- May 2024 Geospatial models for analyzing contact effects. Talk, GramAdapt Symposium. Helsinki, Finland.
- April 2024 Causal approaches for testing the effect of humidity on tone. Talk, workshop co-organizer, Causal approaches to investigating language evolution: New studies of the association between phonology and climate - International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang). Madison, Wisconsin.
- October 2023 Agent-based models in diachronic linguistics. Workshop main speaker, University of California, Los Angeles.
- May 2023 Workshop: Statistik neu entdecken (‘Workshop: discover statistics’). Workshop main speaker, University of Potsdam.
- July 2021 Intensivkurs gemischte Modelle (‘Intensive course: mixed models’). Workshop main speaker, University of Vienna.
- July 2021 Computational Models for Language Contact and Language Shift. Talk, Old Frisian Summer School, Leeuwarden.
- September 2020 Statistische Methoden für Linguisten (‘Statistical methods for linguists’). Workshop main speaker, University of Vienna.
- November 2019 Is sound change predictable? Deep learning and diachrony. Keynote
talk, 7th workshop of the SimPhon network (organized by the University of
Freiburg), Konstanz.
- May 2024 Investigating the diachronic development of phonological complexity as a latent process - A computational study using deep neural networks. Poster, International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang). Madison, Wisconsin.
- April 2024 The Verschärfung and Germanic subgrouping: Inheritance by proxy; together with Joseph Salmons. Talk, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC), Bloomington, Indiana.
- October 2023 Simulation Models of Wave-like Diversification: A Novel Tool for Indo-European Cladistics?. Talk, Thirty-Fourth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC),
Los Angeles, USA.
- April 2023 Analysing the early development of the Germanic family using Bayesian phylogenetics and agent-based models. Talk, Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC),
Banff, Canada.
- December 2022 Syntax vs. phonology in language relatedness. Talk, Third
AMC symposium: Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different?,
Edinburgh, UK.
- August 2022 An agent-based modelling approach to wave-like diversification of language families. Talk, Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25).
- December 2021 Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability
of phonological systems. Talk, 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP5).
- November 2021 The greater Sahara in the historical linguistic geography of Africa;
together with Johanna Nichols. Talk, Workshop on the occasion of the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Diedrich Westermann, org. by Tom Güldemann,
Berlin, Germany.
- October 2021 Prospects of computational internal reconstruction: machine learning
and phonological predictability. Talk, Proto-Indo-European
Reconstruction: Problems, possibilities and new perspectives, Cambridge,
United Kingdom.
- August 2021 Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior. Poster presentation, 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics.
- October 2019 Old Frisian breaking revisited - Context and chronology of a complex
change. Talk, 10th Conference on Frisian Linguistics, Leeuwarden.
- September 2019 Sound change in German verbs: effects of paradigmatic and lexical
confusability. Talk, Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung (P&P), Düsseldorf.
- August 2019 Investigating the phonological predictability of sound change using
deep neural networks. Talk, RUSE symposium, Manchester.
- July 2019 Predicting Historical Phonetic Features using Deep Neural Networks:
A Case Study of the Phonetic System of Proto-Indo-European.
Poster presentation, 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches
to Historical Language Change, 57th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy.
- May 2019 Neues zu einer alten Sprache — die Korpuslinguistik und das Vandalische
(‘News from an old language – corpus linguistics and the Vandalic
language’). Talk, Nomen et Gens Tagung 2019, Cologne.
- March 2023 Methodological pitfalls in research on environmental effects in phonology: a computational investigation,
Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson.
- September 2022 Agent-based models of language diversification and language change,
Department of Linguistics, University of North Texas, Denton.
- Februar 2022 Why does language change? Approaches and discussions: a dialogue
between linguistics and philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Konstanz.
- July 2021 Germanic phylogeny: computational simulations and phylogenetics .
Talk, research colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Konstanz.
- December 2019 Die Germanen – Herkunft und Entwicklung aus linguistischer Perspektive
(‘The Germanic peoples – Origins and developments from a linguistic
perspective’). Talk, research colloquium, Department of History,
Konstanz.