Full Conference Program June 23-29, 2026
Please note that program timing is listed in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
Room assignments for Pre-Conference Workshops may change.
- Tuesday, June 23, 2026
- Wednesday, June 24, 2026
- Thursday, June 25, 2026
- Friday, June 26, 2026
- Saturday, June 27, 2026
- Sunday, June 28, 2026
- Monday, June 29, 2026
| Time | Name | Location Name |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Workshop Registration | CAB Foyer |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study grammar in/through interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study emotion in institutional interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Repair in conversation | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Analyzing turn taking | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Cross-linguistic CA I: Focus on minority languages | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Studying interactions involving non-human animals | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study language and the body in interaction? | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study deontics in interactions | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study multilingual interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study action formation |
| Time | Name | Location Name |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Workshop Registration | CAB Foyer |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Cross-linguistic CA II: Planning and carrying out cross-linguistic research | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Applying CA methods to study practical problems in healthcare interactions | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Researching social categories | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study routinization/grammaticalization/pragmaticalization of linguistic resources in and for interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Fieldwork and data collection 1.5 days | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Finding epistemics in turns and sequences in interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Analyzing particles in interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to evidence claims in CA | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Analysing phonetics in interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | How to study sequence organization 1.5 days |
| Time | Name | Location Name |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Workshop Registration | CAB Foyer |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Using AI within CA workflows | |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Studying interactions that involve children | |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | How to study sequence organization 1.5 days Day 2 | |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Studying sequences of sequences | |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Multimodal transcription for CA | |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | How to study silence in interaction | |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Fieldwork and data collection 1.5 days Day 2 | |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Conversational AI & Conversation Analysis | |
| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Conversation Analytic Research from A to Z | |
| 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Conference Registration | |
| 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Welcome Reception | Timms Centre for the Arts |
| Time | Name | Location Name |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Interactional histories in their sequential context | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Break | PCL Lounge |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Summons and responses | BS B-121 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Political and judicial interactions | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Teaching, learning in interaction I | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Music & interaction | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Interacting with Intelligent agents | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Minimal resources in interaction: Diversity in language and action | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Distributed agency in social interaction | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Uncooperativeness in interactions with second language speakers | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Managing and transforming conflict in interaction | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Interacting in complex ecologies: bodies, materialities and asymmetric sensorial accesses | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: The mutual consequentiality of physician-patient communication practices | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Social interactions where death is relevant: Across settings and around the world | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Meet-The-Professor | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | PCL Lounge |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Theme Session: Art instruction and interaction | BS B-121 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Theme Session: Sequences | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Theme Session: Teaching and learning in interaction II | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: Membership categorizations, social identities and embodiment in interactions with children | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Theme Session: Media and interaction | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: Minimal resources in interaction: Diversity in language and action - Continuation | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: Distributed agency in social interaction - Continuation | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: Uncooperativeness in interactions with second language speakers - Continuation | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: Managing and transforming conflict in interaction - Continuation | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: Interacting in complex ecologies: bodies, materialities and asymmetric sensorial accesses - Continuation | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: The mutual consequentiality of physician-patient communication practices - Continuation | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Panel: Social interactions where death is relevant: Across settings and around the world - Continuation | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Break | PCL Lounge |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Theme Session: Joint and embodied activities | BS B-121 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Theme Session: Grammar and interaction | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Theme Session: Second language interaction | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: Membership categorizations, social identities and embodi ment in interactions with children - Continuation | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Theme Session: Actions | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: Minimal resources in interaction: Diversity in language and action - Continuation | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: Distributed agency in social interaction - Continuation | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: Uncooperativeness in interactions with second language speakers - Continuation | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: Managing and transforming conflict in interaction - Continuation | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: Interacting in complex ecologies: bodies, materialities and asymmetric sensorial accesses - Continuation | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: The mutual consequentiality of physician-patient communication practices - Continuation | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel: Social interactions where death is relevant: Across settings and around the world - Continuation | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 7:00 PM - 11:30 PM | Conference Dinner | Fairmont Hotel Macdonald |
