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| AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research + | '''AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research''' '''CASE 1+3 Studentship (Masters and PhD)''' '''University of Liverpool''' '''Description''' '''Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP)''' The Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool invites applications for this full-time 1+3 studentship funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) via its 2018 Artificial Intelligence (AI) call. The studentship is part of a collaboration with Peak AI (one of three companies to be Global Amazon Web Services Accredited Machine Learning Partners) and the Big Hypotheses Project (one of five large projects funded in response to a UKRI call on New Approaches to Data Science, which is led by the University of Liverpool and also involves UKRI’s Hartree Centre (a UK centre of excellence for supercomputing) and IBM Research). This unique studentship is open to candidates with either a social science or data science background. Candidates will be expected to have or be on track for a 1st or strong 2:1 BA/BSc degree in a relevant social science (e.g., anthropology, geography, politics, psychology, sociology, science and technology studies) discipline or in mathematics, statistics, data science or computer science at undergraduate level. However, the studentship is also open to those who have already completed MA/MSc degrees in a relevant social science discipline, in statistics/mathematics or in data science and who are interested in additional training that will enable them to pursue new trajectories of research in cutting edge AI/Machine Learning research fields. This is possible because the proposed ‘hybrid’ project will offer the successful candidate two six-month placements in high profile AI and Machine Learning projects during which they will analyse those projects sociologically and ethnographically – asking how AI and Machine Learning work actually gets done and what is involved in doing it. Given this, candidates should ideally (a) have some experience/interest in social studies of science and technology (see, e.g., Sormani 2014, Vertesi 2015 and Mackenzie 2017) and (b) have undertaken or be prepared to undertake specialist training in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and/or data science as part of their training. '''The studentship/project/supervision''' This four-year studentship will commence October 2019. The aim of the proposed studentship is to provide a bridge between, on the one hand, work in AI and Machine Learning and, on the other, the social sciences. It will do this through what has been termed (by the sociologist Harold Garfinkel (2002)) a ‘hybrid study’. This hybrid study will involve embedding the successful candidate – a social scientist trained in data science or a data scientist trained in social research – in two AI/Machine Learning work settings and asking them to study those settings by participating in the work conducted there. These embedded studies, as part of which the successful candidate will become a ‘hybrid practitioner’ comfortable in both research worlds, will generate new insights into the practical operations of AI and Machine Learning research for non-AI or Machine Learning audiences and, through that: help deliver better public understandings of these significant but frequently misunderstood contemporary technologies; sharpen understandings of their potential uses in different applied settings; and contribute to developing the effective training that will be needed to bring forward the hybrid researchers of the future, i.e. the growing number of those who will be operating across computer science, social science and arts and humanities domains as a matter of course. All this will be achieved through a focus on the practicalities of the work – on what AI and Machine Learning actually involve as practices. The successful candidate will be registered at the University of Liverpool and will undertake research on AI and Machine Learning from bases in Liverpool, Manchester and Lausanne at different periods in the research. The student will be supervised by Dr Michael Mair (Sociology, University of Liverpool), Dr Phillip Brooker (Sociology, University of Liverpool), Dr Philippe Sormani (STS-Lab, University of Lausanne), Dr Will Dutton (Peak AI, Manchester) and Prof Simon Maskell (Principal Investigator for Big Hypotheses, University of Liverpool). Application process and general information : To apply please submit: *An up-to-date CV including details of two named referees (one of whom should be your most recent academic tutor/supervisor) * A letter of application (not exceeding 2 pages) outlining your interest in, and suitability for, the studentship and how you would anticipate approaching the research *Copies/confirmation of your University qualifications Applications – with ‘UKRI 1+3 AI Award: AI at Work’ in the subject line of the email should be submitted by the 23/11/2018 5pm to: Mrs Leah Dempsey – slsjpgr @ liverpool.ac.uk '''Supervisors''' *Dr Michael Mair *Dr Phillip Brooker *Professor Simon Maskell *Dr Philippe Sormani + |
| AI in the wild 2020 workshop + | '''AI in the wild: Interacting with social robots and conversational systems''' This one-day seminar invites researches working with robotic conversational systems from an interactional and video-based perspective. These systems are expected to interact with humans in a natural and sociable way. We will on this day specifically be focusing on new empirical settings, where these technologies are used and interacted with in natural situations; i.e. out of the experimental laboratory. * What is state-of-art in theory and findings? * What are researchers working with? * Which issues are to be dealt with from an ethnomethodological, conversation analytic and video ethnographic approach? * What are the new opportunities for collaboration? The day is organized on the outset of each researchers very short presentation. The rest of the day is based on data sessions and data session-like presentations. When registering, participants should state they will bring data for data session or 20 min. presentations. * Participation and catering during the day is free of charge. Evening dinner is on participants own expense. * Participants should email Brian Due for registration: bdue@hum.ku.dk NOTE! The annual conference Multimodality Day is held on 2 October - https://circd.ku.dk/calender/6th-copenhagen-multimodality-day-2020/. + |
