Recent & Upcoming Talks

2022

Poster at the Linguistic Society of America
2022-01-01 15:00 — 16:00 Annual conference of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022
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Poster at the Linguistic Society of America
2022-01-01 15:00 — 16:00 Annual conference of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022
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Presentation at the Linguistic Society of America
2022-01-01 15:00 — 16:00 Annual conference of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022

2021

Colloquium talk
2021-04-19 15:00 — 16:00 University of Texas at Austin
Code

An overview of the state-of-the-art in historical comparative sign research, including the field’s main challenges, followed by …
2021-02-20 15:00 — 15:00 University of Freiburg, Germany
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2019

A talk about the emergence of a signed language in Tajikistan in the 1940s.
2019-09-28 12:30 — 13:00 Hamburg, Germany
Project

A poster describing a pilot project that applies the comparative method to a putative family of sign languages.
2019-09-26 Hamburg, Germany

2018

A talk discussing reasons why sign researchers have been unable to identify regular correspondences, followed by suggestions for future …
2018-06-20 15:00 — 16:30 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

2017

Historical analysis of two Central Asian sign languages using phylogenetic mthods
2017-04-28 Stony Brook, New York

2015

A Peircean analysis of iconicity’s role in the manual alphabet and initialized signs
2015-01-04 Melbourne, Australia

Poster presenting a phonological analysis of handshapes in Afghan Sign Language
2015-01-04 Melbourne, Australia