Invited Talks

• Invited keynote at ILANSCO 2026 in Prague, 16-18 September 2026.

• Invited keynote at the BAAL Vocab SIG conference at Bangor University, 28 May 2026.

• Invited talk “Using Cognitive Discourse Analysis to address the role of place attachment for climate change engagement”, Bangor-Umeå Doctoral Symposium, 1 September 2025.

• Invited Insight Wales online talk: “The role of discourse and place attachment in climate change research”. Environment Platform Wales, 8 January 2025.

• Invited talk “Language, identity and place” at ISWE seminar series, 28 October 2024.

• Invited talk “The role of discourse and place attachment in climate change research” at CEUMA collaborative workshop, Bangor University, 28 August 2024.

• Invited keynote for Bangor University Postgraduate Conference in the College of Arts, Humanities and Business, 22 March 2023.

• Invited CODA presentation for the Psycholinguistics Lab at Paderborn University, 10 January 2023 (online).

• Invited keynote for The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA2022), Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 14-16 December 2022 (online).

• “Why talking about places matters in times of climate change”: Talk at the RECLAIM Webinar series, 5 October 2022 (online).

• Invitation to present on the Places of Climate Change Research Centre, 10 Feb 2022, to the Gweithredu Hinsawdd Gogledd Orllewin Cymru N.W. Wales Climate Action Group (online).

• SellSTEM Workshop lecture: Cognitive principles of spatial language, reference systems, and how to analyse them in discourse. November 17, 2021 (online).

• Invited talk at the workshop on Space, language & cognition: perspectives on architecture and urban design, ZHAW Winterthur, Switzerland, November 9, 2021 (online).

• The language of place. Invited talk at the Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lectureship, University of Santa Barbara, 21 October 2021 (online).

• Beyond physical robots: How to achieve joint spatial reference with a smart environment. Invited talk at the workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) at ACL/EMNLP 2021, August 5-6 (online).

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: a method for analysing thoughts and concepts through language. Invited talk at the Texas A&M University at Commerce, 25 March 2021 (online).

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: a method for analysing thoughts and concepts through language. Invited talk at the University of Winchester, 4 November 2020 (online).

• Invited lecture and workshop at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, 18-19 December 2019.

• Invited keynote at PLATIAL’19 in Warwick, 5-6 September 2019.

• Invited lecture at the workshop on Qualitative Space in the Digital Humanities, Leeds, UK, 24 April 2019.

• Invited lecture and seminar on Cognitive Discourse Analysis at the Workshop in experimental linguistics: from field to lab, Tartu University, Estonia, 8-12 April 2019.

• How our language reveals how we understand the world – and who we are. Invited talk, CLCR research seminar series, Cardiff University, November 28, 2018.

• How a language represents flexible spatial thinking across everyday domains. Psychology Seminar Series, Bangor University, November 9, 2018.

• Linguistic spatial reference systems across everyday domains: How people talk about space in sailing, dancing, and horse riding. Invited talk, symposium “From fieldwork to modelling: Explaining the variability of linguistic spatial referencing systems”, 7th International Conference for Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2018), Rome, Italy, Sept 10-14, 2018.

• Language as a Representation of Spatial Thinking: Exploring Everyday Domains. Invited talk, Bremen Spatial Cognition Center, Bremen University, Germany, July 2, 2018.

• How our language reveals how we understand the world – and who we are. Invited talk, University of the 3rd Age, Capel Berea, Bangor, Wales, UK, May 24, 2018.

• Language as a representation of spatial thinking: Exploring everyday domains. Invited talk, Symposium on “Space in Text, Language, Mind: An Interdisciplinary Discussion”, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland, April 13th, 2018.

• Analysing discourse relations in natural language: The case of space and time. Invited talk, Cognitive linguistics research seminar series, Lancaster University, Dec 7, 2017.

• Analysing discourse relations in natural language: The case of space and time. Linguistics Circle Lecture Series, Bangor University, Wales, UK, November 15, 2017.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis of spatiotemporal reference frames in natural discourse. Invited talk at the Second International Workshop on Models and Representations in Spatial Cognition, Tübingen, Germany, April 6 – 7, 2017.

• What your language reveals about your mind: Cognitive Discourse Analysis. Invited research seminar, Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle, November 23, 2016.

• Invited lecture and workshop: New paths of Research in Linguistics, Universidad Complutense Madrid, January 18, 2016.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis. Linguistic Colloquium, Faculty for Linguistics and Literary Sciences, LMU Munich, January 13, 2016.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis. Invited guest lecture, Fribourg University, Switzerland, 26 November 2015.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: What language use can reveal about mental representations and concepts. Invited talk, Middlesex University, Hendon (UK), 13 January 2015.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis for GIScience: What language use can tell us about spatial cognition. Invited talk at the GIScience colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 11, 2014.

