Monday, October 29, 2012

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the American Sociological Association's Section on
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, we are writing to
encourage you to submit papers for the next ASA conference, to be held
in New York City, Aug. 10-13, 2013.

Deadline for Paper Submissions is January 9th, 2013. The submission
system opens on December 7th, 2012.

There will be 4 sessions dedicated to our field:

- The regular session on Ethnomethodology will be organized by Tanya
Stivers (UCLA).
- The regular session on Conversation Analysis will be organized by
John Heritage (UCLA).
- The section's session titled "Ethnomethodological Studies of Work
and Organization" that will be held instead of the Council Meeting and
will be organized by Nick Llewellyn (Warwick Business School)
- The section's session titled "Linking Micro and Macro:
Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Contributions" which
will be organized by Tim Halkowski (University of Wisconsin).  This
session addresses the ASA Conference's theme "Linking micro and
macro".  We welcome contributions that show ethnomethodology and
conversation analysis's relevance to this theme.
 
In the case that we receive a sufficient number of paper submissions, we will
request additional sessions.

The online paper submission system opens December 7th and the deadline
is January 9th. Please see the ASA website for further details on the
2012 conference, and for on-line submission after December 8.
http://www.asanet.org/am2013/am2013.cfm

Please note that while the ASA website states that paper submissions
must be 20 pages in length, this is not a firm requirement; papers do
not need to be of article length or ready for publication.  We hope
that the number of proposals will merit extra sessions for our section
in New York. Please start thinking about submitting now, as the
deadline will come quickly once the submission system opens!
 
Many thanks.

Erik and Dirk

Friday, October 12, 2012

Dear Section Members,

A few months after Denver, and the preparations for next year's ASA in
New York, and indeed the 2014 ASA in San Francisco after that are on
their way.

First news is that Laura Loeb has been kind enough to help us with our
newsletter and the maintenance of the web-site.  Please e-mail her
directly at: laloeb@ucla.edu with any news or information that
you want to be included on either the web-site or the newsletter.

As you know, we are the smallest section of the ASA and have shrunk in
the last few years; retaining and indeed acquiring new members is very
important.  Please do reach out to colleagues and students to become
members.  We have sent out a survey to past members of the section to
see the reasons why they have led their membership lapse.  The
response has not been overwhelming, but the responses we received were
quite helpful, and some have led to old members renewing their
membership.  However, direct personal communication with people you
know is a much more effective way to increase our membership.  Let's
make a concerted effort.

The web-site allows people to sign up to get updates, so that is
another way for people to keep our section in mind.

We have by now established most award committees.  Our gratitude to
all those who have volunteered.  You can take a look at the awards and
their committees here, or by clicking on the "awards" tab on the main
page of the web-site.  The web-site also lists some upcoming
conferences, also accessible by clicking on the "conferences" tab on
the main web-page.

The fall newsletter will come out shortly.  Geoff Raymond, the
outgoing chair is preparing.  We thank him for his service to the
section.

Best wishes,

Dirk vom Lehn
Erik Vinkhuyzen