From hannah.pelikan at liu.se Tue Sep 16 03:54:15 2025 From: hannah.pelikan at liu.se (Hannah Pelikan) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:54:15 +0000 Subject: [emcai] =?iso-8859-1?q?Two_PhD_positions_in_Language_and_Culture?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_at_Link=F6ping_University?= Message-ID: Dear EMCAI researchers, Please spread information about two open PhD positions in our environment to students who are interested in formulating their own project, see description below: Link?ping University is looking for two PhD students in language and culture. For these positions you have the opportunity to formulate your own topic in an area that can be supported by the expertise in our research environment in Language and Culture. Preferably, you will be specializing in language/interaction or comparative literature/literary studies. We also welcome interdisciplinary projects which include one or more of these specializations. 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Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 6776 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From lynn.derijk at ru.nl Thu Sep 18 04:28:26 2025 From: lynn.derijk at ru.nl (Rijk, L.E.M. de (Lynn)) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:28:26 +0000 Subject: [emcai] Reminder upcoming EM/CA/AI meeting - Friday September 26 Message-ID: Dear EMCA/AI network members, We hope you have all had a wonderful summer and look forward to kicking off the new semester next week, Friday September 26 from 12.30-14.00 CET. Meeting link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/67554855790 This will be a show-and-tell meeting, both accessible to those who have not attended last semester and following somewhat on prior discussions. Please find the descriptions of both show-and-tells below. Iullia Avgustis will present some data consisting of video recordings of the quadruped robot Spot (Boston Dynamics), remotely controlled by a hidden "wizard" in public settings. A multi-camera set-up captured both the wizard?s control actions and, through two cameras mounted on Spot, people?s interactions with the robot. The wizards were instructed to act ?as a robot?, yet Spot?s dog-like appearance and movement affordances shaped how people oriented to it and constrained what the wizards could do. Because many people treated Spot as a dog, wizards often adapted their control to accentuate dog-like behaviors (a pattern also reflected in post-recording interviews). This data is shared to invite discussion on how a posthumanist perspective might inform ethnomethodological analysis, and whether it matters analytically to treat Spot?s ?dogness? as a collaborative accomplishment at the intersection of the material affordances, wizard's practices and people's methods of interacting with the robot. Lynn de Rijk works on a project that uses both human-robot and human-animal data, and will present a video recording collected in a Dutch cat caf?, of which different data has been previously shown at a meeting in September 2024. The fragment selected this time concerns interaction between a caf? patron and two cats, one initiated by the human and one by one of the cats. Analyzing human-cat data raises several questions we also encounter when analyzing human-robot interaction, questions and similarities on which we might be able to reflect using this fragment. Among other things, these concern questions of reciprocity, (mutual) adaptability, interactionally surfacing expectations of the other, and the interactional problem participants face of asymmetrical bodily affordances. The data might be especially interesting in relation to the data Iuliia brings forth. We look forward to seeing you next week! 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URL: From kuettner at ids-mannheim.de Thu Sep 25 08:13:08 2025 From: kuettner at ids-mannheim.de (=?UTF-8?Q?K=C3=BCttner?=) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:13:08 +0200 Subject: [emcai] =?utf-8?q?CfP=3A_25th_Conference_on_Discourse_and_Conver?= =?utf-8?q?sation_Analysis=3A_=E2=80=9CTechnology_use_and_social_interacti?= =?utf-8?q?on=3A_New_interactive_practices=2C_new_data_and_methods?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9D_=2825-27_March_2026=29=2C_Mannheim=2C_Germany?= Message-ID: *Apologies for cross-posting* *25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis: ?Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods? (25-27 March 2026), Mannheim, Germany * Dear colleagues, The 25th Arbeitstagung zur Gespr?chsforschung (Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis) will take place from *25-27 March 2026* at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language//(IDS) in Mannheim, Germany. In 2026, the conference theme is ?*Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods?*. The conference aims to offer researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds an opportunity to discuss interactional work on technology use in and for social interaction. For this reason, the main language of the conference will be English. We invite contributions that are based on empirical data and examine the situated use of various technologies in social interaction or technology-mediated interactions from a sequential perspective. Further details about the event and an extended Call for Papers can be found on the conference website: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2026/agf-2026 ** *A detailed description of the conference theme with submission guidelines is available here: *https://www.ids-mannheim.de/fileadmin/aktuell/kolloquien/2026/AGF_2026/AGF-26_Theme.pdf The deadline for abstract submissions (400 words, excluding references) is *17 November 2025.* Abstracts should be sent as a Word or PDF file to *agf2026 at ids-mannheim.de* ** We look forward to receiving your submissions! Kind regards, Florence Oloff, Silke Reineke, and Uwe-A. K?ttner -- *25. 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