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CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid)
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Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 18th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 15th December 2025, 9:30am-5:30 (followed by an evening reception with food and wine), supported by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.
Join us for a (hybrid) meeting comprising a series of paper presentations in an informal and friendly atmosphere.
Invited Speakers
- Chase Wesley Raymond, University of Colorado Boulder, “Institutional ‘Lingualism’ as Interactional Practice: A Sequential Typology of Language Access“
- Deborah Chinn, King’s College London, “Conversation Analysis Research with People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Call to Action”
Programme
| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 09:30 – 9:55 | Registration, tea and coffee | |
| 09:55 – 10:00 | Welcome to CA Day | |
| 10:00 -10:30 | Does Silence Speak Volumes? Accounting for Silences during GPs’ Background Tasks in Telephone Consultations | Gilian Noord | Alison Pilnick | Elizabeth Stokoe | Tony Avery | University of Nottingham | Manchester Metropolitan University | London School of Economics and Political Science | University of Nottingham |
| 10:30 -11:00 | Whose choice is it? (Shared) decision-making in conversations between social workers and people with learning disabilities. | Virginia Calabria | Joe Webb | Brett Smith | Durham University | University of Bristol | Durham University |
| 11.00 – 11:45 | Keynote 1: Institutional ‘Lingualism’ as Interactional Practice: A Sequential Typology of Language Access | Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 11:45-12:15 | Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 | |
| 12:15- 12:45 | Are Family Mealtimes Insitutional? | Alexa Hepburn | Jonathan Potter | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | On the three-partedness of lists | Natàlia Server Benetó | Universitat d’Alacant |
| 13:15 – 14:30 | Lunch: Christmas Menu available the Edward Herbert Building (EHB) or bring you own! | |
| 14:30– 15:00 | Children’s Self-Selection During Overlap in Paediatric Consultations in China.” | Luyang Zhou | University of York |
| 15:00- 15:30 | Lessons learned from trouble: Third-position repair in human-chatbot interaction | Ole Pütz | Bielefeld University |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | A conversation analytic study of culturally relevant storytelling in consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients | Sanaa Hyder | University of Manchester |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 | |
| 16:30-17:00 | King & Queen, Mummy & Daddy: Emerging gender and sexuality normativities in preschool role-play interactions | Kathryn Jordin | Marco Pino | Laura Jenkins | Emma Richardson | Loughborough University |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Keynote 2: Conversation Analysis Research with People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Call to Action | Deborah Chinn | King’s College London |
| 17:45 – close | Drinks 🍷 🥂 and pizza 🍕 @ Brockington | |
Registration
Please register here: https://store.lboro.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/communication-and-media/upcoming-events/ca-day-2025
In person registration is open on a first come, first served basis but (unless you are submitting a paper), but we only have space for 70 people this year, so make sure you register soon!
Once we have reached capacity, you can join the waiting list. Normally a number of registrants withdraw before the conference, and we allocate their places to those waiting. Most withdrawals happen close to the conference date, though, so you may not be sure about a place for some time.
Attendance costs:
- In-person: £25, or £20 for students/unwaged, which pays for refreshments and the evening reception (you will be able to buy lunch on campus this year)
- Online-only: £5, which helps to pay for other event costs and for someone to look after the stream/questions etc.
#CakeOff2025
We would also like to invite you to participate in the grand CA Day #CAkeOff2025 competition.
#CAkeOff2024 competition winner Emma Richardson and her dense but wholesome cake.
For those planning on participating in the competition in-person, please bring your cakes to CA day where our invited speakers will judge, along with enthusiastic participation from all other CA Day in-person delegates.
Venue information
Please contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) with any queries.
We’ll be in the Brockington Extension, Room U.0.05. Use these links for travel and campus map.
Added: Here’s a list of University accommodation. Other hotels are also available. Overseas visitors: the closest airport is East Midlands Airport (EMA), Birmingham Airport is not too far.
Follow the #CAday2025 hashtag on whatever social media platforms still exist.
DARG Sessions is on mastodon and bluesky the CRCC is on Mastodon and Bluesky
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