Let's hear it for more different and unknown sources and for roses!
Mike's invitation to send reports on interesting conferences is a great
one, perhaps especially ones on the edges of confined disciplines.
Lois
> From: zdravo <zdravo@EUnet.yu>
> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:46:42 +0100
> To: <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>, "eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity"
> <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Another Conference
>
>
> I am really glad for this great opportunity to be on XMCA! This kind of
> experience (perezhivanie, erlebnis, vivencia, dozhivlyay) is invaluable. Yes
> and I see that getting information and invitations for different
> conferences all over this globe is a direct offer to make your own free
> choice and relations. Mike, thanks for forwarding announcement of Conference
> on Immigrant Children. Lois, thanks for your announcement of Performing the
> World 4: The Performance of Community and the Community of Performance.
> I guess, that the chance to learn for development includes different and
> unknown sources. Even roses could be a source for learning for development -
> like listening to the song Bread and Roses.
> With best regards
> Vesna
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com>
> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Another Conference
>
>
>> Amazing!!
>> All these interesting meetings. If only I was independently rich and not
>> working
>> 70 hours a week!!
>>
>> What XMCA-o-phants can do that would be really helpful is to send reports
> if
>> they attend any of these
>> interesting conferences to xmca so we could at least learn vicariously
> when
>> we have time to stop and
>> look and and smell the roses.
>> mike
>>
>> On 1/17/07, Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> While we're on a conference announcing role, here's another:
>>>
>>> Performing the World 4 ‹
>>> The Performance of Community and the Community of
>>> Performance
>>>
>>>
>>> Friday, October 12 - Sunday, October 14, 2007,
>>> Tarrytown House, Tarrytown,
>>> NY
>>> Proposals Due March 15, 2007
>>>
>>> Performing the World 4 recognizes, celebrates and interrogates the
> growing
>>> global performance movement and its relationship to community
>>> building--the
>>> thousands of innovative performance projects taking place in urban
>>> centers,
>>> towns and villages the world over, and the researchers, theoreticians
> and
>>> analyzers of what all this ensemble creativity, improvisatory play and
>>> "stage-making" might mean for human development, the growth of
> communities
>>> and social change.
>>>
>>> The weekend conference will bring together performers, educators,
> artists,
>>> scholars and researchers, psychologists and therapists, health and
> helping
>>> professionals, business professionals, youth workers, social
>>> entrepreneurs,
>>> activists, and community organizers to showcase innovative practice and
>>> scholarship and provide a rich context for learning and performing
>>> together.
>>>
>>> A sampling of conversational themes , panels, workshops and
> performances:
>>> Performance as a Community Building Methodology
>>> Postmodern Creativity and Performance
>>> Knowing, Not Knowing and Performing
>>> Performance as Metaphor
>>> Performance as a Way of Life
>>> The Therapeutics of Performance
>>> The Creativity of the Group, Ensemble and Community
>>> Theatre and Community
>>> The Creativity of Improvisation
>>> Performing, Improvising and Learning
>>> The Power of Play
>>> And more
>>>
>>> Fields of Interest:
>>> Education
>>> Drama in Education
>>> Psychology and Psychotherapy
>>> Community Development
>>> Medicine and Health Care
>>> Organizational Change, Business
>>> and Management
>>> Theatre
>>> Performance Studies
>>> Applied Theatre
>>> Youth Development
>>> Participatory Research and Evaluation
>>> Political and Community Organizing
>>> And more
>>>
>>> Proposals, instructions and forms for submitting proposals, due March
> 15,
>>> 2007, can be viewed and downloaded at www.performingtheworld.org
>>> <http://www.performingtheworld.org/> .
>>> Performing the World 4 is sponsored by the East Side Institute for Group
>>> and
>>> Short Term Psychotherapy, 920 Broadway, 14th floor, New York, NY, 10010.
>>> Tel. 212.941.8906, Fax 212.941.0511, www.eastsideinstitute.org
>>> <http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/>
>>> Convening Committee
>>> Dan Friedman (The Castillo Theatre and Youth OnStage!,
>>> NYC)
>>> Lois Holzman (East Side Institute for Group and Short Term
>>> Psychotherapy, NYC)
>>> Sheila McNamee (University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH)
>>> Fred Newman (East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy,
>>> NYC)
>>>
>>> Environment
>>> Performing the World 4 will be held at the Tarrytown House in Tarrytown,
>>> New
>>> York, 24 miles north of Manhattan. The Tarrytown House is situated
> amidst
>>> wooded bluffs overlooking the Hudson River. Built in the late 1800s as a
>>> country estate, it offers all the facilities and amenities of the 21st
>>> century. Accommodations include cable TV, phone and Internet access, and
>>> use
>>> of the fitness center, indoor pool, and tennis courts. The Tarrytown
> House
>>> is surrounded by miles of jogging and walking trails.
>>>
>>> Lois
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
>>>> Reply-To: <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
>>>> <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>>> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:27:50 -0800
>>>> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>,
> Laboratory
>>> of
>>>> Comparative Human Cognition Internal List <lchc@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>>> Subject: [xmca] Fwd: Conference on Immigrant Children ~ Call for
> Papers
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Susan Chuang <schuang@uoguelph.ca>
>>>> Date: Jan 17, 2007 2:54 PM
>>>> Subject: Conference on Immigrant Children ~ Call for Papers
>>>> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu
>>>>
>>>> Hi Dr. Cole:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition,
>>> University of
>>>> Guelph, I am organizing a conference on immigrant children from around
>>> the
>>>> world entitled, *On New Shores: Understanding Immigrant Children.*
>>> Guelph is
>>>> located 1 hour from Toronto. The conference will be *Thursday, Friday,
>>>> October 25 26, 2007*.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Currently, we have many committed scholars who will be discussing
> their
>>>> work. They include: John Berry, Raymond Buriel, Natasha Cabrera, Ruth
>>> Chao,
>>>> Xinyin Chen, Scott Coltrane, Roberto DeAnda, David Este, Andrew
> Fuligni,
>>>> Cynthia Garcia Coll (maybe), Uwe Gielen, Jacqueline Goodnow, Donald
>>>> Hernandez, Heather Keller, Leon Kuczynski, Susan Lollis, Robert
> Moreno,
>>> Ross
>>>> Parke, James Rodriguez, Carola Suarez-Orozco, and Catherine
>>> Tamis-LeMonda.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, Vivian Tseng and Tom Weisner from the William T. Grant
> Foundation
>>> will
>>>> be presenting on behalf of the foundation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like to take this opportunity to extend the *Call for Papers*
> to
>>> you
>>>> and your colleagues. There are two types of presentations paper and
>>>> poster. I hope that you will be interested in presenting your work OR
>>>> attending the conference. Please email Dr. Susan Chuang at
>>>> schuang@uoguelph.ca for submission rules and forms. To ensure
>>> opportunities
>>>> for discussion and involvement from the audience, the conference is
>>> limited
>>>> to a total of 250 individuals.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you have any questions or comments, please contact me via email (
>>>> schuang@uoguelph.ca) or by phone: 519-824-4120, ext. 58389.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I look forward to hearing from you and hopefully you will be a part of
>>> this
>>>> exciting conference!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Susan Chuang
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Susan S. Chuang, Ph.D.
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition
>>>> University of Guelph
>>>> Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
>>>> CANADA
>>>>
>>>> Voice: (519) 824-4120 ext. 58389
>>>> Fax: (519) 766-0691
>>>>
>>>> schuang@uoguelph.ca
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