Manchester Ethnography Group: Past Seminars
Summer 2011
June 30 (Thursday), 2011, 3:00-5:00
Bureaucracy in action [abstract]
Graham Button, David Martin, and Jacki O'Neill (XRCE Xerox, France)
May 31 (Tuesday), 2011, 3:00-5:00
Opening up sequence organization: formulating action as a practice for managing 'out of place' sequence initiating actions [abstract]
Geoffrey Raymond (University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
Spring 2011
January 26 (Wednesday), 2011, 3:00-5:00
Boat race: towards a sociology of rhythm
Anthony King (University of Exeter)
Autumn 2010
December 9 (Thursday), 2010, 3:00-5:00
Finding the animal in the foliage [abstract]
Andy Crabtree (University of Nottingham)
September 22 (Wednesday), 2010, 2:00-4:00
Design on video [abstract]
John Rooksby (University of St Andrews)
Spring 2010
April 14 (Wednesday), 2010, 4:00-6:00
In search of court culture: explaining juvenile detention rates in three Australian states
Max Travers (University of Tasmania, Australia)
March 17 (Wednesday), 2010, 4:00-6:00
Competence, cooperation and competition in co-located computer gaming
Björn Sjöblom (Linköping University, Sweden)
March 4 (Thursday), 2010, 4:00-6:00
Watching football together
Stuart Reeves (University of Glasgow)
Autumn 2009
December 9 (Wednesday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
Who needs 'common sense'?
Dave Francis (MMU)
November 19 (Thursday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
The language of construction
Martin Cleary (University of Salford)
October 29 (Thursday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
Exploring aspects of sport and sport commentary through the examination of 'masters of practices' and 'trained-talkers': the work of commentating and analyzing as 'supplementary reframing activities'
Kiran Kamat and Herman Bonner (University of Jyväskylä, Finnland)
Summer 2009
September 4/5 (Friday/Saturday), 2009 [programme]
Ethnography and New Technology: Current Debates
June 4 (Thursday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
Human-machine or human-human-machine interaction? Interactional sources of individual expertise for dealing with a telephonic dialogue system
Martin Aranguren (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales / SENSe-Orange Labs, France)
May 5 (Tuesday), 2009, 11:00-1:00
Archaeology of the living-dead: an enunciative analysis of mediations
Julia Hedström (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Spring 2009
March 19 (Thursday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
Beyond discourse and the subject: three classic features of the interaction order [abstract]
William Housley (Cardiff University)
March 5 (Thursday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
Fixed in time and 'time in motion': experiences with SenseCam [abstract]
Sian Lindley (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
February 19 (Thursday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
Calendars: images of ageing and category bound activities [abstract]
Eileen Fairhurst (MMU)
February 5 (Thursday), 2009, 4:00-6:00
Incarnation in ethnomethodology and moral/political economy: the dilemma of intellectual responsibility
Peter Eglin (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
Autumn 2008
November 27 (Thursday), 2008, 4:00-6:00
Speed cameras: a short story of mundane governance [abstract]
Dan Neyland (Lancaster University)
October 16 (Thursday), 2008, 4:00-6:00
Unravelling personality: a case for reflection [abstract]
Anita Williams (Murdoch University, Australia)
October 9 (Thursday), 2008, 4:00-6:00
Handicrafts, architecture, writing, and science: studies of instructional work in higher education
Oskar Lindwall, Gustav Lymer, and Jonas Ivarsson (Göteborg University, Sweden)
Summer 2008
September 5/6 (Friday/Saturday), 2008
Mind & Society 15 [programme]
June 23 (Monday), 2008, 4:00-6:00
Reflections on anthropology and conversation analysis
Jack Bilmes (University of Hawai'i, US)
May 1 (Thursday), 2008, 10:30-17:30
3rd EM/CA Postgraduate Study Day
Spring 2008
March 6 (Thursday), 2008, 4:10-6:00
Envisioning the plan in interaction: a workplace study of the activity of plumbers [abstract]
Shinichiro Sakai (Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan/PARC RA); Ron Korenaga (Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan); Yoshifumi Mizukawa (Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan); Motoko Igarashi (Koryo International College, Aichi, Japan)
February 28 (Thursday), 2008, 4:10-6:00
What side are you on? Questions, answers and collective identities in a TV debate [abstract]
Alain Bovet (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Autumn 2007
December 6 (Thursday), 2007, 4:10-6:00
Doing advising: technology, speech exchange and practical reasoning in a poisons information center
Roger Slack (University of Wales, Bangor)
November 15 (Thursday), 2007, 4:10-6:00
