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We are a community of interdisciplinary scholars who share an interest in the study of human mind in its cultural and historical contexts. We seek to resolve methodological problems associated with the analysis of human and theoretical approaches that place culture and activity at the center of attempts to understand human nature. Our participants come from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, cognitive science, education, linguistics, psychology and sociology.

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» December 13, 2011: Web site meeting on Thursday (the 15th)
Don't forget: the web development group will be meeting this Thursday. We will be discussing all of the new features of the site as well as how to curate, manage, and develop its contents in a communal, peer-reviewed way.
» December 12, 2011: Upcoming Symposium
Mike Cole and Martin Packer will be curating a new symposium this Winter which connects Mike seminar in San Diego with Martin's seminar in Bogota, Columbia. There is more information here at this conversation!
» December 10, 2011: Web Site Infrastructure
We are making progress in the technical development of the site. To aid in the deployment of the development version of this site, however, I have made a conversation where we can generally talk about what we wish to see, what we think is working, and so forth.
» December 9, 2011: The blog
This is a fake blog post! In the future, community members who have achieved a particular level of reputation will be able to make blog posts like this to contribute to the news of the web site. Someone, for example, could announce a new symposium, or they could ask whether there is interest for a new symposium and then link that to a Conversation which asks the question (and also uses the voting mechanism to gauge this interest).

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Hot Conversations

» Upcoming Symposium on CHAT (Dec 13)
» Web Site Bugs (Dec 15)
» Web Site Infrastructure (Dec 13)
» Can I start a new Conversation? (Jan 02)
» Discussion of Ingold - 3/13/12 (Mar 11)

Ongoing Symposia

» Introduction to CHAT (Dec 10)
» HDP 150 (Jan 03)

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