Tuesday, December 9, 2014

ASA Submission Open

Dear EMCA section members,

The online submission portal for the ASA annual meeting in Chicago in 2015 is now open for business at http://www.asanet.org/meetings/callforpapers.cfm. The deadline for submissions is January 7 at 3 pm EST.


Remember to choose the Conversation Analysis or Ethnomethodology sections when you submit. 

Friday, November 7, 2014

Obituary Edward Charles Cuff

Edward Charles Cuff:
Ted Cuff died, aged 76,  on 24th, October 2014 shortly after suffering a stroke. Ted was the author of  Problems of Versions in Everyday Situations and co-editor of and contributor to the widely used textbook Perspectives in Sociology (a sixth edition is in preparation). He also co-edited Crisis in the Curriculum and Doing Teaching. After graduating from the LSE, Ted joined the Sociology Department at Didsbury College of Education, Manchester  in 1968, developing a small but high quality sociology teaching department. The department was dissolved owing to changes in education policy and administrative structures, with the College being absorbed into Manchester Polytechnic, now Manchester Metropolitan University.  As Head of the Educational Studies department Ted’s main focus became an administrative one, leading to increasing disillusionment with both the direction of educational policy and the priority of process over substance in the  administrative setting. After only the briefest reflection he took   the opportunity for  early retirement in the 1980’s. In retirement he took a fine arts degree at Manchester University and pursued his interests in opera, painting, theatre and, above all, literature, though he continued close contact with his circle of sociological colleagues.
Ted was a founding member of the  ‘Manchester School’ of Ethnomethodology, making Didsbury an organising centre for the Group’s activity , creating there a  comprehensive archive of ethnomethodological writings, many of which were then unpublished. He was much admired for the fineness of his intelligence, the acuity of his judgement and the precision of his prose as well as  his nuanced mastery of administrative skills. He set himself the highest   standards of integrity,  and will be affectionately remembered for his warm,  engaging and witty presence.

He is survived by Janet, his wife of fifty four years, and by daughters Jacqueline and Susan.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Call for Papers (01/15/15) Mobilizing Vulnerability: New Directions in Transnational Feminist Studies and Human Rights

Call for Papers (01/15/15)
Mobilizing Vulnerability:
New Directions in Transnational Feminist Studies and Human Rights
A Special Issue of Feminist Formations
Co-edited by Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel Lewis

During the past decade, there has been a substantial growth in academic scholarship devoted to exploring the intersections among vulnerability, precarity, and human rights. While feminist and queer theorists have turned toward concepts of vulnerability and precarity as a way of accounting for contemporary forms of political violence, critical theorists have turned to vulnerability and affiliated terms (precarity and precarization, for example) as the basis for understanding human interdependencies, obligations, and ethical responsibilities (Berlant, Butler, Cvejić, Fineman, Lorey, Puar, and Vujanović). However, what has not been considered to date and what this special issue aims to elucidate are the contributions that transnational feminist scholarship and methods can make toward our understanding of embodied and structural vulnerabilities, especially as these vulnerabilities shape human rights theory and practices.

This special issue will discuss both the value and the risks of theories of vulnerability and precarity for transnational feminist research on human rights. Specifically, we seek to address how transnational feminist analytics might increase our understanding of the mobilization of vulnerability and how concepts of vulnerability and precarity travel transnationally to produce new rationalities. We seek contributions that focus particular attention upon the intersection of notions of vulnerability and precarity with human rights discourses, with an emphasis on how these concepts might advance or counter transnational feminist projects. A key issue will be the ways in which such discourses typically map vulnerability onto certain bodies (marked in terms of gender, race, class, or age) and not others, and how these bodies take on the burden of representation in domestic and international politics and law. As such, we invite article submissions on any topic pertaining to the subject of global human rights, sexuality, disability, and emergent work in vulnerability studies. Key questions framing the special issue include the following:

1.      To what extent has the growing inclusion of women’s rights, LGBT rights, disability rights, and children’s rights on the international human rights agenda opened up a space for alternative conceptualizations of vulnerability and human rights discourses? How do marginalized subjects perform resistance through the mobilization of vulnerability and precarity?

2.      How might theories of vulnerability and precarity challenge second wave feminist understandings of women’s human rights grounded in freedom from gender violence and the pursuit of sexual autonomy? What role might transnational feminisms play in further elucidating the potential and limitations of vulnerability as an analytic?

3.      How do advocacy groups navigate the international moral economy of human rights and unsettle moral dichotomies (victim/agent) as they take on shifting identities and positions in narrating their struggle for power within their multifaceted particularities?

