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The Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference (LSGSC) is a student-run conference for emerging voices in the Learning Sciences and related fields.

History:
The first LSGS Conference was hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2016. The event was sponsored by UIC’s Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI) in response to student feedback regarding a desire for greater intercollegiate collaboration and community. Five universities contributed to organizing the events: UIC, Indiana University, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The subsequent three conferences were hosted by other members of the founding organizational committee: Indiana University in 2017, Vanderbilt University in 2018, and Northwestern University in 2019. The 5th annual LSGS Conference will be hosted by the University of Madison-Wisconsin in 2020.

Purpose:
The conference’s expressed purposes are for current students to (1) engage with and iterate on work that focuses on studying and designing for learning, and (2) build community across campuses and among graduate students and faculty.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the Learning Sciences, the conference also seeks to invite participants from a broad range of programs, departments, and fields that study learning, including, but not limited to, anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, communication studies, curriculum and instruction, human development, human-computer interaction, linguistics, philosophy, policy, physics, and sociology.