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March 1982
"Rituelle Kommunikation auf den Trobriand-Inseln - ein neues DFG-Projekt im Rahmen des Schwerpunktprogramms 'Verbale Interaktion'", 4. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln.
April 1982
Universität Basel: "Teilnehmende Beobachtung in einem metallverarbeitenden Industriebetrieb".
July 1983
University of Papua New Guinea: "The system of classificatory particles in Kilivila reconsidered", Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of PNG, Port Moresby.
February 1984
J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main: "Kilivila - eine austronesische Sprache".
Universität Bielefeld: "Erste Ergebnisse meiner Feldforschung auf den Trobriand-Inseln".
October 1985
MPI für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen: "Kilivila Word Order".
July 1986
University of York: "How to tell - and understand - a `dirty' joke in Kilivila", Erving-Goffman-Symposium.
December 1986
Universität Stuttgart: "Rituelle Kommunikation auf den Trobriand Inseln".
August 1987
Humboldt Universität Berlin: "What Happens to English Words in the Kilivila Language?", 14. Internationaler Linguistenkongress.
Universiteit Antwerpen: "Prolegomena to the Pragmatics of Situational-Intentional Varieties in the Kilivila Language", International Pragmatics Conference.
December 1987
Ruhr-Universität Bochum: "Classificatory Particles in the Kilivila Language", Symposium "Das Ganze und seine Teile".
June 1988
Universität Augsburg: "Aspekte ritueller Kommunikation".
July 1988
Universität Freiburg: "Kilivila - a numeral classifier language" Workshop "The Structure of Paradigms" held by Frans Plank, Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.
August 1989
University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby: "Linguistic Field Research on the Trobriand Islands".
Divine Word Institute, Madang: "How to apply linguistics".
October 1989
Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra: "Classificatory Particles in Kilivila".
April 1990
Universiteit Leiden, Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost Azie en Oceanie: "Structure and Semantics of the Kilivila Classifier System".
July 1990
Technische Universität Berlin: "Was aus dem tapferen Schneiderlein im Kilivila wurde: Südseemärchen europäisch", Symposium "Kontakt und Variation in Sprache und Kultur" for C.-J. Bailey.
May 1991
University of Hawaii at Manoa: "Network Models to Describe the Kilivila Classifier System", Sixth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
September 1991
Universiteit Leiden: "These Procrustean Feelings...- Problems I have in Describing Kilivila", Seminar "Descriptive Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics, Leiden, ILDEP/DSALCUL.
February 1992
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Vakgroep Culturele Anthropologie: "Cognitive Anthropology".
March 1992
Universität Duisburg: "As Time Goes By... Changes Observed in the Trobriand Islanders' Culture and Language", 17. L.A.U.D.-Symposium.
May 1992
Technische Universität Berlin: "...doch hart im Raume stoßen sich Sprechen und Denken - Zur Konzeption des Raumes und zum räumlichen Verweis in indogermanischen, ozeanischen und Maya-Sprachen", Habilitationsvortrag.
July 1992
University of Sydney: "Cross-Cultural Pragmatics", First Australian Linguistic Institute.
University of Sydney: "Classifier Languages", First Australian Linguistic Institute.
September 1992
University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby: "Spatial Reference in Some Languages of the Pacific".
November 1992
Universiteit Antwerpen: "Speaking about body and mind in Kilivila", Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Belgium.
December 1992
"Body and mind in the Trobriand Islands", 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
Universiteit Nijmegen: "Magic, missionaries, and religion - some observations from the Trobriand Islands", First European Colloquium on Pacific Studies.
Universiteit Amsterdam: "Semiotic aspects of ritual and ritual communication", invited lecture, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Semiotiek, Annual Meeting.
April 1993
Universität Bielefeld: "Räumliches Verweisen im Kilivila".
July 1993
"Ain't misbehavin...? Trobriand pragmatics and the field researcher's opportunity to put his foot in it", 4th International Pragmatics Conference, Kobe, Japan.
October 1993
"Past is present, present is past - Time and the harvest rituals on the Trobriand Islands", 7. Internationaler Kongress für Semiotik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik, Tübingen.
February 1994
Universität Hamburg: "Ein Vorschlag, wie man standardisiert Daten zum Thema 'Sprache, Kognition und Konzepte des Raums' in verschiedenen Kulturen erheben kann", 11. Hamburger Kognitionskolloquium "Räume".
March 1994
"A man, a tree, and forget about the pigs: Space games, spatial reference and cross-linguistic comparison", plenary lecture – 19. International L.A.U.D.-Symposium "Language and Space", Duisburg.
