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• Job: Research Associate, University of York, Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication [1]
• Call for Proposals for thematic session: Can Changing the Conversation Change the World? Ethno/CA Section, ASA Annual Meeting 2016, Seattle. Proposal due by November 13, 2014.
• Job: Post-doc researcher position in Helsinki, Finland: Project "Multimodality: Reconsidering language and action through embodiment", application deadline : November 28 2014.
• CfP: "Revisiting Participation: Language and Bodies in Interaction", 24-27 June 2015 in Basel, Switzerland. Deadline for abstracts 15 November 2014.
• Conversation Analysis Study Day, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 07 November 2014.* A new PhD by Yaël Kreplak, . L’œuvre en pratiques: Une approche interactionnelle des activités artistiques et esthétiques. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
• Next meeting: EMCA Doctoral Network, 27-28 October 2014, King's College London, UK
• Fully funded PhD Studentship Zooming in on the practice of Operational Research, Loughborough University
• Conference announcement: PIN-C 2015: 4th Participatory Innovation Conference | 18-20 May 2015, Den Haag, Netherlands; (Abstract) Submission deadline: 20 October 2014!
• CfP 1st Groningen Symposium on Language and Social Interaction (GSLI), January 23rd, 2015, theme: Interaction and Learning; deadline submissions: September 1, 2014
• A French collection: Langage, activités et ordre social: Faire de la sociologie avec Harvey Sacks  edited by Alain Bovet, Esther González-Martínez, Fabienne Malbois; offering 4 translated texts by Harvey Sacks, plus 5 chapters reflecting on his work.
• A new collection: edited by: Mathias Broth, Eric Laurier, Lorenza Mondada: ,Studies of Video Practices: Video at Work
• Funding: Information on national and international funding agencies supporting research in CA and related analytic traditions
• CfP 1st Groningen Symposium on Language and Social Interaction (GSLI), January 23rd, 2015, theme: Interaction and Learning; deadline submissions: September 1, 2014
• An obituary for Stephen Hester 1947-2014
• Some great video interviews with Wes Sharrock on the Manchester sociology blog.
• Free 1-day conference: ‘Developments in Ethnomethodology: diaspora and interdisciplinarity’ 17th * Sept 2014, U. of Manchester. info d.calvey@mmu.ac.uk
• CA post-doc researcher, Loughborough University for 12 months (with a very likely immediate 6m extension to 18months), to work with Professor Liz Stokoe on CARM (the Conversation Analysis Role Play Method).
• A new book Dirk vom Lehn: Harold Garfinkel: The creation and development of ethnomethodology. Foreword by Robert Dingwall
• A mixed French/English collection: Identités en interaction, edited by Luca Greco, Lorenza Mondada, Patrick Renaud
• CFP: Special issue of Frontiers in Psychology “Turn-taking in human communicative interaction” (edited by Levinson, Holler, Kendrick, and Casillas)
• International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis conference Kolding, Denmark, 4-7th August 2015
• A new PhD: Rasmus Persson,  Ressources linguistiques pour la gestion de l’intersubjectivité dans la parole en interaction: Analyses conversationnelles et phonétiques [Linguistic resources for managing intersubjectivity in talk-in-interaction: Conversation analytic and phonetic studies]. , Lund University, Sweden
• One-Day Conference: “Conversational Practices”, Loughborough University, Monday 15th December 2014
• Call for papers for a theme issue on “Orders Of Interaction In Mediated Settings” Research on Language and Social Interaction
• Oskar Lindwall, ed. (2014) Special Issue on ‘The body in medical work and medical training’, Discourse Studies 16/2
• Nordisco 2014 Conference: Discourse, Communities and Identities in the North, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. November 12-14, 2014
• Second Annual Roundtable in Forensic Linguistics, September 5-7th in Mainz, Germany
• International conference on evidentiality and modality in European languages. 6-8 October 2014, Madrid, Spain
• International Workshop on Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: What do we know and where do we go from here? 16-17 October 2014, Como, Italy.
• International Symposium: MOOD-Y (Micro-Analysis Of Online Data in York), University of York, UK, 14-15 July, 2014.
• Two-day Symp.‘Greek language and spoken communication’, 18-19 September 2014 Manolis Triandaphyllidis Foundation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Interactional competences in institutional practices, University of Neuchâtel, November 21 & 22, 2014
• International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy, 18-20 September 2014, Ghent, Belgium
• International Symposium: Complexity of (inter)action, University of Oulu, Finland, 9–11 October 2014
• 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 26-31 July 2015
• 4th annual meeting Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI), Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, October 3-4, 2014
• An important collection: Beatrice Szczepek Reed, Geoffrey Raymond, eds. (2013) Units of Talk – Units of Action.
• Again a new PhD: Trevor Benjamin Signaling trouble: On the linguistic design of other-initiation of repair in English conversation.University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• A new PhD: Alia Amir, Doing Language Policy: A Micro-Interactional study of policy practices in English as a Foreign Language Classes, Linköping University
• American Sociological Association, Regular Session on Conversation Analysis/Ethnomethodology,  San Francisco August 16-19
• Hye Ri Stephanie Kim, Satomi Kuroshima, eds. (2013) ‘Turn beginnings in interaction’, part special issue: Journal of Pragmatics 57: 267-337
• International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) Sixth Conference: Gesture in Interaction.UC San Diego, July 8-11, 2014.
• Sean Rintel, Edward Reynolds, Richard Fitzgerald, eds, .  Special Issue of Australian Journal of Communication, 40/2 Selected papers from the 2012 Biennial Conference of the Australasian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
• 4th International conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice: Learning through and for professional practice, University of Geneva, 10-13 September 2014
• A new book by Kenneth Liberman: More Studies in Ethnomethodology. Foreword by Harold Garfinkel. !
