In 2009, a Conversation Analysis Group (CAG) was established by a group of PhD students at the University of Melbourne to discuss issues in transcription and analysis of talk-in-interaction. These sessions are attended by academics from across faculties at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and LaTrobe University who share an interest in conversation analysis.

Workshops are held on the last Friday of each month (4.30 – 6.00pm).

Colleagues interested in joining any session are welcome and should contact Sascha Rixon in the School of Languages & Linguistics (s.rixon@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au) or Amelia Church in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (achurch@unimelb.edu.au) for further details.

The Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health will award a PhD scholarship in 2010 for a project entitled:

Understanding Men’s Health Service Needs: Analysis of Men’s Use of Telephone Health Helplines.

The Freemasons Foundation PhD scholar will receive a scholarship that is equivalent to a Faculty/Divisional PhD scholarship with an annual top up of $2,000. Candidates should have a strong undergraduate degree and experience in conversation analytic research. For further details contact the Principal Supervsior, Associate Professor Amanda LeCouteur.

For more information see the Scholarship details

Edward Reynolds, a PHD student at the University of Queensland, talking on the student radio JACradio about ethnomethodology.

This new book is situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface betweengovernment, media and the public, highlighting the increasingimportance placed on media channelled ‘public opinion’ as part of ademocratic process. It will appeal to a broad audience in social andpublic policy, political communication, journalism and politics. Situated within the field of discourse-oriented approaches to policy and media, this collection explores the interface between government, media and the public, highlighting the increasing importance placed on media channelled ‘public opinion’ as part of a democratic process. It will appeal to a broad audience in social and public policy, political communication, journalism and politics.
The media release with reviewers notes is available here and the full volume is available for purchase here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
May 6-8, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles

Presented by:

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association (CLIC-GSA)
at the University of California, Los Angeles

and

The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association (LISO-GSA)
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Plenary Speakers

Charles Briggs
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Claire Kramsch
German, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Kroskrity
Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Tanya Stivers
Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute, Amsterdam

Submissions should address topics at the intersection of language, interaction, and
culture. Approaches include, but are not limited to, conversation analysis, discourse
analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnomethodology, interactional
sociolinguistics, language ideologies, and language socialization.
Abstracts for presentations and posters are welcome from graduate students and
faculty. Presentations that include video and/or audio recordings of naturalistic
interaction are encouraged. Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10
minutes for discussion. A subset of papers presented at the conference will be
published in the conference proceedings, Crossroads of Language, Interaction,
and Culture, Volume 8, 2010.

Abstracts are due no later than January 15, 2010, by electronic submission only. The
submission guidelines are provided below and on the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/abstractsubmit.htm).

Please provide the following information:
- Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
- The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for notification
- The title of the paper
- Any equipment requirements
- An abstract no longer than 500 words
- Any additional comments

Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper. Briefly
discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous research
and the work’s relevance to developments in the field. You may include a short
example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be stated,
however tentative.

Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed by
scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology,
applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters will be
accepted based on reviewers’ evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is January 15, 2010.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or nonacceptance
will be sent via e-mail in March 2010.
Conference registration is free at the CLIC-GSA website:

The last in our series of introductions to Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis features Fabienne Chevalier from the University of York St John talking about Conversation Analysis from the perspective of linguistics. Unfortunately due to some technical problems this post is shorter than intended.

I’ll be following up these videos with a series on coming into the field of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis featuring PHD students and new scholars in the field, and perhaps a few stray videos here and there.

Thanks to an influx of spam registrations on our modest forum I’ve installed another spam filter. Hopefully a more reliable one. So don’t be surprised if you’re asked questions if you try to login to the forum, they shouldn’t be that challenging (I hope). Also as part of this process I pruned all the fake registrations, however if someone has registered using non-institutional email (such as their gmail) and given an obscure username they *may* have been deleted. If this has happened to you email aiemca@aiemca.net and I’ll fix it up.

Also keep a lookout for the next installment in the IPRA diaries coming soon featuring Jack Bilmes to a youtube near you!

To increase the visibility of Australian CA and Ethnomethodology AIEMCA.net is planning to produce publication summaries of EM/CA publications from Australasian scholars (yup that means NZ too). If you have published something in EM/CA let us know at aiemca@aiemca.net. Articles, books, book chapters etc that have been published will be posted in quarterly publication summaries.

Also across the next month or so the membership listing for AIEMCA.net will be refreshed. To keep the list up to date if you are a part of the Australasian EM/CA community (as a scholar, research student or publishing non-scholar) let us know. Founding members will be retained in a separate listing.

To be listed as an AIEMCA member please email aiemca@aiemca.net with your name and institution (where relevant) and a link to your academic webpage (if any). Please let us know prior to 18 September 2008 after which the new listing will become live. Applications after this date will be accepted, but listing will be delayed.

The Australian Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA) is in the process of migrating from the legacy website.

The Australian Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis was formed on 3rd September 2001 as a joint initiative of the Australian delegates at the July 2001 meetings of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis in Manchester (UK).

Its purpose is to bring together researchers in the fields of EM and CA across Australia, to share news and events and to organise meetings, symposia and conferences.

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