School of Humanities

Conference organization

  1. 2012. Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Organizing the DSRI-Herbstakademie (together with Jürgen Taeger). DSRI = Deutsche Stiftung für Recht und Informatik. The Herbstakademie took place 12.-15.9.2012 in the Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal.
  2. 2009. Universität Osnabrück. Osnabrück Summer School on Law, Language and Culture, Organization of the Workshops RHETORIC, NARRATIVE, TRANSLATION
  3. 2008. Universität Bamberg. 30th annual meeting of the DGfS, 27.-29.2.2008: (with Renate Musan and Rolf Thieroff) Organization of the workshop TENSE ACROSS LANGUAGES. A selection of the talks is published as a book:
    • 2011. Musan, Renate & Monika Rathert (eds.), Tense across Languages. Tübingen: Niemeyer. (Series Linguistische Arbeiten)
  4. 2007. Universität Stuttgart. Sponsored by DFG (GZ 4851-339-07). 29.11. – 1.12. 2007: (together with Artemis Alexiadou) Organization of the Workshop NOMINALIZATIONS ACROSS LANGUAGES. The following publications resulted from the workshop:
    • 2010. Rathert, Monika & Artemis Alexiadou (eds.): The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Volume 22 of the series Interface Explorations) and
    • 2010. Alexiadou, Artemis & Monika Rathert (eds.): The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Volume 23 of the series Interface Explorations)
  5. 2006. Universität Bielefeld. 28th annual meeting of the DGfS, 22.-24.2.2006: (with Günther Grewendorf) Organization of the workshop SPRACHE UND RECHT. The following publication resulted from this workshop:
    • 2009. Grewendorf, Günther & Monika Rathert (eds.): Formal Linguistics and Law. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 435 pages. (Volume 212 series of the Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM))
  6. 2005. Universität Saarbrücken. Sponsored by the DFG (GZ 4851/179/05). 16.-17.12.2005: (with Anastasia Giannakidou) Organization of the workshop QP STRUCTURE, NOMINALIZATIONS, AND THE ROLE OF DP. The following publication resulted from this workshop:
    • 2009. Giannakidou, Anastasia & Monika Rathert (eds.): Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 352 pages. (Volume 22 of the series Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
  7. 2001. Universität Tübingen. Sponsored by the DFG (GZ 4851/212/01). 17.-18.4.2001. Organization of the workshop PARTICIPLES. The following publication resulted from this workshop:
    • 2003. Alexiadou, Artemis & Rathert, Monika & Arnim von Stechow (Editor.), Perfect Explorations. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 404 pages. (Volume 2 of the series Interface Explorations

Organization of colloquia

  1. Organization of the 1st ZefiS-colloquium during summer term 2011 (in cooperation with Prof. Krajewski). General Topic: What are the aims and achiements of interdisciplinary language research? Talks: Doris Liebwald (Universität Wien), Peter Schlobinski (Universität Hannover), Peter Indefrey (Universität Düsseldorf), Greg Poarch (Universität Nijmegen), Jürgen Schulz (Universität der Künste Berlin), Anton Batliner (Universität Erlangen‐Nürnberg), Reinhard Möller (Universität Wuppertal)
  2. Organization of the 2nd ZefiS-colloquium during winter term 2011/12 (in cooperation with Prof. Krajewski). General Topic: What are the aims and achiements of interdisciplinary language research? Talks: Angelika Braun (Universität Trier), Reinhard Fiehler (Universität Mannheim), Ingo Warnke (Universität Bremen), Gisela Brünner (Universität Dortmund), Björn Schuller (TU München), Thomas Düllo (Universität der Künste Berlin)
  3. Organization of the 3rd ZefiS-colloquium during summer term 2012 (in cooperation with Prof. Krajewski). General Topic: What are the aims and achiements of interdisciplinary language research? Talks: Claudia Müller (Universität Dortmund), Carsten C. Schermuly (SRH Hochschule Berlin), Milena Kühnast (FU Berlin), Jan Seifert (Universität Bonn), Christa Röber (Universität Freiburg), Peter Eisenberg (Universität Potsdam)
  4. Organization of the 4th ZefiS-colloquium during summer term 2012 (in cooperation with Prof. Krajewski). General Topic: Language Complexity. Talks: Sebastian Kürschner (Universität Erlangen‐Nürnberg), Peter Culicover (Ohio State University), Walter Bisang (Universität Mainz), Michael Jessen (BKA), Bernd Kortmann (Universität Freiburg), Matti Miestamo (Stockholm University)
  5. Organization of the 5th ZefiS-colloquium during winter term 2013/14 (in cooperation with Prof. Krajewski). General Topic: Language and Law. Talks: Thomas Stolz (Universität Bremen), Jan Engberg (Aarhus University), Marianne Jessen (Stimmenvergleich, Wiesbaden), Ralph Radach (Universität Wuppertal), Jacqueline Visconti (Università di Genova)
  6. Organization of the 6th ZefiS-colloquium during summer term 2014 (in cooperation with Prof. Krajewski). General Topic: Language and Law. Talks: Wiltrud Mihatsch (Universität Bochum), Lisa von Stockhausen (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Christiane J. Driesen (Universität Hamburg), Anna-Lena Scherger (Universität Wuppertal), Friederike Kuster (Universiät Wuppertal)
  7. Organization of the 7th ZefiS-colloquium during winter term 2014/15 (in cooperation with Prof. Efing). General Topic: Unternehmenskommunikation. Talks: Natascha Sowieso-Grünewald (Universität der Bundeswehr München), Sambor Grucza (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Polen), Peter Szyszka (Hochschule Hannover), Nina Janich (TU Darmstadt), Christopher Schmidt (Universiät Abo Akademi, Finnland)
  8. Organization of the 8th ZefiS-colloquium during summer term 2015 (in cooperation with Prof. Efing). General Topic: Sprache in Recht und Politik. Vorträge: Sabine Erhardt (Bundeskriminalamt), Thomas Niehr (RWTH Aachen), Martin Wengeler (Universität Trier), Kati Hannken-Illjes (Philipps-Universiät Marburg)

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