May 1994
“Audio-visual equipment in research on space”. “Multidisciplinair symposium ‘Beeld in Onderzoek, onderzoek in beeld’”, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.
November 1994
“Sprache, Kognition und Konzepte des Raumes in verschiedenen Sprachen und Kulturen”, Antrittsvorlesung, Universität zu Köln.
December 1994
“‘Noble Savages’ and ‘the Islands of Love’: Trobriand Islanders in ‘Popular Publications’”. Basel Conference of the European Society for Oceanists, Basel.
March 1995
“On Language and Culture of the Trobriand Islanders - an Introduction.” Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen.
July 1995
“Kilivila Motion Verbs”, Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
September 1995
“Language, cognition and spatial conceptualization in various cultures”. Tagung der deutschsprachigen Ethnologen und Ethnologinnen in Wien.
December 1995
“‘Noble Savages’ and ‘the Islands of Love’: Trobriand Islanders in ‘Popular Publications’”. Annual Conference of the Belgian Linguistic Association - “Political Linguistics”, Antwerpen, 7.-9.12.1995.
February 1996
“Conceptions of Space and Spatial References in Natural Languages”. Invited paper presented at the Symposium “Rules of Spatial Memory Organisation”, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.
July 1996
“Magical Conversation on the Trobriand Islands”. 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, July 4-9.
“Weird Papalagi and a Fake Samoan Chief”. Presented for the author by Grant McCall - 11th Conference of the Pacific History Association, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, July 9-13.
December 1996
“The Presentation of Self in Touristic Encounters: A Case Study from the Trobriand Islands”. ESfO Conference “Pacific Peoples in the Pacific Century: Society, Culture, Nature”, Copenhagen, December 13-15, 1996.
January 1997
“ENTER and EXIT in Kilivila”. Third International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, January 15-19, 1997.
February 1997
"Elizitierung und lexikalisch-semantische Beschreibung von KOMMEN/GEHEN-Verben im Kilivila", 19. Jahrestagung der DGfS in Düsseldorf, 26.-28.02.1997.
April 1997
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen: “Field research on the Trobriand Islands”.
“The presentation of Self in Touristic Encounters. A Case Study from the Trobriand Islands” (invited talk). Centre for South Pacific Studies & Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
University of Sydney (invited talk): “ENTER and EXIT in Kilivila”.
May 1997
“The Space Project of the MPI for Psycholinguistics” (invited talk). Australian National University, Department of Linguistics, The Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies & Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Australian National University, Canberra.
“Researching the Conceptualization of Space in the Interface of Language, Culture and Cognition. Department of Linguistics, The University of Papua New Guinea.
September 1997
“Frames of Spatial Reference in Kilivila - Studies in Language, Cognition and the Conceptualization of Space”, “Workshop in Spatial Cognition”, Rome, 18.-19. September 1997.
October 1997.
“The Presentation of Self in Touristic Encounters: A Case Study from the Trobriand Islands” (invited paper). "Oprichtingscongres Nederlandse Vereniging voor Azie en Pacific Studies", Jaarbeurs Utrecht, 4.10.1997.
“Weisen von Liebe und Tod auf den Trobriand-Inseln” (invited paper). 5.10.1997 ArToll Lyrik Tage, Bedburg-Hau, 3.-5.10.1997.
February 1998.
Universität Amsterdam, Het Spinhuis (invited seminar): “Presentation and Self-Presentation of the Trobriand Islanders”. 4-hour Seminar, 2.02.1998.
March 1998:
Katholike Universiteit Nijmegen (invited seminar): “The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea”.
April 1998
“Frames of Spatial Reference in Kilivila - Studies in Language, Cognition and the Conceptualization of Space”. Plenary lecture, “26th International LAUD-Symposium ‘Humboldt and Whorf revisited: Universals and culture-specific conceptualizations in grammar and lexis’”, 1.-4. April 1998, Duisburg.
May 1998
“Räumliche Referenzrahmen im Kilivila” (invited lecture). Zentrum für Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachkontakt und Seminar für allgemeine und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Kiel.
July 1998
“The Presentation of Self in Touristic Encounters: A Case Study from the Trobriand Islands". Sixth International Pragmatics Conference, Reims, 19.-24. Juli 1998.
November 1998
“Aspects of Spatial Deixis in Kilivila”. “Second European Meeting of Oceanic Linguistics”, MPIP Nijmegen, November 6-7.
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (invited seminar): “The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea”.
January 1999
Member of the “Expert Panel on the Documentation of Endangered Languages”, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) der Universität Bielefeld, invited by the Volkswagen-Stiftung.
