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talks
2011 26.-28. October, Fourth International Conference on "Metaphor in Language and Thought", Porto Alegre, Brazil together with Cornelia Müller and Ellen Fricke
From embodied experience to grammatical notion: image-schemas, metonymy, and metaphor in gestural negation
 2010 04.- 07. October, Fourth conference of German society for cognitive linguistics, Bremen
Focusing attention through prosody and gestural repetitions: the multimodal creation of salience       

25. - 30. July ISGS 2010, Frankfurt (Oder)
Pounding the verbal utterance: forms and functions of beats       

25. - 30. July ISGS 2010, Frankfurt (Oder) together with Cornelia Müller und Ellen Fricke
Theme session "Towards a grammar of gesture" (Organizers: Cornelia Müller, Ellen Fricke, Katja Liebal und Hedda Lausberg)     Recurrent gestures: families of manual actions as bases of gesture families
2009 24. - 26. September, GESPIN together with Cornelia Müller and Ellen Fricke
Theme Session: "Towards a grammar of gesture" (Organizers: Jana Bressem, Silva Ladewig, Cornelia Müller, Susanne Tag)
Recurrent gestures: Protoforms of linguistic structures in gestures       

27. - 29. May AFLiCo 3, Paris
Theme Session: "Multimodality and grammatical integration" (Organizers: Ellen Fricke, Simon Harrison)    
Pounding the verbal utterance: forms and functions of beats    

2008

09. - 12. October, DGS, Stuttgart, together with Katja Liebal    
Gestural communication in apes - a comparative approach        

25. - 27. September 2008, GCLA, Leipzig
Theme Session "Motivation in gesture: Image and motor schemas and their metaphorical extensions" (Organizers: Irene Mittelberg, Cornelia Müller)    
Clusters of image schematic patterns in coverbal gestures        

4. - 7. August, UK-CLA, Brighton, England    
Clusters of image schematic patterns in gestures        

27. - 29. February, DGfS, Bamberg together with Silva H. Ladewig   
Discovering structures in gestures on the basis of the four parameters of sign language

2007 11. October,  MGA I - Methods of Gesture Analysis, Frankfurt (Oder) zusammen mit Silva H. Ladewig   
Gesture Phase notation        

11. October, MGA I - Methods of Gesture Analysis, Frankfurt (Oder) zusammen mit Silva H. Ladewig      
Notation of form features        

8. - 13. July,  IPrA, Göteborg, Schweden    
Systematic distribution of form features in coverbal gestures-applying corpus linguistics in gesture research   

18. - 21. June, ISGS, Chicago, USA    
Recurrent form features in coverbal gestures

2006 Juli Universität Potsdam
Gestik als Medium: Zur Struktur und Bedeutung redebegleitender Gesten        

März, University of Portsmouth, England    
Introduction to ELAN

2005 18. November, Berlin Gesture Center, Berlin    
Eine Einführung in die Gestenanalyse mit ELAN 


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