5. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik. "Online Democracy: Clinton’s and Obama’s Use of Metaphor in their YouTube Campaign Clips" (together with Steve Duman), 2008, Winterthur


Invitation to talk on "Health issues online form the perspective of lay people" as part of a special training module for third year BA medical students at the University of Basel, 17 October 2008


ISLE, 2008, Freiburg i. Breisgau, Germany

Uni-Nacht 2008, "The story of the president" (with Daničle Klapproth), University of Basel


BAAL08, "Identity performance in online health columns: The linguistic construction of the expert persona" (together with Kevin Harvey and Louise Mullany), Swansea, GB


COMET08, "“Is the aids virus difficult to catch?”: A linguistic analysis of two Internet advice columns on sexual health" (together with Kevin Harvey and Louise Mullany), Cape Town, South Africa


"Standards and Norms in the English Language" -- Organizer of a colloquium in honor of Richard J. Watts, 2008, Berne


Invitiation to speak on 'Identity construction' in Marilyn Merritt's class at The George Washintong University, 2008, Washington D.C., USA

GURT 2008. Telling Stories, Washington D.C., USA

Invitation to speak on "Advice Online: How to study variation in advice-giving" for the Cross-institutional Research Group, Language in Professions, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham, 2008, UK

Invitation to speak on corpus linguistics methodology with respect to "Advice Online" for CLARET, a post-graduate workshop, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham, 2008, UK ( CLARET is a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Lancaster, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Reading and is funded by award 07/01/N under the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Collaborative Research Training Scheme.)

Invitation to speak on "'Troubled by attraction to tall women': Advice-giving in an American online health column", University of Bayreuth, Colloquium, 2007, Germany

Invitation to give a plenary lecture for the Third International Symposium on Politeness in Leeds: "Investigating Impoliteness: the Interface between Relational Work and Identity Construction", 2007, UK

Panel convener on “Impoliteness in Language: New Perspectives on ‘politeness issues”, the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, 2007, Göteborg, Sweden (with J. Culpeper and D. Bousfield)


"Introduction" to the panel on “Impoliteness in Language: New Perspectives on ‘politeness issues”, the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, 2007, Göteborg, Sweden


SWELL, Basel, 2007


4. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik, Basel, 2006, 20-21 November


VALS-ASLA-Tagung 2006, Bern, 28 October


Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS16), Limerick, Ireland, 6-8 July 2006, "The case of an Internet health column: Discursive practice, community of practice, discourse community?"


Linguistic impoliteness and rudeness: Confrontation and conflict in discourse, University of Huddersfield, UK, 3-4 July 2006


Broadcast English, 15-16 June 2006, University of Lausanne


Berner Zirkel für Sprachwissenschaft, 31 May 2006, "Advice Online. Advice-Giving in an American Internet health column" (invited lecture)


SWELL, Zurich, 2006


9th International Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, 10-15 July, 2005, "Politeness as relational work: The discursive approach to polite behaviour" (with Richard J. Watts)


Politeness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language and Culture, 12 March, 2005, Nottingham (launch of the Journal of Politeness Research)


Talk in Didier Maillat's seminar on 'Power' in Neuchatel, January 25, 2005, "The exercise of power in public contexts"


3. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik, Bern, 2004, 1-2 October, "Addressing the private and public readership in an American advice column".


Cardiff University staff exchange, 12 May, 2004, "Politeness and Relational Work"


Cardiff University staff exchange, 11 May, 2004, "Advice in a popular Internet advice column - Work in progress"


ICAME 25, Verona, 2004, with S. Hoffmann, "Discourse markers and grammaticalization theory: The case of *in terms of*"


Sociolinguistic Symposium (SS15), Newcastle, 2004, "Managing the private and public dimension in Internet advice columns"


Pragmatic Interfaces, Geneva, 2004


SWELL, Lausanne, 2004


SAUTE, Neuchâtel, 2003


Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT), Washington D.C., 2003, "Constructing authority in Internet advice columns" (together with S. Hoffmann)


SWELL, Fribourg, 2003, "Identity and its linguistic realizations: establishing authority in two Internet advice columns" (together with S. Hoffmann)


2. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik, Bern, 2002


Politeness and Power Conference, Loughborogh, 2002


Research Colloquium, English Department, University of Zurich, 2002, "The Latest on Politeness"


Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS14), Gent, 2002, "Markedness in Politeness Reseach"


Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT), Washington D.C. 2002


SWELL, Basel, 2002


36th Linguistics Colloquium, Ljubljana, 2001, "You Better Keep Quiet Steven": The Exercise of Power during a Family Dinner"


SAUTE, St.Gallen, 2001


Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT), Washington D.C. 2001


Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Washington D.C., 2001


Gullah Conference, Washington D.C., 2000


North East Linguistics Society (NELS), Washington D.C., 2000


SWELL, Bern, 2000, "Power Manifestations in Narratives and Disagreement, a Relevance-Theoretical Approach"


Tage der Schweizer Linguistik, Bern, 1999


Pragma, Tel Aviv, 1999