“Datenerhebungsmethoden zum Thema ‘Sprache, Kognition und Konzepte des Raumes’” (invited lecture). Kolloquium der Arbeitsgemeinschaft “Kognitive Anthropologie” in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde” zum Thema “Ziele und Methoden der Kognitiven Athropologie”, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum der Universität Heidelberg.
June 1999
“Sprache, Kognition und Konzepte des Raumes in verschiedenen Kulturen”. Graduiertenkolleg der Universität Bielefeld.
September 1999
“Sprache, Kognition und Konzepte des Raumes in verschiedenen Kulturen - affiziert sprachliche Relativitaet die Philosophie?” (invited talk), 43. Jahrestagung des Instituts der Görres-Gesellschaft für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Feldafing, 3.-6.09.1999.
"Sprache, Kognition und Konzepte des Raumes in verschiedenen Kulturen" (invited talk). "Eintauchen in die Wissenschaften - eine Sommerakademie der Universität Bielefeld für SchülerInnen der Jahrgangsstufe 13", 17.-19.09.1999 im Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld.
October 1999
“Linguistik und Völkerkunde – ein Plädoyer für interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit”. Key note lecture presented at the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde in Heidelberg, 3.-7. 10. 1999.
December 1999
“Sprache, Kognition und Konzepte des Raumes in verschiedenen Kulturen" (invited talk). 1. Internationales Symposium “Die Adresse des Mediums” des kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungskollegs "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation", Universität zu Köln.
November 2000
“The Trobriand Islanders’ Presentation of Self in Touristic Encounters” (invited talk). “Keio University Ethnology/Archaeology Colloquium”, Keio University, Tokyo.
“What do we really know about nominal classification systems?” (invited talk). 18th National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, 18-19.November, Konan University, Kobe
“The Space-Project at the MPI for Psycholinguistics” (invited talk). Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, ATR, Kyoto.
“Spatial Deixis in Kilivila” (invited talk). Japan Women’s University, Tokyo.
“Linguistics and Anthropology” (invited talk). Japan Women’s University, Tokyo.
March 2001
"What do we really know about serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages?". The Third European Meeting on Oceanic Linguistics, LACITO-CNRS, Paris - Villejuif, 9.-10. 03. 2001.
April 2001
"What do we really know about nominal classification systems?" (invited talk). Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Lingvistik - Colloquium Series.
"Studies in Language, Cognition and the Conceptualization of Space: Frames of Spatial Reference in Kilivila, the Language of the Trobriand Islanders" (invited seminar). Aarhus Universitet, Afdeling for Etnografi og Socialantropologi Moesgard. Cognitive Anthropology Seminar Series 2001.
August 2001
"Serial Verb Constructions". Talk presented at the Max-Planck-Institute Seewiesen. Wolfgang Wickler's Department of Behavioral Physiology.
January 2002
"Event Conceptualization and Event Report in Serial Verb Constructions in Kilivila - towards a new appoach to research an old phenomenon". Talk presented at the 9th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Canberra, Australian National University, 7.-11.01.2002.
"Serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages: a sticky business". Talk presented at the 5th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Canberra, Australian National University, 13.-16.01.2002.
February 2002
"Frames of Spatial Reference in Kilivila". Invited talk presented at the "Workshop: Feldforschung" of the SFB 282 "Theorie des Lexikons" sponsored by the German Research Society (DFG) at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, 15.02.2002.
April 2002
“Ereignis-Ausdruck und serielle Verbkonstruktionen in austronesischen und Papua-Sprachen: Ein neuer Forschungsansatz zu einem alten Problem”. Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, University Bielefeld, 02.04.2002.
May 2002
"What should the ideal online-archive documenting linguistic data of various (endangered) languages and cultures offer to interested parties? Some ideas of a technically naive linguistic field researcher and potential user". The International LREC Workshop on Resources and Tools in Field Linguistics, Las Palmas, 26-27 May 2002.
July 2002
Invited discussant of the papers "Language Typology and Rhetoric" (by Walter Bisang), "Rhetorical Culture and the Cultural Rhetorics" (by Dilip Gaonkar), and "Rhetoric and Ordeals of Language" (by Ellen Basso) at the "Rhetoric Culture Conference II: Linguistics", Institute for Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, July 4-7, 2002.
November 2002
"Event Conceptualization, Event Report and Serial Verb Constructions in Austronesian and Papuan Languages: Towards a New Approach to Research an Old Phenomenon". Invited talk presented at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.
February 2003
Hennie Brugman, Daan Broeder & Gunter Senft: “Documentation of Languages and Archiving of Language Data – the Nijmegen Model”. Invited paper presented at the Ringvorlesung ‘Bedrohte Sprachen’ Sprachenwert – Dokumentation – Revitalisierung. Universität Bielefeld.
