From jakub.mlynar at gmail.com Mon Dec 8 23:31:31 2025 From: jakub.mlynar at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?SmFrdWIgTWx5bsOhxZk=?=) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 07:31:31 +0100 Subject: [emcai] =?utf-8?q?New_Developments_in_Ethnomethodology_2026=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?=22Hybrid_Studies=22_=2827=E2=80=9329_May_2026=2C_Sierre?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_Switzerland=29?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Sorry for cross-posting to those who are on multiple mailing lists. We are pleased to announce that the next iteration of the *New Developments in Ethnomethodology *meeting will take place at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) in Sierre , *from 27 to 29 May 2026*. *"Hybrid Studies: Of Work, Talk, and Technology" *is the title and orientation of the colloquium which will be devoted to revisiting, discussing, and advancing studies that probe the nexus of EM and its related fields, as well as specific domains of practice. An extended abstract with a more detailed description is attached. If you are interested in attending and presenting your research, please send an abstract of approximately *300 words (excluding references) by 12 January 2026* to jakub.mlynar at hevs.ch. We will inform you at the beginning of February about the inclusion of your presentation in the programme. We are looking forward to your submissions! Kind regards, Jakub Mlyn?? Philippe Sormani Clemens Eisenmann -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Given that our EMCA research will be based on an in-depth fieldwork at the Lausanne University Hospital, knowledge of French is an important criterion. All the best, Jakub On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 08:24, Jakub Mlyn?? wrote: > Dear all, > > I will soon be hiring two postdocs and one research assistant to join my > new four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The > research is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and will > involve in-depth (video-)ethnographic work in medical and educational > settings in the French-speaking part of Switzerland (hence some language > requirements), focusing on the integration of AI into image-based > personalized medicine. > > You can find more details below and in the attached documents. The > deadline for applications is 31 December 2025 (the online system will open > on 10 December). The official starting date of the project is 1 March 2026. > For any inquiries, please feel free to contact me directly. > > Of course, if you know about someone who might be interested and is not on > the EMCA-AI mailing list, thanks for forwarding this email to them. > > Best wishes, > Jakub > > --- > > We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers (80%) and one research > assistant (50%) to join us for a new four-year project at the Human-Centred > Computing Group, Institute of Informatics, HES-SO Valais-Wallis University > of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. The project is funded by > the Swiss National Science Foundation and consists of two interrelated > parts: (1) integrating AI-based technologies into lecturing practices and > classroom interactions in medical environments (e.g., radiology), and (2) > examining decision-making procedures in hospital settings, with an emphasis > on how AI-based technologies are incorporated into clinical workflows and > professional reasoning. > > Successful candidates will have the opportunity to conduct in-depth > ethnographic research in a rich interdisciplinary environment involving the > Institute of Informatics at HES-SO Valais-Wallis and several departments of > the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), including the Nuclear Medicine and > Molecular Imaging Department. The starting date is 1 March 2026 (or to be > determined), and the place of work is Sierre (Valais, Switzerland). > > More details can be found in the attached announcement (in English and > French). 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As robotic systems become increasingly integrated into every facet of human life, this conference will create the urgently needed space for informed and meaningful research exchange and dialogue across all relevant disciplines?from social robotics, computer science, and HRI, to the humanities and social sciences, but also law, economics, ecology and climate research. RP2026 is the seventh event in the Robophilosophy Conference Series. We invite researchers to join us to address the fundamental questions that will shape our collective future. How do we design robotic systems that respect human dignity, autonomy, and social justice? What legal frameworks must evolve to address accountability when autonomous agents make consequential decisions? Can robots contribute to environmental restoration and sustainability, or will they accelerate ecological degradation? How will automation reshape labor markets, economic inequality, the meaning of work itself, and caring relationships? What responsibilities do we bear toward the artificial agents we create? How might robots, and the connectedness of the AI that drives them, challenge or reinforce existing power structures? What does coexistence mean when intelligence takes multiple forms? Plenary Speakers: ? Lynne Baille, Robotics, Herriot Watt University, GB ? Ryan Calo, Robot Law, Univ. of Washington, USA ? Hideki Kajima, Toyota Motor Europe, Japan ? Arno Klein, Child Mind Institute, USA ? Bertram Malle, Psychology, Brown University, USA ? Shannon Vallor, Ethics, Edinburgh Futures Institute, GB Submission deadlines: ? Workshop proposals: January 16, 2026 ? Research papers and posters: February 6, 2026. ? Descriptions of art works, performances: February 6, 2026 For detailed timeline see www.rp2026.org -------- Dear Transor Members, Please distribute this announcement further through your mailing lists. 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Our panel seeks empirical studies (of course including EM/CA) on how diverse users of AI practically reason with, evaluate, and manage its messy, unpredictable outputs, moving beyond the hype of 'disruption' to critically assess its real-world limits. You can find a more detailed description below, and submit your proposals by the end of February here: https://easst.net/conference/easst2026/call-for-abstracts/ With season's greetings and all best wishes for 2026, Jakub === *Panel Description* The inflationary claims of ?disruption? surrounding the ?new? Artificial Intelligence (AI), often propagated by the corporations developing them, hinder our understanding of both the true potentials of these technologies and challenges related to their integration in social life. To get a better grasp on their rapid advancements and their future consequences for various types of jobs, we need to understand how AI is made relevant to its specific contexts of use. While they are publicly presented as seamless or autonomous tools, such technologies are often messy, unpredictable, and prone to generating outputs that users find ambiguous, problematic, or simply incorrect. This creates a critical gap between the AI's imagined or prescribed use and the practical, situated work required for its smooth operation. Attending to the broad sphere of activities that takes place to make AI work can provide a more measured and empirically grounded basis for evaluating its achievements and limitations as part of its entanglements with our everyday lives. This panel invites empirical investigations that uncover the lived difficulties of working with various applications of AI. We welcome contributions exploring, but not limited to, the following questions: ? How do a wide range of users, from domain experts to laypersons, actually manage and make sense of the results produced by AI technologies in practice? ? What mundane methods and practical reasoning skills do people employ to evaluate, trust, or challenge AI?s outputs? ? How can we empirically study the multiplicity of reasoning styles and ad-hoc procedures users adopt when evaluating AI-produced results? ? What does attending to these practical difficulties reveal about the actual, rather than promised, capabilities of automation and the necessity of situated human competences? By focusing on the ?just how? of AI?s use, this panel will contribute to the ongoing debates surrounding the future of work, human?machine collaboration, and the observable societal implications of ?disruptive? technologies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: