Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture

New Visitor Introductions, 10/23/2019
2019-10-23 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
Join us as we learn about our exciting new CLIC visitors! Featuring:

Josua Damen (PhD Student), MacQuarie University, Australia
Yumei Gan (Phd Student), Chinese University of Hong Kong
Julia Katila (Postdoctoral Researcher of Social Psychology), Tampere University, Finland
Adam Schwartz (Associate Professor of Language, Culture & Society), Oregon State University
Fiona Stevenson (Professor of Medical Sociology), University College London
Simon Stewart (PhD Student), University of Southampton, England

2019 CLIC Annual Reception
2019-10-12 17:30 - 21:00
Join us for our annual reception, a time to catch up with colleagues and friends and to meet our new students and visitors! Please check your email for the event address listed on the invitation and to RSVP. To sign-up for the CLIC email list click here.

Colloquium: Sara Goico, 10/2/2019
2019-10-02 17:30 - 20:30 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
(UCLA Postdoctoral Researcher)
“Navigating Social life in the Classroom Through an Emergent Communication System”

**Please note the time and location change

Susan Gal: CLIC Colloquium
2019-04-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

Steven P. Black: CLIC Colloquium
2019-02-27 17:00 - 20:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

Xiaoting Li: CLIC Colloquium
2018-10-24 17:00 - 20:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

J.P. de Ruiter: CLIC Colloquium
2018-10-10 17:30 - 20:30 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Join us for the first CLIC Colloquium of the academic year! J.P. de Ruiter, Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Tufts University, will be giving a presentation entitled “The Sub-atomic Structure of Social Signals” on Wednesday, October 10th, at 5:30pm in Haines 352. Guests will enjoy dinner afterwards.

2018 CLIC Annual Reception
2018-10-06 17:30 - 21:00
Join us for a special evening of catching up with colleagues and friends and meeting our new students and visitors! Please check your email for the event address and to RSVP, or join the CLIC list-serv to receive event details and updates.

Symposium in Honor of John Heritage, Co-Sponsored with the Department of Sociology
2018-05-17 - 2018-05-18 | UCLA Covel Commons, 200 De Neve Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Register for the Self-Other Relations in Interaction Symposium Here
Contribute to the Memory Book Here
2018 Symposium Program

24th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
2018-04-06 - 2018-04-07 | UCLA Kerckhoff Grand Salon, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Click Here to Register for the 2018 CLIC GSA Conference
Click Here to Register for the Graduate Student Workshops
Click Here for the Conference Program

CLIC Colloquium with Rudolf Gaudio
2018-02-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Rudolf Gaudio, Purchase College SUNY
February 28th, 2018 @ 5:00PM
UCLA Haines Hall 352

Experiencing (In)Competence: A Symposium in Honor of Elinor Ochs, Co-Sponsored with the Department of Anthropology
2018-02-15 - 2018-02-16 | UCLA Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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Register for the Symposium Here
Contribute to the Memory Book Here
Click here for CLIC Travel Resources
Click here for the Event Program

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As humans, we are constantly thrown into unfamiliar contexts, wrought in a fluid world. At the same time, we orient to a sense of normalcy, anchored in hexis. In the midst of this tension, we may discover our own and others’ (In)Competence. (In)Competence is an experiential condition of social action, social life, and social order in motion. Central to this experiential condition is the sense that (In)Competence is imminent: one can become (In)Competent at any moment.
(In)Competence may be framed as an attribute of an individualized performance. Yet, (In)Competence may also be framed as lodged, to borrow from C. Goodwin, in an ecology of human and material resources that afford or restrict (In)Competence. Incompetence, once recognized, sets in motion a range of possible ethical confrontations to a social imperative to become competent. This imperative holds even in the midst of political structures that frame subjects as unworthy or incapable of attaining competence. The ethical confrontation leaves open the questions of what constitutes competence, how is competence gauged, how do we become aware of competence as a potential of our horizon, who gets to be competent, and how.
How do we recognize and experience (In)Competence in ourselves and others? In a Goffmanian spirit, do we catch ourselves performing without competence, embarrassed, ashamed, or fearful, even without others noticing? How do familiars and strangers — along a hierarchy – mark one another as (In)Competent? And how do these (In)Competent-implicative engagements inform and discipline self-making?
The symposium addresses these questions in recognition of their operation within historical regimes and epistemes of (In)Competence. (In)Competence is imbricated in ever evolving (re)calibration and (re)standardization (of, for example, knowledge, expertise, purity, aesthetics, and health) and commodified within economies of value. Moreover, (In)Competence entails forms of labor – with costs and sacrifices – as it is created to stay abreast or ahead of the marketplace.
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Lecture by Lila Gleitman, Co-Sponsored with the Anthropology Discourse Lab and the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology
2018-01-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
January 17th, 2018 @ 5:00PM
This event is being organized by the Anthropology Discourse Lab and co-sponsored by the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture and the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology.