4.      How might transnational feminist and queer theories of vulnerability and precarity help scholars, practitioners, policy-makers and human rights advocates to better account for the pleasures and vicissitudes of desire and relationality, emotion and affect, corporeality and interdependency, care and protection in human rights narratives?

5.      In what ways might theories of vulnerability and precarity establish new critical frameworks for rethinking the contested relationship between women of color feminisms and transnational feminist practices?

We especially invite contributions that explore the intersections among vulnerability, precarity and human rights in relation to the following thematics:

·         the role of vulnerability and precarity within transnational feminist theory and activism
·         differential distributions of vulnerability and precarity along the lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, and citizenship
·         the potential and limitations of theories of vulnerability and precarity for thinking through race, gender, sexuality and the formation of international human rights discourses
·         racism and state violence
·         trauma and the ethics of witnessing
·         dispossession, ecstasy and the limits of sexual autonomy
·         disability and displacement
·         interracial vulnerability and economic precarity
·         love and gender violence
·         sexual rights and erotic vulnerability
·         precarity and gender norms

We seek contributions from across the humanities and social sciences that interrogate representations of gender, sexuality, disability, human rights, and vulnerability in relation to law and public policy, social media, literature, narrative, popular culture, and social justice activism. We welcome contributions with U.S., global, international, and transnational foci.

Essays should be 8k -11k words, including endnotes and references. Submit your complete manuscript via email to FF editorial assistant, Brooke Lober (feministformations@email.arizona.edu) and copy the co-editors to your email: Wendy Hesford (hesford.1@osu.edu) and Rachel Lewis (rlewis13@gmu.edu).


For information on Feminist Formations, visit our website. And for further manuscript specifications, see Author Guidelines. For all other questions, please contact the special issue guest editors.

2015 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

2015 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

The online submission system will open on December 5. The deadline for submissions to the 2015 Call for Papers is January 7, 2015, 3:00pm EST.
A record-breaking 4,664 submissions were received in 2014 (compared to 4,464 in 2013). Authors who submit their work to the 2015 Call for Papers will receive notices of the final disposition of their submissions by March 5, 2015.


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

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Dear EMCA members,

Below is the fall 2014 newsletter!  Thanks to all for contributing, and especially for Laura Loeb for doing such an outstanding job editing.  This is our last newsletter, before the new team takes over.

We have thoroughly enjoyed our time as co-chairs.

Best wishes,

Dirk vom Lehn & Erik Vinkhuyzen

Monday, November 3, 2014

Awards information and deadlines 2015

2015 ASA Ethno/CA Award Announcements and Deadlines

Melvin Pollner (1940-2007) Prize in Ethnomethodology

The Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology honors the intellectual spirit and memory of Melvin Pollner.  The $1000 award recognizes an article, chapter, or book published between 2010-2014, that develops original work drawing upon, or resonant with, Melvin Pollner's ethnomethodological interests in topics such as mundane reason, reality disjunctures, radical reflexivity, and the connections and contributions of ethnomethodology to other types of sociology.    

Nominations should include 1) full bibliographic information on the nominated publication; 2) a link to a web site where articles and/or chapters can be downloaded; a PDF copy of the manuscript; or a hard copy of the manuscript (copies of books need not be submitted with the initial nomination), and 3) a brief description of the publication’s special contribution and how it reflects the spirit of the award. 

Please submit nominations to Bob Emerson, remerson@soc.ucla.edu  by March 1.


EMCA Distinguished Book Award
This award recognizes an outstanding publication contributing to ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The 2014 award will be given to a book. Eligible books for the 2015 award must be published between September 1, 2012 and February 28, 2015, inclusively. Authors can submit their own publications, or nominations can be made on their behalf. Committee members may also make their own nominations.

Please send nominations along with a full publication to Timothy Halkowski (chair) tim.halkowski@uwsp.edu  by March 1.


EMCA Lifetime Achievement Award
This award recognizes those who have made distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. To nominate an individual for this award, please submit the following:

1) A letter detailing the nominee’s contributions to EMCA;

2) Relevant supporting materials, including a list of the nominee’s publications; and

3) At least two additional external letters speaking to the person’s contributions and impact on the field(s)

Please send nominations to Don Zimmerman (chair), dzimmerman@soc.ucsb.edu by March 1.


EMCA Graduate Student Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding paper written by a graduate student. Submitted papers should address ethnomethodological and/or conversation analytic topics and literature and should read well as stand-alone papers. Maximum length is 10,000 words. We seek to support graduate students’ original and best work, so we will consider unpublished papers or articles published in any journal or book. Co-authored papers are only acceptable if all authors are students.  Work must have been completed or published between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014. All identifying references to the author(s) should be removed from submissions. The award will be presented at the ASA 2015 EMCA section’s business meeting in Chicago. A total of $300 is available to offset travel expenses in attendance for winning student(s). 

