Rice University. Mellon Seminar. 9 March 2011.
5 lectures on conceptual integration. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 7-11 February 2011.
2 lectures on conceptual integration. University of Manouba, Tunisia. 11-12 November 2010.
"Cognition & Poetics: Minding Language and Literature." University of Osnabrück. 21-24 October 2010.
"Cognition in the World: Innovation, the Body, and Technology." Department of Cognitive Science, UC Merced. 18 October 2010.
"Full Speed Reverse: Reconsidering the Foundations of Social Science." The Invited Workshop of the Cognitive Science Society's annual meeting. Portland, Oregon, 11 August 2010.
"Learning Language: The Perspective From All Sides Of Cognition." The Fifth University of California Language Consortium Conference, in partnership with the East Coast Language Consortium. University of California, San Diego. 23 April 2010.
"The Embodied Mind and the Spark of Human Culture." Green College, University of British Columbia. 5-6:30 pm, Monday, 8 March 2010.
Panel on "Law and Neuroscience." Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, 2009. Gould Law School, University of Southern California. 20 November 2009.
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Berkeley. 6-24 July 2009.
"Ten Lectures on Mind and Language." Seventh China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. May 2009.
CECC Conference on Cognition and Culture. Lisbon. 21-22 May 2009.
"Categorization of Time and Space Through Language." Foundation For Polish Science. Serock near Warsaw, Poland, 25-28 February 2009.
"Big-Time Morality: The Cognitive Science of Moral Considerations Across Space and Time." National Humanities Center symposium on "Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity." 14 November 2008.
"Thinking With Feeling." Fellow's Public Lecture, Institute of Advanced Study. Durham University, UK. 8 November 2008.
"Creativity." Institute of Advanced Study. Durham University, UK. 27 October 2008.
"Minds, Machines, and Media." Distinguished Lecturer Series. Georgia Institute of Technology. 2 October 2008.
"Forbidden Fruit: Principles and Origins of the Modern Mind." Rice Linguistics Colloquium. 18 September 2008.
"Social Ontology, Conceptual Structure, and the Law." Distinguished Scholar, USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law & Politics. 2-5 September 2008.
ESSE 2008. Aarhus University, Denmark. 22-26 August 2008.
Star Island symposium on Emergence in Human Evolution and Development. 28 July - 4 August, 2008.
"A Muse of Fire." Haverford College. 18 April 2008.
"The Mind is an Autocatalytic Vortex." Conference on The Literary Mind. Humboldts-Universität zu Berlin. 10-12 April 2008.
"Devices for Meaning Construction." Center for Semiotic Research, Denmark. 8 February 2008.
USC Law School. 27 November 2007.
Conference: Theory of Mind and Literature. Purdue University. 1-3 November 2007.
University of Toronto. 25-28 October 2007.
First Annual Clarence Branton Memorial Lecture. Washington & Jefferson College. 23 October 2007.
Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association. University of Chicago. 12-14 October 2007.
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. 28 September 2007.
Conference: Communications in the 21st Century. Organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Hungarian Telekom. Budapest, Hungary. 27-29 September 2007.
Conference: Language and Cognition. Minas Gerais, Brazil. 9-11 August 2007.
Department of Linguistics, University of São Paolo, Brazil. 6-7 August, 2007.
Conference: Explanation in the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice. Universität Witten/Herdeke, Germay. 11-14 June 2007.
UCSD Political Science Colloquium. 11 May 2007. Pdf of abstract.
Symposium on Visual Ethics. Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence. Case Western Reserve University. 21-22 April 2007. Pdf of abstract.
Institute of Cognitive Science. University of Louisiana, Lafayette. 19 April 2007.
Santa Fe Institute, 12-16 March 2007.
2007 Robert J. Kane Memorial Lecture, Ohio State University, 1 March.
Political Science Colloquium, 16 February 2007, Case Western Reserve University.
Colloquium on Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human and the Humanities, at the National Humanities Center, November, 2006, 2007, 2008. A three-year research initiative at the NHC. Pdf of slideshow.
Eighth Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. UCSD, November, 2006
Conference on Language, Culture, Mind. Paris, 2006
The Architecture Of Language: From Cognitive Modeling to Brain Mapping, Pisa, 2006
Frames: A Colloquium in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Economics, Bologna, 2006
Founding of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Nanjing, 2006
Social Change Workshop, Stanford, 2006.