| AIEMCA conference 2018 Macao + | The '''11th Australasian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA) Conference''' will be hosted by the Dept’s of Communication and Portuguese at the '''University of Macau''' from the '''27th – 29th November 2018'''. Conference Theme: '''Investigating Methods and Methodologies''' The biennial AIEMCA conference provides a forum for scholars from a range of disciplines using ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, membership categorisation analysis or discursive psychology in studies of everyday and/or institutional talk-in-interaction. The theme for the 2018 conference to be held at the University of Macau is on Investigating Methods and Methodologies. We invite papers that highlight current work and research focusing on new directions and innovations on a range of topics and research areas The call for papers is now open until '''30 April 2018'''. The theme of the conference is on Methodologies and reflects both the attention to studies of social action and practices as well as a reflexive attention to the analytic methods and approaches to the study of social action. Papers are welcome from the range of ethnomethodological approaches focusing on particular social practices in naturalistic settings as well as papers discussing or examining methodological developments and challenges within the field. *Standard Papers 30 Minutes – 20 Minutes plus 10 minutes questions (Open to all including students) *Short Data Focused Papers (Postgraduate Students Only) 20 Minutes – 10 Mins plus 10 min questions. These short sessions are designed for students to present their data and discuss the questions or focus of their research and to get feedback from the audience. They will be organised into sessions with 5 presenters per session. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and include presentation title, author affiliations, keywords, description of data, significance of the research and Student or Faculty + |
| AIEMCA2016 + | Australasian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA) Conference Wed 30 November – Friday 2 December 2016 The 10th Australasian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA) Conference will be hosted by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne. This conference provides a forum for the growing number of scholars from a range of disciplines using ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, membership categorisation analysis or discursive psychology in studies of everyday and/or institutional talk-in- interaction. The program will include keynote lectures from: * Nick Enfield, The University of Sydney * Johanna Rendle-Short, The Australian National University * Matt Burdelski, Osaka University Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and include presentation title, author affiliations (and if presenter is a student), key words, description of data, and significance of the research. All papers providing evidence of social practices in naturalistic settings are welcome for review. This year, concurrent data workshops will be held during the conference, and PhD candidates are encouraged to present data for discussion during one of these workshops. Abstracts for presentations (20 min + 10 min discussion) email to achurch@unimelb.edu.au with the subject line AIEMCA Abstract. Abstracts for data workshop (45 min group discussion of short extracts) email to achurch@unimelb.edu.au with the subject line AIEMCA Workshop Abstract Abstracts due 31 July 2016. Registration details will be available soon at aiemca.org. All will be welcome to join the conference. Any queries, please contact Amelia Church achurch@unimelb.edu.au + |
| AMCA 21 June 2022 Jeffrey Robinson Keynote via Zoom + | The Importance of Collections and Strategies for Building Them The foundation of Conversation Analysis is the single-case analysis. However, there are at least four, related reasons to assemble collections of cases. First, the significance of any behavior of interest (e.g., a pointing gesture) needs to be understood in terms of social action. Second, all actions are locally situated, at least in terms of their composition (which likely entails behaviors beyond, e.g., a pointing gesture, to a gestalt of behaviors) and sequential position, but often in other ways as well (e.g., epistemics). Third, the analysis of action ascription is more productive when conceptualizing the relationship between practices and actions as one of ‘family resemblances,’ as opposed to ‘one-to-one.’ Fourth, actions are normatively organized, meaning that, although they are regularly produced and understood in particular ways that regularly instantiate particular normative-moral accountabilities that are regularly associated with particular patterns of interactional conduct, irregular productions (i.e., deviations) are strategic and accountable, and thus meaningful. For at least these reasons, collections are necessary insofar as single cases – or even several of them – are often insufficient to comprehensively describe social action. In this talk, I discuss: (1) the importance of collections for conducting socially systematic conversation analysis; and (2) strategies for building collections in ways that support such analysis. Jun 22, 2022 05:00 PM in Zurich Register: https://bit.ly/3Mxyaq5 + |
| AMCA 21 June 2022 John Heritage Keynote via Zoom + | Sequential, Linguistic and Multimodal Resources for Action Ascription This lecture briefly outlines some of the main resources – both internal and external to the turn – that may contribute to the process of action ascription. It is suggested that action ascription involves the integration of ‘bottom-up’ resources within the turn (including grammar, lexicon, prosody, gaze and multi-modality) with ‘top-down’ resources external to the turn (sequence position, location of the sequence within a broader activity, institutional contexts, and personal statuses and the rights accruing to them). Work on the integration of these resources may also shed light on the apparent rapidity with which action ascription is achieved by comparison with the slower pace of turn projection. In the case of European and other ‘front-loaded languages’, it is possible that the integration of turn external characteristics may contribute towards this outcome. Jun 21, 2022 05:00 PM in Zurich Register: https://bit.ly/39h8DUB + |
| AMCA 23. June 2022 Anita Pomerantz Keynote via Zoom + | Evidence for Claims about Sense-Making associated with Assessments The talk focuses on evidence that analysts may use to substantiate claims involving interactants’ shared assumptions, understandings, expectations, and reasoning – claims that people associate with cognition. Some conversation analysts steer clear of such claims and assertion about cognitive states, arguing that such claims cannot be substantiated with interactional conduct. While it is true that interactional conduct does not provide direct evidence about understandings, expectations, and reasoning, such processes are very much a part of what goes into interactional actions, sequences, and practices. Our analysis should recognize the place of sense-making in interactional conduct. In this talk, I focus on what may be used as credible evidence for interactants’ assumptions about disagreeing with a co-participant, praising oneself, and the relationships between accessing/experiencing a referent and assessing the referent. Jun 23, 2022 06:00 PM in Zurich Register: https://bit.ly/3MClD4X + |
| AMCA 23. June 2022 Aug Nishizaka Keynote via Zoom + | Seeing the physiognomy of an object: Doing inspecting in interaction Participants in interaction occasionally lean and maintain their gazes toward an object. With this embodied practice, they may be doing “specifically inspecting the object.” In the detailed analysis of several interactional fragments, this study demonstrates that participants use this practice as a resource for avoiding an utterance being constructed as a particular action. This suggests that seeing may be a constitutive part of an action type rather than collecting information from the environment through a distinctive sense; seeing is a part of the bodily configuration, involving multiple bodies, in which an action is constructed. We see, as it were, the physiognomy of an object that changes according to the temporal unfolding of an ongoing activity, rather than seeing the object simpliciter. Suggested readings: http://www.augnishizaka.com/publications/aspect-seeing_goodwin.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.12.016 Jun 23, 2022 09:00 AM in Zurich Registration link: https://bit.ly/3xwIjiC + |
| APA distinguished paper award 2022 + | American Sociological Association – Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis EMCA Distinguished Paper Award This award recognizes an outstanding publication contributing to ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The 2021 award will be given to a published article. Eligible papers for the 2022 award must be published between September 1, 2019 and February 28, 2022, inclusively. Authors can submit their own publications, or nominations can be made on their behalf. Committee members may also make their own nominations. Nominations must include 1) full bibliographic information on the nominated article; and 2) a PDF copy (preferable) or a hard copy of the article; or a link to a website where the article can be downloaded in full at no charge. Please send nominations to Esther González-Martínez (Committee Chair) (esther.gonzalezmartinez@unifr.ch) by March 1, 2022. + |
| ASA 2021 + | Call for papers 116th Meeting of the American Sociological Association 7-10 August 2021 Virtual/Online meeting Deadline: 3 February 2021 INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSIONS ENCOURAGED The Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis invites papers for presentation at the 2021 ASA virtual meeting. The section provides a forum for those with interests in EM & CA broadly conceived. It offers an opportunity to talk about common interests in the Sociology of everyday life, including local interaction orders, ordinary practices of action, and the organized details of conversation. Submissions will be reviewed by Anne Warfield Rawls in coordination with Jay Meehan and Tanya Stivers. + |
| ASA EMCA 2019 + | Hi EM and CA folks, It's time to start submitting your abstracts and/or papers to present at next year's ASA to be held in NYC August 10-13. Remember that we have both the regular sessions on CA and EM and the Ethno & CA Section sections. Feel free to submit to either of these. If we get lots of submissions to the section, we can request additional slots! The deadline is January 9, 11:59pm Eastern time. Please encourage your colleagues and students to submit as well! If you have any questions about a proposed submission (length or other qualifications) please email us. Thank you, Tanya Stivers and Ken Liberman, Regular Session CA/EM organizers, Anne Rawls and Morana Alac, Section on Ethnomethodology and CA organizers + |
| ASA EMCA talk Steven Clayman: Question Design as a Window into Social Institutions + | The Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of ASA is pleased to announce it's spring webinar. This event will be held on Zoom on May 5, 10 AM-11:30 AM (PDT). Question Design as a Window into Social Institutions: A Webinar with Steven Clayman (University of California, Los Angeles) In conversation analysis, research findings are also resources for analysis. The more you learn about what previous research tells us about how interaction is organized, the more resources you have for understanding whatever data you may encounter in your own research. The more commonplace and recurrent the phenomenon, the more powerful it is as an analytic resource. Against this backdrop, question design is tantamount to a skeleton key for the study of institutional talk. Because so many occupational and professional tasks are managed through the exchange of questions and answers, a grasp of question design can provide a vivid window into occupational norms, practical pressures, and other context-specific concerns as they are managed in the give and take of everyday interchange. In this webinar, we will sketch some fundamental dimensions of question design, and show how they provide leverage for the study of institutional talk in various forms with examples drawn from medical and legal settings. + |
