🚀 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
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🗓️ 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
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Kevin Whitehead
Kevin Whitehead is an Associate Prof of Sociology & Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara & a Visiting Associate Prof at Wits. His research uses EM & CA approaches to study practices through which social categories are used, reproduced & resisted... @kevinawhitehead.bsky.social
Jacki O'Neill
Jacki O’Neill is founding Lab Director of Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi...Bringing an ethnomethodological perspective to AI , provides new insight into how we can design better interactions and build the best possible technologies for work, health and society...
Robin James Smith
Robin J Smith is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Science, Cardiff University, and Visiting Prof at Wits. His studies have primarily pursued the praxeological, co-constitutive, relationship between space, mobility, and perception...@robinjsmith.bsky.social
Ana Christina Ostermann
Ana Cristina Ostermann is a scholar of social interaction at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul & a Research Fellow for CNPq in Brazil...her work has been notably interdisciplinary, conducted in institutional settings and focused on societal needs... @ana-ostermann.bsky.social
📢Meet the IIEMCA27 Keynote Speakers.
Read about their work on the conference website:
www.iiemca27.org/about
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And if you're wondering what all this IIEMCA27 business is about, check out iiemca.com and iiemca27.org
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 🚀
@cathtam.bsky.social
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InterAct and the IIEMCA27 organising committee invites postgraduate and faculty members from Wits and across academia to explore New Horizons 🚀 and join the (ethnomethodological) conversation (analysis) by subscribing to the mailing list.
www.iiemca27.org/about
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Started and run by Dr Catherine Tam -@cathtam.bsky.social - and Dr Daniella Rafaely, InterAct meets regularly online or in person for data sessions, presentations, and the development of research projects – including hosting international scholars and the next IIEMCA conference! www.iiemca27.org
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.
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..to the Wits Theatre, Wits Art Museum (WAM), the Origins Centre to name only a few highlights you can spot and explore virtually before we see you in person at IIEMCA27!
www.wits.ac.za/campus-life/...
...a South African Premiership soccer (football) match showcasing Wits University FC ("The Clever Boys"), just one sport that Witsies have excelled at over the last 100+ years
www.wits.ac.za/alumni/histo...
...to immersive experiences at the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome...
youtu.be/DMbbZGBG8hw
From lunch (with cake, of course!) under the shade of oak trees and the Cape-Dutch gables of Wits Club...
olivesandplates.co.za/wits-club-co...
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...
Gauteng has it all!
Including being the birthplace of Miriam Makeba whose song “Pata Pata” (‘Touch Touch”) has taken on wide ranging and not uncontested significance and meaning across the world
www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqW...
…to the Pilanesberg National Park (among several other reserves) where you can see the big 5…
www.pilanesbergnationalpark.org
…to Vilakazi Street, home of two Nobel Laureates and great cuisine…
www.southafrica.net/za/en/travel...
This month we turn to Gauteng, the province where IIEMCA27 will be hosted…
#EMCA @interactemca.bsky.social www.iemca27.org
For more IIEMCA2027 info, visit iiemca27.org
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…awesome for having Route 62, the longest wine route in the world:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ID2zv...
In 2027, IIEMCA is coming to South Africa.
South Africa is…
unique for having 3 capital cities:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkZ...
🧭Venture to New Horizons for IIEMCA2027 and visit iiemca27.org to subscribe and check out updates, including conference theme! #EMCA @interactemca.bsky.social
