Workshop “Social Inequalities, Membership Categorization, and Interactional Asymmetries. EMCA Analyses and Ethnographic Challenges”
Thursday, 16 July 2026, 11:00 - 18:45 Organized by P01

The conference is preceded by a small ‘pre-conference’ on Wednesday afternoon, 15 July, following the research forum, entitled: “Navigating an Archive.”

 

Keynote 

Waverly Duck, who will be traveling to Siegen from UC Santa Barbara, will give the keynote lecture:

“Negroes Gone Wrong”: Pauli Murray, Passing, and the Interactional Practices of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Garfinkel’s 1940 “Color Trouble”

The keynote will take place in Herrengarten, AHA 217/218, on 16 July, from 17:15–18:45h.

 

The rest of the program can be found below. 

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
Herrengarten 3
AH-A 217/18
57072 Siegen

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Program

Program

16.7.2026

Social Inequalities, Membership Categorization, and Interactional Asymmetries: EMCA Analyses and Ethnographic Challenges

11-11:15

Opening and Introductory Remarks
Clemens Eisenmann (University of Konstanz/Siegen) & Lorenza Mondada (U of Basel)

11:15-12:30

Subaltern tasks: what they reveal about the organisation of collective action
Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)

12:30-14

Lunch (Mensa)

14-15:30

Productive asymmetries: Of manuscripts, “members,” and methods; Asymmetries in "Human–Machine" Encounters: Walking, Talking, and Commonality
Philippe Sormani (ZhdK Zürich); Jakub Mlynar (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)

15:30-16

Coffee break

16-17

Preliminary Considerations on a Conversation Analytic Approach to Intersectionality
Kevin Whitehead (UC Santa Barbara)

via zoom
17:15-18:30

“Negroes Gone Wrong”: Pauli Murray, Passing, and the Interactional Practices of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Garfinkel’s 1940 “Color Trouble”
Waverly Duck (UC Santa Barbara)

Keynote talk
18:30-18:45

Concluding discussion
Anne W. Rawls (Bentley University)

19:15

Dinner (Brasserie Ristorante e Piazza, Unteres Schloß 1, 57072 Siegen)

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