CLIC Winter Launch
2018-01-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
We hope you will join us January 10th, as we celebrate the start of the winter term! The 2018 Winter Launch will feature select presentations by members of our CLIC Community, including our new cohort of visiting researchers. Following this, join us for dinner to catch up with colleagues and friends, or meet new ones. The event will take place 5:00PM January 10th, in Haines Hall 352.

Lecture by Deborah Tannen, Co-Sponsored with the Division of Social Sciences and Women & Philanthropy
2017-11-01 18:00 - 20:00 | California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

CLIC Annual Reception
2017-10-14 17:30 - 21:00
Save the date: More information coming soon!

CLIC Year Launch
2017-10-04 17:30 - 19:30 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
We hope you will join us October 4th, as we celebrate the start of the new academic year! The 2017 Year Launch will feature select presentations by members of our CLIC Community, including our new cohort of visiting researchers. Following this, join us for dinner to catch up with colleagues and friends, or meet new ones. The event will take place 5:30PM October 4th, in Haines Hall 279. Download Event Flyer.

CLIC ELAN Workshop
2017-06-16 10:00 - 16:00 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
Register Here

We are excited to announce that CLIC will be offering a one-day workshop on the transcription program ELAN on Friday June 16, 2017. ELAN is a free professional tool developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics for the annotation of video and audio recordings by creating time-aligned transcription files. It is designed to allow for a great number of use cases, well-suited for efficient transcribing of monologic data as well as for complex annotations of recordings of multi-party interactions. In this workshop, we will learn and practice how to create transcription files, how to add basic glosses, translations, and codes, how to export and import these into/from a variety of other tools, how to export ELAN annotations into subtitles files for videos, and how to create templates and individual user/project-specific workflows. This session will be a general introduction to the program and it’s diverse functions and we have allocated practice time so that participants can begin developing their own templates and workflows.
The workshop will be lead by our very own Jan David Hauck. Jan received his M.A. in sociocultural anthropology from Free University, Berlin in 2008 and his Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology from UCLA in 2016. He has done extensive research on the socialization of children in an indigenous Aché community of Paraguay, analyzing the ideological and interactional constitution of linguistic difference and the development of metalinguistic awareness in a context of language shift and linguistic convergence. Between 2008 and 2013 he took part in a project for the documentation of Aché, part of the DOBES program for endangered languages.

Please register by Friday May 26th if you would like to attend the workshop. If you will attend, please check the preparation/what to bring instructions that follow the workshop schedule below and contact Saskia at smaltz@ucla.edu with questions. Register Here

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Workshop Schedule
*Location Haines 279*
10 – 11am:

Basic introduction to transcribing with ELAN
Conceptual framework (Annotations, Tiers, Types, and Stereotypes)

11am – 12pm:

Practice session
Creating a transcription file
Creating time-aligned annotations

12 – 1pm: Lunch, generously provided by CLIC

1 – 1:30pm:

Advanced (but essential) topics
Different work modes: Annotation mode, Transcription mode, Segmentation mode, Media synchronization mode and
the brand new, super exciting (but still beta) Interlinearization mode
Automation: Silence and speech recognizer, measuring pauses and overlaps, automatic segmentation [tokenizer], etc.