Please send nominations to Philippe Sormani (chair), philippe.sormani@univie.ac.at  by March 1.



Wednesday, October 29, 2014

ASA Committee on Revising the Code of Ethics

Dear section members,
 
A New Committee to Consider Revisions to the ASA Code of Ethics
  At the annual meeting in San Francisco, the Executive Officer, Sally Hillsman, met with the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) and suggested that it was time to revisit the Code of Ethics.  It has been more than fifteen years since any revisions have been made to the Code, and a great deal of change has taken place.  At the very least, social, regulatory, and technological advances have had striking impacts on the field.  Moreover, it is anticipated that the federal Department of Health and Human Services will soon announce changes to The Common Rule, which governs the vast majority of human subjects research efforts.
  To that end, an ASA committee has been formed to consider possible revisions.  All members are either current or former members of COPE.  It is chaired by Tom Van Valey, and the other members are Earl Babbie, Guillermina Jasso, John Kennedy, and Roberta Lessor.
  The committee is completely open to considering any topic or issue that might affect the Code.  In addition, we welcome suggestions of other members who could serve as resources with regard to specific issues.  To this end, the ASA has set up an email account for members and others to communicate with the committee.  It is COPE@asanet.org.  If your organization has a concern, a suggestion of a topic or a resource person, or even if someone wants to volunteer to help, simply send a message to that address.  You will be contacted by a committee member.
The ASA’s Code of Ethics
  Starting in 1971, the ASA has had a working Code of Ethics approved by its membership.  Since then, the ASA Code has been revised several times, most recently in 1997. Both the Code and the procedures for COPE - the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (which is responsible for enforcing the Code) - can be found on the ASA website at www.asanet.org/about/ethics.cfm
-- 
Thomas L. Van Valey
Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology
Western Michigan University
 
Care of

-- 
Robert Dingwall,PhD,FAcSS, HonMFPH
Dingwall Enterprises, 109 Bramcote Lane, Wollaton, Nottingham NG8 2NJ
Phone +44(0)115 928 1973 or (0)781 135 8678

Twitter @rwjdingwall

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Call for Proposals Can Changing the Conversation Change the World?

Call for Proposals
Can Changing the Conversation Change the World?
Ethno/CA Section
ASA Annual Meeting 2016
Seattle


Proposals are invited for thematic sessions for ASA’s 2016 Annual Meeting: "Rethinking Social Movements: Can Changing the Conversation Change the World?"  This is a meeting-wide theme that should be of special interest to Ethno/CA and LSI scholars.

Background
The Ethno/CA section made a successful bid for a 2015 Thematic Session linking Garfinkel's work on Agnes to the ASA meeting theme of Sexualities and the Social World.  We think that the Ethno/CA section can make another strong bid for the 2016 theme, especially as it deals with the debates around language, power, and society that have been central points of controversy among our scholars for decades (think, e.g., the Schegloff/Billig debate in Discourse and Society 1997-99).

Specifics
The Annual Meeting will be held August 20-23, 2016, in Seattle, WA. Individuals are invited to submit proposals for complete invited sessions/panels for consideration. Thematic Session proposals are due by November 13, 2014.

The ideal proposal should enlist some fairly prominent people as speakers, perhaps within and without our immediate area of scholarship, and offer at least one slot to someone early in their career.  The ideal proposal might also deal in some way with diversity issues.

For the complete theme statement and instructions on submitting a session proposal, please visit the 2016 Annual Meeting member suggestions homepage.


For further inquiries, please contact Ethno/CA  co-chairs Mardi Kidwell and Robert Dingwall.


Sincerely,

Mardi Kidwell and Robert Dingwall

Send inquiries to mkidwell@unh.edu



Friday, August 22, 2014

‘Developments in Ethnomethodology: diaspora and interdisciplinary’ (One Day Conference at the University of Manchester, 17 September 2014)

‘Developments in Ethnomethodology:  diaspora and interdisciplinary


As part of the celebration of 50 years of Sociology at Manchester University, a one-day conference will be held on 17th September 2014 at the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester (10am-5pm, room tbc).

The event is free and all staff and students are welcome.

Speakers include Wes Sharrock, Rod Watson, Graham Button, Philippe Sormani, Phil Hutchinson and Michael Mair.

Further details shall be forthcoming. For more information contact wes.sharrock@manchester.ac.uk  or d.calvey@mmu.ac.uk

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The conference is in honour of 50 years of Sociology at Manchester University. Part of the celebrations has also been interviews with leading Manchester sociologists, of which Wes is one. He is also the longest serving current member of staff in the Sociology department. My interview with him in July 2014 can be found on You Tube below:




Friday, August 8, 2014

ASA 2014 Conference Schedule Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section

The following is the latest schedule of sessions for our sessions. Please also check the program for Roundtables with EMCA representation.

