Papers Presented 2010-2015 and forthcoming
- Invited lecture, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 11 April 2016.
- "Eurhythmophilia: The Love of Orders in Language, and the Orders of Language in Love". Invited lecture, Conference on First and Second Level Language, University of Odense, Denmark, 4-5 February 2016.
- Invited lecture, Conference on Development of Postgraduate Education in Linguistics at the Turn of the 20th Century, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2015.
- "Vibrations: Language Memory/Knowledge, Iconicity and Individual Response". Invited lecture, Department of English, University of Hong Kong, 17 September 2015.
- Invited lecture, Colloquium on linguistics and biography, Amiens, France, 3-4 Dec. 2015.
- Invited lecture, University of Leeds, 21 October 2015.
- "Saussure's Genevese Value(s) and Modern Linguistics". Keynote lecture to Annual Meeting of Swiss Association of University Teachers of English, Geneva, 24-25 April 2015.
- "Silencing; or, Do Trolls Really Just Wanna Have Fun?". University of Edinburgh Language Society, 1 April 2015.
- "Mother-Tongue Literacy as a Means and as an End". EU/Saide Conference on Multilingual Resources for Early Literacy Development, Centurion, Pretoria, South Africa, 3-4 June 2014.
- "Where Do Languages Come From?". Invited lecture, Workshop on The Making of Languages, University of Reading, 2 May 2014.
- "How Languages Get Their Mojo". Invited lecture, Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth, 29 April 2014.
- "Silencing". Plenary address, 6th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, 12-14 May 2014.
- "'The Vivid Portrayal of What They Value': Imitation and Nervous Excitement in the History of Sign Theory". Invited lecture, Symposium Towards a History of Sound Symbolic Theories: Charles de Brosses and the Tradition of Linguistic Iconicity, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, 20-21 February 2014.
- "Naturalised Natives: Interpreting Identities and Face in Linguistic Interaction". Invited lecture, Research Group on Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 23 October 2013.
- "How Languages Get Their Mojo". Plenary Address, 10th Biennial International Language and Development Conference, organised by The British Council, Cape Town, South Africa, 15-17 October 2013.
- "Arbitrariness and its Opposites: What Saussure Did and Did Not Say". Invited lecture, Conference on One Hundred Years with Saussure, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 16-20 September 2013.
- "Divided Allegiance: The Political Imagining of Language Contact and Identity". Language in Context Research Group, University of Edinburgh, 24 April 2013, and as invited paper to the Institut de recherche pour le développement, Lab SeDyL (Structure et Dynamique des Languages) - CELIA (Centre d’Études des Langue Indigènes d’Amérique), Campus CNRS, Villejuif, Paris, 26 April 2013.
- "Ferdinand de Saussure, fondateur de la linguistique générale: à l’occasion du centenaire de son décès". Invited talk, Institut National Genevois, Geneva, 27 February 2013.
- "On the Complexity and Limits of Languages: Saussure's Silences, Chomsky's Erasures". Invited talk to University of Geneva, Department of Linguistics, 26 February 2013.
- "Understanding Saussure, in His Context and Our Own". Plenary address, Conference on Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, 7-9 December 2012.
- "Irrationality and Enchantment in Modern Linguistics: From the Genius of a Language to Immutability and Grammaticalization". Plenary address, The Making of the Humanities III: Third International Conference on the History of the Humanities, Huizinga Research Institute and Graduate School for Cultural History, Netherlands Royal Institute in Rome, 1-3 November 2012.
- "The Hauntology of Language and Identity". Invited talk to Georgetown University, Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies, 15 October 2012.
- Participant, Seminario Internazionale: Per un'edizione digitale dei manoscritti di Ferdinand de Saussure, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 21-22 September 2012.
- "Irrationality and Enchantment in Modern Linguistics". Plenary address, Jornadas internacionales de historia de la lingüística, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1-3 August 2012.
- "La Genève de Ferdinand de Saussure". Invited paper, Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure, Annual Meeting, Geneva, 2 June 2012.
- "Reason, Passion and Genius in Linguistic Thought from the Neo-Epicureans to the Saussure Brothers". Cambridge University Linguistics Society, 2 February 2012.