| AWIA symposium 2016 + | The 13th AWIA symposium will be held at Ghent University from September 29-30 2016. The theme of this symposium "Action Description" focuses on the issues and problems of how actions are formulated and/or accurately described in interaction. On the one hand, we can understand action description as a practical problem for interactants, which Schegloff (2007) refers to as the action formation problem. On the other hand, action description is also an issue for analysts. Hence, special attention will be given to how 'precisely' analysts' glosses of speakers' conduct reflect what is actually going on: How many different interpretations are possible for any observed form of conduct? Can the concept 'action' be fully understandable within a single discipline or do we need to engage with key ideas beyond our borders? Thus, problematizing the issue of 'action description' may not only help us to more fully develop our analyses, but also may facilitate more dialogue with people from outside the immediate discipline of interaction research. Our guest speaker for this symposium will be Prof. Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto). On the first day of the symposium, he will give a presentation and hold a workshop on topics related to the main symposium theme. Although we strongly encourage participants to submit an abstract on some aspect of 'action description', we welcome submissions on all types of social interaction. We are accepting contributions within a diverse range of range of analytic, theoretical, and methodological traditions such as ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, interactional linguistics ethnography, linguistic anthropology, and workplace studies. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words (including data, excluding a list of references) and be submitted in English. Please include the name and affiliation of author(s) and the title of the paper in the abstract. The abstracts should be sent as email attachments to (awiasymposium2016@gmail.com) by June 1, 2016. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by the beginning of July 2016. + |
| Action Sequencing Workshop at York 2016 + | Action Sequencing Workshop (2 days) Tutors: Gene Lerner and Ray Wilkinson Date: 16-17 June 2016, University of York Intensive ‘hands on’ workshop with leading conversation analysts: Professor Gene Lerner, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Professor Ray Wilkinson, Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK 12 places only – likely to be over-subscribed, so register your interest early to avoid disappointment! Cost: £150 Admin: sarah.shrive-morrison@york.ac.uk Further info: ray.wilkinson@sheffield.ac.uk Description of Workshop Central to the sequential analysis of conversation and other forms of talk-in-interaction by participants is the position and positioning of actions as parts of sequences of action. This workshop is designed to give participants experience making observations about action sequencing in general and sequence organization in particular. Accordingly, this action sequencing ‘workout’ will take the form of data analysis sessions (using English language audio field recordings). In addition, some small group homework will be required in preparation for the second day. The data analysis sessions will take two forms: 1. Sessions in which an ‘analytic key’ will be applied to a conversation as a technical way to expose the practices employed by participants (rather than, for example, starting the examination of data by describing its ‘plot line’); 2. Sessions focusing on how actions are sequenced with the aim of developing a positionally-sensitive description of the actions that make up a sequence of actions. This workshop is designed primarily for those individuals who are just beginning to engage in data analysis or those whose primary exposure to CA-style data analysis has been through engagement with the CA literature. The workshop will start at 09:00 am on Thurs 16 June and finish at 13:00 pm on Fri 17 June. You will need to stay in (or near) York to be able to participate in the Thurs evening group work, which is an essential part of the workshop activities. + |
| Advanced Critical Praxeological Analysis: Designing a Project and Writing a Paper (online) + | We invite you to join the Advanced Critical Praxeological Analysis: Designing a Project and Writing a Paper course, hosted by the UK’s National Centre for Research Methods. Dates: February 26 and March 12, 2025 Description: This advanced course is designed for researchers with prior experience in CPA. Delivered by Phil Hutchinson and Khadijah Diskin, the course offers practical guidance on designing a CPA project and developing it into a publishable article. Hands-on data sessions and personalised support are included to help participants refine their work. Registration: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13889 + |
| Advanced Summer Institute 2026 + | The Work, Interaction & Technology group at King’s College, London, will be running its Advanced Summer Institute on video analysis for qualitative research on June 4-5, 2026: link with more information here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-advanced-summer-institute-2026 It is addressed mainly to doctoral students and early-career researchers developing a research project using video analysis drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. We will cover all relevant aspect of this approach, from data collection to presentation of findings, through to data collection. We welcome applications until April 4th. It is desired but not required that applicants can bring their own video data for data sessions. The participation fees cover meals and refreshments. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. + |
