CA Day 2026, Monday 14th December (hybrid)

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Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 19th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 14th December 2026, 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

• Marina Cantarutti, University of York
• JP de Ruiter, Tufts University

We welcome presentations on all aspects of interaction illuminated by Conversation Analysis.

Please use this abstract submission form. Please note that, apart from in exceptional circumstances, we can only accept presentations for which at least one presenter is in-person, though hybrid presentations (where some authors are joining us remotely) are fine.

Contact Saul (s.b.albert@lboro.ac.uk) if you have any questions.

If you submit a paper after we have opened the waiting list for registrants, then you are guaranteed a place only if your paper is accepted. We will let you know by one week after the deadline.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 2nd October 2026.

Registration

Please register using this link.

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 throughout the day 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.

#CakeOff2026

We would also like to invite you to participate in the grand CA Day #CAkeOff2026 competition.

#CAkeOff2024 competition winner Emma Richardson and her dense, wholesome, foundational 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. Last year we also had an incredible entry in our ‘virtual’ CAke category from Annika Valtonen, Bea Stevanovic, Teija Ahopelto, Krista Keränen, and Melisa Stevanovic. Remote entries are also warmly welcomed for 2026! Any entry format is welcome, including still images and voice notes of gustatory sounds.

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 #CAday2026 hashtag on whatever social media platforms still exist.

You can follow DARG on mastodon and the CRCC on mastodon

Register here! | Submit an Abstract