Organization of tutorials, conferences, workshops, and summer school courses

The net-zero agenda and its local impacts on place attachment, communities and livelihoods. Full-day online workshop at Bangor University, 4 March 2022, organised by the Places of Climate Change Research Centre.

Places of Climate Change. Mini workshop at PLATIAL 2021, 16 December 2021 (online).

Representing and Solving Spatial Problems. Funded Dagstuhl Seminar, December 6-10, 2021, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Organised with Paulo Santos, Pedro Fernandez, Zoe Falomir, and Christian Freksa† (in memoriam).

Speaking of Location 2019: Communicating about Space. Full-day workshop and CODA tutorial at COSIT 2019, 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Regensburg, September 9-13, 2019. Organized with Kristin Stock and Christopher Jones.

Using verbal protocols to support diagram design. Tutorial at Diagrams 2018: 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, June 18th-22nd 2018.

CogSci 2017: 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Co-organized jointly with Glenn Gunzelmann, Andrew Howes, and Eddy Davelaar.

Analysing discourse relations in natural language: The case of space and time. Full-day Tutorial at CogSci 2016, Philadelphia, USA, August 10.

6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference UK-CLC6 2016, Bangor University, UK, 19 - 22 July 2016. Conference organization jointly with Anouschka Foltz, Alan Wallington, Javier Olloqui Redondo, and Sarah Josephine Ryan.

Cognitive Discourse Analysis and Discourse Relations. Workshop at Fribourg University, Switzerland, November 24, 2015 (funded through the Swiss equivalent for Erasmus).

Combining Cognitive Discourse Analysis and Reader-Response methodologies. Workshop at Bangor University, UK, September 21, 2015.

Theme Session Cognitive Discourse Analysis at ICLC-13, 20-25 July 2015 at Northumbria University, Newcastle, England.

Flooding and risk communication. Seminar organisation (with Lynda Yorke) in the MPC Media and Persuasive Communication Network, Bangor University, UK, Jan 28, 2015; followed by: Workshop on Flooding and risk communication, May 12, 10am-5pm, Bangor University, UK (with Lynda Yorke, Saskia Pagella, and David Jones).

Cognitive Discourse Analysis and Spatial Cognition. Workshop at the 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Lancaster University, UK, July 29-31, 2014.

How to analyse language to access cognitive processes. Workshop at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, May 5-8, 2014 (funded through the Swiss equivalent for Erasmus).

How to analyse language to access cognitive processes. Workshop at Bremen University, Germany, January 7-9, 2014 (funded through Erasmus).

COSIT 2013: Conference on Spatial Information Theory. September 2-4, 2013, Scarborough, UK.

Language and Space. Course at the International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute (ISCSI), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, August 18-25, 2013.

How to analyze verbal protocols. Half day tutorial at the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society CogSci 2013, July 31–August 3, 2013, Berlin, Germany.

How to analyze verbal protocols to support cognitive modeling. Half-day tutorial at ICCM 2013, July 11-14, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.

Cognitive Discourse Analysis. Course at the Summer School in Cognitive Linguistics, Bangor University, July 22-26, 2013.

Understanding spatial thought through language use. Half day tutorial at Spatial Cognition (International Conference), August 31-September 03, 2012, Abbey Kloster Seeon, Germany.

Understanding cognitive processes through language use. Half day tutorial at ICCM International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Berlin, Germany, April 13-15, 2012.

Understanding spatial thought through language use. Full day tutorial at COSIT 2011: Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Belfast, Maine, USA, September 12-16th 2011.

Spatial Behaviour and Linguistic Representation. Collaborative Interdisciplinary Specialized Workshop
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study HWK), April 23-24, 2010

Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration. Workshop at COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac’h, France, September 21st, 2009

Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language. Workshop at LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, 31 May 2008

The language of space and time. Panel as part of the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, 8-13 July 2007, Göteborg, Sweden

Symposium: Spatial Reasoning and Communication. AISB’07, April 2nd-5th 2007, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (5th Workshop on Language and Space), October 23-25, 2005, Delmenhorst, Germany