September 23, 2012

The 71st Meeting of Mind and Activity



Saturday, September 29, 2012

3:30PM - 7:30PM
Room 1555, on the 5th floor of Main Building (Building #1)
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo

Program

We plan to have three sessions.

3:30 PM: Augustin Lefebvre,
The interaction between aikido practitioners: a good candidate for examining the phenomenon of "the apparent rule-governedness of action"

Aikido practice is highly standardized, and from an exogenous point of view seems only to imply the "repetition" of conventional gestures. However, from the point of view of practitioners themselves, the task to be accomplished at each moment of their practice is to coordinate gestures, a task which implies to interpret the gestures of the other for identifying a relevant moment to begin the next gesture. After briefly mentioning some theoretical and methodological points I'll examine the interpretation of gestures from the point of view of practitioners themselves as they make it accountable by sequentially accomplishing their gestures.


5:00 PM: Eric Hauser,
Data Session: Phone call between Johnson and McNamara

The data that I will bring are from a six-minute phone call between former U.S. president Johnson and his Secretary of Defense McNamara related to recommendations made by a third party. There is something in particular that I am interested in in this conversation, but I will not impose my own interests on the data session.





If anybody is interested in bringing their own data, analyses, observations, arguments, or whatever, to a next meeting to discuss together, please contact Aug Nishizaka at augnish(a)soc.meijigakuin.ac.jp.