| Advanced Topics in Conversation Analysis 2016 + | Advanced Topics in Conversation Analysis. 23rd - 25th March 2016 28 October 2015 A workshop led by Paul Drew & John Heritage Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK This workshop, to be held in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, will focus on what are emerging as some of the key themes or topics in contemporary Conversation Analysis (CA). These will include action construction, questioning and responding to questions, the design of turn beginnings (turn initial components), and recruiting the assistance of others (recruitment fuses offering and requesting into a stream of embodied action associated with seeking or providing assistance). In a departure from our previous workshops, there will be greater engagement with face-to-face interaction, with embodied action (multimodality). There will be a mixture of lectures and ‘instructional assignments’, but with plenty of time for hands-on practical work with data, in ways that will be methodologically informative (for instance, gaining experience in working with data. This workshop will suit researchers with different degrees of experience with CA, i.e. those who are just beginning to use CA in their research, to those who are more experienced and would like to enhance their CA skills and catch up with the latest research. Hence it will suit equally doctoral, postdoctoral and other researchers. The number of participants will be restricted in order to give us as much time as possible to work on each individual’s data (an entire morning or afternoon session). The programme will be planned so as to give you as much time as possible to present and discuss your work, and to provide ample opportunity for discussion, feedback and advice. Registration The cost of the workshop is £180 (full rate for salaried researchers/faculty) or £100 for postgraduate students. This charge has been kept to a minimum, to make it affordable, and covers (buffet) lunches and mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments, together with one dinner together (on the middle evening). It does not include accommodation, which can be found on campus or in local hotels. Because of the limitation on the number of participants, registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis; so early registration is advised. To register, please email Paul Drew right away! - p.drew@lboro.ac.uk + |
| Alt.HRI Call for Papers 2021 + | The theme of this year for HRI’21 is “Bolder HRI”. Consequently, Alt.HRI aims to be even bolder, i.e. “Bolder Square.” Alt.HRI track is looking for the most audacious, creative and thought-provoking ideas supported by rigorous research that does not fit elsewhere. We aim to reach our colleagues from disciplines that aren't part of the mainstream of HRI yet and ask for the unexpected, the controversial, the creative, and the diverse. Alt.HRI 2021 aims to be unexpected, resilient, and bold according to the 2020ies zeitgeist. Alt.HRI studies can be described as radical, unique, provocative, inspiring, controversial, nonobvious, rare, unusual, and also relevant, rigorous, well-argued, and research-supported. Topics such as HRI and Art, aestheticism in robotics, critical HRI, speculative HRI, historical studies related to HRI, new methods in HRI, controversial methods in HRI, learning from small samples, robots and gender, sexism in robotics, feminism and robotics, robots and COVID, HRI in the lockdown, robots and racism, social justice, robot rights, robot ethics, robot laws, robot behaviours, robot and politics, robots and religion, against pseudoscience in HRI, fun studies in HRI, novel robot designs and implementations are possible in Alt.HRI. Of course, other controversial topics and approaches are also welcome. Alt.HRI papers aim to trigger meaningful and respectful discussions in the HRI community. Feel free to have a look at previously accepted papers in Alt.HRI in the conference programs HRI’20, HRI’19, HRI’18, HRI’17, HRI’16. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 30th November 2020. Notification of Acceptance: 7th January 2021. Final Submission: 12th January 2021. Submissions will be rigorously double-blind peer-reviewed by a cohort of HRI experts from the most diverse backgrounds. Papers must be submitted via PCS. Accepted papers will be presented at the digital conference and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The paper needs to be anonymized, 4-8 pages long and need to follow the ACM SIG format. Authors should use the template files available from the conference website. In addition, the ACM has partnered with Overleaf, where authors can start writing using this link directly. Further details can be found in the HRI Conference website. Looking forward to hearing from the bolder researchers! ALT.HRI CHAIRS Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark, kerstin@sdu.dk Eduardo B. Sandoval, University of New South Wales e.sandoval@unsw.edu.au althri2020@humanrobotinteraction.org Twitter: @Alt_HRI + |
| American Sociological Association EMCA Regular and Section sessions 2017 + | Paper submissions for the 2017 American Sociological Association Annual meeting, to be held in Montreal, Canada, August 12-15, opened on November 1 (see http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/17pgm_call_for_papers.pdf). We encourage you to submit a paper or extended abstract for review as soon as possible. We will hold two types of sessions: (1) Regular sessions Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.* Organizer: Anne Warfield Rawls, Bentley University * Note that we had Regular sessions on Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology separately in Seattle, 2016, but they appear to have been integrated for next year. (2) Section sessions (a) New Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Research (one-hour). Organizer: Aug Nishizaka, Chiba University (b) Invited Session to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harold Garfinkel's Studies in Ethnomethodology and the 25th anniversary of Harvey Sacks' Lectures on Conversation: "The relevance of Garfinkel's studies for CA research today" with panelists Mike Lynch, Geoffrey Raymond, Eric Livingston, and Johannes Wagner. Organizer: Ken Liberman, University of Oregon Although Section session (a) can accommodate only three papers, the more high quality submissions for Regular sessions we receive, the more additional sessions for us we may be able to request. So please do submit and encourage your students and colleagues to submit. The absolute deadline is January 11, 2017, but please consider submitting earlier than that. The following URL includes instructions for submission: http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2017/2017-call-papers-policies If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: Anne (ARawls@bentley.edu) about Regular sessions (she would be very happy to provide comments and suggestions on your proposals in advance of submission) and Aug (augnish@chiba-u.jp) about the open Section session. Anne Rawls (Regular session organizer); Kenneth Liberman (liberman@uoregon.edu) and Aug Nishizaka (EMCA section co-chairs) + |
