2018
"Talking about Food: Local & Global Contexts", 26. – 28. April 2018, Bayreuth, English Linguistics: The construction of veganism in vegan food blogs (Presentation)
 
SS 22 Sociolinguistics Symposium, 27. – 30. June 2018, Auckland, NZL: The re-naming of sports stadiums: Club stances and media and supporter reception (Presentation, together with Ben Clarke, Goteborg)
 
2nd Discourse Analysis Symposium, 02. July 2018, Victoria University Wellington Discourse Analysis Group, Wellington, NZL (Part of the Expert Panel)

1st Biannual Conference on Food and Communication, 06. – 07. September 2018, Edinburgh, Queen Margaret University, Centre for Communication, Culture and Media Studies: The construction of veganism in vegan food blogs (Presentation)
                                  
Open Minds II Workshop “Comparative Interactional Linguistics”, 27. – 28. September 2018, Potsdam, organized by Elisabeth Reber, Würzburg (Presentation)

2017
International Workshop on Sports Communication. 13. - 14. June 2017, Siegen: The reception of live football broadcasting: Appropriating media discourse in everyday life
                       
IPrA 15 International Pragmatics Conference, 16. – 21. July 2017, Belfast: Activities in interaction (Panel organisation, together with Elisabeth Reber, Würzburg)
 
IPrA 15 International Pragmatics Conference, 16. – 21. July 2017, Belfast: ‘Showing’, not ‘pointing’ (Presentation)

IPrA 15 International Pragmatics Conference, 16. – 21. July 2017, Belfast: The construction of veganism in vegan food blogs (Presentation, together with Isabel Schul, Saarland)

LL & L 24 Lavender Languages & Linguistics, 28. – 30. April 2017, Nottingham: Trans food practices in popular culture? - The TV Show ‘Transparent’ (Presentation, together with Astrid Fellner, Saarland)

2016
Keynote Speaker Culinary Linguistics, The International Linguistic Association 61st Annual Conference (former Linguistic Circle of New York), 11. – 13. March 2016, Hofstra University, N.Y. (together with Stefan Diemer, Birkenfeld)
 
ISGS 2016 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, ‘Showing’ in talk-in-interaction, 18. – 22. July 2016, Paris.

2015
International Year of Light, Licht als Wort, Saarland University (General public)

2014
ICCA14 International Conference on Conversation Analysis, 25. – 29. June 2014, Los Angeles: Epistemic stance in ‘notables’: What is it we are witnessing. (Presentation)
 
MEmI 4 Multimodality and Embodied Interaction, 4. Netzwerktreffen zu Methodology and multimodal interaction, 25. – 27. September 2014, Bielefeld (Organiser, together with Elisabeth Reber, Würzburg, Christian Meyer and Ulrich von Wedelstädt, Bielefeld)

2013
MEmI 2 Multimodality and Embodied Interaction, 2. Netzwerktreffen zu Coordination and Multimodal Interaction, 22. – 25. May 2013, Würzburg (Organiser, Leitung, together with Elisabeth Reber, Würzburg)
                                                              
MEmI 3 Multimodality and Embodied Interaction, 3. Netzwerktreffen zu Sequential organisation of multimodal interaction, 29. September – 2. Oktober 2013, Potsdam (Organiser, together with Elisabeth Reber, Würzburg und Maxi Kupetz, Potsdam)

2012
SS 19 Sociolinguistics Symposium, 22. – 24. August 2012, Berlin: The sociolinguistics of football (Panel organisation)
                        
SS 19 Sociolinguistics Symposium, 22. – 24. August 2012, Berlin: Is anything happening on the pitch? Constructing notability in talk (Presentation)
 
MEmI 1 Multimodality and Embodied Interaction, 1. Netzwerktreffen zu Data collection, transcription and technology, 7. – 10. November 2012, Saarbrücken (Organiser, together with Elisabeth Reber, Würzburg)
 
Data session Multimodality, 10. – 11. December 2012, Luxemburg, University of Luxemburg, organised by Kristian Mortensen

