This article reports that the Speech Communication Association and the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts will host a Doctoral Honors Seminar on October 5-8, 1988. The seminar will explore situated talk and communication theory. The seminar will include Scott Jacobs, Gerry Philipsen, and Robert Sanders, several members of the host institution, and a selected cadre of doctoral students who will discuss the links between situated discursive practices and communication theory. The seminar is open to participants in the latter stages of their graduate program who examine mediated or non-mediated talk, from any of a variety of perspectives such as conversation analysis, performance studies, ethnomethodology, ethnography of communication, speech act theory, critical theory, rhetorical criticism, constructivism, coordinated management of meaning, semiotics, cultural studies. board for the conference. Application should be made by submitting a paper or excerpt pt dissertation, a brief letter of application and a letter of nomination from the adviser. These should be sent to Donal Carbaugh, Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts. Travel expenses should be provided by the home institution. The University of Massachusetts