| An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 25-26 May 2023 + | * Title: An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis * Date: 29/11/2023 - 30/11/2023 * Organised by: University of Liverpool * Presenter: Dr Robin James Smith * Level: Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge) * Contact: Dr Billie-Gina Thomason engage@liverpool.ac.uk * Venue: Online or in-person at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences Cardiff University Glamorgan Building King Edward VII Cardiff CF10 3WT * Description: The central concern of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) is the description of the array of categorisation practices observable in members’ “naturally-organised activities”. This workshop is focused on exploring and understanding what Harvey Sacks called the “member’s machinery” and how that foundation was later developed into a concern with the analysis of “culture-in-action”. Sacks’ early analyses considered how relevant categories are ‘used’ not only to categorise individuals as ‘representative’ members of a given category but, in a broader sense, to both produce and recognise the orderly character that scenes and activities observably have. In this sense, MCA is not a formal method of inquiry as such but forms a live ‘resource’ for members in the accomplishment of reasoning, sense-making, and social organisation. For members, such practices are employed in a range of everyday practices both in forms of talk and conversation (e.g. in telling a story about some event), but also in mobility practices (such as forming a queue or ‘flow file’ in public space) or accomplishing visual order (for example, of producing and viewing memes). For analysts, an attentiveness to categorisation practices provides a powerful means of accessing people’s “improvised cultural practices” (Hester and Francis, 2017) which provide the very grounds upon which the sense of the world is built. This introduction to and exploration of this ‘categorial landscape’ will be led by an expert in the field. It will be structured over the course of two-days and will include a plenary talk on the evening of the first day. The workshop will provide a summary of Sacks’ early work by working through some classic examples in order to familiarise participants with the aspects of ‘membership categorisation devices’ that form the cornerstone of MCA. We will also move on to consider further examples which demonstrate the contribution of MCA in addressing the centrality of categorisation practices in a range of activities and settings. Following introductory remarks and orientations, the workshop will be practical in nature and the majority of the second day of the workshop will take the form of data sessions where participants will be encouraged to contribute their own materials. Participants attending the course will leave well prepared to begin or continue their own studies in membership categorisation analysis. * Further information can be found here: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139. + |
| An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 Nov 2023 + | • Title: An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis • Date: 29/11/2023 - 30/11/2023 • Organised by: University of Liverpool • Presenter: Dr Robin James Smith • Level: Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge) • Contact: Dr Billie-Gina Thomason, engage@liverpool.ac.uk • Venue: Online or in-person at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Cardiff, CF10 3WT • Description: The central concern of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) is the description of the array of categorisation practices observable in members’ “naturally-organised activities”. This workshop is focused on exploring and understanding what Harvey Sacks called the “member’s machinery” and how that foundation was later developed into a concern with the analysis of “culture-in-action”. Sacks’ early analyses considered how relevant categories are ‘used’ not only to categorise individuals as ‘representative’ members of a given category but, in a broader sense, to both produce and recognise the orderly character that scenes and activities observably have. In this sense, MCA is not a formal method of inquiry as such but forms a live ‘resource’ for members in the accomplishment of reasoning, sense-making, and social organisation. For members, such practices are employed in a range of everyday practices both in forms of talk and conversation (e.g. in telling a story about some event), but also in mobility practices (such as forming a queue or ‘flow file’ in public space) or accomplishing visual order (for example, of producing and viewing memes). For analysts, an attentiveness to categorisation practices provides a powerful means of accessing people’s “improvised cultural practices” (Hester and Francis, 2017) which provide the very grounds upon which the sense of the world is built. This introduction to and exploration of this ‘categorial landscape’ will be led by an expert in the field. It will be structured over the course of two-days and will include a plenary talk on the evening of the first day. The workshop will provide a summary of Sacks’ early work by working through some classic examples in order to familiarise participants with the aspects of ‘membership categorisation devices’ that form the cornerstone of MCA. We will also move on to consider further examples which demonstrate the contribution of MCA in addressing the centrality of categorisation practices in a range of activities and settings. Following introductory remarks and orientations, the workshop will be practical in nature and the majority of the second day of the workshop will take the form of data sessions where participants will be encouraged to contribute their own materials. Participants attending the course will leave well prepared to begin or continue their own studies in membership categorisation analysis. • Further information can be found here: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139. + |
| Analyzing Race/ism in Interaction: A workshop for Emerging Scholars Virtual Workshop – 6-8 July 2022 + | '''CALL FOR PARTICIPATION''' We invite applications to participate in a three-day workshop on the analysis of race/ism in social interactions. Analyzing Race/ism in Interaction: A workshop for Emerging Scholars Virtual Workshop – 6-8 July 2022 Applications to participate close on 2 April – apply here '''Description''' In this three-day workshop, participants will explore how racial identities are invoked and made relevant in everyday conversations, and learn how to analyze race, racism, and discrimination in social interaction. Participants will draw on their expertise on race and learn how to conduct fine-grained analysis of language and culture using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA). The course will take place over three days and will consist of four sessions. For each session, participants will watch on their own time a one-hour pre-recorded lecture, and then participate in a two-hour facilitated workshop that reviews and works with the material introduced in the lecture. The workshop will take place online, in real-time; however it will take place in two streams based on location and time zone. Lecture Session topics include: Theories of race and interaction Professional data practices Transcription Analyzing race in interaction '''Lecturers include:''' Francesca Williamson Kevin Whitehead Alexa Hepburn Joseph Garafanga Leah Wingard Natasha Shrikant Tim Berard '''Registration details:''' ''Applications to participate close on 2 April.'' Sliding scale 20-100$ USD scholarships are available (supported by ISCA). You can apply for the workshop through this Google form: https://bit.ly/3tXcnRy Participants will be chosen and notified through their provided email and given the details of how to register for the workshop. Final registrations will be due 2 May. '''Organizers:''' Sara Goico, Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA) Elliott Hoey, Assistant Professor (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Bogdana Huma, Assistant Professor (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Edward Reynolds, Lecturer (University of New Hampshire) Natasha Shrikant, Assistant Professor (University of Colorado Boulder) '''Generously Supported by''' The International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA) The University of New Hampshire Department of Sociology The University of New Hampshire Centre for the Humanities The University of Colorado, Boulder The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam + |
| Analyzing medical interaction: a pre-NCA workshop 2016 + | As part of the launch of a new Center for Language, Interaction and Health at Rutgers University, we will be holding a 2 day Training Workshop on Analyzing Medical Interactions, run by John Heritage & Anita Pomerantz, together with Rutgers CA faculty, Galina Bolden, Alexa Hepburn, Jenny Mandelbaum, and Lisa Mikesell. The workshop is scheduled for the 6th and 7th November 2016. It is designed for a maximum of 20 conversation analysis researchers at all stages, who have, or seek to gain, access to their own medical data. Sessions will comprise primarily small group activities, involving instructional content and data analysis, with presentation of your work-in-progress on your own medical data (if you have it). The cost of the workshop will be $100 per person, which will include lunches and light refreshments for both days. To apply: please submit a paragraph detailing your interest in medical interaction, your experience with conversation analysis and whether or not you plan to bring your own data to Alexa Hepburn: alexa.hepburn@rutgers.edu + |
| Assistant Prof in Dementia Studies - Bradford 2023 + | NB: This is **not** the same advert as the Lecturer post (https://emcawiki.net/Lecturer_in_Dementia_Studies_-_Bradford_2023) - Bradford seems to have an especially confusing naming system for job grades. AFAICT, Lecturer = Assistant Prof (US), Assistant Prof = Associate Prof (US/Senior Lecturer or Reader UK). Bonkers. * Assistant Prof in Dementia Studies * Faculty of Health Studies * Centre for Applied Dementia Studies * Salary: £45,737 to £52,841 per annum * Hybrid working availiable * Post Type: Full Time * Contract Type: Permanent * Closing Date: Friday 07 July 2023 * Interview Date: Thursday 27 July 2023 * Reference: HR0148907 This is an exciting time to move to the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies (CfADS) and the Faculty of Health Studies within the University of Bradford as we grow and develop our programmes of work in healthy ageing and dementia. We are seeking two permanent posts at Lecturer or Assistant Professor level (depending on experience) to support our activity. The CfADS is one of the UK's leading centres for psychosocial research into living well with, and caring well for, people with dementia and their families as well as that of healthy ageing. Working alongside our partners in the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, we deliver three elements of work: education, training and consultancy and, applied research. We deliver post-graduate teaching in Advanced Dementia Studies, work alongside a range of national and international stakeholders in implementing training and consultancy and, have been awarded local and national research contracts, funded PhD studentships and post-doctoral positions. You will work across all areas of the CfADS being supported to deliver our internationally and nationally recognised post-graduate education, training and consultancy as well as implementation and dissemination of our ground-breaking research. While you will take responsibility for at least one module, you will be supported to do this by first shadowing our existing staff. We have a range of research to which you will contribute (dependent on your interests and expertise). In addition, you will be supported to develop your own research programmes. Applications are invited from those who have expertise across health and care including e.g., policy, psychology, economics, sociology. Most importantly, you will have a passion for making a difference in healthy ageing and dementia across systems, practice, patients/ users, unpaid carers and their wider supporters. Informal enquiries prior to application can be made to Professor Karen Windle, acting Director of the CfADS at k.windle@bradford.ac.uk. In return we offer: * Excellent salary package £45,737 to £52,841 * Hybrid working * Generous pension scheme through USS. Universities Superannuation Scheme * Annual leave starting at 25 days, plus an additional eight bank holidays and five customary holidays (taken at Easter and Christmas) per year. * Family friendly policies. * Multiple staff support networks. We are a family-friendly University with an agile workforce and are open to flexible working arrangements. + |
