CSSM, SDSU, UCLA,
>>
>>UCSD, UCSB, and USD. We look forward to your
>>
>>visit.
>>
>>We are born, inhabit, and create multiple
>>
>>worlds reflecting our biological, sociocultural,
>>
>>and interpersonal roots. We are both the subjects
>>
>>and objects of the ecologies that constitute
>>
>>our existence and conscious capacities as
>>
>>humans. As humans, we create and are created
>>
>>by our social and cultural institutions as well as
>>
>>our mundane representations of our everyday
>>
>>world of actions and experiences.
>>
>>ISCAR 2008 is a celebration of this awareness
>>
>>and its potentials for understanding the human
>>
>>condition in today's liquid modernity and
>>
>>for resolving the challenges we face in creating
>>
>>conditions for a pieaceful and prosperous
>>
>>world - a world that is in balance with our
>>
>>needs for respect, dignity, and harmony within
>>
>>and across social identities, cultures, languages,
>>
>>and nations. It celebrates variations of opinion,
>>
>>the old and the new, and what's to come.
>>
>>The program committee invites researchers to
>>
>>send proposals that correspond to one of the
>>
>>conference themes. The conference themes
>>
>>include A (Theory and research approaches
>>
>>within and across local and global social contexts),
>>
>>B (Contexts, complexities, challenges, and
>>
>>collaborations of culture and activity), and C
>>
>>(Theoretical and methodological explorations).
>>
>>A proposal may be submitted for:
>>
>>. A paper that corresponds to one of the
>>
>>congress themes or subthemes
>>
>>. A symposium that corresponds to one of
>>
>>the congress (sub)themes
>>
>>. A poster that corresponds to one of the
>>
>>congress (sub)themes
>>
>>See the conference website, http://www.
>>
>>iscar2008.com/home.html, for more detailed
>>
>>information about conference themes and subthemes.
>>
>>Proposals must be submitted by email and sent
>>
>>to: Iscar2008.com. The deadline for submissions
>>
>>is January 31, 2008.
>>
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Olga A. Vásquez
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
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