Upcoming Events 2026
The Centre for Activity Theory, CAT at University West, hosts open seminars, CHAT education and announces CHAT-related conferences for a broader community.
PhD summer course online: Activity Theory in Practice, 7.5 hp - Open and free of charge
You are welcome to apply for the summer course. The activity theory summer school aims to provide the students with knowledge and competences to design and conduct interventions in work activities and communities. Both core concepts and emergent views on activity theory will be explored within the summer school. Students at the master's and doctoral levels can apply to join this joint course.
Master's level, apply by clicking here
PhD level (ATPF010), apply by clicking here
Click here to get instructions on how to apply for the course.
CHAT methods @CAT seminar series 2026-2027
The following upcoming speakers are scheduled for the academic year 2026-2027.
James Garraway - September 9, 2026, registration form
Title: Developing work-integrated learning students' agency through a Change Laboratory
May Britt Postholm - October 7, 2026, registration form
Title: Change Laboratories in the LAB-TEd project: Learning, Assessment, and Boundary Crossing in Teacher Education
Aydin Bal - November 11, 2026, registration form
Title: Indigenous Learning Lab for kin-making
Monika Hattinger - December 9, 2026, registration form
Title: From contradictions to actionable solutions in industry-university competence development initiatives
Ngizmisele Mosho - January 20, 2027, registration form
Title: Change Laboratory in Higher Education addressing graduate attributes
Marco Querol - February 10, 2027, registration form
Title: Change Laboratory in Labor Inspection
Maria Spante - March 17, 2027, registration form
Title: Housing First? From demanding requirements to supportive services
Brett Bligh - April 14, 2027, registration form
Title: An Online Change Laboratory forging a distributed professional epistemic community
Nick Hopwood - May 12, 2027, registration form
Title: Feeding clinics or Himalayan schools
Yannick Lémonie/Vincent Grosstephan, June 2, 2027, registration form
Title: Change Laboratories in the 'Education Success Program' - Social Work
Access and Registration
Each seminar is one hour and consists of a 30-minute presentation by the invited speaker (recorded). An open discussion and Q&A will follow the presentation (not recorded).
Pre-registration is required. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link in advance. After the event, all registered participants will receive access to the recorded presentation.
Location: Online via Zoom
Time: CHAT 15:00-16:00 (Swedish time)
Welcome to join us for a series of conversations where theory is grounded in lived experience – and where challenges become sources of insight and innovation.
August 11 - Senior publication seminar
Manuscript critical discussion at CAT. Please send the manuscript one week before the meeting to maria.spante@hv.se
August 25-26 - ISCAR 2027, Cape Town, South Africa.
Key Dates:
- Conference Dates: 25 – 28 August 2027
- Registration & Payment Deadline: 01 July 2027
- Abstracts Call: 01 June 2026
- Abstracts submission Deadline: TBC
- Abstract Confirmation: January 2027
- Conference page, click here
28 oktober - Välkommen till nätverksträff för SWISCAR (in swedish)
28 oktober kl. 12.00 – 29 oktober kl. 13.30
Plats: På Pedagogen Göteborgs universitet
Kostnad: Var och en ombesörjer sin resa, sitt boende, två luncher och en kvällsmiddag (för måltiderna uppgår kostnaden totalt till cirka 600 kr). Vi som värdar bjuder på fika båda dagarna.
Keynote med Annalisa Sannino (som är på plats) om fjärde generationens verksamhetsteori. Efterföljande seminariesamtal om vad fjärde generationen är/inte är och hur den skiljer sig från föregående generationer.