| Assistant Professor Communication and Information Studies (V23.0357) + | Assistant Professor Communication and Information Studies (V23.0357) « Back to the overview Job description Full title: Assistant Professor Communication and Information Studies (Language and Social Interaction, Conversation Analysis / Discourse Analysis) Are you fascinated by the workings of human interaction and communication and how we use language to achieve goals and negotiate relationships in daily life and in professional practice? Are you willing to join our academic community in Groningen, be part of our research group and contribute to the development of our program in Communication and Information Studies? Then you might be the perfect addition to our team. Organization The Faculty of Arts is built on a long-standing tradition of four centuries. Our mission is to be a top-ranking faculty with both excellent education and world-quality research, with a strong international orientation, firmly rooted in the north of the Netherlands. We create knowledge & new insights and share its benefits with society. We work at a modern, broad and international institution, educating over 5,000 Dutch and international students to become forward-looking, articulate and independent academics and professionals. We form a hardworking and diverse team of 700 staff members. What will you be working on? We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague with expertise in the field of language and social interaction (Conversation Analysis/Discourse Analysis) to strengthen our team. We study interaction in professional settings and in everyday conversations. In our research, we contribute both to theoretical and practical questions and we collaborate with societal partners in the domains of health, education, sustainability and governance. You will teach in the BA and the MA programmes Communication and Information Studies and in the BA program Dutch Language and Culture, this also includes supervision of bachelor and master theses. In addition, you will contribute to the further development of the curriculum in your area of expertise. Your research will be embedded in the Discourse and Communication group of the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG). We expect you to strengthen and complement our research in the field of discourse analysis/ conversation analysis in one or more of the fields mentioned above. We offer you a position with 60% of your time for teaching (including administration) and 40% for research. You will work in a multidisciplinary research environment, so experience with mixed methods is appreciated. Qualifications What are we looking for? you have a PhD in the area of conversation analysis/discourse analysis or other relevant areas in the study of language and social interaction preferably with a focus on interaction in professional contexts you are keen on conducting high quality research, actively engaging with the national and international research community, seeking external funding, and participating in the group’s activities you like to work both independently and in a multidisciplinary team producing high quality work and you are open for inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and an international orientation you have significant teaching experience and the basic qualification at Dutch universities in higher education (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO) or are willing to acquire it within a reasonable time you have the ability to communicate and teach in English (CEFR C1 level for reading, listening, writing, speaking). Knowledge of Dutch is not an entry requirement, but a CEFR B2 level for reading and listening, and CEFR B1 level for writing and speaking are part of the conditions for promotion. Organisation Conditions of employment We offer you in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities: a salary, depending on qualifications and work experience, with a minimum of € 3,974 to a maximum of € 5,439 (salary scale 11) gross per month for a full-time position a holiday allowance of 8% gross annual income an 8.3% end-of-the-year allowance participation in a pension scheme for employees. Favorable tax agreements may apply to non-Dutch applicants. We offer 232 holiday hours per calendar year for full-time employment. The appointee will ideally commence 1 September 2023. We comply with the conditions of employment of the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU). For more detailed information about working conditions and working for the University of Groningen, please check: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/ Application Please send in your application as two PDF files (one for the writing sample, and one for all other documents). You may apply for this position until 25 June 11:59pm / before 26 June 2023 Dutch local time (CET) by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website). Interviews with selected candidates will be held in July 2023. The University of Groningen strives to be a university in which students and staff are respected and feel at home, regardless of differences in background, experiences, perspectives, and identities. We believe that working on our core values of inclusion and equality are a joint responsibility and we are constructively working on creating a socially safe environment. Diversity among students and staff members enriches academic debate and contributes to the quality of our teaching and research. We therefore invite applicants from underrepresented groups in particular to apply. For more information, see also our diversity policy webpage: https://www.rug.nl/(...)rsity-and-inclusion/ Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment code (NVP): https://www.nvp-hrnetwerk.nl/nl/sollicitatiecode and European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code We provide career services for partners of new faculty members moving to Groningen. Unsolicited marketing is not appreciated. Information For information you can contact: Prof. dr. Mike Huiskes, m.huiskes@rug.nl Please do not use the e-mail address(es) above for applications. + |
