Several lectures are scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year:
May 24-27, 2012, Invited Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago.
March 2012 ‘Life and Language in the Amazon,’ Eton College, England.
March 13, 2012 ‘Cognitive Fire: How Language Emerges to Serve Human Needs,’ Annual Richmond Lecture, Oakley Center, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
January 9-20, 2012 ‘Field Methods,’ The National Winter Linguistics Course LOT; Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
January 05-08, 2012 Linguistic Society of American Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
November 7-9, 2011 Brazil Israel Philosophy Colloquium on Mind and Language, Curitiba, Brasil.
November 2-4, 2011 ‘Lessons on Language and Culture from the Amazon,’ Wilfrid Laurier College, Toronto (Don’t Sleep There are Snakes, was selected as required reading for incoming freshmen and I will give a three day series of seminars and talks based on it at their Grand River Forum.
October 20-22, 2011. 26th Linguistics Symposium: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization, UW-Milwaukee, October 20-22, 2011
August 14-25: Brazil – lectures at the University of Brasilia, the University of Maceio, and a visit to the Incubadora Afro Brasileira, in Rio de Janeiro.
2010 ‘Culture, Cognition, and Language,’ University of Osnabruek, special public lecture.
2010 ‘Life Among the Pirahãs,’ public lecture (with admission fee) at the Museum of Ethnology, University of Vienna.
2010 ‘Where idealizations fail: grammars as cultural artifacts,’ University of Vienna, International Conference on Space, numerical systems and color terminologies: Theoretical approaches and empirical analysis.