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Session: "For Roy Turner: Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Beyond"

Canadian Sociological Association, May 29 to June 2nd, 2012

Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.

Session Organizer: Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University, peglin [at] wlu.ca

This is an invitation  to submit an abstract for a paper for the following session of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association from May 29 to June 2nd, 2012 being held at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.

The session is intended to honour Roy Turner's contribution to sociology by providing a forum for papers by those who have been influenced by his work. Turner was a student of Erving Goffman at Berkeley but came to work in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis through the influence of Harvey Sacks (also a Goffman student) and Harold Garfinkel at UCLA. His work includes the seminal paper "Words, utterances and activities" that recovers the importance of J. L. Austin's linguistic-philosophical work for sociological inquiry. He subsequently moved on from EM/CA to take up a form of cultural criticism influenced initially by the "Analysis" of Alan Blum and Peter McHugh and then, more strongly, by
Hannah Arendt: thus, the session title's reference to "Beyond." Papers are invited on any aspect of his work, whether exegetical, critical or touched off by it.

Abstracts are to be submitted online at http://www.csa-scs.ca/submissions. The deadline for abstracts is January 30th. I apologise for the late notice. If the deadline is too close but you are interested in making a submission, by all means write to me directly with an expression of interest. The due date for submitting papers is May 1st.

The conference website is: http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/ocs/index.php/csaconferences/2012CSA.

Peter Eglin,  Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON   N2L 3C5 Canada 519 884 0710 x3877