• A Special Memorial Issue: Egon Bittner - Phenomenology in Action’, edited by Andrew P.;Carlin &  Roger S. Slack,  Ethnographic Studies Issue No. 13
• Ruth Parry’s Notes on equipment for recording and analysing (PDF)
• Ray Wilkinson, ed. (2013) ‘Conversation analytic investigations of dysarthria and hearing impairment’, special issue of Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders’, 4/11
• New collection edited by Phillip Glenn, Elizabeth Holt  (2013) Studies of Laughter in Interaction..
• New collection: Pentti Haddington, Lorenza Mondada, Maurice Nevile eds., Interaction and Mobility: Language and the Body in Motion.
• An essential collection Conversational Repair and Human Understanding  edited by: Makoto Hayashi,  Geoffrey Raymond,  & Jack Sidnell.
• Payful ethnomethodology: Peter Tolmie, Mark Rouncefield, eds. Ethnomethodology at Play. Farnham, Surey, U.K.: Ashgate [Series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis]
• New book by Christian Heath: The dynamics of auction: social interaction and the sale of fine art and antiques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Master program: Loughborough University, England, announces two new Master’s programmes, in Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology .
• A new PhD by Karine Lan Hing Ting, Offshoring in action: an analysis of situated practices of work in call centers [La délocalisation en action : une analyse des pratiques situées du travail en centres d’appels], Telecom ParisTech, France
• A new PhD by Clair-Antoine Veyrier Les cinq premières minutes: organisation des ouvertures en (web)conférence Analyse de pratiques interactionnelles en réunion professionnelle[The first five minutes: organization of openings in (web)conferences Analysis of interactional practices in work meetings] Université Montpellier 3, France
• Essential: Jack Sidnell, Tanya Stivers, eds. (2012) The Handbook of Conversation Analysis.
• A rich resource: Wayne A. Beach, ed. (2012) Handbook of Patient-Provider Interactions: Raising and Responding to Concerns About Life, Illness, & Disease.
• A new PhD by Ulrike E. Schröder Veränderung von Deutungsmustern und Schemata der Erfahrung: depressive Patienten in der Interaktion klinischer Psychotherapie [Change of interpretative schemes and schemes of experience: depressive patients in the interaction of clinical psychotherapy]  Bielefeld University, Germany
• 4th International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-14), June 26-29, 2014; Pre-conference workshops June 23-25, 2014, UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
• Obituary Mark Rapley, 1962 – 2012
• Psathas, George; Martin Endress, eds. (2012) Special issue ’In memoriam of Harold Garfinkel’, Human Studies 35/2: 149-345
• Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, and Maurice Nevile editors,‘Meaning in motion: Interaction in cars’, special issue for Semiotica, 191: 101-333 (August 2012)
• Elizabeth Stokoe: Inaugural Lecture: http://review.lboro.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/8595ca30-f616-43d2-a402-b3438395eff7
• Special Issue on ‘Interaction in Workplace Meetings’ edited by Jan Svennevig,   Discourse Studies, February 2012 14/1
• Hanh thi Nguyen  Developing Interactional Competence: A Conversation-Analytic Study of Patient Consultations in Pharmacy. Houndmills, Basingstoke U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan
• An edited volume in Applied Conversation Analysis, focussing on hearing loss in social interaction in various interactional settings: Maria  Egbert, Arnulf Deppermann, eds. Hearing aids communication. Integrating social interaction, audiology and user centered design to improve communication with hearing loss and hearing technologies. (Free Download!)
• Special Issue: Ethnographic Studies: Issue No. 12: Discovering Work: Ethnomethodological Studies in the Natural Sciences; Guest Editors: Philippe Sormani, Esther González-Martínez and Alain Bovet
• A special journal issue on Greek Conversation Analysis.
• A PhD by Olcay Sert in Educational and Applied Linguistics, A Micro-analytic Investigation of Claims of Insufficient Knowledge in EAL Classrooms, Newcastle University (UK)
• New book on multimodality and social interaction (in Finnish): Pentti Haddington, Leila Kääntä, eds. Kieli, keho ja vuorovaikutus: Multimodaalinen näkökulma sosiaaliseen toimintaan(Language, body and interaction: A multimodal perspective into social action).
• Another book by Baudouin Dupret: Adjudication in action: An ethnomethodology of law, morality and justice.
• Book by Baudouin Dupret: Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
• Charles Antaki, ed.  Applied conversation analysis: Intervention and change in institutional talk. Palgrave Macmillan
• A timely collection: Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin, Curtis LeBaron, eds. (2011) Embodied interaction: language and body in the material world.
• Advice on setting up a WORD document for transcription, by John Heritage (UCLA)
• A book on transcption: Christopher Joseph Jenks (2011) Transcribing talk and interaction: Issues in the representation of communication data.
• EM/CA Teaching resources:: Elizabeth Stokoe: Conversations, Categories, and Applications: Methods for Analysing Interaction, March 23rd, 2011 (Video)
• Arnulf Deppermann has edited a special section in Human Studies 34/2 115-207 on ‘The study of formulations as a key to an interactional semantics’.
• A book on interviews, in Italian, by Francesco Serranò, Alessandra Fasulo: L’intervista come conversazione. Preparazione, conduzione e analisi del colloquio di ricerca. [The interview as conversation. How to prepare for, conduct and analyse researchinterviews].
• A special issue on: French Language and Social Interaction of Nottingham French Studies edited by Fabienne H.G. Chevalier
• Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada, Jakob Steensig, eds.  The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• A collection of studies in the Xerox PARC tradition: Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen, eds. Making work visible: ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice. Cambridge University Press