2020
Between wilderness and lab: Exploring gestures in interdisciplinary groups
15.07.2020 lecture series “Creating a Common Basis” of the CRC 1410 Hybrid Societies.
2019
Ohne Worte „sprechen“ – Die Rolle des Körpers in der Kommunikation
12.12.2019 Workshop „Communication and conflict resolution” at the police in Eichstätt (invited by Manfred Jahner)
Sharing the load – the interplay of verbal and gestural negation in Savosavo
06.06.2019 LingCologne2019: Multimodality Conference on a multimodal view of language and the interactions of different language modalities, University of Cologne, together with Claudia Wegener, download poster
Sharing the load – the interplay of verbal and gestural negation in Savosavo
28.03.2019 Vielfaltslinguistik III – Konferenz zu Typologie und Feldforschung, University of Cologne, together with Claudia Wegener
2018
Gestenforschung meets DaZ – Zum Potenzial von gestischen Praktiken in der Sprachvermittlung
18.12.2018 Linguistisches Kolloquium der Germanistischen Linguistik Bayreuth (invited by Karin Birkner), together with Silva Ladewig
Mit den Händen sprechen – Gesten und ihre Relevanz für Sprache und Sprachvermittlung
15.11.2018, Workshop “Einstellungen zu gesprochener Sprache: Erwartungen und Stereotype”, Universität Koblenz-Landau Campus Landau (invited by Jan Georg Schneider)
Stimme, Körper, Affekt – Neuere Erkenntnisse der Kommunikationsforschung für polizeiliche Einsatzsituationen
09.10.2018, workshop for police and social scientists “Deeskalation durch Kommunikation: Konzepte zur polizeilichen Aus- und Fortbildung”, Bamberg (invited by Albin Muff)
Kulturelle Diversität sprachlicher und körperlicher Praktiken im DaZ-Unterricht
14. September 2018, conference of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) e.V., theme session “Sprachliche Integration von Geflüchteten” (Organizers Karin Birkner, Britta Hufeisen, Peter Rosenberg, Christoph Schröder), together with Uta Großmann & Silva Ladewig
Verbo-gestural negation in Savosavo
5. July 2018, 8th conference of the International Society for Gestures Studies, Cape Town (South Afrika), theme session “Gestural diversity and gestural typology” (organizers Kensy Cooperrider, Olivier Le Guen), together with Claudia Wegener
Handling talk in German and Savosavo – A cross-linguistic perspective on discursive functions of gestures
8. July 2018, 8th conference of the International Society for Gestures Studies, Cape Town (South Afrika), theme session “The Diversity of Recurrency: Recurrent gestures across cultures” (organizers Simon Harrison, Jana Bressem, Silva Ladewig), together with Claudia Wegener
sägen, schrauben, stecken – Wer macht was wie womit wo und wann?
16. February 2018, scientific symposium on gesture research, exhibition “Gestures – in the past, present, and future” 14. until 16. February 2018 at the Saxon Museum of Industry, Chemnitz, together with Ellen Fricke and Daniel Schöller
Recurrent gestures in interaction
2. February 2018, Rhythm and sound in performative practices and psychotherapy, FRIAS, Freiburg together with Silva Ladewig (invited by Stefan Pfänder)
2017
Wischen, werfen, halten – Handlungen als Quelle für konventionalisierte Gesten des Alltagsgebrauchs
15th International Congress of the German Society for Semiotics, Passau, theme session “Objektgebrauch als Zeichenprozess in „realen“ und virtuellen Welten: Wie aus Handlungen Gesten werden” (organizers: Jana Bressem, Ellen Fricke, Irene Mittelberg, Roland Posner)
Lemmatization and Meaning Representation of Gestures in an Electronic Dictionary
5. eLex Konferenz (electronic lexicography), Leiden, Netherlands, together with Daniel Schöller and Ellen Fricke
Gestures and technological innovation: Metaphorical concepts and empractical speaking as basis for constructing human-machine interfaces
15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Irland, theme session “Empractical speaking and knowledge construction” (organizers: Stefan Hauser and Wolfgang Kesselheim)
Schematicity in gestural repetitions
14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Tartu, Estland, theme session “Specificity and schematicity in gestures and in signed languages” (organizers Cornelia Müller and Terry Janzen)
Gesten zwischen Konvention und Spontanität: Sprachliche Multimodalität aus kognitiv-linguistischer Perspektive
30. June 2017, keynote speech at the GAL Research School „Methodische Zugänge zur mündlichen Kommunikation zwischen Institution, Konvention und Individualität“, Halle (invited by Clara Finke)
2016
From embodiment to construction – The case of away gestures
31. October 2016, International Workshop Methods in Multimodal Communication Research (MeMuMo), Moscow State Linguistic University, together with Cornelia Müller (invited by Alan Cienki)
Recurrent gestures in Savosavo – the case of sweeping and holding away
19. July 2016, 7th ISGS 2016 “Gesture – Creativity – Multimodality”, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, together with Nicole Stein and Claudia Wegener
Ambiguität in Rede und Geste
24. June 2016, Workshop “Ambiguität und Medien” an der Universität Tübingen (invited by Nicolas Potysch)
Recurrent gestural patterns and the notion of multimodal constructions
10.03. 2016, Workshop “Towards a Multimodal Construction Grammar”, Osnabrück (invited by Elisabeth Zima)
Recurrence in gestures
11.03. 2016, Workshop “Towards a Multimodal Construction Grammar”, Osnabrück (invited by Elisabeth Zima), together with Irene Mittelberg
Verbo–kinesic constructions
4. March 2016, Workshop „Media Archives and Corpus Analysis“, FU Berlin together with Silva H. Ladewig and Cornelia Müller (invited by Center for Advanced Film Studies “Cinepoetics“, FU Berlin)
Konventionalisierte Gesten des Alltagsgebrauchs
