Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers

From: Mike Cole <lchcmike who-is-at gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jul 11 2008 - 06:09:10 PDT

Yep, that is the guy. Dale?
So what about the relation between performance ethnography and CHAT
approaches to
education?
mike

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> That's probably Dwight Conquergood, who studied street gangs.
>
>
> Dwight Conquergood R.I.P.
> DWIGHT CONQUERGOOD, 55
> Professor of the Year in 1993
> Read Dwight's Power of Symbols
>
> By Tom Rybarczyk
> Chicago Tribune staff reporter
> Published November 19, 2004
>
> Northwestern University Professor Dwight Conquergood took his desire to
> understand the disenfranchised to a Thai refugee camp, a dangerous Chicago
> neighborhood and vigils outside scheduled Death Row executions.
>
> And even if he was thrust into danger, as he was in the 1980s when he was
> beaten while living in an Albany Park apartment complex, he kept coming
> back.
>
> "He was scared," said his friend and fellow NU Professor Micaela di
> Leonardo
> of his stay in the apartment complex known as Big Red. "It was dangerous
> and
> it was unpleasant ... But he found a community."
>
> Professor Conquergood, 55, of Chicago, died Saturday, Nov. 13, in Rush
> North
> Shore Hospice in Skokie after a prolonged battle with colon cancer.
>
> Friends and colleagues said his ability to communicate and understand were
> his greatest gifts. Whether it was giving a lecture to graduate students or
> speaking to the Latin Kings street gang's inner circle, Professor
> Conquergood worked to see how the disadvantaged view the world and then
> show
> that to the privileged decision-makers.
>
> "What I thought was remarkable about him was he was one of those rare
> people
> who could move between these different worlds," said Michelle Citron, an NU
> professor and friend. "There's not many academics who take their work out
> to
> communities and people."
>
> Born in Canada, he moved with his family to Terre Haute, Ind. at age 3.
>
> As a teen, he began to show his intellectual ability, earning the highest
> marks in high school and college, said his brother Larey.
>
> "He was such an overachiever," his brother said.
>
> After graduating from Indiana State University in the early 1970s,
> Professor
> Conquergood received his doctorate from Northwestern.
>
> In 1978, he was back at Northwestern as a professor. He taught classes on
> anthropology and folklore. He also lectured on performance studies, a field
> that combines anthropology and such performance disciplines as theater and
> dance.
>
> His intense work ethic left little time for a wife and family, his brother
> said.
>
> Instead, Professor Conquergood would develop a number of surrogate
> families,
> first among the Hmong in Southeastern Asia and then among Albany Park
> residents, including members of the Latin Kings, di Leonardo said.
>
> His knowledge of performance studies helped him teach Hmong refugees in
> Thailand the importance of public health and sanitation, di Leonardo said.
> Professor Conquergood was able to use their mythology in a theater setting
> to get his points across, she said.
>
> Professor Conquergood used film and writing to help others communicate, di
> Leonardo said. His documentary on the struggles in Big Red was filmed with
> the help of Latin Kings members and challenged the notion that gangs were
> racially segregated, di Leonardo said.
>
> Professor Conquergood testified in court on his findings about the Hmong as
> well as his experience with North Side gangs as an expert witness,
> according
> to Tribune articles.
>
> In his later years, he would take on the death penalty, publishing an essay
> titled "Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment and the Death Penalty,"
> that
> garnered him national recognition, di Leonardo said.
>
> He won the Illinois Professor of the Year award in 1993 and several NU
> teaching awards.
>
> Other survivors include his mother, Dorothea ; two sisters, Carey Konazeski
> and Cheryl Wall; and another brother, Kevin.
>
> A memorial service is being planned for January at Northwestern University.
>
>
> Peter Smagorinsky
> The University of Georgia
> 125 Aderhold Hall
> Athens, GA 30602
> smago@uga.edu/phone:706-542-4507
> http://www.coe.uga.edu/lle/faculty/smagorinsky/index.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of Mike Cole
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:56 PM
> To: Lois Holzman
> Cc: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers
>
> Vygotsky and Performance Studies in education? Sounds like a fine idea.
> I'll check locally. But has anyone else on XMCA heard of Conquergood?
> mike
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Lois Holzman <
> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Mike, for getting the ball rolling with these suggestions.
> > What about reaching out across UCSD to colleagues, like the one who is
> into
> > Conquergood? Is there something we could do that would
> entertain/interrogate
> > performance as either/both an ontological or epistemological
> > construct/practice? Also are you interested in organizing a site visit
> given
> > it's in SD?
> > Lois
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, Lois.
> >>
> >> AERA is going to be here in San Diego I hear. And the theme is
> >> interdisciplinarity?
> >> The first thing that circumstance brings to mind is that several people
> >> here
> >> might be induced to contribute to symposia or
> >> discussions. But what kind? Some possible themes:
> >>
> >> Intervention research as a tool of theory testing: Alternative
> approaches.
> >> The role(s) of qualitative research in the conduct of research on
> learning
> >> and development.
> >> Learning and Development: Any progress in clarifying the issues since
> >> 1934?
> >> Second life and Other Virtual Environments for education
> >> A cultural-historical approach to organizing higher education in the
> >> social
> >> sciences
> >>
> >> Who is interested in what?
> >> mike
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Lois Holzman <
> >> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear XMCA-ers,
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> We want to remind you that there's less than a month to go before AERA
> >>>> proposals are due. We are a creative group of folks doing work that is
> >>>> worth
> >>>> sharing at AERA! So please let us know if there's any way we can
> support
> >>>> you
> >>>> to compose proposals and to submit them to the Cultural-Historical
> >>>> Research
> >>>> SIG. As you know, AERA bases the number and type of session allocated
> to
> >>>> each SIG in part on the total number of proposals received by the SIG
> -
> >>>> so
> >>>> please submit your proposals to our SIG!
> >>>>
> >>>> We also remind you that the quality of the program depends largely on
> >>>> the
> >>>> proposal review process, and so we encourage those of you who have
> >>>> reviewed
> >>>> proposals in the past to do so again this year; we also welcome new
> >>>> reviewers, including graduate students and new SIG members.
> >>>>
> >>>> To submit proposals and to volunteer to review proposals, please log
> in
> >>>> to
> >>>> the 2009 AERA Annual Meeting online submission system at
> >>>> http://www.aera.net.<http://www.aera.net./> This is also the site
> for
> >>>> volunteering as a discussant or session chair.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Kevin and Lois
> >>>>
> >>>>
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