Re: [xmca] ISCAR CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Have some topics in mind, Peter?
mike

On Nov 19, 2007 6:16 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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
>
> California, San Diego in September, 2008. All
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> those interested in theory and research on
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Proposals must be submitted by email and sent
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> to: Iscar2008.com. The deadline for submissions
>
> is January 31, 2008.
>
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Received on Mon Nov 19 10:56 PST 2007