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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY RESEARCH</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Join us in Nordic Baltic ISCAR at University West 17-19 June 2025!</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Nordic Baltic ISCAR Conference will be hosted by University West, Trollhättan, Sweden, 17-19 June 2025 on the theme
<b>“Working and learning with CHAT-driven research”</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Submit your abstract now!</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Webpage:
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.hv.se/forskning/forskningsmiljoer/arbetsintegrerat-larande/center-for-aktivitetsteori/nordic-iscar2025/?sq=niscar" target="_blank" id="OWAd7f8a7f8-b559-64c7-0186-e57906c4d9c8" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.hv.se/forskning/forskningsmiljoer/arbetsintegrerat-larande/center-for-aktivitetsteori/nordic-iscar2025/?sq=niscar" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">Nordic
ISCAR 2025</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Host: University West, Sweden</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Location: Trollhättan, Sweden</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Conference dates: June 17-19, 2025</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Submission deadline: March 15, 2025</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The event aims at interrogating and re-envisioning the shared roots of working and learning, to make them relevant in the face of current global challenges and for transforming
human activities to sustain lives and the planet. Work is here understood in a broad sense, including the work of learners, teachers, patients and caregivers as well as unpaid and voluntary forms of work. The conference sub-themes include, but are not restricted
to, the following:</span></p>
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Foundational issues and challenges in cultural-historical theory</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Learning and working in educational settings</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Cultural-historical studies of work-integrated learning</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Technological mediation and change in organizational and educational settings</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Digitalization and technology for societal and industrial change</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
School development and educational change</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Fourth generation cultural-historical activity theory and enacted utopias</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Studies in transformative agency</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
Formative interventions and expansive learning</li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Cultural-historical activity theory has often been applied in studies of
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.hv.se/en/research/research-environments/area-of-strength-work-integrated-learning/" target="_blank" id="OWA85d286a2-46a8-35ca-eb35-73e9dc2c64e0" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.hv.se/en/research/research-environments/area-of-strength-work-integrated-learning/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">Work-integrated
Learning</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> reflecting the overall profile as well as the area of strength of University West.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The conference welcomes researchers, students, practitioners and working life and industrial partners internationally to present results of their work, attending workshops,
exchanging know-how, as well as building new relationships and strengthening existing networks. In this spirit, the conference will also offer a forum for further development and productive discussion on principles and applications of the fourth generation
of CHAT. This is at the core of the agenda of </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.hv.se/forskning/forskningsmiljoer/arbetsintegrerat-larande/center-for-aktivitetsteori/?sq=center+for+activity+theory" target="_blank" id="OWAaea8160f-6985-e616-2403-7238285387a2" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.hv.se/forskning/forskningsmiljoer/arbetsintegrerat-larande/center-for-aktivitetsteori/?sq=center+for+activity+theory" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">the
Center for Activity Theory at University West</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Warmly welcome,</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>The organizing team at University West</b></span></p>
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Helena Vallo Hult </div>
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