Coordinator: Marat Zheng (Sociology)

April 4, 2025

~Unmotivated observations on [TG] (the telephone conversation between Ava and Bee)

 

April 11, 2025

Anastasia Stavridou (Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK)

~Time-out interactions of a university basketball team (video-recorded data)

 

April 18, 2025
André Buscariolli (Sociology, UCSB)

~In this data session, I discuss (mostly positive) interactions between graffiti artists and passers-by in Brazil. The topic of these interactions is the distinction between "traditional" graffiti and picho or pixo (a Brazilian variant of graffiti). The latter is widely regarded as a form of vandalism, and most Brazilians are hostile to it. In cases 1-3, traditional graffiti artists accentuate the differences between traditional graffiti and picho. In case 4, the artist mitigates such differences, casting both styles as part of a similar political project. Importantly, in cases 1-3, artists use their interlocutors' age category to cast them as "outsiders," therefore unable to comprehend the complex relationship between traditional graffiti and picho. In such cases, accentuating the differences allows them to avoid adversarial interactions with passers-by.

      Foremost, I plan to use these interactions to address broad criminological and sociological discussions about the social construction of deviance (and abidance) and the role of aesthetic choices in these constructions. These videos could also be relevant to CA studies about social categories and epistemics.

 

April 25, 2025

NO SESSION PLANNED

 

May 2, 2025
Liz Munday (Sociology, UCSB)

~"Ordinary Harm: What a Little Fish Can Tell Us About a Big Problem"

 

May 9, 2025
Munira Kairat (Education, UCSB)
~“What Are You?” Membership Category Construction of Central Asian Americans in the United States (1.5/2nd generation youths) - Part 3

 

May 16, 2025

Jeffrey Aguinaldo (Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
~Interactional troubles in talk about HIV stigma

 

May 23, 2025

NO SESSION PLANNED - The 27th Annual Conference on LISO at UCSB

 

May 30, 2025

Alejandro Anaya Ramírez (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos)
~Spontaneous conversation between members of a ballroom house in Mexico

 

June 6, 2025

NO SESSION PLANNED