The social production of ontologies
Dave Randall (MMU) & Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester)
November 1 (Thursday), 2007, 4:10-6:00
Practical management of project assessment
Nozomi Ikeya (Paolo Alto Research Centre, US)
September 27 (Thursday), 2007, 4:10-6:00
From practices to praxis studying interactions in judicial settings [abstract]
Esther Gonzalez Martinez (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Summer 2007
September 7/8 (Friday/Saturday), 2007
Mind & Society 14 [programme]
Philosophical and Sociological Approaches to Mathematics
Spring 2007
March 22/23 (Thursday/Friday), 2007 [University of Fribourg, Switzerland]
Scientific Practice as Ordinary Action: An International Workshop on Scientists at Work
March 8 (Thursday), 2007, 4:00-6:00
What is small scale evaluation research? A candidate hybrid study
John Rooke (University of Salford)
February 15 (Thursday), 2007, 4:00-6:00
Can mobile devices facilitate more integrated and deeper learning? [abstract]
Yvonne Rogers (Open University)
February 1 (Thursday), 2007, 4:00-6:00
The endogenous orderliness of talk shows: making things invisible and making things visible at the Thrisha show [abstract]
Mareike Barmeyer (Berlin, Germany)
Autumn 2006
December 14 (Thursday), 2006, 4:00-6:00
Some structures of descriptive work in referral talk
Stephen Hester (University of Wales, Bangor)
November 23 (Thursday), 2006, 4:00-6:00
Differences that make a difference: an ethnomethodological take on science education [abstract]
Jonas Ivarsson (Göteborg University, Sweden)
October 19 (Thursday), 2006, 4:00-6:00
Practices of ordering in architectural work [abstract]
Kjeld Schmidt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
October 12 (Thursday), 2006, 4:00-6:00
On two unproductive binaries in science education research
Wendy Sherman (Kent State University, US)
September 21 (Thursday), 2006, 4:00-6:00
"With that fat slag Toni...and she led 'im on as well like...": The work of identity, categories and omni-relevant devices [abstract]
Richard Fitzgerald (University of Queensland, Australia)
Summer 2006
June 23/24 (Friday/Saturday), 2006
Mind & Society 13 [programme]
Jeff Coulter (Boston University, US); Mike Lynch (Cornell University, US); Peter Manning (Northeastern University, US); Anne Rawls (Bentley College, US); Philippe Rouchy (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
June 1 (Thursday), 2006, 4:10-6:00
The sociology of mobiles: an overview with discussion of its applicability to mobile design
Richard Harper (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
May 18 (Thursday), 2006, 4:10-6:00
Leadership, power, and ethnomethodology [abstract]
Simon Kelly (Lancaster University)
Spring 2006
March 29 (Wednesday), 2006, 2:00-6:30
[half-day symposium on ethnography of science]
Theoretical physics as a challenge for ethnography [abstract]
Martina Merz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Experimental physics as an embodied achievement: a first take [abstract]
Philippe Sormani (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
March 16 (Thursday), 2006, 4:10-6:00
Talking texts, organising action: notes on how museum labels feature in interaction at the exhibit-face
Jon Hindmarsh (King's College London)
February 2 (Thursday), 2006, 4:10-6:00
Choice and mobility: decision making on the move [abstract]
Barry Brown (University of Glasgow)
January 19 (Thursday), 2006, 4:10-6:00
Understanding categories-in-practices: the case of neighbour disputes [abstract]
Elizabeth Stokoe & Derek Edwards (Loughborough University)
Autumn 2005
November 24 (Thursday), 2005, 4:10-6:00
Ethnography, discourse analysis, and the radical critique of interviews [abstract ]
Martyn Hammersley (Open University)
November 17 (Thursday), 2005, 4:10-6:00
On the consequences of mobility: features of emergency calls via mobile phones [abstract]
Jörg Bergmann (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Summer 2005
August 25 (Thursday), 2005, 4:00-6:00
The antipodes of the mind: studying ayahuasca from a cognitive-psychological point of view
Benny Shannon (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
July 5 (Tuesday), 2005, 4:00-6:00
Interrogation and ethnography: dilemmas and reversals
Mike Lynch (Cornell University, US)
May 5 (Thursday), 2005, 4:00-6:00
The word of command: communication and cohesion in the military
Anthony King (University of Exeter)
April 21 (Thursday), 2005, 4:00-6:00
Gambits of compliance
Mark Rouncefield (Lancaster University)
Spring 2005
March 17 (Thursday), 2005, 4:00-6:00
Synchronized categories: a study of instructed assistance for people with disabilities
Yoshifumi Mizukawa (Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan)
Practical understanding of a commercial film: making use of categories and sequence to find out 'the message'
Ron Korenaga (Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan)