2025. Despot, Kristina Š.; Belaj, Branimir: Embodied Simulation and Figurative Thought in the Construction of Meaning. Mario stands for … Mentor, Metonymy, Multimodality. Osijek, Croatia.
2025. Brač, Ivana; Despot, Kristina Š.; Belaj, Branimir: Interaction between metaphorical shifts in verbs’ meaning and their valency patterns. The 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference – ICLC 17. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2024. Brač, Ivana; Despot, Kristina Š.; Belaj, Branimir: Bleating, growling, barking, and spitting. Exploring metaphorical extensions and valency patterns in verbs of speaking. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea – SLE 2024. Helsinki, Finnland.
2024. Brač, Ivana; Despot, Kristina Š.; Belaj, Branimir: The syntax-semantics interface of verbs of (manner of) speaking. The Annual International Conference of the English Department – AICED 25. Bucharest, Romania.
2024. Despot, Kristina Štrkalj; Ostroški Anić, Ana ; Gantar, Polona; Bon, Mija; Klemen, Matej; Robnik Šikonja, Marko; Krek, Simon; Perak, Benedikt; Čibej, Jaka. Creating a Multilingual Figurative Language Dataset. EURALEX XXI: Lexicography and Semantics, Cavtat, Croatia (video)
2024. Štrkalj Despot, Kristina; Brač, Ivana; Filipić, Lobel. Metaphor enactment: (Un)veiling truth through intensified insults. XI International Symposium on Intercultural Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS XI), Sevilla, Spain.
2024. Brač, Ivana; Štrkalj Despot, Kristina; Filipić, Lobel. Unpacking negative attitudes through the choice of a verb. XI International Symposium on Intercultural Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS XI), Sevilla, Spain.