• A model of reference frames for spatial and temporal language. Invited talk at the Sony Computer Science Lab at Paris, France, November 7, 2014.

• Invited participation - Active discussant at the CDA20+ Symposium organised by the Amsterdam Critical Discourse Community, Amsterdam, 8-9 September 2014.

• A model of reference frames for spatial and temporal language. Workshop on Perspectivization in Language: Source - Goal Asymmetry in Motion Events, Deixis, and Frames of Reference, Berlin, July 25/26, 2014.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis of Ambiguity in Dialogue. With Gesa Schole. Graduiertenkolleg 1808 Ambiguitaet - Produktion und Rezeption, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, June 26, 2014.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: A method for addressing cognitive processes and heuristics. Workshop Heuristic Mechanisms in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems, 8 – 9 October 2013, Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Germany.

• A model of reference frames for spatial and temporal language. Colloquium talk, University of Exeter, May 30, 2013.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: What your language reveals about your mind. ETH Zurich, May 27, 2013.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis for Wayfinding and Origami. Colloquium talk, Cognitive Science Institute at Osnabrück, Germany, May 1, 2013.

• Basic concepts underlying spatial reference frames across languages. Invited talk at the International colloquium “Räumliche Relationen – Relations spatiales – Spatial relations”, January 25-26, 2013, LACITO / Paris and Linguistics / Bremen.

• Invited talk to the Diagrammatic and Spatial Reasoning Group, Centre for Applied Psychological Research, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, January 14, 2013.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: Seeing how people think by analysing what they say. Linguistics Circle, Nov 28, 2012, School of Linguistics and English Language, Bangor University, UK.

• What your language reveals about your mind. Cognitive Discourse Analysis. Bangor Linguistics Society, October 30, 2012, Bangor University, UK.

• Kognition, Kommunikation & Raum (Cognition, communication and space). Retreat of the Research Training Group “Advances in Digital Media”, Stadland-Seefeld, April 27-29, 2012, Universität Bremen.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: Linguistic structure and human thought. Colloquium at Tufts University, Boston, September 9, 2011.

• Reference frames of space and time in language. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Prof. Luc Steels), Brussels, Belgium, May 20, 2011.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis: Analyzing Spatial Thought as Represented in Language. Spatial Behaviour and Linguistic Representation: Collaborative Interdisciplinary Specialized Workshop, April 23-24, 2010, Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies, Delmenhorst, Germany.

• Spatial language in cognition and communication. FRIAS Language and Space Workshops: “Grammar, space and cognition”, Nov 5-7, 2009.

• Invited participation at the Workshop on developing an integrated approach to spatial cognition of navigation and visualization. July 7-July 10, 2009, German House, New York, USA.

• Cognitive Discourse Analysis for Problem Solving: Object Assembly. With Linn Gralla. Tilburg University, The Netherlands, March 31, 2009.

• Wie sag ich meinem Roboter, wo’s lang geht? (How do I tell my robot where to go?) systeme. denken. raum. Public symposion, Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition, March 16, 2009, Universität Bremen.

• Pragmatische Analyse sprachlicher Repräsentationen: Was Berichte über Denkprozesse verraten können. (Pragmatic analysis of linguistic representations: What reports can reveal about thought processes). With Jan Wiener. Seminar talk, Centre for Cognitive Science, Freiburg, January 9, 2008.

• Vom Umgang mit Robotern, Dialogsystemen, und computerbasierten Sprachexperimenten. Seminar talk, Universität Hannover, 5. Juli 2007.

• Wayfinding strategies in behavior and language: A Symmetric and Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Processes. With Jan Wiener. IQN / SFBTR8 Colloquium, University of Freiburg, April 20, 2007.

• How to write a dissertation. Doctoral Colloquium, KI 2006, 14-19 June 2006, Bremen, Germany.

• Wayfinding strategies in behavior and language. With Jan Wiener. Workshop zur Netzwerkbildung und Karriereplanung im Tandem-Programm, April 6-7, 2006, Hofgeismar, Germany.

• Räumliche referenzielle Identifikation von Objekten (in der Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion). Bielefeld SFB/GrK Colloquium, 17.1.2005.

• How to convey (non)temporal concepts using temporal expressions. Bielefeld SFB/GrK Colloquium, 4 February 2002.