Dear EMCA community,

Welcome to the spring 2013 newsletter of the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section.  Click here to view the whole Newsletter.

We are looking forward to the American Sociological Association conference this summer in New York. The ASA has granted us four sessions, but thanks to a great response to the call for papers for both the ethnomethodology and conversation analysis sessions John Heritage and Tanya Stivers have applied for more sessions. The ASA is yet to grant us these, but the enthusiastic response is a sign that the section serves an ever vibrant international community and ought to have a place at the ASA; sociology is after all the discipline from which the field derives its intellectual roots.

That is not to say that we are not struggling with membership. While we have signed up some new members and were able to entice some former members to rejoin the section, our membership is in the low 100s, far below the 300 members that the ASA has set as the
minimum for a section. We have received official notice from the ASA that increasing membership must be priority and real progress must be shown this year. So please help us out by becoming a member and by askingyour colleagues to become members. Recall that once you have paid for the ASA membership, the section membership is relatively cheap, so convincing folks who are already ASA members to join our section as a second section should be easier. Remember also that students can join the ASA at a highly reduced rate.

We also need your help with several of the awards for this year. Jon Hindmarsh heads up the graduate student paper award. Please send your graduate students’ submissions to Dirk vom Lehn (dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk). Only scholarly, journal-ready articles and papers produced in 2012 will be considered. If you know of a book that should be considered by the book awards committee, please send the title to Patrick Watson (pwatson@uwaterloo.ca) - eligible works must be published in 2011-2012.

In this newsletter and in upcoming newsletters, we will publish a series of brief pieces by EMCA graduate students from around the world about their departments and themselves, highlighting where EMCA is being taught in the world and the different types of work graduate students are doing. In this issue, we are featuring essays from graduate students from Russia, Italy, and Australia.  If you would like to write a piece, or know
graduate students who would like to, please e-mail Laura Loeb (laura.a.loeb@gmail.com).

We hope to see you all in New York! Remember, registering early is cheaper!
Thanks to Laura Loeb for editing and designing the new look for the newsletter.

Yours,

Dirk vom Lehn & Erik Vinkhuyzen

After the deadline....preparing for ASA2013

Dear All,

just a quick update on ASA2013 and future developments.

The deadline for paper submissions for ASA2013 was January 9th. We are delighted to report that across the four Sessions that will be organized by members of the EMCA Section more than 80 papers were received by the session organizers. Due to the high numbers of submissions to the Section we have requested further sessions from ASA. While the session organizers wait for a response from ASA they read and assess the papers to prepare the program for the conference.

Looking forward we have been in touch with chairs of other sections to propose sessions for the ASA 2014 conference in San Francisco. Proposals for the conference have gone in and we keep our fingers crossed for a positive response from ASA.

As soon as we know more about the program for ASA 2013 we will be back again with news here.

We hope to see many of you in New York in August.


with best
Dirk & Erik

ASA Paper submission system open!!!

Dear Section Members,

 

Today the ASA Paper submission system has opened, it will close January 9th.

http://www.asanet.org/meetings/call_for_papers.cfm

The Annual Meeting will be held in New York City, in mid-town, close to Central Park, MOMA, Rockefeller Center, Carnegie Hall, etc.  The Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis will have 4 sessions.  But in case we have lots of submissions, we can apply for more.  Please encourage your graduate students to submit.  It is a great way for them to present in front of--and meet--the community!  The sessions are:

1.     "Ethnomethodological Studies of Work and Organization" (organiser: Nick Llewellyn, Warwick Business School)

2.     “Linking Micro and Macro: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Contributions" (organiser: Tim Halkowski, University of Wisconsin)

3.     a session on Ethnomethodology organized by Tanya Stivers (UCLA) and

4.     a session on Conversation Analysis organized by John Heritage (UCLA)

Naturally, this is the right time to renew (or join) your ASA Section Membership for 2013.

