Steve Clayman Visit - March 30th-April 1

Mark your calendar for two events involving Professor Steve Clayman
from UCLA later in March:

1. Sociology Departmental Colloquium: Wednesday, March 30, 12:15 p.m.,
Sewell Social Sci. Bldg, room 8417

Questioning Authority: The White House Press Corps as Watchdog,
Lapdog, or Attack Dog?

2. Data session with Steve Clayman: Friday, April 1, 3-5:00 p.m. in 8108 Sewell (Havens Center).

Steven E. Clayman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research concerns the interface between talk, interaction, and social institutions, with an emphasis on journalism and the mass media. He has examined broadcast new interviews, presidential news conferences, political speeches, and various forms of journalistic gatekeeping. He has authored more than forty articles and is the co-author (with John Heritage) of The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures On the Air (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

A talk by John Rae, Roehampton University, London England

Social Psychology and Microsociology (SPAM) presents:

Prof. John Rae, Department of Psychology, Roehampton University, London England

"Passing stuff: How do humans accomplish manual object transfers?"

Friday, January 21

12:05-1:30

2435 Sewell Social Science

John Rae is a conversation and discourse analyst whose research interests include:

Language, interaction and communication generally
Talk and body movement in social interaction
Multimodal interaction
Interactions involving persons with a challenged capacity (e.g. people with aphasia or with an autistic

spectrum disorder)
Tele-mediated interaction; Computer-mediated communication
Philosophy of the social sciences