27. January 2016, lecture series „Mit den Händen sprechen“ (TU Chemnitz) at the Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz
Grammatik der Gesten: Struktur und Funktionen von Gesten im Sprachgebrauch
14. January 2016, Symposium “Gesten gestalten – Spielräume zwischen Sichtbarkeit und Hörbarkeit” at the university for der Hochschule fürr Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“, Leipzig (invited by Constanze Rora)
2015
Körperperformanz in Buchtrailern
30. October 2015, Workshop “BuchFilmWerbung. Der Buchtrailer als Kunstform und Marketinginstrument” in Chemnitz
Einführung in Multimodalität und Gestenforschung
30. September 2015, Workshop at the annual conference “Stimme-Medien-Sprechkunst” of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprechwissenschaft und Sprecherziehung (DGSS) in Marburg (invited by Eva-Maria Gauß)
Structuring and highlighting speech – Discursive functions of holding away gestures in Savosavo
03. September 2015, International conference GESPIN 2015, Nantes, Frankreich (together with Nicole Stein and Claudia Wegener)
Conceptualizing plurality in speech and gestures
24. July 2015, 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Northumbria University, UK, theme session “Grammar, Speakers’ Gestures, and Conceptualization” (organizers Alan Cienki und Geert Brône)
The family of Away gestures: Embodied roots of negative assessment, refusal, and negation
23. July 2015, 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Northumbria University, UK, theme session “Grammar, Speakers’ Gestures, and Conceptualization” (organizers Alan Cienki und Geert Brône) together with Cornelia Müller
Recurrent gestures in Savosavo: The case of sweeping and holding away
10. February 2015, Linguistic colloquium, University of Bielefeld (invited by Claudia Wegener)
2014
The “Negative-Assessment-Construction”: A multimodal pattern
30.-02. October 2013, 6th International conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Erlangen (together with Cornelia Müller)
The family of Away gestures: Embodied roots of negative assessment, refusal, and negation
8.-11. July 2014, 6th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, San Diego (together with Cornelia Müller)
From embodied practices to coherent islands of meaning: the Away gesture family
03. Februar 2014 Workshop “Speech and gesture: Embodied cultural practices” an der Europa-Universität Viadrina, zusammen mit Cornelia Müller
2013
Ways of constructing action in multimodal communication
12.-15. March 2013, 35th Annual Conference of the
German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Potsdam, theme session “Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages” (organizers: Anika Hübl and Markus Steinbach) (together with Silva H. Ladewig and Cornelia Müller)
Gestural repetitions and the construction of multimodal utterance meaning
12.-15. March 2013, 35th Annual Conference of the
German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Potsdam, theme session “Interface Issues of Gestures and Verbal Semantics and Pragmatics” (organizers: Cornelia Ebert und Hannes Rieser)
2012
Embodied constructions as groundings for multimodal meaning
11. October 2012, 5th International conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Freiburg
Forming multimodal utterances: Semantic and syntactic integration of gestures into speech
10. September, 43. Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Poznan, Poland. Theme session “Multimodality in interpersonal communication: empirical evidence and theoretical explanation” (organizer: Cornelia Müller) (together with Silva H. Ladewig)
Duplicating gestures signs and words: Similarities of repetitions across modalities
24. July 2012, 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Lund (Sweden), Theme session „Gestures and their relation to speech and sign“ (Organizers: Silva H. Ladewig, Jana Bressem and Simon Harrison)
2011
Image-schemas, metonymy, and metaphor in gestural negation
18. october, lecture series “Os Sentidos da Gestualidade”, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil (invited by Evani Viotti)
From embodied experience to grammatical notion: image-schemas, metonymy, and metaphor in gestural negation
26.-28. October, 4th. International Conference on “Metaphor in Language and Thought”, Porto Alegre, Brazil (together with Cornelia Müller and Ellen Fricke)
2010
Recurrent gestures: Families of manual actions as bases of gesture families
25. July ISGS 2010, Frankfurt (Oder), (together with Cornelia Müller & Ellen Fricke)
Pounding the verbal utterance: forms and functions of beats
27. July ISGS 2010, Frankfurt (Oder)
Was unser Körper weiß – Vermittlung von Wissen durch Gesten
09. July, Symposium “Das Wechselspiel der Wissensformen”, TU-Berlin
Konferenzorganisation: Strukturierung – Planung – Arbeitsformen
23. March, NASCH: Nachwuchs aus den Schlüsselthemen, together mit Silva H. Ladewig
2009
Recurrent gestures: Protoforms of linguistic structures in gestures
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)
2008
Gestural communication in apes – a comparative approach
09. – 12. October, DGS, Stuttgart, together with Katja Liebal
Clusters of image schematic patterns in coverbal gestures
25. – 27. September 2008, GCLA, Leipzig
Theme Session “Motivation in gesture: Image and motor schemas and their metaphorical extensions” (Organizers: Irene Mittelberg, Cornelia Müller)
Discovering structures in gestures on the basis of the four parameters of sign language
27. – 29. February, DGfS, Bamberg together with Silva H. Ladewig
2007
Systematic distribution of form features in coverbal gestures-applying corpus linguistics in gesture research
8. – 13. july, IPrA, Göteborg, Schweden
2006
Gestik als Medium: Zur Struktur und Bedeutung redebegleitender Gesten
July Universität Potsdam