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Regular Session. The Management of Interactional Challenges in the Workplace
Mon, August 18, 8:30 to 10:10am,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Interactional Elements of False Confessions and Police Interrogations - Gary C. David, Bentley University

        Some Interactional Practices Related to Long Telephone Service Calls - Margaret Szymanski, Xerox Innovation Group; Michaele Smith, California State University-East Bay

        Dealing with In-betweeners: Managing the Status of Objects on Street-markets - Dirk vom Lehn, King's College London

        What Went Right: Interactional Strategies in a Successful 911 Emergency Call - Angela Cora Garcia, Bentley University

Regular Session. The Interactional Production of Identity and Authority
Mon, August 18, 10:30am to 12:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Children's Responses to Questions in Peer Interaction: Evidence for an Emerging Accountability - Tanya Stivers, University of California-Los Angeles; Jack Sidnell, University of Toronto; Clara Bergen, University of California-Los Angeles

        The Interactional Production of a Clinical Fact in a Case of Autism - Jason Turowetz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

        Directives and their Accounts: A Case Study of Institutional Talk in Guide/Client Interactions - Anne White, University of California-Los Angeles

        When We Eat We Sit Down: Caregivers Using of the First Person Plural Pronoun - Darcey Searles, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers



Regular Session. Social Action and Epistemics
Mon, August 18, 4:30 to 6:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Repetition in Action: Repair, Newsmarking, Registration, Extraction - John Heritage, University of California-Los Angeles

        Expanding and Challenging the Relevance of Experience: Epistemic and Deontic Incongruities in Radio Phone-Ins - Wytske Versteeg, University of Twente; Hedwig te Molder, Wageningen University

        Experiential Assessments and Attributive Assessments: Managing Territories of Experience in Conversation - Kaoru Hayano, Ochanomizu University

        Ignorance at Risk: Interaction at the Knowledge Boundary of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme - David R. Gibson, University of Notre Dame


Section Session. Studies of Healthcare Work
Tue, August 19, 12:30 to 2:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Gary C. David, Bentley University

Presider
        Gary C. David, Bentley University

Individual Submissions
        Closing the Deal: The Role of Symptomatic Relief in Primary Care Treatment Discussions - Clara Ann Blomgren Bergen, University of California-Los Angeles

        Information-sharing and Treatment Proposal in Breast Cancer Consultations - Francesca Alby, University of Rome; Mattia Baruzzo, Sapienza University of Rome; Marilena Fatigante, Sapienza University of Rome; Cristina Zucchermaglio, Sapienza University of Rome

        Tactility as a Resource for the Organization of Interaction - Aug Nishizaka, Meiji Gakuin University

        The Common-senses of Homeopathy: A Study of Meaning Making in Homeopathic Consultations - Will Gibson, University of London


Section Session. Current Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Tue, August 19, 10:30am to 12:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Douglas W. Maynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presider
        Douglas W. Maynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Individual Submissions
        Reference to Recipients in the Negotiation of Identity and Action - Chase Wesley Raymond, University of California-Los Angeles

        Emotional Specialist or Emotional Wrecks? Emotional Labor in Police Civilian-interactions - Kenly E. Brown, University of California-Berkeley; Daisy Angelica Gonzales, University of California-Santa Barbara

        Interviewing Presidential Candidates on Celebrity Talk Shows - Laura Loeb, University of California-Los Angeles

        Closing Matters II: Project Completion and Call Closings in Mundane Telephone Calls - Geoffrey Raymond, University of California-Santa Barbara; Don Howard Zimmerman, University of California-Santa Barbara


Section Session. Topics and Methods in EMCA Studies of Work (one-hour)
Tue, August 19, 8:30 to 9:30am,

Session Organizer
        Robert J. Moore, IBM Research - Almaden

Presider
        Jack Whalen, Aalto University

Individual Submissions
        Garfinkel’s Studies of Work: Revisiting a Proposal for an “Improbable Sociology” - Michael Lynch, Cornell University

        Practice-based Video Analysis: A DIY Tutorial in EM 3.0* - Philippe Sormani, University of Vienna



        What can Automated Transcription Offer Conversation Analysts Today? - Robert J. Moore, IBM Research - Almaden


Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Membership Renewal appeal by incoming Section Co-chair Robert Dingwall

As incoming co-chair, can I reinforce Dirk and Erik’s message about renewing your subscription to the section and encouraging any benevolent ASA member friends to join.  Dirk and Erik have appealed to your competitive spirit but I prefer appeals to self-interest! Many of you may not realise that the number of panels the section can run depends on the number of members we have by the end of September.  If you think you want to come to Chicago and present a paper – or even just listen to a lot of interesting papers – then boosting membership is absolutely critical.  If we don’t have the slots, we can’t accept the papers. For a lot of us that means we don’t get our fares paid and who wants to miss out on all the excitement of ASA in one of the world’s great cities. I love Chicago and I want to share it with lots of you – please help the co-chairs to help you by getting as many people signed up as possible by September 30. 


