Recent presentations

• Bisnath, F., Jaraisy, M., Lutzenberger, H., Omardeen, R. & Schembri. A. (2022). Deconstruction notions of morphological 'complexity': Lessons from signed and spoken languages. Workshop on Linguistic Typology and Diversity: Theory, Methods, and Ethics in Sign Language Typology. 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Texas, USA.

• Bisnath, F., Jaraisy, M., Lutzenberger, H., Omardeen, R. & Schembri, A. (2022). Deconstructing notions of morphological 'complexity'. Poster presentation at the Workshop on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Language Evolution, Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan.

• Lutzenberger, H., Mudd, K., Schembri, A., Ohanin, R. & Stamp, R. (2022) The social structure of signing communities and lexical variation: A cross-linguistic comparison of three unrelated sign languages. 14th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Osaka, Japan.

• Schembri. A. (2021). How I applied for an ERC Advanced Grant. Presentation at the ERC Workshop, University of Birmingham. 

• Schembri, A. & Cooperrider, K. (2020). Gesture versus sign: Moving beyond the binary. 14th Biennial Conference of the High Desert Linguistics Society. 

• Schembri, A. (2020).  Usage-based grammar and sociolinguistics: Evidence from sign languages. UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Birmingham. 

• Schembri, A. (2020). On the 'paradox' of sign language morphology (slides) (video: English with BSL, ASL, and Libras interpretation). Abralin Ao Vivo/Linguists Online series. 

• Fenlon, J., Adam, R., Cormier, K., Hodge, G., Rowley, K. & Schembri, A. (2019). BSL linguistics and BSL teaching: Realigning the two fields. Bridging the Gap 6: Deaf People's Rights, University of South Wales. 

• Hodge, G., Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & K. Cormier. (2019). Semiotic diversity in signed utterances: Evidence from conversations in the British Sign Language Corpus. 6th European and 9th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication. University of Leuven, Belgium.

• Hodge, G., Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & K. Cormier. (2019). A corpus-based investigation of how deaf signers signal questions during conversation. 13th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, University of Hamburg.

• Schembri, A. (2019). 'Making visual languages visible: Data and methods transparency in sign language linguistics'. 13th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, University of Hamburg.

• Schembri, A. & Fenlon, J. (2019). 'Making identity visible: In search of regional accents in sign languages'. Twelfth UK Language Variation and Change conference (UKLVC 12), Queen Mary University, London. 

• Hodge, G., Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & K. Cormier. (2018). Negation in British Sign Language and Auslan: same or different? The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sheffield.

• Schembri, A. (2018) Indicating verbs and cognition-to-form mapping: Pointing away from 'agreement' and back again? Sign CAFE 1: The first international workshop on cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics, University of Birmingham. 

• Schembri, A., Johnston, T., & van Roekel, J. (2015). Mouthing as grammatical code-blending in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 44, University of Toronto. 

Workshops

• From Practice To Theory: The Linguistics of Auslan (workshop delivered in Auslan in Melbourne, 2018). https://vimeo.com/312845563

Online resources

• 2016 University of Birmingham (my research interests): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYNfm_ZDWSQ

• 2010 University College London mini-lecture: 'The truth about British Sign Language' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCXAUATESfE