Recent and Forthcoming Lectures
What is a 'difficult language'? What are 'difficult languages'? Myths and Measurements. Keynote Lecture. Linguapax Asia Symposium. June 13, 2020. Tokyo, JAPAN.
Translation Theory and Sociolinguistics. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, Keynote Lecture. November 1-2, 2019. CHINA.
手話言語は何? (What is a Sign Language?) Invited Speech. Japan Federation of the Deaf. Utsunomiya, June 15, 2019. JAPAN.
From Dante to Fishman: the role of migration in sociolinguistics and in the language situation of Ireland. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 東京外国語大学 Keynote Speech. Keynote Address. February 28. Tokyo. 2019. JAPAN.
The Census, Language and Multilingualism. Tokyo. Toyo University. Plenary Speech. Japan Society for Language Management. December 20th. 2018
Tokyo. Keynote Speech. World Federation of the Deaf. Shuwa Gengo wa nani?手話言語は何? Google Japan Headquarters, Tokyo. June 15, 2018.
Japan, Diversity, Language and Culture. February 29. Tokyo. Speech. Monterey Hotel. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Speech. 2018
Language Diversity in Japan. Japanese Studies Association of Australia, University of Wollongong, Australia, June 2017.
Celtic Language Revitalization. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo. January 23, 2017.
"Lingua Relicta: the decline of German as a medium of medical communication"
International Association for Language for Specific Purposes, Tokyo, August 20, 2016
"Language and Society in Japan"
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, September 12, 2016
"Identity and Mobility in the Globalised World: Challenges for Education"
Symposium with John Maher, David Block and Naoko Aoki, Tokyo, October 3, 2015
"A Postmodern Theory of the Mother Tongue"
International Symposium on Native Speakerism, Saga University, Japan. September, 2014
"Multilingual Japan"
Symposium on Multicultural Kyosei. ICU, Tokyo, September 7, 2014
"The Everyday Life of Japanese Place-names"
Oxford Brooks University, Oxford. February 19, 2014
New Paradigms of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Japan"
University of London, Birkbeck College, February 3, 2014.
"Sociolinguistics and Toponomy"
Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, January 21, 2014
Translation Theory and Sociolinguistics. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, Keynote Lecture. November 1-2, 2019. CHINA.
手話言語は何? (What is a Sign Language?) Invited Speech. Japan Federation of the Deaf. Utsunomiya, June 15, 2019. JAPAN.
From Dante to Fishman: the role of migration in sociolinguistics and in the language situation of Ireland. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 東京外国語大学 Keynote Speech. Keynote Address. February 28. Tokyo. 2019. JAPAN.
The Census, Language and Multilingualism. Tokyo. Toyo University. Plenary Speech. Japan Society for Language Management. December 20th. 2018
Tokyo. Keynote Speech. World Federation of the Deaf. Shuwa Gengo wa nani?手話言語は何? Google Japan Headquarters, Tokyo. June 15, 2018.
Japan, Diversity, Language and Culture. February 29. Tokyo. Speech. Monterey Hotel. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Speech. 2018
Language Diversity in Japan. Japanese Studies Association of Australia, University of Wollongong, Australia, June 2017.
Celtic Language Revitalization. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo. January 23, 2017.
"Lingua Relicta: the decline of German as a medium of medical communication"
International Association for Language for Specific Purposes, Tokyo, August 20, 2016
"Language and Society in Japan"
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, September 12, 2016
"Identity and Mobility in the Globalised World: Challenges for Education"
Symposium with John Maher, David Block and Naoko Aoki, Tokyo, October 3, 2015
"A Postmodern Theory of the Mother Tongue"
International Symposium on Native Speakerism, Saga University, Japan. September, 2014
"Multilingual Japan"
Symposium on Multicultural Kyosei. ICU, Tokyo, September 7, 2014
"The Everyday Life of Japanese Place-names"
Oxford Brooks University, Oxford. February 19, 2014
New Paradigms of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Japan"
University of London, Birkbeck College, February 3, 2014.
"Sociolinguistics and Toponomy"
Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, January 21, 2014