1:30 – 4pm (stay as long as you like in this slot):

Practice session
Creating linguistic types
Creating parent and child tiers for translations and coding
Creating personalized templates and workflows
Controlled vocabularies
Import and export (Praat, Toolbox, Transcripts, Subtitles)

Preparation and what to bring
If you cannot bring your own computer, please send us an email, there will be computers available.
Please download ELAN for free at: https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/download/
(Mac users simply unzip the file and drag the entire folder into their applications folder. Windows and Linux users have to run the installer.)
Please also download the following 3 PDF documents from: https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/

Full manual. The manual is good to have on your computer for doing text searches for specific functions, I wouldn’t recommend anyone reading or even printing the 300+ pages 🙂
How-to Guide. Please print the How-to Guide and bring it to the workshop. It’s 15 pages of concise and precise step-by-step instructions, which we will practice. (I personally find it more useful and intuitive then the 25-page “User Guide” also available at the same website but if you want you can also read that one.)
(For minimalists) the A4 Guide.

If you can, please bring a short ca. 30-40 seconds video or audio clip of your own data (please not longer than a minute!) in order to start setting up your own templates/workflows. I will have a sample clip in order to get started.
Additional software (all free to download) which you may find useful and we may cover on the day:
TextWrangler (to see/edit the XML structure of ELAN files): http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html
Praat (for phonetic analysis): http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
(on the Mac: 64-bit edition for anyone with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and higher)
VLC (cross-platform media player, the easiest way of adding subtitles): http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Mac only, for those who do not have Quick Time 7 Pro:
QT Amateur (free program that can export all the Quick Time 7 compatible formats, in case you need to extract the audio file from videos)
https://www.mikeash.com/software/qtamateur/

23rd Annual LISO & CLIC GSA Conference (UC Santa Barbara)
2017-05-19 08:00 - 2017-05-20 17:00 | UC Santa Barbara Humanities and Social Sciences Building, University Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
We hope you will join us for the 23rd Annual Conference presented by LISO & CLIC GSA!
Please visit the conference website at: http://www.liso.ucsb.edu/conferences
For carpooling information, please email cbergen [at] ucla [dot] edu

“Encounter and Interface”
May 19-20, 2017
University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 13th, 2017

Simultaneity in Action Symposium: Celebrating the Careers of Charles and Marjorie Goodwin
2017-04-28 09:00 - 17:00 | UCLA Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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2017 Program

Simultaneity in Action Symposium: Opening Reception
2017-04-27 17:00 - 19:00 | UCLA Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Registration is still open for the 2017 CLIC Symposium: Simultaneity in Action, Celebrating the Careers of Charles and Marjorie Goodwin. You can register here and find event information here.

A Career Retrospective: Celebrating the Careers of Charles and Marjorie Goodwin
2017-04-27 09:00 - 17:00 | UCLA Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
REGISTRATION CLOSED
This event has reached capacity. However, registration is still open for CLIC’s “Simultaneity in Action Symposium: Celebrating the Careers of Charles and Marjorie Goodwin”

CLIC Colloquium: Alexa Hepburn (Rutgers University)
2017-04-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

CLIC Spring Launch
2017-04-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

CLIC Colloquium: Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
2017-02-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

CLIC Colloquium: Justin B. Richland (University of Chicago)
2017-02-08 17:30 - 19:30 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095

CLIC Colloquium: Anita Pomerantz (University of Albany, SUNY)
2017-01-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
CLIC Colloquium with Anita Pomerantz
Professor Emerita, Communication
University of Albany, State University of New York

CLIC Winter Launch
2017-01-11 17:30 - 19:30 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095

CLIC Colloquium: Lori Labotka (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
2016-11-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Haines 279, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
Please note that this event will be held in Haines Hall 279
CLIC Colloquium with Lori Labotka
Professor of Anthropology
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

CLIC Colloquium: Sarah Hillewaert (University of Toronto)
2016-11-02 17:15 - 19:15 | Haines 352, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
CLIC Colloquium with Sarah Hillewaert
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus
“Being a Respectful Urbanite. Everyday Negotiations Of Virtue Ethics Among Muslim Women In Coastal Kenya.”
This talk discusses the different ways in which Muslim women in Lamu (Kenya) anticipate possible evaluations of their public presence. Specifically, it considers how subtle shifts in women’s comportment are informed by multiple, often conflicting, possibilities for interpretation that inhabit imagined bodies, social positions, and locations within Lamu town. By discussing how such reflexivity informs everyday behaviors, the talk considers the connections between the moral ordinary, virtue ethics, and semiotic value.
Please note the 5:15PM start time!
