Prior to the IIEMCA’s establishment in 1989, a number of summer workshops and conferences on ethnomethodology were held at Boston University; in addition, from 1989-1991 the organization sponsored or co-sponsored several international conferences (see HISTORY). Since 2001, several IIEMCA conferences have been held: in July 2011 the conference was held at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in August 2005 at Bentley College, Waltham, MA, in July 2003 and 2001 at Manchester Metropolitan University (see submenu to this one).