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ISCAR 2008 is a celebration of our cultural and historical roots and the potential for understanding the human condition and for mediating the challenges we face in creating the conditions for a peaceful and prosperous global community. Thus, we select the butterfly as the congress logo as it symbolizes the magnificence and fragility of the world we seek to balance with our needs for respect, dignity, and harmony within and across social identities, cultures, languages, and national boundaries. ISCAR resists orthodoxy and celebrates variations of opinion, the old and the new, and what’s yet to come. In particular, it creates the space for theorists, researchers and practitioners, whose work is rooted in Cultural Historical and Activity Theory tradition and other resonant traditions, to explore the limits and the potentials of human understanding.


ISCAR achieves its mission through the interarticulation of the questions members ask, the methods they employ and the practice they design on both theoretical and empirical planes. Theory frames the meaning of data and data instantiates the meaning of theory in a constant dialectic cycle that links to the understanding of social and cultural practice. At all levels ISCAR represents diversities that are interoperative, interdependent, and deeply grounded in our historical roots and the ability to perceive and act, building and transforming from these roots. In line with this vision, ISCAR 2008 foregrounds 3 thematic areas that reach across these principles and their interrelationships.