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Program Overview

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2003

9:00-6:00 Foyer   Registration
  Mansion   Book Display
9:00-9:15 Sauganash E   Opening Remarks—Turiel, Göncü, and Gaskins
9:15-10:30 Sauganash E PL01 Plenary Session 1: Hard work for the imagination—Harris
10:45-12:15 Bull's Head SY01 Symposium Session 1: Play & Development in a Child Care Center—Colinvaux
  Sauganash E IS01 Invited Symposium 1: Play and Narrative in the Process of Development—Nicolopoulou
  Merchant PS01 Paper Session 1:Play Theory
  Steamboat PS02 Paper Session 2: Language
1:30-3:00 Bull's Head SY02 Symposium Session 2: Certainty and Necessity in the Understanding of Moral Concepts—Krettenauer & Lourenço
  Sauganash E IS02 Invited Symposium 2: The Cultural Construction of Play—Gaskins
  Merchant PS03 Paper Session 3: Peer Relations
  Steamboat PS04 Paper Session 4: Biology
3:15-4:45 Bull's Head SY03 Symposium Session 3: Encountering oneself through play—Surgan & Silva
  Sauganash E SY04 Symposium Session 4: Developing a (Male) Sense of a (Heterosexual) Self—Bamberg
  Sauganash W PT01 Poster Session 1 — Posters will be available for viewing all day, authors will be in attendance from 3:15-4:45
  Merchant PS05 Paper Session 5: Play at school
  Steamboat PS06 Paper Session 6: Spatial and Mathematical Reasoning
  Lake House BOD1 Board of Directors Meeting
5:00-6:15 Sauganash E PL02 Plenary Session 2: The disappearance of play from the early childhood classroom—Paley
6:15-8:00 Sauganash W   Reception

FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2003

9:00-6:00 Foyer   Registration
  Mansion   Book Display
9:00-10:30 Bull's Head SY05 Symposium Session 5: Play as Socio-Political Process in Youth—Daiute
  Sauganash E IS03 Invited Symposium 3: Pretend play and the symbolic mind—Lillard
  Merchant SY06 Symposium Session 6: Learning in Children's Museums—Amsel
  Steamboat PS07 Paper Session 7: Early childhood play
10:45-12:00 Sauganash E PL03 Plenary Session 3: Children's play as cultural interpretation—Göncü
12:00-12:30 Sauganash E MMTG Annual Members Meeting - all JPS members welcome to attend
1:30-3:00 Bull's Head SY07 Symposium Session 7: Transition to Literacy Through Language—Reese
  Sauganash E IS04 Invited Symposium 4: Therapeutic Advantages of Play—Dell Clark
  Merchant SY08 Symposium Session 8: Contextual Influences on Collaboration in Play—Golbeck
  Steamboat SY09 Symposium 9: Novelty and directionality in developing systems—Lyra
3:15-4:30 Sauganash E PL04 Plenary Session 4: The development and function of play: Rough-and-tumble play and pretend play—Pellegrini & Smith
4:45-6:15 Bull's Head SY10 Symposium Session 10: Watching our language: Peering at reform, teaching, and learning through the lenses of "work" and "play"—Roosevelt & Featherstone
  Sauganash E DISC Discussion Session: Jean Piaget's Play, Dreams, and Imitation
  Merchant PS08 Paper Session 8: Methods and Measures
  Steamboat PS09 Paper Session 9: Culture and Education
6:15-8:00 Western Stage   President's Reception — includes presentation of JPS Life-Time Achievement Award to Peter Pufall

SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2003

9:00-6:00 Mansion   Book Display
9:00-10:30 Bull's Head SY11 Symposium Session 11: Development in Digital Social Worlds: In Memory of Rodney R. Cocking—Greenfield
  Sauganash E SY12 Symposium Session 12: Playing the Meso- and South-American way—López
  Merchant SY13 Symposium Session 13: Change Mechanisms in Microdevelopment—Granott & Mascolo
  Steamboat PS11 Paper Session 11: Self and Culture
10:45-12:00 Sauganash E PL05 Plenary Session 5: Of Hobbes and Harvey: The imaginary companions created by children and adults—Taylor
12:30-1:30 Lake House BOD2 Board of Directors Meeting
1:30-3:00 Bull's Head SY14 Symposium Session 14: On Cognitive Development—Smith
  Sauganash E IS05 Invited Symposium 5: Thinking outside the toybox: Technology, play, and development—Cassell
  Merchant PS12 Paper Session 12: Play and Culture
  Steamboat PS13 Paper Session 13: Conceptions of Mental Life
3:15-4:45 Bull's Head PS10 Paper Session 10: Education
  Sauganash E IS06 Invited Symposium 6: Pretending in animals—Mitchell
  Sauganash W PT02 Poster Session 2 — Posters will be available for viewing all day, authors will be in attendance from 3:15-4:45
  Merchant PS14 Paper Session 14: Play and Technology
5:00-6:15 Sauganash E PL06 Plenary Session 6: Children at work; scientists at play—Bornstein

Hotel Floorplan

Post Conference Event

Festschrift for David McNeill—University of Chicago

The Organizing Committee of the Festschrift for David McNeill, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago, is pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held in his honor Sunday, June 8, 2003 at the University of Chicago.

Speakers: Adam Kendon, Starkey Duncan, Chuck Goodwin, Michael Silverstein, John Haviland, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Geoffery Beattie, Janet Bavelas, Scott Liddell and Marit Vogt-Svendsen, Dan Slobin and Nini Hoiting

For more information (and to register for the conference): http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/fest.html
For anyone with special needs (wheelchair accessibility, sign interpreting, assisted listening devices, etc) please contact Amy Franklin <alfrankl@uchicago.edu>