| Time | Name | Location Name |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | “Meaning that it’s not X?”: Offering contrastive alternatives in presenting candidate understandings in Japanese | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Break | PCL Lounge |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Affect and stance in interaction | BS B-121 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Approaches to the analysis of the semiotic landscape | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Topic management across languages: Towards an understanding of grammar for interaction | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Children’s diversity of multilingual competence in interaction | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Conversation analysis and social work: Investigating institutional, cultural and interactional ‘norms’ in action | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Common ground: Uses and problems within the framework of CA | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Getting others to do things now: Deontics in time-critical contexts | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Questions and answers | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Interactional practices and social orientations in contrived datasets | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Emergency and interaction | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Codeswitching in interaction | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Doing (un)availability: At the interface of focused and unfocused interaction | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Poster Presentations & Networking session | PCL Lounge |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | PCL Lounge |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Theme Session: Identity and social categories | BS B-121 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Theme Session: Language learning and interaction | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Topic management across languages: Towards an understanding of grammar for interaction - Continuation | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Children’s diversity of multilingual competence in interaction - Continuation | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Conversation analysis and social work: Investigating institutional, cultural and interactional ‘norms’ in action - Continuation | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Common ground: Uses and problems within the framework of CA - Continuation | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Getting others to do things now: Deontics in time-critical contexts - Continuation | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Anticipating and overcoming interactional friction | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Interactional practices and social orientations in contrived datasets | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Theme Session: Temporality and cooperation in interaction | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Theme Session: Public health, noncompliance, and problems | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Panel: Doing (un)availability: At the interface of focused and unfocused interaction - Continuation | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Break | PCL Lounge |
| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | ISCA General Assembly | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| Time | Name | Location Name |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Theme Session: Mixed methods | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: Multimodal forward-communication | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Theme Session: Managing participation across settings | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: At the borders of EMCA: Decentering normativity to engage with interactional pluralities | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Theme Session: Health care interaction I | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: Unpacking (dis-)alignment: The multimodal organization of acceptance, resistance and rejection | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: Investigating the organization of social life - A panel in honor of Schegloff | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: Narratives, activities, and interactional settings | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: Data in CA: Preparing, sharing, and reusing recordings from naturally occurring interaction | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: Providing unsolicited medical advice: Conversation-analytic findings about health promotion and disease prevention | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel: ‘Doing family’ in talk-in-interaction: Diversity across languages | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Break | PCL Lounge |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Interaction involving animals | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Multimodal forward-communication - Continuation | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Diversity of repairs and interactional settings | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: At the borders of EMCA: Decentering normativity to engage with interactional pluralities - Continuation | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Theme Session: Health care interaction II | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Unpacking (dis-)alignment: The multimodal organization of acceptance, resistance and rejection - Continuation | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Investigating the organization of social life - A panel in honor of Schegloff - Continuation | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Narratives, activities, and interactional settings - Continuation | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Data in CA: Preparing, sharing, and reusing recordings from naturally occurring interaction - Continuation | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: Providing unsolicited medical advice: Conversation-analytic findings about health promotion and disease prevention - Continuation | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel: ‘Doing family’ in talk-in-interaction: Diversity across languages - Continuation | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | PCL Lounge |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Theme Session: Gestures | BS M-137 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Theme Session: Sign language interaction | BS M-141 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Theme Session: Structuring larger activities - Reasoning, planning, decision-making | BS M-145 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Theme Session: Gender in interaction | BS M-149 (Biological Sciences Building) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Theme Session: Health care interaction III | CCIS 1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Panel: A praxeological account of ellipsis | CCIS 1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Theme Session: Epistemics | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Panel: Narratives, activities, and interactional settings - Continuation | CCIS 1-440 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Theme Session: Weight talk | CCIS L1-140 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Panel: Providing unsolicited medical advice: Conversation-analytic findings about health promotion and disease prevention - Continuation | CCIS L1-160 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Panel: ‘Doing family’ in talk-in-interaction: Diversity across languages - Continuation | CCIS L2-190 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences) |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Break | PCL Lounge |
| 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Special Plenary Session | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |
| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Closing Ceremony | CCIS 1-430 (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science) |