LANGUAGE IN ACTION –
VYGOTSKY AND LEONTIEVIAN LEGACY TODAY


June 8–10, 2006

 

Centre for Applied Language Studies & Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

DEAR ALL,

We’d like to thank you for a memorable and truly multidisciplinary conference! It was a great joy – both scholarly and personally – to have you here in Jyväskylä, taking part in the lively discussions – and debates around the presentations and the colloquia on language in action.

The Power Point presentations of the keynote speeches can now be downloaded from our website (in pdf format). The links can be found below. In addition, we have also put up a link to the presentation prepared by Aida S. Markosyan and Anna A. Leontieva about the life and work of A.A. Leontiev.

We’ll send you more information about the conference proceedings and how to go about submitting your manuscript before the end of June.

With our very best regards,

Riikka & Sari

 

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

 

Tatiana V. Akhutina

(Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Moscow State University, Russia)
Vygotsky-Luria-Leontievs School of psycholinguistics: The mechanisms of language production


Yrjö Engeström

(Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Mediation and agency


Dmitry A. Leontiev

(Moscow State University, President of the Institute of Existential Psychology and Life Enhancement, Russia)
Non-classical approach in human sciences


Aida S. Markosyan & Anna A. Leontieva

(Moscow State University, Russia)
Life and work of A.A. Leontiev


Dorothy Robbins

(Central Missouri State University, USA)
Remembering the life of Alexei Alexeevitch Leontiev: Personality, culture, language


Anna Stetsenko

(The City University of New York, USA)
Foundations of cultural historical activity theory: The dialectics of history (Power Point presentation will be available soon)

 

FINAL PROGRAMME

The final programme of the Language in Action conference (in pdf format) can be downloaded here.

 

FORTHCOMING:
7th INTERNATIONAL L.S. VYGOTSKY MEMORIAL CONFERENCE
(MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 14-17, 2006)

 

We would like to inform about the forthcoming event: 7th International L.S. Vygotsky Memorial Conference "Cultural-Historical Theory: Prospects of Development", which will take place in Moscow next November. The Conference Newsletter can be downloaded here. See you in Moscow!

 


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