togog: events

Public events:

Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Berlin Gesture Center, established 14.09.2004. For more information see www.berlingesturecenter.de.

January 12 – 14, 2009, Berlin: Presentation of the project “Towards a grammar of gesture – evolution, brain, and linguistic structures” within the framework of the conference „Schlüsselthemen der Geisteswissenschaften – Expertisen für das 21. Jahrhundert“. Organized by Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin in cooperation with VolkswagenStiftung. Program .

November 24, 2008 (deadline for submitting abstracts): Call for papers: “Multimodality and grammatical integration” . AFLiCo3,  3rd International Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association, “Grammars in Construction(s)”, University of Paris 10-Nanterre, May 27-29, 2009

9. – 12.10.2008, Stuttgart: 12th International Congress of the German Society for Semiotics (DGS) “The concrete as sign”, Workshop Gestures in communication: Processes of concretization and abstraction

July 4, 2008 (Deadline for submitting abstracts): Call for papers: Gestures in Communication – Processes of Concretization and Abstraction . 12th International Congress of the German Society for Semiotics (DGS) “The concrete as sign” (“Das Konkrete als Zeichen”) in Stuttgart, October 9-12, 2008.

11. – 14.10.2007 “Methods of Gesture Analysis”.
A workshop with Cornelia Müller, Irene Mittelberg (organizers), Jana Bressem and Silva Ladewig (co-organizers) held at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and organized in collaboration with the Berlin Gesture Center.

20. – 28.03.2007 “Gesture and Cognition” Course.
A workshop with Cornelia Müller and Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) at the Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark

02. – 03.03.2007 Workshop “Forms and meanings of gestures: a linguistic approach to the description and analysis of gestures.”
Gesture Focus Group, Speakers’ Series: Workshop with Cornelia Müller at Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology, N.Y.

08.11.2006 – 07.02.2007, Lecture Series „Bedeutung in Geste, Bild und Text“.
Program 32 KB.

09.11.2005 – 15.02.2006 Lecture Series „Körperbewegungen – ihre Analyse und Notation”.
Program 120 KB. Lecture series held at the Technical University Berlin throughout the winter semesters 2005/2006 and 2006/2007. They were a cooperation of the Berlin Gesture Center, the Research Center for Semiotics at the Technical University Berlin and the Berliner Arbeitskreis für Kultursemiotik.

Project internal events:


06. – 09.11.2007 Primate Gesture Annotation Workshop
A meeting of the subprojects P5, P6 and P9 at the University of Portsmouth.


18. – 21.02.2007, Post Milestone I Workshop.

16. – 17.02.2007, Milestone I – “Focusing the Project Goals”. 52 KB
A meeting with the scientific advisory board organized in association with the first plenary meeting within the framework of the project.


24.09. – 03.10.2006, Procida “Gesture Annotation” Workshop.
A workshop with Adam Kendon (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) held on the island of Procida in the Gulf of Naples within the framework of the project “Towards a grammar of gesture: evolution, brain, and linguistic structures“. Photographs of the workshop.

From left to right: Hedda Lausberg, Cornelia Müller, Ellen Fricke, Katja Liebal. Photograph by Klaus Siebahn, Güstrow.