Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers

Hi MIke and All,
Reminder: the SIG gets time in the program based on number of
submissions. So don't hold back on submissions.
About the ideas generated and played with on this list... we expect a
few proposals from the lively discussions.
I haven't heard any more about this proposal idea (Conquergood/
performance). Perhaps it won't happen.
The business meeting is done separately and doesn't go through the
proposal process, so there is no rush.
Lois

On Jul 25, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Mike Cole wrote:

> 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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