Because we do not have acess to the submission system we would be grateful if you would inform session organisers or us that you have submitted a paper to the Section and/or a specific session.

 

We are looking forward to your submissions.

 

Kind regards, and happy holidays.

Erik & Dirk

Co-chairs

 

Join ASA Section EMCA - http://www.asanet.org/members/joinasa.cfm

ASA EMCA Website - http://asa-emca.blogspot.com

Call for papers

Hi Everyone:

I'm the organizer for next year's ASA Regular Session on CA. This will be held at the ASA's Annual Meeting in New York City on August 10-13, 2013.

Please think about submitting a paper or an extended abstract for review through the ASA website: http://www.asanet.org/am2013/am2013.cfm

As you will know, the more high quality papers we can schedule, the better our chances are for increasing the number of panels we offer, so your participation is particularly important.

The deadline for submission is January 9th, 2013.

Please also pass this invitation to others you know who may be considering coming to ASA this year. The EMCA group is pushing to expand membership this year, so if you can encourage your graduate students to join up, that would also be terrific!

I look forward to hearing from you!

John

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John Heritage

Distinguished Professor of Sociology

Department of Sociology 

264 Haines Hall, UCLA

Los Angeles, CA 90095-155103

Tel:  310-206-5216

Fax: 310-206-9838

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/heritage/

ASA EMCA Section News and Updates

Dear Members-


we hope you have had a good start into the new academic year. As we are in the last quarter of the year now, it is timely to bring to your attention a few points regarding the Section.


1) The success of the Section relies on its membership. We therefore would kindly ask you to RENEW your Membership for 2013. Dues are automatically set by ASA to a standard rate of $10 for regular/emeritus/low income members and $5 for students. Over the past years, Section membership has noticeably decreased. This is partly due to a lack of students and younger colleagues joining. Please encourage (and if you can, financially support) your students to join ASA and the EMCA Section. The dues for an ASA Student membership are $50.


2) The ASA call for papers  for the 2013 meeting in New York has been published a few weeks ago. We will have two sessions at the conference and the respective CFPs have been published on our website.

    - 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.


There will be two further regular sessions dedicated to EMCA:

     - 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 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


3) Over the coming years we plan to increase the Section's presence at the conference and to reach out to ASA members beyond our section. One way to achieve this is to organize a Thematic Session. In line with the theme for the ASA meetings in San Francisco in 2014 Tim Berard has disseminated a call for interested participants in such as Thematic Session with the Working session title: “Talking about Hard Times”.

Another way to achieve this is the organization of invited sessions. The deadline for proposals for Invited Sessions is February, 5 2013.  Please contact us with any suggestions.

http://www.asanet.org/meetings/member_suggestions.cfm


4) As in previous years, in 2013 awards will be given to the Best Graduate Paper and the best book. There also will be  Lifetime Achievement Award and the Melvin Pollner Award. Committees for these prices are in place. For further information on how to make suggestions and submit publications to be considered for these awards please see our awards website.


5) Another way to increase the sections visibility is a presence at the regional conferences in the US. If anyone is attending a regional sociology meeting in the USA or is attending conferences elsewhere please make participants aware of activities of the ASA EMCA Section. If you normally are not attending regional meetings please consider going to and presenting at these meetings and make the importance of EMCA noticed.


6) Apart from the website of the EMCA Section on the ASA's site we now have our own website that allows us to disseminate information more flexibly. We are lucky to have found Laura Loeb (UCLA) to help us with editing and updating the site, there is more information on there than we e-mail, so please do check it regularly. There is a field on the right side of the website where you can enter your email address to make sure you receive news when the main site is updated with news. Laura also helps with the writing and editing of the Section Newsletter. 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


We are very grateful for your continued support for the Section. Please remember to renew your membership and apologies in advance for repeatedly reminding you to renew over the next few months.



Kind regards,

Dirk & Erik

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

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