Culture is largely instantiated and reproduced through face-to-face interaction. At the same time, culture can be created and transformed in such encounters, when new ideas are infused with significance and old ones are found to be inadequate to the interactional challenges at hand. This workshop brings together faculty and students from several Penn and other Philadelphia-area colleges and universities for informal talks and discussion about culture and interaction. Some speakers present polished work, but the workshop aims to be useful to early-stage research, so most sessions center on research proposals and early drafts of papers