The first of our 2005/6 seminars was held on 22nd . September at Simon Fraser University. There were three talks, followed by discussion:
The audience gathers for the fun. Our new IERG faculty member, Sean Blenkinsop, in the red shirt in the front row, fortifies himself for what is to come.	Kieran Egan spoke on: Evolution, hunter-gatherers, and today's primary classroom. Geoff Madoc-Jones spoke on: Imagination + genre transposition: Liminal performances in the secondary Language Arts classroom. Keiichi Takaya spoke on: How to develop students' imaginative capacities. In the past we have put materials prepared by the speakers on this website, but will now post the talks themselves in QuickTime video format. You may watch these talks by clicking here on the list to the right	Large / Small Large / Small Large / Small
	Our second seminar took place on Thursday, October 27 th . Dr, Natalia Gajdamaschko spoke on the topic "Vygotsky and Culture." She discussed the complexities of Vygotsky's interpretation of culture as it is formulated in cultural historical psychology. She drew on her recent chapter written with Michael Cole that will appear in The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky . The discussion was so lively, we had to eventually close it down so that Dr. Gajdamaschko could get dinner and save the remains of her voice.