From June 26th until July 2nd, UQ was host to the largest gathering of Conversation Analysts since 2018.
It was a truly international and interdisciplinary affair with 350 participants from 54 different countries, working and studying in a diversity of areas including Sociology, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Education, Psychology, Anthropology, and Medicine.
There was something for everyone with papers on the organisation of touching, pointing and eyebrow-raising; the management of risk; talking about death; the vulnerability of the ‘self’; and the formation of actions such as suggestions, requests – all based on analysis of recorded in situ real time social interactions.
This success was largely thanks to the organising committee - including SLC members Ilana Mushin (Chair), Rod Gardner (Deputy Chair), Lara Weinglass and Michael Haugh – and the steady hand of professional conference organisers, ICMSA.
Our fabulous team of student volunteers – the ‘yellow elves’ – largely featured undergraduate and postgraduate students from SLC.
The School was also well represented on the program, with papers given by Michael Haugh, Valeria Sinkeviciute, Janet Watts, Lara Weinglass, Andrea Rodriguez, Zhiyi Liu, Ilana Mushin, Rod Gardner and Evelyn Ansell.
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