ISCRAT-SSCS Transition Committee Meeting Minutes, July, 20 2000

Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil

Present members: Amalia Álvarez, King Beach, Antonia Candela, Seth Chaiklin, Harry Daniels, Mariane Hedegaard (chairman), Bernd Fichtner, Pablo del Río, Roxane Rodriques Rojo, Bernard Schneuwly, Berthel Sutter (secretary), Serena Vegetti, James Wertsch

1. The suggested agenda was approved.

2. Name of the new organization?

   Four suggestions came up, which are supposed to be considered in the coming discussion:

   • International Society for Cultural-historical Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT)
   • International Society for the Study of Human Activity (ISHA)
   • International Society for Social and Cultural-historical Research on Human Activity (ISSCRHA)
   • International Society for Socio-Cultural-Historical Research on Human Activity (ISSRHA)

3. How to work with the Articles?

   The Name and the Articles are to be commented upon by the members of the Transition Committee. This should be done before November 1st, 2000. Mariane Hedegaard should contact a lawyer and find out if there are any differences in the registration procedure between different countries and then find out how to proceed.

4. Congress sites:

   England, Estonia, Israel, Japan, and Spain have been suggested so far.
   (Note: When this list was presented at the open participants meeting the same evening, Italy was added as a possible site)

   It was decided that a written application and argumentation for each site is needed, about two pages where facilities and capacities (e.g., hotels, conference facilities, languages, translations, travels, finances, and so on) are described briefly. The proposal should be send to Mariane Hedegaard before April 2001. She will send the applications to the members of the Transition Committee.

5. How to transform to a legal organisation?

   The following steps will be taken:

   1. Next year a meeting will be held in Aarhus, Denmark, to decide:
      • — Name of the organisation.
      • — Articles of the organisation.
      • — Next congress sites (2005, 2008).
   2. Minutes from this Transition Committee meeting will be published on the ISCRAT homepage.
   3. In Amsterdam 2002 the Transition Committee will be dissolved and a new Committee elected.

6. How communication should continue?

   Communication to the participants will be given in the following way:

   • A list of the Transition Committee members.
   • The Transition Committee meets again in Aarhus next year.
   • At the Aarhus meeting the proposals for the congresses 2005 and 2008 will be reviewed.
   • After the Aarhus meeting the final step for registration the organisation will be taken.
   • In Amsterdam 2002 the Transition Committee will be dissolved and a new Committee elected.

7. Where and when to meet again?

   In Aarhus, Denmark, the second or third week in June 2001, in connection with a two-day research meeting. Mariane Hedegaard and Amelia Alvarez are responsible for organising that meeting.

8. The Transition Committee:
   • Amelia Álvarez, Spain
   • King Beach, USA
   • Antonia Candela, Mexico
   • Bernd Fichtner, Germany
   • Mariane Hedegaard, Denmark
   • Vladislav Lektorsky, Russia
   • Pablo del Río, Spain
   • Roxane Rodriques Rojo, Brazil
   • Bernard Schneuwly, Switzerland
   • Ana Smolka, Brazil
   • Berthel Sutter, Sweden
   • Serena Vegetti, Italy
   • James Wertsch, USA