TALKS & WORKSHOPS
In addition to my teaching at the University of Colorado, I also regularly give talks about my ongoing research, as well as workshops on linguistic research methods more generally, at venues both stateside and internationally.
Some past and upcoming talks and workshops are mentioned below.
Chase on the floor with data during a methods training workshop at Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China (2018).
Talk at IDS-Mannheim, on in-progress, collaborative work with the Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (2022).
Talk at IDS-Mannheim (2022), on collaborative research with Alex Gubina, Arnulf Deppermann, Barbara Fox & Sandy Thompson.
Upcoming Talks
November 1, 2022
Plenary Panel on “Building a Career as an EMCA Researcher” (invited). Digital Meeting in Conversation Analysis (DMCA), International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA) Digital Conference.
May 25, 2023
The Corpus of Language Discrimination in Interaction (CLDI) and the Public Policing of Talk (invited). Department of Sociology, UCLA.
June 26 - July 2, 2023
Racist Renditions: Mock Language and the Public Policing of Talk (with Elliott Hoey). International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-23), Brisbane, Australia
July 17-21, 2023
Diminutives in Action: The Conversation-Analytic Turn in Morphology (with Paul Drew & Ana Cristina Ostermann). 20th World Conference, Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA), Lyon, France.
Past Talks
Some of the locations where I’ve given talks on my research in the past include: the University of Freiburg (Germany); Hamburg University (Germany); Potsdam University (Germany); Loughborough University (UK); Rutgers University (USA), University of New Hampshire (USA), the University of California--Los Angeles (USA), the University of California--Santa Barbara (USA), the University of Wisconsin--Madison (USA), the University of York (UK), and the National University of Córdoba (Argentina).
Academic conferences at which I have presented my work include: the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Conference, the National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention, the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Annual Conference, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, the International Linguistic Association (ILA) Annual Conference), the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) Conference, the Conference on Spanish in the United States / Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages, the Symposium about Language and Society--Austin (SALSA), the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Annual Conference.
See my CV for a more complete listing.
Upcoming Workshops
January 5-8, 2023
“Introduction to Conversation Analysis,” course at the 2023 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting.
June 26, 2023
Day-Long Pre-Conference Workshop on “Grammar” (co-taught with Rebecca Clift, University of Essex), at the 2023 International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-23), University of Queensland, Australia.
Past Workshops
July 6-8, 2022
Facilitator, Analyzing Race/ism in Interaction: A Workshop for Emerging Scholars. Co-taught with Elliott Hoey (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).
July 18-23, 2022
Instructor and Co-Organizer, International Summer Institute for Interactional Linguistics, organized at the Leibniz-Institute for German Language, Mannheim (Germany). Co-organized with Emma Betz (University of Waterloo), Elwys De Stefani (University of Heidelberg), Arnulf Deppermann (Leibniz-Institute for the German Language), Barbara Fox (CU-Boulder), and Jörg Zinken (Leibniz-Institute for the German Language).
July 15-19, 2019
Instructor and Co-Organizer, Summer School Workshop in Conversation Analysis, organized at Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China. Co-organized with Rebecca Clift (University of Essex), Paul Drew (University of York), and Kobin Kendrick (University of York).
May 20-24, 2019
Instructor, invited three-day training workshop, for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral scholars, on theory and methods in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis, held at the Department of Romance Linguistics, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Sept. 17-19, 2018
Instructor, invited three-day training workshop, for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral scholars, on theory and methods in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis, held at the Department of Romance Linguistics, University of Freiburg, Germany.
July 9, 2018
Co-Instructor, day-long Pre-Conference Workshop on “Epistemics in Social Interaction” at the 2018 International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-18), held at Loughborough University, UK. Co-taught with John Heritage (UCLA).
July 10, 2018
Co-Instructor, day-long Pre-Conference Workshop on “Grammar in Social Interaction” at the 2018 International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-18), held at Loughborough University, UK. Co-taught with Barbara Fox (CU-Boulder).
June 26-30, 2017
Instructor and Co-Organizer, Summer Institute for Advanced Conversation Analysis, organized at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Co-organized with Barbara Fox (CU-Boulder), Jeff Robinson (Portland State University), John Heritage (UCLA), Paul Drew (University of York), Marja-Leena Sorjonen (University of Helsinki, Finland).
March 23-25, 2016
Instructor, Advanced Topics in Conversation Analysis, organized in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. Co-taught with Paul Drew (University of York) and John Heritage (UCLA).
March 18-20, 2016
Instructor, Investigating Medical / Clinical Interactions: A Training Workshop, organized in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. Co-taught with Charles Antaki (Loughborough University), Rebecca Barnes (University of Bristol), Carly Butler (Loughborough University), Paul Drew (University of York), and John Heritage (UCLA).
August 5-25, 2015
Instructor and Co-Organizer, Summer School Workshop in Conversation Analysis, organized at Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China. Co-organized with Paul Drew (University of York), Clare Jackson (University of York), Merran Toerien (University of York).
Closing lecture from our Summer School at Shanxi University, China, in 2019.
Group picture of our Summer Institute for Interactional Linguistics, held at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany.
Group picture of our Summer Institute for Advanced Conversation Analysis, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2017.
Attendees of our CA Methods Workshop in 2015 at Shanxi University, China (with co-facilitators, Prof. Clare Jackson and Prof. Merran Toerien, pictured at the front).
My colleagues tease that I make funny faces and use my hands a lot when I lecture and present.
It’s sort of difficult to argue with them, because over the years the evidence has really piled up . . .
