Pre-Conference Workshops
Pre-Conference Sessions will be held in the Central Academic Building – CAB – located centrally on the University North Campus. Specific locations will be updated closer to conference dates.
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 – Full Day Workshops (9am to 5 pm, Lunch 12-1pm) – $235
- Analyzing turn taking – Facilitated by Jeffrey Robinson
- Repair in conversation – Facilitated by Galina Bolden
- How to study action formation – Facilitated by Giovanni Rossi
- How to study language and the body in interaction? – Facilitated by Leelo Keevallik and Emily Hofstetter
- How to study deontics in interaction – Facilitated by Melisa Stevanovic and Simon Magnusson
- How to study emotion in institutional interaction – Facilitated by Johanna Ruusuvuori and Julia Katila
- How to study grammar in/through interaction – Facilitated by Hongyin Tao
- How to study multilingual interaction – Facilitated by Katariina Harjunpää and Niina Lilja
- Studying interactions involving non-human animals – Facilitated by Federico Rossano
- Cross-linquistic CA I: Focus on minority languages – Facilitated by Ilana Mushin and Joe Blythe
Wednesday, June 24 2026 – Full Day Workshops (9am to 5 pm, Lunch 12-1pm) – $235
- How to evidence claims in CA – Facilitated by Chase Raymond
- Finding epistemics in turns and sequences in interaction – Facilitated by Kaoru Hayano
- Analysing phonetics in interaction – Facilitated by Richard Ogden
- Analyzing particles in interaction – Facilitated by Aino Koivisto and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
- Researching social categories (race, gender, age, etc) in interaction – Facilitated by Aug Nishizaka
- Applying CA methods to study practical problems in healthcare interactions – Facilitated by Rebecca Barnes, Catherine Woods and Christopher J. Koenig
- How to study routinization/grammaticalization/pragmaticalization of linguistic resources in and for interaction – Facilitated by Simona Pekarek Doehler
- Cross-linguistic CA II: Planning and carrying out cross-linguistic research – Facilitated by Sophia Fiedler and Jörg Zinken
Wednesday & Thursday, June 24 & 25, 2026 – One and Half Day Workshops (9am to 5 pm, Lunch 12-1pm, Half day 9am to 12pm) $360
- How to study sequence organization – Facilitated by Tanya Stivers
- Fieldwork and data collection – Facilitated by Elwys De Stefani – Limited capacity
Thursday, June 25, 2026 Half Day Workshops (9am to 12pm) $150
- Multimodal transcription for CA – Facilitated by Lorenza Mondada
- How to study silence in interaction – Facilitated by Elliott Hoey
- Studying sequences of sequences – Facilitated by Harrie Mazeland
- Studying interactions that involve children – Facilitated by Amanda Bateman
- Using AI within CA workflows – Facilitated by Saul Albert and Lucas Seuren
- Conversational AI & Conversational Analysis – Facilitated by Robert J. Moore (Requires ChatGPT account)
Thursday, June 25, 2026 – ISCA Member Lunch Workshop
- Conversation Analytic Research from A to Z – Facilitated by Sophia Fiedler and Keith Cox –
- Open exclusively to ISCA members.
No additional workshop fee
- Open exclusively to ISCA members.
Main Conference Schedule
Main Conference Sessions will be held in the Biological Sciences Building – BS & the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science – CCIS – Located on the North edge of campus, along Saskatchewan Drive. Specific session locations will be updated closer to conference dates.
| Date | Day 1 – Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Day 2 – Friday, June 26, 2026 | Day 3 – Saturday, June 27, 2026 | Day 4 – Sunday, June 28, 2026 | Day 5 – Monday June 29, 2026 |
| Morning 08:30-12:00 | Pre-Conference Workshops (Additional Fee) | Opening Remarks Keynote Lecture 1 Parallel Sessions | Keynote Lecture 2 Parallel Sessions | Keynote 3 Parallel Sessions | Parallel Sessions |
| Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 | ISCA Member Lunch Workshop | Meet-the-Professor | Meet-the-Professor | Poster Sessions | |
| Afternoon 1:00-5:00 | Registration Open 1:00pm – 5:00 pm | Parallel Sessions | Parallel Sessions | Parallel Sessions 4:30-5:30 – General Assembly Announcement of the Schegloff best student paper & ICCA 2030 location | 1:30-3:00 Parallel Session 3:30 – 4:30 – Keynote 4 4:30-5:30 Special Plenary Session in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff 5:30 – 5:45 Closing Ceremony |
| Evening | Welcome Reception – Timms Center for the Arts 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Conference Dinner – Fairmont Hotel Macdonald ($52.50 Early Bird / $63 Regular) – 7PM |
*Schedule subject to change based on speaker availability
