Invited Lectures/Colloquia and Invited Symposia

(selected list; full list of conference presentations is available upon request)

Activity Theory Perspective on Language and Development. Invited lecture and
workshop tutorial at the Conference LANGUAGE IN ACTION - VYGOTSKY AND LEONTIEVIAN LEGACY TODAY, June, 8-10, 2006. University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

The dialectics of history: The relevance of Vygotsky's approach for the 21st century education. The Fifth Martin and Cindy Spector Endowed Lecture, The Penn State University, Center for Language Acquisition, October 10, 2005.

Psychology of Gender: The Challenge of Social Change in a Gendered World. Invited talk at the ISSBD workshop in Moscow, June 19-21, 2005.

Activity Theory in the context of today's world psychology. Invited Panel Talk at the International Conference "Theory of activity: Fundamental science and social practice" (devoted to the centennial of A. N. Leontjev), Moscow, May 28-30, 2003.

Non-classical approach to Vygotskian theory. Invited lecture at the joint colloquium of Departments of General Psychology and Psychology of Personality, Moscow University, Moscow, June 2003.

CHAT: Collaborative investigative project in psychology. Invited talk at the joint colloquium of Developmental, Environmental and Social/Personality Programs, Graduate Center, CUNY, April 2003.

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: A Promising Paradigmatic Shift in Psychology. Invited talk at the Center for Developmental Neuroscience (CDN), College of Staten Island, CUNY, May 2002.

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. Invited lecture at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Boston, March 2002.

Language development form a cultural-historical perspective. Invited talk in colloquium series at the PhD Program in Linguistics, Graduate Center, CUNY, November 2001.

Teaching, Learning, and Development: Sociocultural perspectives. Keynote address at the III Congress of the Brazilian Society for Developmental Psychology, Niteroi, Brazil, July 2000.

The centrality of cultural tools in learning and development: Implications for developmental psychology. Invited Panel talk at the Fourth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), Aarhus, Denmark. 1998, June.

Human agency in cultural-historical approaches: Problems and perspectives. Invited Symposium at the Fourth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT), Aarhus, Denmark. 1998, June.

Gender differences in children's academic self-concept: What does a cross-cultural comparison reveal? Invited Lecture at the Workshop "Areas of cultural-psychological research" of the German Society for Cultural Psychology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 1998, May.

Guest Lecture "Discourse-based and Vygotskian Versions of Social Constructivism in Developmental Psychology" at the International Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, Austria. 1996, October.

Invited lecture "The Zone of Proximal Development: Resolving the Contradiction between Idea and Method in Post-Vygotskian Psychology" at the "Wygotski-Konferenz", Potsdam, Germany. 1996, June.

Invited symposium Semiotic Systems and Psychological Functions. Held at the 2d Conference for Socio-Cultural Research "Vygotsky and Piaget", Geneva, Switzerland. Together with A. Raiethel. 1996, September.

Invited lecture "Vygotsky as a pioneer of cultural-psychological thinking" at the meetings of the German Society for Cultural Sciences "Pioniere des Kultur-psychologischen Denkens" [Pioneers of the sociocultural approach], Tramelan, Switzerland. 1996, May.

Keynote address "Social Constructivism in Developmental Psychology: Post-Vygotskian versions" at the Meetings of the German Psychological Society, Leipzig, Germany. 1995, September.

Philosophical foundations of psychology: What has to be re-thought in the discipline? Invited talk at the workshop "Rethinking - The Enlightenment", organized by Prof. Ehuda Elkana (Israel) at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany. 1995, November.

The Concept of Competence and Developmental Change in the Framework of neo-Piagetian and neo-Vygotskian Theories. Invited talk at the 2d German-Italian Conference on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Menaggio, Italy. Together with M. Keller, 1994, September.

Vygotsky on education: Too much of intervention? Invited colloquium held at the Institute of Empirical Education and Educational Psychology (Ordinarius: Prof. Hans Mandl), University of Muenchen, Germany. Together with I. Arievitch (1994, December).

Vygotsky's perspectives on development in infancy. Talk at the NIH, Laboratory of Infant Development (Prof. M. Bornstein), Washington, DC. 1992, March.

Vygotsky's psychology. Invited talk for the Center for Human Development at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education. Berlin, Germany, 1992, June.