Robert Dingwall

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Animals & Society

Dear EMCA-ers,

As you know Dirk and I are in the final months of time as co-chairs of our section.  We feel that we have achieved a lot in the past two years--from the setting up of our own web-site, to the creation of the most colorful newsletter (thanks to Laura Loeb), to a very successful ASA in NYC last year and another one coming up in San Francisco.

We also increased our membership last year compared to the year before.  This year our membership is lagging a bit compared to last year, no doubt in part due to the ICCA conference in UCLA which was such a hit with many of our members.  So a slight drop in membership was to be expected and we think that Robert Dingwall and Mardi Kidwell will surely increase our numbers once again next year.

All that being said, there is one goal Dirk and I have not yet achieved, and we need your help with most urgently.  As of today, our membership count is still lower than that of the section Animals & Society, ASA’s second smallest section.  It has been Dirk and my abiding concern that we catch them before our time is up, so we ask that you please ask members of other sections that you know to also chip in the $5 to become a member of EMCA so we can restore our honorable section to its proper place in the hierarchy of sections: firmly above Animals and Society.

Erik

Friday, June 6, 2014

ELECTION RESULT OUT!

Dear EMCA community,

we have received the results for the 2014 ASA elections and are happy to share them with you. The newly elected co-chairs are:  Robert Dingwall & Mardi Kidwell

They edged out the other co-chair candidates Morana Alac & Ilkka Arminen.

The two new Council members are: Patrick Watson & Aug Nishizaka

Bob Moore & Merran Toerien were not elected. Thank you to all those who voted, and especially to the candidates.  These were all narrow victories. The section's future depends on people that volunteer for these positions and take their tasks seriously.

Thanks also to those Council Members whose term now is coming to an end: Robert Dingwall, Virginia Teas Gill, Mike Lynch and Alison Pilnick.


The new leadership of the section will be organised as follows:

Co-chairs (2014 - 2016)
Robert Dingwall & Mardi Kidwell

Treasurer (2014 - 2015)
Ruth Parry (University of Nottingham)

Council 
Tim Berard (Kent State University) (2014 - 2015)
Doug Maynard (University of Wisonsin) (2014 - 2015)
Aug Nishizaka (Chiba University) (2014 - 2016)
Patrick Watson (Wilfred Laurier University) (2014 - 2016)
Erik Vinkhuyzen (Past Co-Chair)  (2014 - 2016)
Dirk vom Lehn (Past Co-Chair)    (2014 - 2016)



Thanks also to Virginia Teas Gill and Alison Pilnick for finding the candidates.

We look forward to working with the new co-chairs and council members. The ASA is coming soon, we hope to see you all there. We have decided to cancel the Grad student day this year (announced previously) and instead to work with the new co-chairs and try again next year.


Best regards,
Dirk and Erik

http://asa-emca.blogspot.co.uk

Friday, May 23, 2014

Change in Schedule & ASA elections

Dear EMCA-ers,

Another quick reminder that the elections are now entering their final week.  Please vote, this is not just for the ASA but also for our own section.  Our candidates are:

Co-chairs (vote for one pair):

Robert Dingwall (Dingwall Enterprises/Nottingham Trent University) and
Mardi Kidwell (University of New Hampshire) or

Ilkka Arminen (University of Helsinki) and
Morana Alač (University of California, San Diego)

Council (vote for two):

Bob Moore (IBM Research)
Aug Nishizaka (Meji Gakuin University)
Patrick Watson (University of Waterloo)
Merran Toerien (The University of York)


Also there has been a  change in the ASA schedule.  One of our sessions has been moved to later in the day:

The preliminary schedule for the ASA meeting is out.  All of our sessions are on Monday and Tuesday, August 18-19, 2014

Regular Session. The Management of Interactional Challenges in the Workplace
Mon, August 18, 8:30 to 10:10am,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Interactional Elements of False Confessions and Police Interrogations - Gary C. David, Bentley University

        Some Interactional Practices Related to Long Telephone Service Calls - Margaret Szymanski, Xerox Innovation Group; Michaele Smith, California State University-East Bay

