The South African School of EMCA The South African School of EMCA From Post-Apartheid Interactional Orders to Institutional and Multilingual Practice Wayne Martin Mellinge...

‘The South African school of EM/CA is not a relic of genealogy or a parochial variant of a global tradition...’- Wayne Martin Mellinger #EMCA
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

🚀 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

🗓️ 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

*wink wink*
*nudge nudge*
Remember this paper by me and analyst-comrade Dr Emma Tennent? You might have seen it earlier this year. The special issue on "social asymmetries-in-action" of which it is a part is now published. Recommend all the wonderful contributions. Such amazing work by all.

Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week’s chosen reading. Some reading groups and data se…

New blog on the ROLSI website on The Ethnomethodology Reading Group, its history, disputes, challenges, and payoffs. Oh, and the spectre of the poker...

If you want to join us, get in touch. New members are always welcome.

#EMCA #EM/CA #Wittgenstein

rolsi.net/2025/12/02/g...

"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

I learnt so much from this project, the reviewers, contributors and especially from @robinjsmith.bsky.social. Thank you all!

@dollyeldritch.bsky.social
@emma-richardson.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @daniellarafaely.bsky.social
@laalaajenkins.bsky.social

#EMCA

We have an incredible opportunity to learn about #EMCA early next year.

Join us for an in-person introductory workshop on Conversation Analysis with Visiting Prof Tom Koole.

26th and 27th January 2026

Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Our last data session for the year is taking place on 14 November and will be an in person event.

@jennywatermeyer.bsky.social will be presenting her data on Machine Translation and Lingustics (In)equity in Clinical
Interactions. #EMCA

Register here: forms.office.com/r/z0HAhEywcD

📢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 🚀

Join the #EMCA workshop on transcription

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

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

Wits InterAct workshop on MCA 2025

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...

That’s really helpful, thank you. We should be able to keep them plugged in during recording. The good quality audio with additional mic options is really appealing.

Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

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...

Brilliant! We will be able to plug in and the lab has good indoor lighting so this could be a good fit. Thanks so much.

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

Call for Submissions Call For Submissions The 2026 International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA2026) will be held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, from June 26-29, 2026 (pre-conference worksho…

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...

Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons The educational community has long critiqued teacher-centered instruction, promoting student-centered learning. Yet, pre-assumed teacher-student category relevance may overlook momentary asymmetries ...

Informed by ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and the notions of “deontic rights” and “the developmental scheme,” we show how participants orient toward omnirelevant asymmetries to influence a course of action, (re)producing dynamic categorial pairs in situated moments: doi.org/10.1002/symb...

Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons The educational community has long critiqued teacher-centered instruction, promoting student-centered learning. Yet, pre-assumed teacher-student category relevance may overlook momentary asymmetries ...

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