May 2003
"The Nijmegen Space Games". Invited paper presented at the International Symposium `Space games: new research approaches to spatial orientation, spatial perception and spatial cognition', Internationales Wissenschaftsforum der Universität Heidelberg, 30.05.-31.05.2003.
July 2003
"Genres and metalinguistic expressions for speech action patterns in the language of the Trobriand Islanders". 8th International Pragmatics Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 13-18, 2003.
January 2004
"Classifiers in Kilivila: introducing referents and keeping track of them". Invited paper presented at the Réseau Thématique Européen "Langage et Cognition" Atelier 1 Diversité des Langues et Cognition, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 16-17 janvier 2004.
May 2004
"Bronislaw Malinowski and Linguistic Pragmatics". Invited plenary lecture at the 2nd Lódz Symposium "New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics", University of Lódz, Department of English Language, Lódz (Poland), 7.-9.May, 2004.
July 2004
"Genres in Kilivila". Sixth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL6), Emalus Campus, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila, Vanuatu, July 4-9, 2004.
August 2004
"Genres in Kilivila, the language of the Trobriand Islanders", MAPS seminar, invited lecture at the Melanesian and Pacific Studies Centre, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby.
September 2004
Invited Representative of the Volkswagen Foundation's programme "Documentation of Endangered Languages" (DOBES) at the conference "A World of Many Voices. Interfaces in Language Documentation: Linguistics, Anthropology, Speech Communities and Technology", J.-W.-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, September 4th - 5th, 2004 (sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation).
February 2005
Invited participant in the "Workshop on developmental studies in spatial language and cognition" organised by Pierre Dasen at the Université de Genève, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de L'Éducation, 21.-22.02.2005.
March 2005
"One head, many faces - a laudatio". Invited speaker for the presentation of Jelle Miedema's and Ger Reesink's book "One head many faces: New perspectives on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea", organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, March 10th, 2005.
June 2005
"Eine Inselgeschichte - 22 Jahre Feldforschung auf den Trobriand-Inseln". Invited lecture presented at the Frobenius-Colloquium, Frobenius Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, June 13th, 2005.
"Language, Culture and Cognition - the Space Project of the MPI for Psycholinguistics". Invited lecture presented at the Université d'Antananarivo, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Antananarivo, June 29th, 2005.
July 2005
"Culture change - language change: Missionaries and moribund varieties of Kilivila".
Paper presented at the 6th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) "Pacific Challenges: Questioning Concepts, Rethinking Conflicts", Marseilles, 6th-8th of July 2005.
"The Case: The Trobriand Islanders versus H. Paul Grice - Kilivila and the Gricean Maxims of Quality and Manner". Paper presented at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference "Pragmatics and Philosophy", Riva del Garda, 10th-14th of July 2005.
October 2005
"Language, culture and cognition: Frames of spatial reference". Invited talk presented at the Radboud Universiteit Aluminidag, Taalwetenschap en Wiskunde: 'Linksom Of Rechtsom', 1st of October, 2005 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
November 2005
"Eine Inselgeschichte - 22 Jahre Feldforschung auf den Trobriand-Inseln". Invited lecture presented for the "Arbeitsgruppe Ozeanien" at the Institut für Ethnologie, Ruprecht-Karl Universität Heidelberg, November 8th, 2005.
December 2005
"Language, Culture and Cognition: Frames of Spatial Reference and Why We Need Ontologies of Space". Talk presented as invited participant in the "Dagstuhl-Seminar: Spatial Cognition, Specialization and Integration", Schloß Dagstuhl, Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum für Informatik, 4.12.-9.12. 2005.
March 2006
"Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten... Ethnolinguistische Winke zur Rolle von umfassenden Metadaten bei der (und für die) Arbeit mit Corpora". Invited talk presented at the "Jahrestagung 2006 des Instituts für deutsche Sprache: Sprachkorpora - Datenmengen und Erkenntnisfortschritt", Mannheim, 14.03.-16.03.2006.
April 2006
"To have and have not: Kilivila reflexives and reciprocals". Talk presented at the workshop "Reciprocals across languages" at the MPI or Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, April 19th-21st, 2006.
September 2006
Invited participant in the Second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Knowledge and Space - "Milieus of Creativity", September 6-9, 2006, Villa Bosch Studio, Heidelberg, organized by the Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.
September/October 2006
"Linguistic documentation and the 'situational-intentional varieties' approach". Invited talk presented at the Oceania-seminar "Mapping the Pacific: Positions, Representations and Interpretations", Lysebu, Oslo, 29.09.-01.10.2006.
