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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:33:30 -0700
From: "Emanuel A. Schegloff" <scheglof@soc.ucla.edu>
To: scheglof@soc.ucla.edu
Subject: Conversation Analytic component of Linguistic Institute, 2001

Dear Colleagues,

Many of you are familiar with the institution known as the Linguistic 
Institute, but many may not be. The Linguistic Institute is now 
convened every two years during the summer time on a different North 
American campus, and serves to focus the attention of linguists, and 
others whose research interests intersect language, on a distinctive 
set of topics.  Designed to bring together faculty, graduate 
students, advanced undergraduate students, researchers and 
independent scholars from around the world to interact intensively on 
shared research preoccupations, the Linguistic Institute is commonly 
found by participants to be among the most stimulating and fulfilling 
academic experiences they have had.

The next Linguistic Institute will be held in the year 2001, from 
June 25 to August 3, on the campus of the University of California at 
Santa Barbara.  Its theoretical theme is to be: "Diversity of 
Language: Why and How Languages Differ?" Its areal theme is to be: 
"Pacific Rim Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Major 
Pacific Rim Languages." Further details on the Institute at its 
current stage of planning may be found on the World Wide Web at the 
following address:

  http://www.summer.ucsb.edu/lsa2001institute.html

Under the aegis of this Linguistic Institute, a number of us are 
planning an intensive exposure to Conversation Analysis -- both as a 
distinctive research undertaking and in its relationship to the 
thematic focus of the Linguistic Institute overall.  Although still 
early in the planning stage, we are contemplating three courses to be 
taught by John Heritage, Gene Lerner, Manny Schegloff and Don 
Zimmerman, with the possible participation of others located in the 
Southern California area.  The general idea is to make available to 
students, colleagues and researchers with some previous exposure to 
Conversation Analysis -- hopefully ranging from intermediate to 
moderately advanced -- an opportunity to renew, refresh and upgrade 
their familiarity with, and understanding of, the literature, and -- 
most centrally -- their capacity to bring the analytic resources at 
their disposal to bear on the data with which we aim to engage.  The 
goal, then, is to help all participants become more astute, more 
competent, and more innovative Conversation Analysts.  In addition, 
we hope to organize a special, one-week long research workshop on 
doing conversation-analytic work on data in a variety of languages 
and in diverse cultural contexts.

At this point, what we need to know most of all is the size of our 
constituency of interest.  We understand that few people know with 
any confidence two years in advance what their life circumstances 
will be and what obligations and resources they will have two years 
later. Still, without making any commitments, we would like to find 
out who might be interested in participating in this Conversation 
Analytic sub-component of the Linguistic Institute during the Summer 
of 2001.

So we have two things to ask of you.

1) If you yourself might be interested in participating, could you 
send an e mail message to the following address: 
<lsa2001@humanitas.ucsb.edu> .  Place <Conversation Analysis> in the 
subject line.  In the body of this e-mail message you should provide 
your name, academic or research affiliation (if any), your preferred 
contact address for the future, a brief description of your past 
exposure to Conversation Analysis, and a short statement of the 
nature of your interest in the CA project under development.  You 
will receive in return an automatically generated message thanking 
you for your interest. This will serve as confirmation that we have 
received your expression of interest (or lack thereof), and we will 
be in touch as relevant as the planning process matures.

2) Whether or not you personally might be interested in participating 
in the Conversation Analytic component of the Linguistic Institute, 
we ask that you pass this message on to others who might be 
interested -- students of yours or teachers, colleagues, friends, 
etc. They are invited to respond in the same fashion. We have done 
our best to direct this message to a broad range of persons who might 
be interested; apologies to those whom we missed and whom we have not 
addressed directly. In some instances, we have relied on some 
individuals to be "portals" to whole constituencies whose names or 
e-mail addresses were not available.

Finally, as to commitment, two things to consider.

First, those contemplating the possibility of participating in the 
Institute in 2001 may have to start planning now -- for example, to 
do next summer what might have been planned for two summers from now. 
Planning for next summer may need to begin soon!

Second, because of housing constraints in Santa Barbara, the 
Linguistic Institute will accommodate no more than 1000 persons -- 
whether students, faculty, visiting scholars, etc. (substantial 
attendance from Pacific Rim countries is anticipated, for example). 
Admission to the Institute will be on a "first come, first served" 
basis.  The first 1000 persons to apply will be accepted. Period.

Manny Schegloff
John Heritage
Gene Lerner
Don Zimmerman