Disclaimer In some cases, I might have changed my mind about substantive issues and/or the best way to present them.
CNRS portrait (video in French, with French subtitles)
Conversation with Malcolm Keating, New Books Netwoork, February 2023
Conversation with Marie Lods, Institut Jean-Nicod, September 2023 [in French]
Semantic theory
Grammatical Inferences Without Words (semi-general audience talk on semantic and grammatical properties gestures and in visual animations, June 21, 2022)
Is Meaning Dynamic? (technical talk on recent debates on dynamic semantics, December 2011; invited talk to the MIT Ling50 Reunion); The talk starts at 21minutes 23s.
Iconic Meanings within Super Semantics (semi-technical talk on the integration between logical and iconic meanings in signs, gestures and beyond; Robert Blumberg Distinguished lecture, Riga, November 26, 2021).
Sign language semantics
The Dual Face of Linguistic Meaning: Combining Logic and Iconicity in Sign Language Semantics, 81st Conference of the University of Latvia, session "Cognitive sciences", February 24, 2023
Corresponding papers: Iconic Syntax Iconological Semantics
Iconic Plurals (from 2 papers with Jonathan Lamberton). Incidental Zoom video of an internal LINGUAE seminar, April 23, 2020 (with the authorization of people asking questions). Full articles: Iconic Plurality Meaningful Blurs [video] [slides]
Disclaimer This is not at all a professional video, and the first minute or so is missing. With apologies for the absence of sign language interpreting/subtitles.
Meaning in Speech, in Sign and in Gestures
• 12th Whatmough Lecture, Harvard University [with ASL interpreting], May 1, 2017 - general audience talk [abstract] [slides]
• Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto [with captions], October 30, 2018 - general audience talk [slides]
Earlier version in French (November 7, 2016, ENS, Lundis de la philosophie; no video - hence some parts are difficult to follow): [audio] [slides]
Anaphora: Insights from Sign Language (semi-technical talk on sign language semantics, July 2013; keynote address to the International Congress of Linguists 2013. In English). Version with ASL interpreting (Kyle Duarte).
Situations and Perspectives ('Situations et Perspectives'; general audience talk on sign language semantics, June 2011; invited presentation in S. Dehaene's seminar). In French, with LSF interpreting: [temporary link to the video] [slides]
Semantics between Logic and Cognition ('La semantica tra logica e cognizione'; brief popular science talk on semantics in spoken and signed languages; Festival delle Scienze, Rome, January 2014 [session on 'The Science of Language' with Luigi Rizzi and Andrea Moro]; the talk starts at 37 minutes 40. In Italian (there was LIS interpreting when the talk was given) [slides] [Italian text]
Music semantics
Musical Enrichments: Musical Cosuppositions Incidental Zoom video of a workshop on 'Musical Meaning and Beyond', NYU, May 12, 2020. [video] [slides]
Musical Meaning within Super Semantics
• NYU CLaMe, October 15, 2019: [video] [slides]
• Related discussion with David Poeppel: [video]
Music Semantics: Problems and Prospects Distinguished Lecture Series in the Digital Humanities & Music Semantics Workshop, EPFL, Lausanne, December 4, 2017. [slides]
Musiksemantik: Was Musik bedeutet, Barenboim-Said Academy, Was Musik Kann, Berlin, June 6, 2017. [YouTube] [text] [slides] [video (Dropbox)]
Prolegomena to Music Semantics (IRCAM Workshop on Emotional Archetypes: Music and Neuroscience, June 9, 2016) [question period] [slides - with links to sound examples] (see here for the [long] paper with the same title, or here for a shorter version, published in Music Perception 2017)
Note: a more recent version of this talk was filmed in Lausanne in December 2017, see above.
Primate semantics
Monkey Semantics: two 'Dialects' of Monkey Alarm Calls (Henry Sweet lecture, Linguistic Association of Great Britain, August 2013; specialized talk intended for an audience of linguists.