call for papers: Vygotsky

[A.Smith]

Dear all,

I am enclosing one announcement below regards the forthcoming conference on
Vygotsky -- just for your information.

With best wishes,

Alexandra Smith

Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Senior Lecturer in Russian,
University of Canterbury
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Please send responses to the organisers at Vygotsky1 at ru.ru.

Russian State University for the Humanities
The L. S. Vygotsky Institute of Psychology
The International L.S.Vygotsky Society
L.S.Vygotsky Fund

7th International L.S.Vygotsky Memorial Conference
"Cultural-Historical Theory:  Prospects of Development"


14 - 17 November 2006
Russian State University for the Humanities
Moscow

The 7th International "Cultural-Historical Theory:  Prospects of
Development" Memorial Vygotsky Conference dedicated to the 110th Anniversary
of L.S.Vygotsky will take place on 14 - 17 November, 2006.

 The website is: www.LevVygotsky.ru

The main themes of the conference
        Development of L.S.Vygotsky's ideas in the new century
        Dialectics: non-developed philosophical and methodological
quintessence of cultural-historical theory
        Two approaches in psychology: an activity-based and/or
cultural-historical one?
        Psychology as an objective science
        From the chronological stages of childhood to its theory
        The world of  meaning of the developing consciousness
        Education as a general form of individual and societal development
        Vygotskian approach as an international phenomenon
        The natural scientific basis of cultural-historical psychology

The questions above as well as other ones are intended for discussion within
the work of symposia according to the following topics:

1.      Zone of Proximal Development and what lies beyond.
2.      Socialisation, social situation of development and "growing into
culture."
3.      The indisputable and disputable in the mediation of  psychic
functions.
4.      The correlation between the ideas of the psychic dimension and the
"individual" self.
5.      Human age as a problem of science devoted to the study of man.
6.      Theoretical psychology as "the stone rejected by the builders."
7.      Psychology of art as the key to understanding man.
8.      The picture of the world through the prism of language:
psycholinguistics and related concepts.
9.      The problem of the mental state considered normal for psychic health
and psychological well-being.
10.     Forming and projecting spontaneous and purpose-oriented development.

11.     The methods of investigation in classical and non-classical
psychology: Prospects of experimental psychology.

Call For Proposals
The Programme Committee invites researchers to send proposals that
correspond to one of the above-mentioned themes. A proposal can be submitted
as:
        an abstract of the paper corresponding to one of the conference
themes (1000 - 1200 words);
        an abstract of the poster paper presentation corresponding to one of
the conference themes (maximum 2500 words);
        a symposium programme  that corresponds to one of the conference
themes.

Working Languages are Russian and English

All abstracts shall be included in the symposium programme.

Proposals will need to be submitted by e-mail, regular mail or fax to:
Vygotsky Institute of Psychology
(Russian State University for the Humanities)
Miusskaya Square 6
Moscow 125267
Russia
Phone: 7-495-250-61-47
Fax: 7-495-973-44-34
E-mail:  Vygotsky1 at ru.ru

All paper proposals must include:
1.      The title of the paper (symposium)
2.      The author's name and academic degree
3.      The author's affiliation
4.      Mailing address and e-mail
5.      Reference to one of the conference themes

Please inform us if you might be interested in other kinds of participation
in the conference, e.g. as a discussant, in book exhibition, etc.
The speaking time will be thirty minutes for the plenary session and fifteen
minutes for a symposium presentation [please remember that time will be
needed for translations]. Please let us know beforehand what kind(s) of
equipment you may need. Please remember that it is difficult for us to
supply power point support.

Deadlines
- submission of proposals:  June 10th
-- notification of proposals acceptance: July 10th

Registration Fees
Regular:
$300 for overseas participants
$200 for those from CIS
$150 for Russian participants
Student:    
$100 for foreign students
 $50 for those from CIS
 $20 for Russian ones
Conference Secretariat
Vygotsky Institute of Psychology
Russian State University for the Humanities
6 Miusskaya Square
Moscow 125267
Russia
Tel.: 7-095-250-61-47
Fax: 7-095-973-44-34
E-mail: Vygotsky1 at ru.ru

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