Announcing the ROLSI award for Outstanding Research by an Early-Career Researcher. The journal Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI) is pleased to announce an award for early-career researchers, to be competed for by those presenting a paper at the ICCA conference in Edmonton, Canada, June 2026. The prize will be awarded on the basis of a single-authored written research paper representing a single-authored presentation accepted for the conference. It is open to those who have been awarded their doctorate no earlier than five years from June 28, 2026. Deadline: May 30th, 2026. Enquiries: rolsi.journal@gmail.com

Announcing the inaugural ROLSI Award for Outstanding Early-Career Research

Were you awarded your PhD since June 2021?
Presenting at ICCA in Edmonton?

Go in for the award!

For more information, contact the Editors. : rolsi.journal@gmail.com

🚀 Panel submissions for IIEMCA27 have opened! Today! On April 1st...Maybe not the best day to make such an important announcement 🤔

Oh well.

Head on over to our website for details:
www.iiemca27.org/calls

#EMCA #MCA

call for #lansi2026 is now open 🥳✅☎️ meet us in new york city this fall 🍁🍃🍂 @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social @georgetownlingdept.bsky.social @nyulinguistics.bsky.social @ica-lsi.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @lingsocam.bsky.social www.tc.columbia.edu/lansi/confer...

🗓️ We've been quietly working to get things in motion for IIEMCA27...To see the conference timeline - including dates for calls to diarize! - go to www.iiemca27.org/calls

#EMCA #MCA

Assistant/associate professor job at U of Warwick tinyurl.com/3ewmd7u9. A great opportunities for researchers who work on language and communication (including gesture) and on other areas of psychology.

📢 YorCCA 2026 — Call for Abstracts

YorCCA 2026 is now accepting abstract submissions.
🗓 Submission deadline: Friday 10 April 2026
🎓 Eligible: current MA/PhD researchers & recent PhD graduates (2023+)

🔗 Full details & submission:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.

The committee celebrates the defense

Huge congratulations to Dr. @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social on defending his dissertation! We now know so much more about doctor-patient interaction in Russia @rucalteam.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social

Scholars from around the world gathered @TeachersCollege for the 2025 Language and Social Interaction (LANSI) Conference, and we asked Galina Bolden from @rutgersu about her research.
#HumansOfLANSI #lansi2025 @iscaupdates @teacherscollege @aaalgrads (Photo by @rovinglinguist)

Congratulations, Alex! The paper advances an interactional approach to medical authority and medical decision making @rucalteam.bsky.social #emca

Galina Bolden's lecture "Other-correction sequences" at #LANSI2025
@galinabolden.bsky.social

What a fantastic lineup of pre-conference workshops – go to any selection out of that lot and you'd come out glowing with CA skill & savvy

🗓️ Pre-conference workshop schedule is out! Check out our website. With so many interesting workshops, hmm... not an easy choice 🤔 Register soon to secure your spot in your favourite workshops!

Satsuki Iseki @rucalteam.bsky.social presenting her work on social categories in action @lansi2024.bsky.social #LANSI2025

paper on category and account from our academic neighbor @RucalTeam #lansi2025

Bolden on correction and action #lansi2025 @RucalTeam @ISCAupdates @galinabolden.bsky.social

Excited for #LANSI2025! Best swag, as always

✅looking forward to welcoming everyone to #lansi2025 next weekend! 🥳Not too late to register: www.tc.columbia.edu/lansi/confer... @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social

The ISCA Board is excited to welcome nominations for ISCA’s awards. Nominations are due by January 31, 2026 and will be awarded at ICCA-26 in Edmonton during ISCA’s General Assembly.
- Dissertation Award 
- Article Award
- Book Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award 4/7

📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7

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 🚀

Reposting: Please join us at Rutgers Communication dept - open rank position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Comm! Apply by Sept 25; contact me with any Qs #emca jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Congratulations Dr Hee Chung Chun for brilliantly defending her dissertation on how teachers scaffold talk for adult novice learners in Korean language classes! A careful, insightful CA study. With co-chair @galinabolden.bsky.social & committee @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social & Hansun Waring🥂 #emca

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

A logo for the Conversation Analysis for Communication in Healthcare Special Interest Group in the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.

There's now a special interest group for Conversation Analysis within the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.

🥳#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

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

✨Emanuel A. Schegloff Best Student Paper Award ✨to be selected from the abstracts submitted to the #ICCA2026 conference 🎉

Emanuel (Manny) Schegloff Memorial UCLA - 5_18_25 YouTube video by UCLA-Sociology Department

#EMCA community: here is the recording of Manny Schegloff's memorial event. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzx-...

(via John Heritage) For those of you who cannot attend this event, a livestream will begin May 18th at 2:15 Pacific on:
youtube.com/live/ldel0Ea...
Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca