Re: [xmca] Call for Proposals and Reviewers

Hi Lois--

my sense is that a lot of symposia are being proposed and know of a couple
that are in advanced stages,
but Dale is not going to AERA and it appears Conquergood is a well kept
secrete from cult-hist folks so I
am not sure what to do about that.

Since timeline for business meeting is not crucial, perhaps the time spent
by many ch-sig folks at ISCAR
will help a topic gel.

mike

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Lois Holzman <
lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:

> 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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