        Dealing with In-betweeners: Managing the Status of Objects on Street-markets - Dirk vom Lehn, King's College London

        What Went Right: Interactional Strategies in a Successful 911 Emergency Call - Angela Cora Garcia, Bentley University

Regular Session. The Interactional Production of Identity and Authority
Mon, August 18, 10:30am to 12:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Children's Responses to Questions in Peer Interaction: Evidence for an Emerging Accountability - Tanya Stivers, University of California-Los Angeles; Jack Sidnell, University of Toronto; Clara Bergen, University of California-Los Angeles

        The Interactional Production of a Clinical Fact in a Case of Autism - Jason Turowetz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

        Directives and their Accounts: A Case Study of Institutional Talk in Guide/Client Interactions - Anne White, University of California-Los Angeles

        When We Eat We Sit Down: Caregivers Using of the First Person Plural Pronoun - Darcey Searles, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers



Regular Session. Social Action and Epistemics
Mon, August 18, 4:30 to 6:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Repetition in Action: Repair, Newsmarking, Registration, Extraction - John Heritage, University of California-Los Angeles

        Expanding and Challenging the Relevance of Experience: Epistemic and Deontic Incongruities in Radio Phone-Ins - Wytske Versteeg, University of Twente; Hedwig te Molder, Wageningen University

        Experiential Assessments and Attributive Assessments: Managing Territories of Experience in Conversation - Kaoru Hayano, Ochanomizu University

        Ignorance at Risk: Interaction at the Knowledge Boundary of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme - David R. Gibson, University of Notre Dame


Section Session. Studies of Healthcare Work
Tue, August 19, 12:30 to 2:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Gary C. David, Bentley University

Presider
        Gary C. David, Bentley University

Individual Submissions
        Closing the Deal: The Role of Symptomatic Relief in Primary Care Treatment Discussions - Clara Ann Blomgren Bergen, University of California-Los Angeles

        Information-sharing and Treatment Proposal in Breast Cancer Consultations - Francesca Alby, University of Rome; Mattia Baruzzo, Sapienza University of Rome; Marilena Fatigante, Sapienza University of Rome; Cristina Zucchermaglio, Sapienza University of Rome

        Tactility as a Resource for the Organization of Interaction - Aug Nishizaka, Meiji Gakuin University

     

Section Session. Current Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Tue, August 19, 10:30am to 12:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Douglas W. Maynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presider
        Douglas W. Maynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Individual Submissions
        Reference to Recipients in the Negotiation of Identity and Action - Chase Wesley Raymond, University of California-Los Angeles

        Emotional Specialist or Emotional Wrecks? Emotional Labor in Police Civilian-interactions - Kenly E. Brown, University of California-Berkeley; Daisy Angelica Gonzales, University of California-Santa Barbara

        Interviewing Presidential Candidates on Celebrity Talk Shows - Laura Loeb, University of California-Los Angeles

        Closing Matters II: Project Completion and Call Closings in Mundane Telephone Calls - Geoffrey Raymond, University of California-Santa Barbara; Don Howard Zimmerman, University of California-Santa Barbara


Section Session. Topics and Methods in EMCA Studies of Work (one-hour)
Tue, August 19, 8:30 to 9:30am,

Session Organizer
        Robert J. Moore, IBM Research - Almaden

Presider
        Jack Whalen, Aalto University

Individual Submissions
        Garfinkel’s Studies of Work: Revisiting a Proposal for an “Improbable Sociology” - Michael Lynch, Cornell University

        Practice-based Video Analysis: A DIY Tutorial in EM 3.0* - Philippe Sormani, University of Vienna

        What can Automated Transcription Offer Conversation Analysts Today? - Robert J. Moore, IBM Research - Almaden




Erik & Dirk


Friday, May 9, 2014

ASA Election open until June 1st. PLEASE VOTE

Dear EMCA-ers,

ASA Voting is still open until June 1st.
Go to the ASA web-site and vote for new chairs and new council members!



Erik & Dirk

Monday, May 5, 2014

ASA preliminary schedule is out

The preliminary schedule for the ASA meeting is out.  All of our sessions are on Monday and Tuesday, August 18-19, 2014

Regular Session. The Management of Interactional Challenges in the Workplace
Mon, August 18, 8:30 to 10:10am,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Interactional Elements of False Confessions and Police Interrogations - Gary C. David, Bentley University

        Some Interactional Practices Related to Long Telephone Service Calls - Margaret Szymanski, Xerox Innovation Group; Michaele Smith, California State University-East Bay

        Dealing with In-betweeners: Managing the Status of Objects on Street-markets - Dirk vom Lehn, King's College London

