New Developments in Ethnomethodology 2025
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Description
New Developments in Ethnomethodology 2025 is an international workshop that brings together PhD candidates and early- and mid-career researchers to assess the state-of-the-art in ethnomethodological (EM) inquiry.
We aim to assess emergent research trends, explore the place of EM's radical tradition in contemporary social inquiry, and develop new research networks and partnerships.
The meeting is open to anyone interested in EM research and there is no registration cost for the event.
Assistant Professor Patrick Watson leads the organizing committee for this workshop which will take place July 7-9, 2025, at University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies.
About New Developments in Ethnomethodology workshops
New Developments is a workshop series dedicated, among other things, to platforming graduate students and early career scholars (ECRs) working in sociology and its cognate disciplines from an ethnomethodological perspective. It brings together ECRs and mid-career scholars, with an aim to producing new collaborations, networks, and opportunities to seek funding to support ethnomethodologically-informed ECRs.
Previous meetings have been held at Liverpool University, UK (2018), Gothe University Frankfurt, Germany (2019), Gothenburg University, Sweden (2023) and Sogang University, Korea (2024). 2025 will mark the first occasion New Developments has been hosted in North America.
The University of Toronto is perhaps not the first institution that comes to mind when thinking about ethnomethodology. However, there is a history at the institution that extends several decades and generations of ethnomethodologists. The University has, at various times, been home to Dorothy Smith, Michael Lynch, Ian Hacking, James Heap, Peter Eglin, Gus Brannigan, and other noted Ethnomethodologists. Harold Garfinkel visited U of T and the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (CrimSL) in 1980 and 1981 and had considerable impact on CrimSL scholars. The 2025 meeting will aim to recapture some of the energy and excitement of those early days of ethnomethodology, as well as showcasing ethnomethodological inquiry to scholars currently working at U of T.
Questions?
Questions about the event can be sent to patrick.watson@utoronto.ca.