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, “Every breath you take, every move you make…”: Reflections on the study of breathing practices and the coordination of action in interaction
- JP de Ruiter, Tufts University, title TBC
Programme
| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 09:30 | Registration, tea and coffee | |
| 09:55 | Welcome to CA Day | |
| 10:00 | Accomplishing person-centeredness in Palliative Care Consultations | Ann Weatherall | Holly Sansome | Katie Ekberg | Stuart Ekberg | Flinders University |
| 10:30 | Touch responsive to an upset display during a palliative care consultation | Jo Sims | DARG, Loughborough University |
| 11:00 | “Every breath you take, every move you make…”: Reflections on the study of breathing practices and the coordination of action in interaction | Marina Cantarutti | University of York |
| 11:45 | Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2026 | |
| 12:05 | Symptom-Frequency Formulations: Deploying Temporal Framing in the Construction of Doctorability | Zi Yang | Weihua Wu | University of Science and Technology Beijing |
| 12:35 | Exploring information exchange in urgent primary care contacts with older patients and their companions in England: A conversation-analytic study | Yicen Guo | Catherine Woods | Nan Wang | Rebecca Barnes | Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford |
| 13:05 | Lunch: available to buy on campus, or bring your own | |
| 14:05 | “What I tend to do”: Advice-implicative my-side tellings in healthy weight coaching | Liliia Bespala | Magnus Hamann | Miriam Meyerhoff | Kayley McPherson | Charlotte Albury | University of Oxford |
| 14:35 | Making CA-based resources to increase social care practitioners’ interactional awareness and centre people with intellectual disabilities’ choice | Virginia Calabria | Independent Researcher and Durham University |
| 15:05 | “I have a friend…”: telling friends’ stories in focus groups | Yarong Xie | Lucy Robinson | Sarah Thwaites | York St John University | Newcastle University | Newcastle University |
| 15:35 | Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2026 | |
| 15:55 | “It’s a yes or no question”: polar questions in conflictive political debate | Natàlia Server Benetó | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 16:25 | Keynote 2: Title TBC | JP de Ruiter | Tufts University |
| 17:10 | Evening reception: drinks and food @ Brockington | |
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
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