International Society for Cultural
and Activity Research

The official web-site for the conference is: www.iscar2011.org

For any question or information please contact info@iscar2011.org

1. Proposal Evaluation

The review process has been completed and the reviewers accepted 93 symposium, 319 papers and 127 poster. We would like to thank all the reviewers for their professional work in reviewing the submissions we received.

If some authors did not receive the notification please contact info@iscar2011.org.

2. Registration

We would like to remind you that the deadline for the second registration period is on December 20th 2011. We solicit paper/poster authors and symposia participants to register as soon as possible for the conference.

In order to register, each author must use his/her personal username and password. If you did not get this data, or if you lost it, please contact info@iscar2011.org

Moreover until December 20th - 100 registration places for no-presenters are available (http://www.iscar2011.org/_submissions/login.php “Registration type B”). This restriction is intended to ensure a place to the conference first to the active presenters and later to non-presenters.

3. Preconference and CHACDOC

We are glad to announce the program for the CHACDOC section (Cultural-Historical Approaches to Children’s Development and Childhood) (http://www.iscar2011.org/eng/pre-conf_chacoc.php). An analytical approach to children’s perspectives based on Cultural-Historical and activity conceptions

Organiser: Mariane Hedegaard

The purpose of the CHACDOC section under ISCAR is to create a forum for researchers who are interested using the cultural-historical research approach and activity theory as a way to unite developmental psychology and childhood research in their research about children. Developmental psychology has often been characterized historically as the study of 'the general child', with a focus on developing a model that can be used to evaluate individual children and their changing relation to society as they grow up. Childhood studies have focused on the study of children anchored in historical time and settings; such approaches are more commonly found within anthropological and sociological traditions, especially those that focus on situated and localized practice with children. Cultural-historical approaches seek to unite the general principles in relation to historical time and place.

This preconference is the fourth scientific event of the CHACDOC section under ISCAR and is open to everybody interested (CHACDOC members, PhD students with a special interest in CHACDOC and everybody else). Maximum participation is 50 participants. This event has a small participation fee (as listed below) and is a separate and independent event from the PhD’s day (which is going to take place in parallel, i.e. it is impossible to participate in both events).

• Professor Karin Aronsson Head of the Department of Child and Youth studies, Stockholm University,

• Professor Liv Mette Gulbrandsen, Oslo University College

• Professor Mariane Hedegaard (Head of Centre for Person, Practice, Development and Culture

• Associate Professor Charlotte Højholt Roskilde University Centre, Denmark

• Professor Anna Stetsenko, Graduate School, City University New York University

4. Congress site and Accomodation

In the next newsletter we will publish definitive information about congress site and a list of hotels of various prices.

Download Congress Newsletter 2.