Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers

I am not sure where all the proposal ideas stand.
mike

On 7/23/08, Beth Ferholt <bferholt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mike, Did this idea go somewhere: if not, maybe Robert and I should work
> on it?
> Beth
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dale-- A talented grad student here at UCSD is writing one of his orals
>> papers on the contributions Conquergood could make to
>> understanding intersubjectivity and development. We are seeing lots of
>> connections too.
>>
>> Remember, from a Cult-Hist perspective, "in the beginning was the deed"
>> and
>> one seeks in instruction to enable "performance before competence." There
>> are important connections to our interests in play, in changing
>> consciousness, and in relating what we do to the social environment in
>> which
>> we find ourselves.
>>
>> I think a symposium at AERA around this set of issues would be great.
>> Includes, but is perhaps broader than (and inclusive of)
>> our long standing interests in play.
>>
>> How about taking the lead in organizing something? I am keeping local UCSD
>> folks with these interests abreast of this discussion.
>>
>> mike
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Dale Cyphert <Dale.Cyphert@uni.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Mike,
>> > I guess I see really fundamental connections. I stick around XMCA
>> because
>> > it seems like folks are applying the principles derived from what
>> > Conquergood was observing and theorizing. Of course, the Russian
>> > psychologists were observing and theorizing as well, but it seems like
>> > they've done it from a more micro level. The CHAT unit of analysis is
>> the
>> > child learning the culture. Conquergood was more interested in the
>> cultural
>> > performance, both in the sense that a community performs its own culture
>> in
>> > its rhetorical practices and in the sense that performative behaviors
>> are
>> > the mechanism of a cultural existence.
>> >
>> > dale
>> >
>> > Dale Cyphert, Ph.D.
>> > Associate Professor and Interim Head
>> > Department of Management
>> > University of Northern Iowa
>> > 1227 W. 27th Street
>> > Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0125
>> > (319) 273-6150; fax (319) 2732922
>> > dale.cyphert@uni.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Mike Cole wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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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