📢Meet the IIEMCA27 Keynote Speakers. Read about their work on the conference website: www.iiemca27.org/about #EMCA #MCA

Official dates for IIEMCA27! Mark your calendars: 6-9 July 2027... Though we'd recommend a few extra days to take full advantage of all that can be enjoyed around Johannesburg, beyond Gauteng, and across South Africa! After all the conference theme is New Horizons 🚀

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

Thank you @robinjsmith.bsky.social for an inspiring 3 and a half days of exploring #MCA and potential projects for @iiemca27.bsky.social. We are already looking forward to your next visit. #EMCA

Thank you InterAct members for an incredible 3 days of MCA magic with @robinjsmith.bsky.social at Wits #EMCA @jennywatermeyer.bsky.social @cathtam.bsky.social

As chilly winter temperatures set in, we look at Wits University -host of IIEMCA27- which will be 105 years old in 2027. Wits is a multi-campus university that spans 400 hectares in Braamfontein and Parktown (Johannesburg). There is so much to experience at Wits...

Beware the disinformation machine and its evil handler www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Hi #EMCA community I’m looking for recommendations for cameras & equipment to capture audio visual data for a small group of people interacting with a robot. There will be 4 robot stations, 1 in each corner of a room. Each station could have a camera. Thanks!!!

Calling local EMCA scholars: Unlock the Power of Membership Categorisation Analysis with Visiting Professor @robinjsmith.bsky.social 27 – 29 May | Wits University | Research Methods Workshop Register here: forms.office.com/r/y9v7BW9Zuh Start preparing for @iiemca27.bsky.social

This month we turn to Gauteng, the province where IIEMCA27 will be hosted… #EMCA @interactemca.bsky.social www.iemca27.org

@robinjsmith.bsky.social ‘s brilliant addition to our Asymmetries in Action special issue is now available online. #EMCA @francescaorfw.bsky.social

On 28 March join us for our next ONLINE data session where @emma-richardson.bsky.social will share her coauthored work on 'vulnerability' in police interviews. #EMCA register to receive the link: forms.office.com/r/968kzaMtmA

Next year's Intl Conference on #ConversationAnalysis is happening at my home institution, the #UniversityofAlberta, in Canada. The call is out now! Spread the word! #EMCA #sts icca2026.org/callforsubmi...

The next paper in the Asymmetries in Action special issue is available online. Check it out: doi.org/10.1002/symb... #EMCA @robinjsmith.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social

This is amazing!

New Article: “Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case” by Catherine L. Tam and Daniella Fafaely doi.org/10.1002/symb... #sssi #emca #sociology #race #interaction

In 2027, IIEMCA is coming to South Africa. South Africa is… unique for having 3 capital cities: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkZ...

The next paper on asymmetries in action for our special issue of Symbolic Interaction is out. @robinjsmith.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social Daniella & I examine a dorm room urination incident as an attempted and resisted status degradation ceremony #EMCA @interactemca.bsky.social

🧭Venture to New Horizons for IIEMCA2027 and visit iiemca27.org to subscribe and check out updates, including conference theme! #EMCA @interactemca.bsky.social

A highly recommended read! Also watch out for more soon-to-be-published papers on asymmetries-in-action building into our upcoming special issue of Symbolic Interaction. @robinjsmith.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social #EMCA

New paper alert: A multimodal approach to grammatical aspect. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... @neyrar.bsky.social et al. #interactionallinguistics

Such a pleasure to have contributed and have learnt from the @interactemca.bsky.social network! Thank you @cathtam.bsky.social for the opportunity to discover another amazing #emca network! I hope for more collaboration and learning together in 2025! 🩵

May be of interest to #EMCA folk - also accessible as individual Chapters via SAGE Knowledge. sk.sagepub.com/books/societ...

Interested in conversation analysis but don't know where to start? The next "CA for beginners" online one day workshop may be for you. Thursday 16th January 2025 emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin... Registration £40 at: store.lboro.ac.uk/product-cata...

Thank you for this @lizstokoe.bsky.social