The International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA) is an independent faculty-and-student-based professional association in higher education, designed to serve the needs of scholars of language and social interaction across a variety of disciplines and applications. Founded in 2010, the Society seeks to provide its members with resources to advance the field by circulating findings, creating better courses, strengthening research, and creating a collective voice for the development and application of professional findings.
A major aim of ISCA is to encourage and enhance interdisciplinary research into the structure and dynamics of social interaction through the creation of a multi-disciplinary community of scholars. From its beginning, the organization has been committed to the notion that broad advances in the understanding of social interaction require disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to research and learning.
ISCA Newsletter
Check out our latest newsletter, Issue #17 (February 2025).
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ISCA Events
ICCA 2026 will be held June 23–29, 2026 in in Edmonton, Canada
The call for submissions is now open!
ICCA 2023: was held June 28th – July 2nd, 2023 in Brisbane, Australia. Read the live blog reports from the conference here!
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#ICCA2026 is committed to offering 🌟 Pre-Conference Workshops 🌟 tailored to sharpen your research skills and support your academic journey. Share your topic ideas via this survey and feel free to forward it to colleagues!
NORDISCO – the 8th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction – takes place in Trondheim, Norway, 3-5 December 2025! Abstract deadline – 28th March 2025. Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/nordisco2025/home,https://www.ntnu.edu/nordisco2025/home http://dlvr.it/THT8sq
Join Michael Mair, Phil Brooker, and Chris Elsey for an in person hands-on, advanced introduction to how Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis uniquely explore social practices. 🗓️ 3rd & 4th March 2025 📍 University of Liverpool #EMCA… http://dlvr.it/THTwcH
🚀Venture to New Horizons for IIEMCA2027 and visit http://iiemca27.org to subscribe and check out updates, including the conference theme!
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New CARM workshop with @lizstokoe for researchers wanting to develop their own training – inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating impact and benefit.,https://eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-catalogue/department-of-psychological-and-behavioural-sciences/events/carm-the-conversation-analytic-role-play-method-training-for-conversation-analysts http://dlvr.it/THQXgQ