LISO Seminar Series (Fall 2024)

Coordinator: Amy Kyratzis (Education)

Time: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Venue: Education Building 1205; Zoom (click here to join)

November 1, 2024 (Zoom only)

Jianhong Lin (Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Japan)

"Nested Position Reimagined: How Children Adjust and Shape Family Reading Habitus"

November 8, 2024 (Zoom only)

Rebekah Jeanne Austin (Berkeley School of Education, University of California, Berkeley)

"Corporeal Communication: Rethinking Stimming as Autistic Language"

November 22, 2024 (hybrid)

Kevin Whitehead and Gene Lerner (Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

"When Personal Names Are Mentioned in Conversations: Presumed Known, Perhaps Known, and Presumed Unknown"

LISO Data Sessions (Fall 2024)

Coordinator: Marat Zheng (Sociology)

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Venue: SSMS 3410 (Human Observatory); Zoom (click here to join)

Note: Click here for some LISO data session FAQs - if you are a first-time presenter/attendee!

October 4, 2024 (hybrid)

A random piece of conversational interaction from the classic CA database - we will be making unmotivated observations about it as an analyzing practice.

October 11, 2024 (hybrid)

Munira Kairat (Education, University of California, Santa Barbara)

“What Are You?” Membership Category Construction of Central Asian Americans in the United States (1.5/2nd generation youths)

October 18, 2024 (hybrid)

Marat Zheng (Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

A telephone call in English between a supposed local Residents’ Committee representative in Shanghai, China, and a foreign resident, during the Shanghai lockdown in 2022 due to Covid-19. The ‘official’ calls to tell the foreign resident to go to the ‘camp’ for isolation. One of the series of telephone calls leaked and circulated on Chinese social media at that time.

October 25, 2024 (hybrid)

Munira Kairat (Education, University of California, Santa Barbara)

“What Are You?” Membership Category Construction of Central Asian Americans in the United States (1.5/2nd generation youths) - 2nd session!

November 1, 2024 (hybrid)

André Buscariolli (Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

A collection of police encounters involving individuals going through mental health crisis.

November 8, 2024

No Session Planned!

November 15, 2024

No Session Planned!

November 22, 2024 (hybrid)

Alejandro Anaya Ramírez (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México)

"Innovative quotative markers during an interaction of a trans and non-binary community of practice in Mexico"

In this fragment of spontaneous conversation, Sabrina, a member of a community of practice, shares with other members an experience she had with someone who tried to ask her out but failed. During this narrative, Sabrina shares her own thoughts and evaluations about the situation through direct quotes introduced by innovative quotative markers like: Y yo (and I) and Y yo así de que (And I was like) that allow her to dramatize the story and engage the audience. Other members of the community "chime" in the narrative also by using direct quotes in order to make it more engaging and entertaining. This type of narration in this community of practice is known as bufe and it shares some characteristics with chisme, a genre of interaction especially associated with women in Latin American contexts. In my work I'm interested in analyzing the social meaning of the innovative quotative markers.

November 29, 2024

Thanksgiving - No Session Planned!

December 6, 2024 (Zoom only)

J Sterphone (Sociology, Wheaton College (MA))

The data constitutes a segment from the cross-examination of a State Trooper (state's witness) involved in a fairly high profile court case involving the alleged hit-and-run of a Boston police officer by his long-time girlfriend.

A note from J: I’ve selected a somewhat lengthy clip (albeit with some internal video playing, so there is also a good bit of dead air) for what I'm electing to call unmotivated looking. It is part of a particular project with particular aims, but at present it is still early days and I would rather put the data forward with little context of the project to see what comes of it. I'm happy to provide more information if that would be helpful!