        What Went Right: Interactional Strategies in a Successful 911 Emergency Call - Angela Cora Garcia, Bentley University

Regular Session. The Interactional Production of Identity and Authority
Mon, August 18, 10:30am to 12:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Children's Responses to Questions in Peer Interaction: Evidence for an Emerging Accountability - Tanya Stivers, University of California-Los Angeles; Jack Sidnell, University of Toronto; Clara Bergen, University of California-Los Angeles

        The Interactional Production of a Clinical Fact in a Case of Autism - Jason Turowetz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

        Directives and their Accounts: A Case Study of Institutional Talk in Guide/Client Interactions - Anne White, University of California-Los Angeles

        When We Eat We Sit Down: Caregivers Using of the First Person Plural Pronoun - Darcey Searles, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers


Regular Session. Social Action and Epistemics
Mon, August 18, 2:30 to 4:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Presider
        Virginia Teas Gill, Illinois State University

Individual Submissions
        Repetition in Action: Repair, Newsmarking, Registration, Extraction - John Heritage, University of California-Los Angeles

        Expanding and Challenging the Relevance of Experience: Epistemic and Deontic Incongruities in Radio Phone-Ins - Wytske Versteeg, University of Twente; Hedwig te Molder, Wageningen University

        Experiential Assessments and Attributive Assessments: Managing Territories of Experience in Conversation - Kaoru Hayano, Ochanomizu University

        Ignorance at Risk: Interaction at the Knowledge Boundary of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme - David R. Gibson, University of Notre Dame


Section Session. Studies of Healthcare Work
Tue, August 19, 12:30 to 2:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Gary C. David, Bentley University

Presider
        Gary C. David, Bentley University

Individual Submissions
        Closing the Deal: The Role of Symptomatic Relief in Primary Care Treatment Discussions - Clara Ann Blomgren Bergen, University of California-Los Angeles

        Information-sharing and Treatment Proposal in Breast Cancer Consultations - Francesca Alby, University of Rome; Mattia Baruzzo, Sapienza University of Rome; Marilena Fatigante, Sapienza University of Rome; Cristina Zucchermaglio, Sapienza University of Rome

        Tactility as a Resource for the Organization of Interaction - Aug Nishizaka, Meiji Gakuin University

        The Common-senses of Homeopathy: A Study of Meaning Making in Homeopathic Consultations - Will Gibson, University of London


Section Session. Current Studies in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Tue, August 19, 10:30am to 12:10pm,

Session Organizer
        Douglas W. Maynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presider
        Douglas W. Maynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Individual Submissions
        Reference to Recipients in the Negotiation of Identity and Action - Chase Wesley Raymond, University of California-Los Angeles

        Emotional Specialist or Emotional Wrecks? Emotional Labor in Police Civilian-interactions - Kenly E. Brown, University of California-Berkeley; Daisy Angelica Gonzales, University of California-Santa Barbara

        Interviewing Presidential Candidates on Celebrity Talk Shows - Laura Loeb, University of California-Los Angeles

        Closing Matters II: Project Completion and Call Closings in Mundane Telephone Calls - Geoffrey Raymond, University of California-Santa Barbara; Don Howard Zimmerman, University of California-Santa Barbara


Section Session. Topics and Methods in EMCA Studies of Work (one-hour)
Tue, August 19, 8:30 to 9:30am,

Session Organizer
        Robert J. Moore, IBM Research - Almaden

Presider
        Jack Whalen, Aalto University

Individual Submissions
        Garfinkel’s Studies of Work: Revisiting a Proposal for an “Improbable Sociology” - Michael Lynch, Cornell University

        Practice-based Video Analysis: A DIY Tutorial in EM 3.0* - Philippe Sormani, University of Vienna

        What can Automated Transcription Offer Conversation Analysts Today? - Robert J. Moore, IBM Research - Almaden


Thursday, April 24, 2014

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Graduate Student Workshop

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Graduate Student Workshop

August 20, 2014



On the day after the ASA 2014 ends in San Francisco—August 20, 2014—the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section will organize a workshop for graduate students of the section at the Palo Alto Research Center, 45 minutes south of the city.

The goal of the workshop is to give graduate students an opportunity to present their research to a group of senior researchers and other graduate students in order to receive feedback and further
their analysis. A number of senior researchers will be there to provide feedback and lead the
discussions. We expect that each graduate student will have an hour to present.

To this end, we are seeking submissions from graduate students who are interested in presenting
data and receiving feedback on their research. We encourage students to submit proposals to present
their analysis of naturalistic video or audio data, documents and other artifacts. Please supply the
following information to erik@vinkhuyzen.com, by April 30th.


a)    Your name and affiliation & a short bio

b)   The focus of your research, and what kind of data you’ll bring related to that research

Friday, April 4, 2014

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Graduate Student Workshop

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Graduate Student Workshop

August 20, 2014



On the day after the ASA 2014 ends in San Francisco—August 20, 2014—the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section will organize a workshop for graduate students of the section at the Palo Alto Research Center, 45 minutes south of the city.

