The
10th Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and
Conversation Analysis was held at the University of Fribourg
(Switzerland) from July 10th-14th, 2011.
The Conference gathered
231 participants in total, of which a third were students, from 24
countries and a very large array of disciplines which went far beyond
the traditional areas of Social Sciences and Linguistics.
The
program included four plenary conferences - by Douglas Maynard,
Christian Heath & Paul Luff, Wes Sharrock, Marja-Leena Sorjonen
- 118 papers in panels and individual paper sessions, 4 data
sessions and a poster exhibition.
We were honored to include
Harold Garfinkel tribute events consisting of an exhibition of
testimonies, 5 workshops given by Jörg Bergmann, Graham Button, Peter
Eglin, Timothy Koschmann and Kenneth Liberman, and a tribute organized
by Douglas Maynard.
This brought together presentations by Michael Lynch, Douglas Macbeth, Douglas Maynard, Yoshfum Mzukawa and Wes Sharrock.
The
Conference featured contributions from both the ethnomethodological and
conversation analysis traditions in a spirit of mutual enrichment. On
this common ground, several different fields and approaches were
represented: interactional linguistics, membership categorization
analysis, multimodal analysis, studies of work, workplace studies, and
phenomenological and ethnographic studies.
The Conference
provided ample possibilities to interact about our work, get to know
each other better, and forge new ties, while discovering the University,
the City and the Canton of Fribourg.
Running in parallel, the
IIEMCA Steering Committee had several meetings to discuss the next
Conference and more broadly a project to move the Institute forward.
A Planning Committee was put together who will get to work on these two areas and who will keep in touch with you for updates.
All questions and queries, should be addressed to:
contact@iiemca-conference.org (contact@iiemca-conference.org)
We warmly thank all the people and institutions who have contributed to the successful organization of the Conference.
The Organizing Committee and the Conference Staff
Organizing institutions:
Domaine Sociologie, politiques sociales et travail social (University of Fribourg)
Haute école de santé Arc (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
ICAR Research Lab (CNRS, University Lyon 2, ENS Lyon)
Institute of Multilingualism (University of Fribourg, Haute école pédagogique Fribourg)
Supporting institutions: Department of Social Sciences (University of Fribourg)
Etat de Fribourg
Faculty of Humanities (University of Fribourg)
Fonds de recherche (University of Fribourg)
Rectorat (University of Fribourg)
Swiss National Science Foundation
Swiss Sociological Association - Interpretative Sociologies Research Committee
Ville de Fribourg
Sponsors:Ashgate
Peter Lang
Transports publics fribourgeois