ASA EMCA 2013 Conference Program (New York City)

Dear EMCA-ers,

A few updates on the ASA's Annual Conference in New York in August.  The conference schedule has been posted, and you can take a look at it online.

http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa13/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Prepare+Multi+Search+Reload+Search&multi_search_search_mode=session&PHPSESSID=mhspqn5ou27ou2a8l313pcar56

As we have announced before, we have 8 sessions, and are looking forward to them all.  Below is the schedule (You will notice that, unfortunately, two sessions are at the same time.  We have contacted the ASA about this and asked them to change it, but they were unable to accommodate us).

We will also have a social.  It will happen on Saturday night, August 10, in ROSIE O' GRADY'S, and restaurant close the conference hotels.  We hope you can all join us there.

All in all, a very solid program in a great city.  We look forward to seeing you all there.

Best, Erik & Dirk

On Saturday August 10th, from 6:30 -9:00pm

Conversation Analysis 1

Sat Aug 10 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am

Session Organizer: John Heritage (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Presider: John Heritage (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Doing ‘How I’m Coming Here’: Displaying a State of Being when Opening Face-to-Face Interaction

*Danielle Pillet-Shore (University of New Hampshire)

Accounting for delay in answering quantity questions in Primary Care visits: A Provisional Sketch

*Timothy Halkowski (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point)

Patient disclosure of medical misdeeds

*Clara Ann Blomgren Bergen (University of California-Los Angeles), Tanya Stivers (University of California-Los Angeles)

Making a Complaint in Evacuee-Volunteer Interaction

*Kaoru Hayano (Ochanomizu University)

Ethics in action: Consent-gaining interactions and implications for research practice

*Susan A. Speer (University of Manchester, UK), Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough University)

Conversation Analysis 2

Sat Aug 10 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm

Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Regular Session. Conversation Analysis 2

Session Participants:

Session Organizer: John Heritage (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Presider: John Heritage (University of California-Los Angeles) 

A Typology of Time Reference in Conversation

*Chase Wesley Raymond (University of California-Los Angeles), *Anne White (University of California-Los Angeles)

The world of interaction between “A” and “I”: One way questions set agendas in Polish

*Matylda Weidner (University of Antwerp)

Pursuing answers to questions in broadcast journalism

*Tanya Romaniuk (York University)

Indicating epistemic distance of the referent: Uses of name-quoting descriptors in Japanese

*Shuya Kushida (Osaka Kyoiku University)

Opening up sequence organization: Some occasions in which speakers formulate “out of place” sequence initiating actions.

*Geoffrey Raymond (University of California-Santa Barbara)

EMCA Social

Sat Aug 10 2013, 06:30 to 09:00pm

ROSIE O' GRADY'S

800 7TH AVENUE 

(CORNER 52ND ST.) 

NEW YORK, NY 10019

TELEPHONE: 212.582.2975

Conversation Analysis 3

Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am

Session Organizer: John Heritage (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Presider: John Heritage (University of California-Los Angeles) 

How to do things with requests: Requesting at the family dinner table

*Jenny Mandelbaum (State University of New Jersey-Rutgers)

The sequence organization of empathy: An analysis of the evacuee-volunteer interaction in Fukushima

*Satomi Kuroshima (Meiji Gakuin University)

The Interactional Organization of Multiple Activities in "Footbath Volunteer Activity" in Fukushima

*Aug Nishizaka (Meiji Gakuin University)

Negotiating understanding in “intercultural moments” in conversation

*Galina Bolden (State University of New Jersey-Rutgers)

Ethnomethodology 2

Sun Aug 11 2013, 8:30 to 10:10am

Ethnomethodology: Studies of Everyday Life

Session Organizer: Tanya Stivers (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Presider: Tanya Stivers (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Body method of interpretation in Japanese card game.

*Hiromichi Hosoma (University of Shiga Prefecture)

In pursuit of some appreciation: Assessables, group membership and second stories

*Maryanne Theobald (Queensland University of Technology), *Edward John Reynolds (University of Queensland)

When Gestures Complete a Story: Audience Participation in the Co-construction of Narratives of Trauma

*Ingrid Norrmann-Vigil (University of California-Los Angeles)

Numbers Matter: Multiparty talk during family mealtime

*Gillian Roslyn Busch (Central Queensland University), *Susan Danby (Queensland University of Technology)

Abstract

In this panel authors discuss data from studies involving the everyday lived experience. Settings include playing cards, mealtime conversation and narratives of experience.