2011
IPrA 11 International Pragmatics Conference, 3. – 8. July 2011, Manchester: Participation framework revisited: (new) media and their audiences/users (Panel organisation together with Maximiliane Frobenius, Saarland, and Volker Eisenlauer, Augsburg, Discussant: Ian Hutchby)
 
IPrA 11 International Pragmatics Conference, 3. – 8. July 2011, Manchester: Participation frameworks in the reception situation: the television as ratified speaker (Presentation)
                                   
1. Saarbrücker Fremdsprachentagung, 3. – 5. November 2011, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Saarbrücken: Juristische Fachvorlesungen in französischer Sprache - EMILE in praktischer Anwendung (Presentation together with Sybille Neumann, HTW Saarbrücken)

2010
ICCA 10 International Conference on Conversation Analysis, 4. – 8. July 2010, Mannheim: Notability: how the television influences talk-in-interaction (Presentation)
(cf Scheerer, Jana. 2010. Interaction in Media(ted) Settings? An ICCA10 report. Gesprächsforschung 11, 294-304)
 
SS 18 Sociolinguistics Symposium, 3. – 4. September 2010, Southampton: “half the team’s Afro-Caribbeans”: How a simple ball game opens space for the negotiation of national identities (Presentation)

2009
I-mean 09 I-mean@UWE Conference on „Meaning and interaction“, 23. – 25. April 2009, Bristol: Negotiating the meaning of broader categories in talk: The case of patriotism (Presentation)

2008
SS 17 Sociolinguistics Symposium, 3. – 5. April 2008, Amsterdam: More than wallpaper: The television during live football matches (Presentation)
 
AILA 08 Weltkongress der International Association of Applied Linguistics, 24. – 29. August 2008, Essen: Negotiating multimodality: The gaze behaviour of television viewers (Presentation)

2007
Junior Days Anéla/GAL Research meeting for junior applied linguistics, 24. – 26. January 2007, Groningen: Watching television: the dilemma of gaze (Presentation und Poster)
 
IPrA 07 International Pragmatics Conference, 8. – 13. July 2007, Göteborg: The appropriation of media discourse (Panel Organisation)
 
IPrA 07 International Pragmatics Conference, 8. – 13. July 2007, Göteborg: The gaze behaviour of spectators: Tackling the multimodality of watching TV (Presentation)
 
ÖLT 07 Verbal-Workshop „Language and football“ im Rahmen der Österreichischen Linguistik-Tagung, 26. – 28. October 2007, Innsbruck: Turn-by-turn and move-by-move: a multimodal analysis of live TV commentary (Presentation)

2006
ICCA 06 International Conference on Conversation Analysis, 10. – 14. May 2006, Helsinki: The negotiation of expertise in symmetrical talk (Presentation)
                                   
Open Day, Saarland University, 1. July 2006, Saarbrücken: „they’d be worse than Germany“: Warum die Amis bei der WM früh `rausfliegen sollten (General public)         
 
SS 16 Sociolinguistics Symposium, 6. – 8. July 2006, Limerick: Spectatorship – the negotiation and mitigation of conflicting roles (Presentation)
 
Transcultura Symposium “Sport(s) Rules – Sport-Regel(n) – Le règle(ment) du sport”, 10. – 14. July 2006, Merzig:  „upf, yellow card, surely”: English football fans watching the WC on TV (Presentation)
 
GAL 06 Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für angewandte Linguistik, 21. – 23. September 2006, Münster: Mehr als Tapete: Der Fernseher im Wohnzimmer (Poster)
 
3rd Teachers’ Day Spoken grammar?, Fachdidaktische Fortbildungsveranstaltung des Saarlandes, Saarland University, 16. October 2006, Saarbrücken (Co-organiser)           
 
1st E-learning day Saarland University, 21. November 2006, Saarbrücken: Blended learning: Introduction to English linguistics-syntax (Poster, together with Susanne Ley, Saarland)

2005
2nd Teachers’ Day Spoken English – teaching and testing, Fachdidaktische Fortbildungsveranstaltung des Saarlandes, Universität des Saarlandes, 24. June 2005, Saarbrücken (Co-organiser)