• The limits of universality in metaphor.
31st Linguistics Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland, 12-14 September 1996.
• The lexicon in European languages today : unification or diversification ?
2nd International Conference Beyond Boundaries, University of Salford, UK, 19-21 February 1999.
• Tracing regular metaphor paths in the history of a language: evidence from divergence in the dryness concept between English and French.
4th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM): Metaphor, Cognition and Culture, University of Manouba, Tunis, 5-7 April 2001.
• The evolution of conceptual metaphor : towards a dormant networking hypothesis in English and French historical texts.
5th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM), University of Paris 13: Metaphor, Categorisation and Abstraction: a multidisciplinary approach, 2-5 September 2003.
• The conceptualization and translatability of metaphor in English literary works.
International Conference of the Institution of Translation in Europe, University of Provence, France, 30 June-1 July 2006.
• L’hypothèse des réseaux conceptuels dans la métaphore diachronique de l’anglais : l’influence des langues anciennes germaniques et romanes.
Conference of the Association CLAIX (Cercle Linguistique d’Aix-en Provence), University of Provence, France, 10 May 2007.
• La traduction de la métaphore : le rôle de la variabilité des groupements conceptuels entre les langues.
Annual Congress of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES), University of Avignon , France, 11-13 May 2007.
• Conceptual networking theory in metaphor evolution : diachronic variation in models of love.
10th International Conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), University of Krakow, Poland, 15-20 July 2007.
• Les réseaux conceptuels au sein de l’évolution historique de la métaphore dans la littérature médiévale anglaise : une approche cognitive.
Annual Congress of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES), University of Orléans, France, 16-18 May 2008.
• The limits of comprehension in cross-cultural metaphor: networking theory in drugs terminology.
7th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM), Metaphor in Cross-Cultural Communication, University of Extremedura, Caceres, Spain, 29-31 May 2008.
• Traces from the past: old and new in metaphor evolution.
2nd International Metamind Conference. Metamorphoses of the World : Traces, Shadows, Reflections, Echoes and Metaphors, Cultural Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 2-5 October 2008.
• Establishing time-specific patterns in medieval metaphor : the problem of multiple cultural attitudes in Chaucerian texts.
Annual Congress of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES),
University of Bordeaux, France, 8-10 May 2009.
• Les parcours diachroniques de la métaphore.
Research Laboratory, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université de Provence, France, 12 juin 2009.
• Diachronic universals and variation in metaphor : the case of war rhetoric.
8th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, 30 June- 3 July 2010.
• Research in Metaphor Studies.
Series of conferences for PhD students in linguistics, Cultural Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 5-6 October 2010.
• The Absolute notion of God and its conceptual analogies in the history of war rhetoric. 3rd International Metamind Conference, Metamorphoses of the Absolute, Cultural Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 7-10 October 2010.
• Synchronic and diachronic metaphor: the role of universality, culture and semantic field.
International Conference: Metaphor Across Time and Genre, University of Castilla-Mancha, Almagro, Spain, 4-7 May 2011.
• L’interface entre la métaphore cognitive synchronique et diachronique.
4th International Conference of the French Association of Cognitive Linguistics (AFLiCo), University of Lyon 3, France, 24-27 May 2011.
• Variability of time and space in cross-cultural metaphorization : the role of abstraction levels.
27th International Conference of Semiotic Studies: Modelling of Time and Space, University of Helsinki, Finland, 8-12 June 2012.
• Theoretical Considerations on a Global Model of Conceptual Mapping in Metaphor Analysis.
9th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM), University of Lancaster, UK, 4-7 July 2012.
• Global parameters of translatability in figurative language.
Conference: Texts and Contexts, Aix-Marseille University, France, 11 February 2013.
• Approches aux recherches sur la métaphore.
Conference at the Research Laboratory: Semantics, Lexis, Discourse, University of Toulon, France, 11 September 2013.
• L’emploi des paramètres temporels et spatiaux dans la genèse et l’évolution de la métaphorisation par rapport à l’universalité et à la culture.
Conference at the Research Laboratory : Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université, France, 29 November 2013.
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• Présentation de trois corpus sur la métaphore : la terminologie multilingue de la drogue, une étude diachronique des émotions et une étude diachronique de la rhétorique de la guerre.
Conference at the Research Laboratory: Semantics, Lexis, Discourse, University of Toulon, France, 18 December 2013.
• Approche analytique d’un glossaire bilingue de terminologie technique.
Conference of the Association CLAIX (Cercle Linguistique d’Aix-en Provence): Corpus and Dictionaries, Aix-Marseille Université, 4 June 2014.
• Chaos and Cosmos. The role of conceptual structure in the lexical-semantic evolution of two related concepts.
4th International Metamind Conference: The Order in Destruction and the Chaos in Order, Riga, Latvia, 25-28 September 2014.
• Variation in Time and Cultural Space of the Family Metaphor in the Austerity Rhetoric of the United States and France.
International Conference funded by the France-Berkeley Fund: Metaphors of Austerity and Lack in Political, Economic and Philosophical Discourse., Riga, Latvia, 26 September 2014.
• Vers des modèles cognitifs diachroniques de la modalité dans les traductions de ‘Pride and Prejudice’.
Conference of the Babel Research Laboratory : Modality and Translation, University of Toulon, France, 20 October 2014.
• Variation and instability in metaphor mapping: the case of referential meaning in the geopolitical red lines metaphor.
International Conference: Linguistic norms – emergence, variation, conflicts, University of Toulon, France, 26-27 March 2015.
• Commitment and non-commitment in the love metaphors of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. A cognitive linguistic analysis of symbolism as a major force in long-term metaphorization processes.
Annual Congress of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES), University of Toulon, France, 4-6 June 2015.
• Non-conventional metaphors in comparative literature. Individual psychology in the LOVE IS DEATH mapping (plenary lecture).
International Conference: Advances in Metaphor Studies, University of Genova, Italy,
20-22 May 2016.
• Networking at the interface between conceptual and linguistic metaphor in comparative literary texts.
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), University of Vienna, Austria, 21-27 July 2016.
• Le rôle de la morphologie dans la création de la métaphore cognitive, vu du point de vue de la traduction.
1st World Congress on Translation Studies, Paris-West University, Nanterre-La Défense, France, 10-14 April 2017.
• Constraints in the metaphorisation of interlinguistic morphological variants. The case of compound adjectives in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow translated into French and German.
International Conference on Metaphor and Translation, University of Toulon, France, 1-2 June 2017.
• L’impact de la morpho-syntaxe dans les processus de métaphorisation contrastive entre langues romanes et germaniques.
International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics : Methodologies, Applications and Perspectives, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, 23-24 November 2017.
• L’influence de la morphologie sur l’interprétation et la création des images doubles au sein des métaphores littéraires. Une approche contrastive.
International Conference of the French Association of Language Sciences (ASL) : Interpretation, University of Paris 3, France, 2 December 2017.