Ethnomethodology 1

Sun Aug 11 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm

Ethnomethodology: A Consideration of the Method

Session Organizer: Tanya Stivers (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Presider: Alison Pilnick (University of Nottingham) 

Ayer, Schutz and Garfinkel: Ethnomethodology and the impossibility of a social SCIENCE

*Richard Heyman (University of Calgary)

Respecifying the Work of a Discovering Science with Video Materials in Hand

*Philippe Sormani (University of Vienna)

I’m Thrilled that You See That: Seeing Success in Interactions with Deaf and Autistic Children

*Alison Pilnick (University of Nottingham), Deborah James (University of Northumbria)

"Mixing" Methods in the Social Sciences: The Interplay of Qualitative and Quantitative Work in Sociological Research

*Michael Mair (University of Liverpool), *Christian Greiffenhagen (University of Loughborough), W. W. Sharrock (University of Manchester)

Abstract

This panel reflects on ethnomethodology as a method and considers what kind of study it leads to, the kinds of data used ethnomethodologists rely on, the sorts of questions studied and when and how qualitative and quantitative methods can be mixed.

Ethnomethodology 3

Sun Aug 11 2013, 2:30 to 4:10pm

Ethnomethodology: Studies of the Workplace

Session Organizer: Tanya Stivers (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Presider: Chase Wesley Raymond (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Ending the Spectacular: A Multimodal Study of Consequential Work in Street Performing Circle-Shows

*Tim Smith (University of Edinburgh)

Joint Activity: Understanding understanding in dental tuition

*Lewis Hyland (King's College London)

Speaking to the market: Earnings calls in corporate America

*Guy J Edwards (University of Cambridge)

Timework: An Occupational Ethnography of Sea Kayak Guides

*Anne White (University of California-Los Angeles)

Abstract

From street performers to dental school, from corporate phone calls to guiding kayaks, this panel uses ethnomethodology to examine people in the workplace.

Ethnomethodological Studies of Work and Organization (one-hour)

Mon Aug 12 2013, 8:30 to 9:30am

Session Organizer: Nick Llewellyn (Warwick Business School) 

Presider: Nick Llewellyn (Warwick Business School) 

In-Passing Work Interactions at the Hospital

*Esther Gonzalez-Martinez (University of Fribourg), *Kim Lê Van (University of Fribourg)

Member Accounts in the Assessment of Professional Competence

*Mehmet Ali Icbay (Southern Illinois University), Timothy Koschmann (Southern Illinois University)

Micro-Stories and Macro-Facts: Business-Style Management, Knowledge Inequity and Doing the Work of Governance

*Patrick G. Watson (University of Waterloo)

Requesting help with null or limited knowledge: entitlements and responsibility in emergency calls

*Giolo Fele (University of Trento)

Discussant: Nick Llewellyn (Warwick Business School) 

Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Business Meeting 

Mon Aug 12 2013, 9:30 to 10:10am

Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis

Linking Micro and Macro: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Contributions

Mon Aug 12 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm

Session Organizer: Timothy Halkowski (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) 

Presider: Steven E. Clayman (University of California-Los Angeles) 

Fixating on the macro-micro problem: An ethnomethodological treatment of interrogation

*Michael Lynch (Cornell University)

The Micropolitics of Legitimacy: Question-Answer Sequences and the Sociopolitical Landscape

*Steven E. Clayman (University of California-Los Angeles)

Addressing the inequality of a political configuration. A praxiological examination of “micro-macro issues”.

*Alain Bovet (Centre for the Study of Social Movements)

Systematically reviewing conversation analytic and related discursive research to inform healthcare: An illustrated example

*Ruth Helen Parry (University of Nottingham), Land Victoria (Independent Researcher, York, UK)

Practices of Talk Show Interviewing

*Laura Loeb

Teaching Workshop: Practical Experience and Methods of Introducing Conversation Analysis to Audiences Who are New to this Approach

Tue Aug 13 2013, 10:30 to 12:10pm

Session Organizer: Ruth Helen Parry (University of Nottingham) 

Session Organizer: Virginia Teas Gill (Illinois State University) 

Leader: Ruth Helen Parry (University of Nottingham) 

Co-Leader: Virginia Teas Gill (Illinois State University) 

Panelist: Timothy Halkowski (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) 

Panelist: Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough University) 

Panelist: Jörg Bergmann (University of Bielefeld) 

Abstract

The perspectives and methods of conversation analysis are increasingly used within sociological investigations in arenas such as health and illness, the analysis of culture, of human relationships, of occupational work and practice, and in feminist enquiry. Conversation analysis offers a strongly empirical and systematic means of analysing the social organisation of interaction. Given its applications within sociological enquiries, it is increasingly taught within sociology degree and postgraduate courses. Furthermore, sociologists are starting to incorporate conversation analysis within the training they deliver to others – most commonly within medical school curricula, but also in areas such as business and management.

Part of the rationale for this workshop is that whilst there are many individual sociologists designing and delivering teaching of conversation analysis, there has been limited dialogue on this topic between these individuals, and there is no central repository and community for which teaching of conversation analysis forms the focus. The workshop will constitute an important developmental step towards sharing established and innovative practice.

This workshop draws upon a ‘teaching conversation analysis’ workshop we convened at a previous ASA conference. It drew a substantial and engaged audience. The theme of our proposed 2013 workshop: ‘Introducing conversation analysis to those unfamiliar with it’, emerged as of great interest amongst those who attended the previous event. The goals will be:

- To articulate and share experiences of those who communicate CA to various audiences including sociology and social psychology undergraduates, undergraduates in healthcare professions, research colleagues and health and social care professionals

- To provide a forum for discussing challenges and strategies with regards first introductions of CA to audiences unfamiliar with it

- To introduce specific resources spanning the design, modalities of delivery, and assessment and evaluation of teaching. Including ICT resources, pedagogical approaches, and practical exercises

Intended audience: postgraduate and faculty sociologists from a broad range of backgrounds who themselves teach, or may in the future be in a position to teach conversation analytic methods and perspectives to sociologists and others

Sociologists with broad interests in communicating practical methods and sociological perspectives to a variety of audiences

Social psychology membership

See the message below from the Social Psychology section.  Note that we are still quite low on members and will be sending a similar message out to the Social Psychology section to recruit from them.  Please do join their section if you can to return the favor.  Erik & Dirk.

Greetings,

The ASA’s Social Psychology section’s membership committee would like to invite you to join our vibrant section. We are a section interested in social processes, broadly conceived, whose work is applicable to many members of the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section.

Among the many benefits of joining is the opportunity to network with like-minded faculty and graduate students about existing research and the possibility of sparking collaborative research efforts. Our quarterly newsletter highlights important research of interest to our members and serves as a central location to find exciting and relevant information on social psychology.

There are additional benefits for graduate students who join the section. The first is our Graduate Student Investigator Award. Each year, one student member of the section will receive $1,000 towards completing a research project (and there are efforts underway to increase the award to $2000 in coming years). We also have an active graduate student network, including a writing group on Facebook where students exchange and receive feedback about works in progress.

We hope that you’ll consider joining and encourage others to as well. To add a membership, you'll need to log in to the ASA homepage and click the "Join a Section" link (https://www.e-noah.net/ASA/Sales/Sections.asp?S=2). Student memberships are only $5.

Sincerely,
Members of the ASA Social Psychology Membership Committee
Jessica Collett (Chair), University of Notre Dame, jlcollett@nd.edu
Stephen Benard, Indiana University, sbenard@indiana.edu
Philip Brenner, University of Massachusetts Boston, philip.brenner@umb.edu
Mike Harrod, Central Washington University, harrodm@cwu.edu

John Gumperz

John Gumperz died last Friday, March 29th 2013.

Here is an Obituary from Professor Amy Kyratzis, UCSB, where he worked for many years.

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Professor Emeritus John Gumperz passed away last Friday.

Professor Gumperz received his doctoral degree in Germanic Linguistics from the University of Michigan.  He held a postdoctoral appointment at Cornell in Linguistics, where he began his life-long interest in the languages and linguistics of  the new nation of India.  He has an honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) from the University of Konstanz, Germany.  He has had a long–term relationship with the Institute for German Language (IDS- Institut fur Deutsche Sprache) in Mannheim.

Before coming to Santa Barbara and becoming an active member of the U.C.S.B. LISO faculty, for most of his career, from 1956 until his retirement in 1991, he was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Gumperz co-founded the subfield of sociolinguistics, the Ethnography of Communication, with Professor Dell Hymes, and later founded interactional sociolinguistics.  He left behind a tremendous legacy of work, contributing to the understanding of code-switching, linguistic variation, intercultural communication, languages and sociolinguistics of India, conversational inferencing and contextualization in face-to-face interaction, educational sociolinguistics, and many other areas.  His work advanced our understanding of the linguistic and interactional construction of social inequality.

Professor Gumperz trained a large number of current scholars, and was widely known for his openness and support of junior scholars.  He wrote or edited numerous articles and books, including “Directions in Sociolinguistics: the Ethnography of Communication” (ed. w/Dell Hymes), “Discourse Strategies” (Cambridge U. Press), “Language and Social Identity” (Cambridge U. Press) , and “Rethinking Linguistic Relativity” (ed. w/Stephen C. Levinson, Cambridge U. Press).  Professor Gumperz was Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, Life Fellow of the Linguistics Society of America, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was former President of the International Pragmatics Association, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.   Professor Gumperz was honored recently at a session organized at the American Anthropological Association meetings in his honor.  He will be greatly missed. 


Amy Kyratzis
Professor
Department of Education
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA  93106

8 Sessions at the ASA!

EMCA-ers.

We hope you enjoyed the newsletter from earlier this month.  This is just a quick update.  

 

First, some exciting news.  As reported, we had a great response to the call for papers to both the ethnomethodology and the conversation analysis sessions.  Both John Heritage and Tanya Stivers, the session organizers, asked for additional sessions, and they were awarded two more each, bringing the total of EMCA sessions to 8.  Something to look forward to this August in New York.

 

Second, we have extended the deadline for both the Pollner award and the Graduate Paper award until March 29th 2013.  You can read more about each on the Award page on the web-site.  Please submit your suggestions for both as soon as possible.

 

Best wishes,

Erik & Dirk

Dear EMCA community,

Welcome to the spring 2013 newsletter of the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section.  Click here to view the whole Newsletter.

We are looking forward to the American Sociological Association conference this summer in New York. The ASA has granted us four sessions, but thanks to a great response to the call for papers for both the ethnomethodology and conversation analysis sessions John Heritage and Tanya Stivers have applied for more sessions. The ASA is yet to grant us these, but the enthusiastic response is a sign that the section serves an ever vibrant international community and ought to have a place at the ASA; sociology is after all the discipline from which the field derives its intellectual roots.

That is not to say that we are not struggling with membership. While we have signed up some new members and were able to entice some former members to rejoin the section, our membership is in the low 100s, far below the 300 members that the ASA has set as the
minimum for a section. We have received official notice from the ASA that increasing membership must be priority and real progress must be shown this year. So please help us out by becoming a member and by askingyour colleagues to become members. Recall that once you have paid for the ASA membership, the section membership is relatively cheap, so convincing folks who are already ASA members to join our section as a second section should be easier. Remember also that students can join the ASA at a highly reduced rate.

We also need your help with several of the awards for this year. Jon Hindmarsh heads up the graduate student paper award. Please send your graduate students’ submissions to Dirk vom Lehn (dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk). Only scholarly, journal-ready articles and papers produced in 2012 will be considered. If you know of a book that should be considered by the book awards committee, please send the title to Patrick Watson (pwatson@uwaterloo.ca) - eligible works must be published in 2011-2012.

In this newsletter and in upcoming newsletters, we will publish a series of brief pieces by EMCA graduate students from around the world about their departments and themselves, highlighting where EMCA is being taught in the world and the different types of work graduate students are doing. In this issue, we are featuring essays from graduate students from Russia, Italy, and Australia.  If you would like to write a piece, or know
graduate students who would like to, please e-mail Laura Loeb (laura.a.loeb@gmail.com).

We hope to see you all in New York! Remember, registering early is cheaper!
Thanks to Laura Loeb for editing and designing the new look for the newsletter.

Yours,

Dirk vom Lehn & Erik Vinkhuyzen

After the deadline....preparing for ASA2013

Dear All,

just a quick update on ASA2013 and future developments.

The deadline for paper submissions for ASA2013 was January 9th. We are delighted to report that across the four Sessions that will be organized by members of the EMCA Section more than 80 papers were received by the session organizers. Due to the high numbers of submissions to the Section we have requested further sessions from ASA. While the session organizers wait for a response from ASA they read and assess the papers to prepare the program for the conference.

Looking forward we have been in touch with chairs of other sections to propose sessions for the ASA 2014 conference in San Francisco. Proposals for the conference have gone in and we keep our fingers crossed for a positive response from ASA.

As soon as we know more about the program for ASA 2013 we will be back again with news here.

We hope to see many of you in New York in August.


with best
Dirk & Erik

ASA Paper submission system open!!!

Dear Section Members,

 

Today the ASA Paper submission system has opened, it will close January 9th.

http://www.asanet.org/meetings/call_for_papers.cfm

The Annual Meeting will be held in New York City, in mid-town, close to Central Park, MOMA, Rockefeller Center, Carnegie Hall, etc.  The Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis will have 4 sessions.  But in case we have lots of submissions, we can apply for more.  Please encourage your graduate students to submit.  It is a great way for them to present in front of--and meet--the community!  The sessions are:

1.     "Ethnomethodological Studies of Work and Organization" (organiser: Nick Llewellyn, Warwick Business School)

2.     “Linking Micro and Macro: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Contributions" (organiser: Tim Halkowski, University of Wisconsin)

3.     a session on Ethnomethodology organized by Tanya Stivers (UCLA) and

4.     a session on Conversation Analysis organized by John Heritage (UCLA)

Naturally, this is the right time to renew (or join) your ASA Section Membership for 2013.

Because we do not have acess to the submission system we would be grateful if you would inform session organisers or us that you have submitted a paper to the Section and/or a specific session.

 

We are looking forward to your submissions.

 

Kind regards, and happy holidays.

Erik & Dirk

Co-chairs

 

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