- "Sustaining Myth: How Languages Get and Lose their Mojo". Invited paper, Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, 9 November 2011.
- "Signs of Belonging: Indexing and Interpreting Identity in Language". Keynote address, Symposium on Language and Identity, University of Tartu, Estonia, 20-22 October 2011.
- "Signs of Belonging: Culture, Identity and the English Language". Invited paper, Symposium on European Languages and Linguistics, University of Jordan, 2 October 2011.
- "The Pragmatics of Political and Scientific Discourse on Drugs Policy". Panel on The Pragmatics of (New) Genres in Political Communication, organised by Ruth Wodak, 12th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Manchester, 3-8 July 2011.
- "The Metaphor of Scale and the Discursive Politics of Making and Contesting Languages". Invited paper, 8th International Colloquium on Problems and Methods of the History of Language, Universitat de Girona, Spain, 21-23 June 2011.
- "19th-Century Philologists on Class and Race in the Ancient Indo-European Migrations". Invited paper, Wort macht Stamm - Rassismus und Determinismus in der Philologie des 19. Jahrhunderts: Eine transdiciplinäre Konferenz, organised by the German Research Foundation, the University of Potsdam, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the French Embassy and Institut Français and the Literaturhaus Berlin, Potsdam and Berlin, 26-29 May 2011.
- "Alien Species: The Discursive Othering of Grey Squirrels, Glasgow Gaelic, Shetland Scots and the Gay Guys in the Shag Pad". Invited paper, Discourse and Transnational Identities: Fourth International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis, City University of Hong Kong, 19-21 May 2011.
- "The Concepts of 'Native Speaker' and 'Standard Language': Discipline, Habitus, Identity". Linguistics Research Seminar Series, University of Northumberland, 2 March 2011.
- Introductory talk, book launch for What If Derrida Was Wrong about Saussure? by Russell Daylight (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), Blackwell's, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 16 February 2011.
- "Abstract and Concrete". University of Edinburgh Language Society, 9 February 2011.
- "Le corps du locuteur natif : discipline, habitus, identité". Invited paper, colloquium on "Qui est (le) locuteur natif?". Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Laboratoire d'Histoire des Théories Linguistiques, Paris, 9 October 2010.
- "Saussure's Mémoire on the Original Indo-European Vowel System: Shedding Light on the Least Understood Book in the Entire History of Linguistics". Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh, 30 September 2010.
- "The Biography of Ferdinand de Saussure". Leslie Seiffert Memorial Lecture, Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, Annual Colloquium, University of Sheffield, 9-11 September 2010.
- Participant in round table discussion on biography writing in the history of linguistics, Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, Annual Colloquium, University of Sheffield, 9-11 September 2010.
- "'Predescription' in Discourse and Policy Research: The Case of Professor Parrott and Professor Nutt". Panel on Language and Politics, Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, Southampton, 1-4 September 2010.
- "'La teinte de tous les ciels': Divergence et nuance dans la conception saussurienne du changement linguistique". Invited paper, Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure, Annual Meeting, Geneva, 28-29 May 2010.
- "Does the English Language Have a Future?". Talk to the English-Speaking Union Scotland, Edinburgh, 29 April 2010.
- "Small Universes and Big Individuals: Locating Humboldt in Evolving Conceptions of Language". Invited paper, conferernce on Individualität und Universalität bei Wilhelm von Humboldt, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 8-10 April 2010.
- "Abstract and Concrete". Invited paper, international workshop on Sciences of Communication in the Twentieth Century, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 18-20 March 2010.
- "'A bulwark against invasion by the foreign mind, a guarantee against annexation': Language Teaching and Political-Cognitive Autonomy in the Geneva of Saussure's Youth". Language in Context Research Group, University of Edinburgh, 3 February 2010.
- "La 'Voie Radicale' de la linguistique appliquée à Édimbourg". Invited paper, annual meeting of Société d’Histoire et d’Épistémologie du Langage, Paris, 30-31 January 2010.
Publications prior to 2003, book reviews and minor items (doc)