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This got me thinking whether it would be feasible or important to have some sort of "census" of where EMCA people are based, where they are from, and what they do? It would be cool to have a way to track colleagues globally -- beyond the lists of CA groups we have in the EMCA Wiki.

🥳#lansi2025 program is now live 👏tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen…

pre-register now and see you in 🍁in the Big Apple 🍎 tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen… @iscaupdates.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @ica-lsi.bsky.social

This is going to be a foundational piece of work for Italian talk-in-interaction… and for the #EMCA community at large! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

An example from a radio program of Harvey Sacks' famous category pairing. The interviewer says "there's no perfect way to feed a baby. The most important thing is that the baby thrives and the mother thrives too" BBC radio four.

The Baby and the Mother in the wild.

Not sure if this counts as a Sacksian example; maybe.

BBC Radio 4 Woman's hour today.

Keynote speakers: Steven Clayman (UCLA), Arnulf Deppermann (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache), Anja Stukenbrock (Heidelberg University), Joanna Pawelczyk (Poznam University), John Rae (Roehampton University) & Sanna Vehviläinen (Eastern Finland University).

Call for abstracts: iccap26.com 3/3

The submission portal is now open, and the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to July 25th, 2025. The conference theme — How Psychotherapy Works: Longitudinal Perspectives — is highly pertinent to all forms of the "talking cure."
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Anssi Peräkylä shares with the #emca community the "Call for Abstracts for ICCAP26 in Krakow, Poland"
 
Dear Friend of CA and Psychotherapy,
The next International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (ICCAP26) will take place in Krakow, Poland, from February 26–28, 2026.
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The image of the opening paragraphs of the new rolsi.net blog by Sally Wiggins Young and Amy Van der Heijden on the new EatSiN network

Eating together: a family at dinner, a nurse helping a patient swallow, a teacher supervising children, a guest appreciating a high-end tasting menu...

It's all surrounded by, and regulated by, talk.

A marvellous new Guest Blog by
@profsalwiggins.bsky.social
on the new EatSin network.

rolsi.net

The first article from my PhD, "How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment," has now been published! Co-authored with @kobinkendrick.bsky.social and Merran Toerien.

Access it free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lJZg1L-nh...

Here is what we did and what we found:

Started and run by Dr Catherine Tam -@cathtam.bsky.social ‬- and Dr Daniella Rafaely, InterAct meets regularly online or in person for data sessions, presentations, and the development of research projects – including hosting international scholars and the next IIEMCA conference! www.iiemca27.org

The logo for InterAct, a group for the empirical study of social interaction. The group is based in South Africa, at Wits University.

IIEMCA27 is being organised by InterAct, a group of scholars at Wits working to advance ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA) in South Africa.
#EMCA #MCA

Image of a leaflet announcing the publication of a new book, Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, which has just been published by Benjamins

A very substantial new collection just published - will repay study by all interested in the relationship between grammar and the way that language is used in interaction.

#EMCA

Submission link for #ICCA2026 here: icca2026.org/callforsubmi...

Our social media manager @calvirgi.bsky.social is doing #emca data collection for #movingsocialwork with Social Workers and People with Learning Disabilities during #learningdisabilitiesweek

Just a CA(ntarutti) analyst enjoying an #emca conference!

Get in contact here, on LinkedIn, or write to our email address, if you are interessed in writing a piece for the next issue of the Newsletter. ✨

4/5 Thiago Henrique Carvalho reports on The V Meeting of Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (V EnACE): Revisiting paradigms, tools and methodologies in March 2025 at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

3/5 Dr Victoria Ekstrom, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Singapore General Hospital, shares how advanced training in Prof @lizstokoe.bsky.social CARM reshaped her understanding of doctor‑patient communication. Read her piece: ´From Clinic to Conversation Analysis’.

2/5 Read about ‘Methodological Crossroads in Mannheim’ by Viktoria Strandberg & Patricia Linnemann on the Winter School ‘Points of departure in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics: Action, form(at) and beyond’ organized in Mannheim in Feb. 2025.

1/5 Our newsletter is out, while abstract deadlines for ICCA 2026 in Edmonton is approaching ✨
Elliot Hoey announces that the Schegloff transcription module is republished on ISCA website. Other transcription resources are available on EMCAwiki, includ. tutorials by Charles Antaki & Nick Llewellyn.

Did people have no trouble with the thing about the @iscaupdates.bsky.social membership? Have I maybe looked at it too late...?