[xmca] 7th International L.S.Vygotsky Memorial Conference

From: Alexander Surmava (monada@netvox.ru)
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 02:36:11 PDT


Dear colleagues,

as you know we will meet Lev Vygotsky's 110 anniversary this November.

In connection with it Russian State University for the Humanities, the L. S.
Vygotsky Institute of Psychology, the International L.S.Vygotsky Society and
L.S.Vygotsky Fund hold in Moscow the 7th International L.S.Vygotsky Memorial
Conference "Cultural Historical Theory: Prospects of Development"

The conference will take place at November, 14-17 in Russian State
University for the Humanities.

I call attention to the first Newsletter of the Conference.

 

 

Russian State University for the Humanities

The L. S. Vygotsky Institute of Psychology

The International L.S.Vygotsky Society

L.S.Vygotsky Fund

 

7th International L.S.Vygotsky Memorial Conference

"Cultural Historical Theory: Prospects of Development"

 

 

15 - 17 November 2006

Russian State University for the Humanities

Moscow

 

 

 

     The 7th International Memorial Vygotsky Conference "Cultural Historical
Theory: Prospects of Development" dedicated to the 110th Anniversary of
L.S.Vygotsky will take place on 15 - 17 November, 2006. This will be
organized by Russian State University for the Humanities, the L. S. Vygotsky
Institute of Psychology, the International L.S.Vygotsky Society, the
L.S.Vygotsky Fund.

 

The main themes of the conference

Development of L.S.Vygotsky's ideas in the new century;

Dialectics: non-developed philosophical and methodological quintessence of
cultural historical theory;

Two approaches in psychology: an activity-based and/or cultural historical?

Psychology as an objective science

>From the chronology of childhood to its theory

The world of meaning of the developing conscious

Education as a general form of an individual and societal development

Vygotskian approach as an international phenomenon

The scientific basics of cultural historical psychology

 

The questions above as well as other ones are supposed to be discussed
within the work of symposia according to the following topics:

 

Zone of Proximal Development and what is beyond it;

Socialisation, social situation of development and "growing into culture";

The indisputable and disputable in mediating of psychical functions;

The correlation between the ideas of "psychical" dimension and "individual"
self?

Age as a problem of sciences devoted to the study of man;

Theoretical psychology: "The stone the builders rejected";

Psychology of art as the key to understanding man;

The picture of the world through the prism of language: psycholinguistics
and the related concepts;

The problem of the norm, psychical health and psychological well-being;

Forming and projecting spontaneous and purposeful development;

The methods of investigation in classical and non-classical psychology.
Prospects of experimental psychology.

 

Call For Proposals

 

The Programme Committee invites researchers to send proposals that
correspond to one of the above-mentioned themes. A proposal can be submitted
as:

an abstract of the paper corresponding to one of the conference themes (1000
- 1200 words);

an abstract of the poster paper presentation corresponding to one of the
conference themes (maximum 2500 words);

a symposium programme that corresponds to one of the conference themes.

 

Working Languages are Russian and English

 

All abstracts shall be included in the symposium programme.

Proposals will need to be submitted by e-mail, regular mail or fax to:
Vygotsky Institute of Psychology
(Russian State University for the Humanities)

Miusskaya Square 6

Moscow 125267

Russia

Phone: 7-495-250-61-47

Fax: 7-495-973-44-34

E-mail: vygotsky_confer@mail.ru

              vygotsky1@ru.ru

All paper proposals must include:

The title of the paper (symposium);

The author's name and academic degree;

The author's place of work;

Mailing address and e-mail

Reference to one of the conference themes

 

Please inform us if you might be interested in other kinds of participation
in the conference, e.g. as a discussant, in book exhibition, etc.

 

   The speaking time will be thirty minutes at the plenary session and
fifteen minutes - at the symposium. Please let us know beforehand what
kind(s) of equipment you may need.

 

Deadlines

- for the submission of proposals: June 21, 2006

- for the notification of proposal acceptance: July 21, 2006

 

Registration Fees

Regular: $300 for oversea participants

             $200 for those from CIS

             $150 for Russian participants

Student: $100 for foreign ones

                $50 for those from CIS

                $20 for Russian ones

 

Conference Secretariat

Vygotsky Institute of Psychology

(Russian State University for the Humanities)

Miusskaya Square 6

Moscow 125267

Russia

Tel.: 7-095-250-61-47

Fax: 7-095-973-44-34

E-mail: <mailto:vygotsky1@ru.ru> vygotsky1@ru.ru

            <mailto:vygotsky_confer@mail.ru> vygotsky_confer@mail.ru

 

Organising Committee

 

E.E.Kravtsova, Director of L.S.Vygotsky Institute of Psychology

V.T.Kudryavtzev, Head of the Theory and History of Psychology Department

M.K. Akimova, Head of General Regularities of Psychic Development Department

I.A.Petukhova, Professor, General Regularities of Psychic Development
Department

V.K.Shabelnikov, Head of the Educational Psychology Department

G.G.Kravtzov, Head of Psychology of Personality Department

G.A.Mishina, Head of Special Needs Psychology Department

E.P.Belinskaya, Head of Social Psychology Department

T.M.Maryutina, Head of the Department of Differential and Physiological
Psychology

V.Y.Konovalov, Head of the Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Abnormal
Psychologies/-y

A.V.Surmava, Head of the Center of Practical Psychology

Dr. Dorothy Robbins, Professor of German, Central Missuri State University

 

Programme Committee

 

E.E. Kravtsova

V.T. Kudryavtsev

A.G.Asmolov

 

Visa Support

 

Makarenko Maria

 

                                                  Sasha Surmava

 

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