March 2007
"The conference proposal" - Introduction to the Wenner-Gren Symposium on "Ritual Communication", Sintra, Portugal, March 16-22.
"Ritual Communication on the Trobriand Islands", summary of the paper prepared for the Wenner-Gren Symposium on "Ritual Communication", Sintra, Portugal, March 16-22.
Comments on the papers prepared by Sachiko Ide, Nick Enfield and Cliff Goddard for the Wenner-Gren Symposium on "Ritual Communication", Sintra, Portugal, March 16-22.
May 2007
"Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten... Ethnolinguistische Winke zur Rolle von umfassenden Metadaten bei der (und für die) Arbeit mit Corpora". Invited talk presented at the "Linguistisches Kolloquium SS 2007", Universität Duisburg-Essen, 8.05.2007.
July 2007
"Landscape terms and place names in the Trobriand Islands - the Kaile'una subset". Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, Noumea, New Caledonia, 2-6 July, 2007.
September 2007
Invited participant in the Fourth Interdisciplinary Symposium on Knowledge and Space - "Cultural Memories", September 19-22, 2007, Villa Bosch Studio, Heidelberg, organized by the Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.
October 2007
"The Trobriand Islanders' ideology of competition and cooperation in the make: an anthropological-linguistic case-study in the times of globalization". Talk presented at the "Workshop: Competition meets cooperation: micro-politics in social interaction", Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, October 11-13, 2007.
May 2008
"Communication across cognitive domains: Ineffables - Emotions". Talk presented at the Workshop "Patterns in Diversity", organized by Michael Cysouw and Nick Enfield, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Linguistic Department, Leipzig, May 9th, 2008.
September 2008
"Genres in Kilivila". Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of PNG, Port Moresby. September 12-13, 2008.
October 2008
"Landscape categories on the Trobriand Islands: Reefs, wells and gardens". Invited talk presented at the Workshop "Language in Landscape: A Transdisciplinary Workshop", 26. October - 1 November 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Chinle, Arizona.
February 2009
"Sind die den Emotionen zugeschriebenen Gesichtsausdrücke des Menschen in allen Kulturen gleich?". Invited talk presented at the colloquium: "In statu nascendi - Kolloquium anläßlich der Verabschiedung von Jan Wirrer". 5.-6.02. 2009, Universität Bielefeld.
March 2009
"The Trobriand Islanders' ways of speaking". Invited talk presented at the 3rd Workshop on Emancipatory Pragmatics, 25-27 March 2009, Japan Women's University, Tokyo.
May 2009
"Eine Insel-Geschichte: Über 25 Jahre anthropologisch-linguistische Feldforschung auf den Trobriand-Inseln in Papua-Neuguinea". Invited talk presented at the Institute's colloquium, May 27th, Institut für Psychologie, Fachgebiet Entwicklung und Kultur, Universität Osnabrück.
June 2009
"The Trobriand Islanders' ways of speaking". Paper
presented at the 11th International Conference on Austronesian
Linguistics, Aussois, 22-26 June 2009.
July 2009
"Landscape terms and place names in the Trobriand Islands - the Kaile'una subset". Invited paper presented at the panel "Socio-onomastics as pragmatics" organized by Jan-Ola Östman and Terhi Ainiala at the 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, 12.-17. July 2009.
"The Trobriand Islanders' ideology of competition and cooperation in the make - an anthropological-linguistic case study in the times of globalization". Paper presented at the panel "Language contact, language change, and ideological beliefs in indigenous languages of the Pan-Pacific" organized by Yumiko Ohara at the 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, 12.-17. July 2009.
October 2009
"Masawa - bogeokwa si tuta!" - Cultural and cognitive implications of Trobriand Islanders' losing their knowledge of how to make a "masawa" canoe. Invited paper presented at the 8th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Knowledge and Space
"Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge" organized by the Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation. Heidelberg, Villa Bosch Studio, October 7-10, 2009.
December 2009
"Talking about color and taste on the Trobriand Islands - a diachronic study". Paper presented in the session "The senses in language and culture" at the 108th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2-6, 2009.
January 2010
"Talking about color and taste on the Trobriand Islands - a diachronic study". Paper presented at the 8th International Conference for Oceanic Linguistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-9 January 2010.
"Argonauten mit Außenbordmotoren - Feldforschung auf den Trobriand-Inseln (Papua-Neuguinea) seit 1982". Invited talk. Ordentliche Sitzug der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte am 18. 01. 2010, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Schloß Charlottenburg, Berlin.
