January 2015

“Strategies for Successfully Recruiting and Retaining African-American Students in US American Academia.” Discussion Panel of Senior Linguists on the Advancement of Ethnoracial Minorities in Linguistics over the past 20 Years. The Linguistic Society of America’s Committee for Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Portland, OR, United States.

 

January 2015

Co-chair of LSA Panel on Senior Linguists on the Advancement of Ethnoracial Minorities in Linguistics over the past 20 Years. The Linguistic Society of America’s Committee for Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Portland, OR, United States.

 

January 2015

Co-chair of LSA Panel on Successfully Mentoring Young Ethnoracial Minority Scholars in Linguistics. The Linguistic Society of America’s Committee for Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Portland, OR, United States.

 

January 2015

Chair lecture on How the Internet has Changed Baby Naming by Jennifer Moss (Babynames.com). American Name Society in conjunction with the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Portland, OR, United States.

 

January 2015

“I would never give my child that name! A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Modern German University Students’ Perceptions of Names Popular During the Third Reich” American Name Society in conjunction with the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Portland, OR, United States.

 

September 2014

“Forensic Onomastics: ” 2nd Annual Roundtable of the Germanic Society of Forensic Linguistics (2014GSFL). In Mainz, Germany.

 

September 2014

“First Responder Suicide Notes: What Do They Tell Us?” 2nd Annual Roundtable of the Germanic Society of Forensic Linguistics (2014GSFL). In Mainz, Germany.

 

January 2014

“In the Name of the Führer: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of First-Names Given to Lebensborn Children within Nazi Germany.” American Name Society in conjunction with the 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Minneapolis, MN, United States.

 

September 2013

“Criminal Aliases: The Investigation and Detection of Pseudonyms Amongst Criminal Offenders”. International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis. Sponsored by Aston University (UK), In Mainz, Germany.

 

September 2013

“Suicidology: The Stylist icAnalysis of the Letters Left Behind.” International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis. Sponsored by Aston University (UK), In Mainz, Germany.

 

January 2013

“Naming Character, Characterizing Names: Onomastic Studies of M. Twain, H. Thrale, and T. Morrison” Organizer and Chair. The 128th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association. In Boston, MA, UNITED STATES.

 

January 2013 “Presidential Address of the American Name Society“ The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Boston, MA, UNITED STATES.

 

January 2013

“Cross-Cultural Patterns in Naming.” Chair. The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Boston, MA, UNITED STATES.

 

January 2012

“The Poetry of Names: Onomastic Investigations into the Work of Gertrude Stein.” Organizer and Chair. The 127th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association. In Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES.

 

January 2011

“Onomastics and War” American Name Society Special Panel: Organizer and Chair. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES.

 

January 2011

“A Question of Faith: The Battle Over US Census Nomenclature for Muslim American Residents After the Second Gulf War” The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. In Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES.

 

January 2009

“Mehrsprachigkeit: Risiko oder Segen?” Buchvorstellung und Diskussion. Zentrum für Sprachenvielfalt und Mehrsprachigkeit (Universität zu Köln) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. In Cologne, GERMANY

 

May 2009

“A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Academic Achievement among Successful Turkish Students Attending German Universities” . The 2nd International Congress of European Turks: Education and Integration. In Antwerp, BELGIUM.

 

August 2009

“A Case Study of Native Teacher Attitudes Towards Creole-Mediated Multilingual Education in the Seychelles”. The 13th Annual Inernational Conference of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. In Cologne, GERMANY.

 

August 2008

“Multilingualism in Modern German Radio” for Symposium on the Impact of Englishes on European Mediascapes. The 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA). In Essen, GERMANY.

 

September 2007

“Pour mwan mon lalang maternal i al avek mwan!: A Case Study of Multilingual Teacher Attitudes Towards Trilingual Education in the Seychelles.” The 5th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. In Stirling, SCOTLAND.

November 2006

“Code-Switching” with A. Rothe. Ringvorlesung: Mehrsprachigkeit. University of Cologne, GERMANY

August 2006

“English Scientific Writing for Second Language Leaners” International Doctoral Program: Enviroment and Water. University of Stuttgart. In Stuttgart, GERMANY

August 2006

“Living in the Wake of the Diaspora: A Sociolinguistic Examination of 25 Adult with German Parentage Residing in Australia, England, and the United States.” Diaspora Experiences: German-speaking Immigrants and their Descendants. In Ontario, CANADA.

January 2006

“From Mulatto to Multiracial: An Historical Onomastic Examination of the Ethno-racial Labels Used by the US Census to Classify US Residents of African Heritage” for The 81st Linguistic Society of America. In Annaheim, CA, UNITED STATES.

September 2005

“Adult Trilingualism: A Comparative International Investigation of the Demographic, Linguistic, and Social Correlates of 20 Adult Trilinguals” at the 4th International Conference on Multilingualism. In Fribourg, SWITZERLAND.

March 2005

“Life at the Cross-Roads: A Multinational Sociolinguistic Investigation of 100 Adults with Bicultural Bilingual Parentage” at the International Symposium on Bilingualism. In Barcelona, SPAIN.

January 2005

“The Naming Patterns of 18th Century Runaway African American Slaves as Featured in the Virginia Gazette Between 1736 and 1776: A Corpus Linguistic Onomastic Study” at the Linguistic Society of America. In San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES.

February 2004

“Pathways to Multilingualism Among African American Slaves in 18th and 19th Century Colonial America” at the National Association of African American Studies. In Houston, TX, UNITED STATES.

June 2003

“At the Cross-Roads of Identity: The Formation of (Bi)linguality and (Bi)culturality.” For the Swiss British Society at the University of Basel. In Basel, SWITZERLAND.

March 2002

“Multilingualism Among 18th and 19th Century African Americans” University of Zuerich, Department of English, Winter Semester, 2002. In Zuerich, SWITZERLAND.