The goal of the workshop is to give graduate students an opportunity to present their research to a group of senior researchers and other graduate students in order to receive feedback and further
their analysis. A number of senior researchers will be there to provide feedback and lead the
discussions. We expect that each graduate student will have an hour to present.

To this end, we are seeking submissions from graduate students who are interested in presenting
data and receiving feedback on their research. We encourage students to submit proposals to present
their analysis of naturalistic video or audio data, documents and other artifacts. Please supply the
following information to erik@vinkhuyzen.com, by April 30th.


a)    Your name and affiliation & a short bio

b)   The focus of your research, and what kind of data you’ll bring related to that research

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Final reminder - Call for EMCA Best Paper Award

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Best Paper Award
The ASA EMCA Best Paper award recognizes an outstanding journal article contributing to the field(s) of Ethnomethodology and/or Conversation Analysis.  Eligible articles must be published between September 1, 2012 and March 31, 2014, and will be presented at the ASA 2014 EMCA section’s business meeting in San Francisco.
This year the award committee will be chaired by Morana Alac, (Associate Professor in Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego).
Please send submissions to Morana Alac (malac@ucsd.edu).
Deadline: April 4th, 2013

Monday, March 24, 2014

Spring 2014 Newsletter

All,
The Spring Newsletter is here.  Thanks again to Laura Loeb for putting it together.  Enjoy!
Erik & Dirk


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Newsletter Contributions

All,
We are starting to put together the newsletter for this winter, so we would like to receive any suggestions for things that could go into the newsletter: new publications, upcoming conferences, internships, job openings, reports from events relevant to the EMCA community. 
Please send any suggestions/information/reports to:


Best regards,
Erik

Friday, February 7, 2014

EMCA newsletter content request



Dear EMCA-ers,

We are starting to put together the newsletter for this winter, so we would like to receive any suggestions for things that could go into the newsletter: new publications, upcoming conferences, internships, job openings, reports from events relevant to the EMCA community. Also, we are looking for graduate students who would like to submit a little bio of themselves and their research.
Please send any suggestions/information/reports to:


Best regards,
Erik

Friday, January 24, 2014

ASA 2015 - Call for Volunteers - Regular Session Organization (EMCA)

Dear Members,

while we slowly move towards the San Francisco meetings in August, ASA prepares for the 2015 meetings in Chicago. They now have publicised a Call for Volunteers that asks for people to come forward as volunteers who organise Regular Sessions at the 2015 meetings.

The Call and information on what is involved in organising sessions at ASA conferences is on the ASA website

http://www.asanet.org/AM2015/volunteer.cfm

Please do get in touch with us or with Jamie Arca (meetings@asanet.org) if you have further questions.


Best wishes
Dirk & Erik

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Update - ASA 2014 Submission Deadline Extended

Good news for all those who meant to submit a paper to ASA 2014 but were not able to finish their submission on time. ASA have extended the deadline for submission of papers to
 Monday, January 13th 3pm EST 

ASA indicate that authors need to submit a full paper (15 pages). However, the Section organisers will consider papers also that are shorter in length (extended abstracts).

Please submit your papers here:
http://www.asanet.org/meetings/call_for_papers.cfm

Our Section's Sessions are:

ASA EMCA Regular Session 
organised by Virginia Gill

(The more high quality submissions Virginia receives, the more sessions we will be able to program and enjoy at the conference. The organiser of the Regular Session is the only one who can create additional sessions if she receives a high number of submissions!)


Ethnomethodological Studies of Healthcare and Medicine
organised by Gary David

Current Studies in Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis
organised by Doug Maynard

Topics and Methods in EMCA Studies of Work
organised by Bob Moore


Monday, January 6, 2014

CfP ASA 2014 Ethnomethodological Studies of Healthcare and Medicine

Another Call for Papers for an EMCA Session at ASA 2014 in San Francisco

Ethnomethodological Studies of Healthcare and Medicine
organised by Gary David (Bentley)


Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis has a long history in studying healthcare. New technological innovations, treatments, policy decisions, and diagnoses continue to make healthcare and medicine fertile ground for EM and CA investigations. This session will provide emergent work being done from EM and CA in the study of healthcare, providing an opportunity to examine and discuss the impact these changes are having on the day-to-day work and practices that make healthcare and medicine.
http://www.asanet.org/meetings/call_for_papers.cfm