Up to the Highest Heights: Autumn and Winter at the MSUPE Slow Reading Club
Dear readers, we invite you to join the meetings of the MSUPE Slow Reading Club "Up to the Highest Heights" , dedicated to the 130th anniversary of Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky.
This autumn, we are reading aloud together and discussing the book "L.S. Vygotsky. Life. Work. Sketches for a Portrait". The authors of the book are:
- Gita Lvovna Vygodskaya – Candidate of Psychological Sciences, psychologist and defectologist, researcher at the Institute of Defectology, daughter of the outstanding psychologist L.S. Vygotsky. She devoted her life to preserving, studying, and publishing her father's scientific legacy.
- Tamara Mikhailovna Lifanova – a well-known Russian defectologist, educator, and researcher, biographer and bibliographer of L.S. Vygotsky's work.
Their 1996 monograph is considered one of the most complete and authoritative works on the life, development, and scientific activity of L.S. Vygotsky. The book is based on unique archival materials, family documents, and memoirs, making it a key source for understanding the biography of our classic – the "Mozart of Psychology".
Next meeting: October 20, 4:20–6:00 PM (online)
We will read a fragment of the book that describes the cultural-historical theory, "Studies on the History of Behavior", and defectology.
Guest speaker:
- Yuri Yuryevich Chyorny, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Head of the Center for the Study of Informatics Problems at INION RAS, creator of the slow reading methodology "Two Circles Method".
Dates and topics of future discussions:
- 20.10.2026 – Cultural-historical theory, "Studies on the History of Behavior," Defectology
- 10.11.2026 – Study of higher mental functions, "Thinking and Speech"
- 01.12.2026 – L.S. Vygotsky through the eyes of those around him
- 08.12.2026 – L.S. Vygotsky through the eyes of his daughter
Online: The link is sent to the email address provided during registration.
It is not necessary to read the book in advance or bring it with you; we will distribute the reading material at the meeting.
Join us:
Organizers of the meeting:
- Rodina Evgenia Borisovna (rodinaeb@mgppu.ru)
- Putilina Svetlana Konstantinovna