Conferences and Workshops
| Date | |
|---|---|
07/25 | Panel organization "A multi-approach study of recurrent gestures and linguistic particles across languages” at the 10th International Conference of the ISGS (ISGS 2025), co-organized with Simon Harrison and Suwei Wu Nijmegen/Netherlands. |
06/2025 | Pre-Conference Workshop "Multimodal Negation: Foundations and Dynamics" at the 10th International Conference of the ISGS (ISGS 2025), co-organized with Simon Harrison and Suwei Wu, Nijmegen/Netherlands. |
05/2025 | Workshop "Multimodal prominence" co-organized with Frank Kügler, Pielar Prieto, Susanne Fuchs, Alexandra Cwiek, Katja Liebal, Frederica Amici (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/ Main) |
02/2025 | Workshop "Dimensions of Iconicity in the Visual Modality” mit Markus Steinbach, Nina-Kristin Meister, Mailin Antomo, Yuqiu Chen, Thomas Finkbeiner, Patrick Trettenbein (University of Göttingen) |
08/2024 | DGfS summer school 2024, seminar on „How meaning emerges in gestures. A cognitive-semiotic approach“, Goettingen. |
10/2015-9/2016 | Co-organizer of the "Viadrina Open Lecture Series" for refugees living in Brandenburg, students and employees of the Viadrina and Frankfurt residents |
07/2018 | Panel organization "The Diversity of Recurrency: Recurrent gestures cross-linguistically" at the 8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) in Cape Town (together with Jana Bressem and Simon Harrison). |
02/2018-08/2022 | Organization of the Viadrina Gesture Center of the European University Viadrina. |
11/2017 | Organization of the 4th international workshop "Mapping multimodal communication" (MaMuD 4, together with Dorothea Horst and Lena Hotze). |
07/2012 | Panel organization "Gestures and their relation to speech and sign" (together with Jana Bressem and Simon Harrison) at the fifth conference of the ISGS, Lund University, Sweden. |
07/2010 | Organization of the workshop "Methods of Gesture Analysis I+II", Frankfurt (Oder), with Jana Bressem and Cornelia Müller. |
04/2007-09/2009 | Organization of the interdisciplinary colloquium of the Berlin Gesture Center (BGC). |
Scientific activities
Expertises for scientific publishers, journals and foundations
German Research Fund (DFG), Belgium Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S. - FNRS)
Publishers & Journals: John Benjamins, De Gruyter, Brill Verlag, Glossa, Journal of Pragmatics, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, Gesture, Language Resources and Evaluation, Journal of Multimodal Communication Studies
Member of the scientific committee
- International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-4, 2020/22)
- International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC, 2019, 2021, 2025)
- UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UKCLC 2020)
- Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- International Society for Gesture Studies Conference (ISGS, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2025)
- LingCologne (2025)
- International Conference on Multimodal Communication (2017)
Memberships
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft,
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik
- International Pragmatics Association
- International Cognitive Linguistics Association
- International Society for Gesture Studies
- Researching and Applying Metaphor