Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2026). Improving Arabic-script automatic text recognition with synthetic training data. Great Lakes Adiban Society, Tenth Annual Workshop. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo. link

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Thaam, Keen. (2026). Twelve tones in a five-tone system: Representing sandhi-induced complexity in Southeast Patkaian. Workshop on Parametrization of tonal systems.  16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Lumière University. Lyon, France.

Das, Patrick; Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2026). Beyond Hill and Valley: A Sociogeographic Investigation of Argument Coding Complexity in the Eastern Himalayas . 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Lumière University. Lyon.

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Thaam, Keen; Sainyiu, Anui; Thangjiu, Methiam. (2026). Microtypology of tense-aspect-mood in Southeast Patkaian languages of Myanmar. Tenth Annual Workshop. Osnabrück. link

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2026). Digitising a modern legacy: The annual bulletin _A-awon Ngiopong_ as a modern linguistic corpus. Discussions on Legacy Materials (DiLegMa 3). Université Paris Cité. Paris.

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Stephen, Abishek. (2026). Automated Quality Control for Language Documentation: Detecting Phonotactic Inconsistencies in a Kokborok Wordlist. 5th Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Rabat. pdf computationalfieldwork

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2026). Building a Patchwork Career in Linguistics. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo.

—(2026). Tone in SE Asia: From fieldwork to computational analysis. Universität Tübingen. Tübingen. tone,fieldwork, computationalfieldwork

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2025). The texts of the Moka Garden Embroidery Mission in early 20th century Sūzhōu & Chángzhōu. Discussions on Legacy Materials – opportunities and challenges for descriptive linguistics (DiLegMa 2). University of Bern Department of Linguistics. Bern. pdf link legacy materials2025.04.24 – 2025.04.25

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Nieder, Jessica; Thaam, Keen. (2025). An L1-Focused Approach To Concept Elicitation And Identification In Northeast India. 13th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistics Society. Nagaland University. Kohima. documentationTibeto-Burman

Levy, Adam; Sakhamo, Thüküvela; Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2025). Porba Chokri: A phonological analysis. 13th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistics Society. Nagaland University. Kohima. NagaChokri

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2025). On the independence of tonogenesis in Northern Naga branches with new evidence from Khiamniungan. 58th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics - Workshop on Advances in Sino-Tibetan Historical-Comparative Linguistics. University of Bern Department of Linguistics. Bern. link tonetonogenesisKhiamniunganPatkaianTangsaWancho

—(2025). Phonetic realisation of ⟨r⟩ in Tangsa-Nocte varieties and the influence of community interpretations in orthography development. R-ATICS 8. L-Università ta' Malta. Valletta. link TangsaNoctehistorical

—(2025). Computational methods for identification of roots and forms in Maltese verbs. Għaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija. Heinrich-Heine-Universität. Düsseldorf. computationalMalteseSemitichistorical

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2025). Legacy materials as a tool for modern documentation in the Northeast. Keynote 5rd International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India (ICTiBLANEI-5). North East Hills University. Tura. link legacy materials

—(2025). Investigating tone in an undocumented language at the Burmese border. Linguistics Circle Seminar. L-Università ta' Malta. Msida. link tone

—(2025). Tonal Frontiers: Reconciling descriptive linguistic fieldwork with modern computational analyses. Phon Brown Bag series. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Hsinchu. link tonetonogenesis

Thaam, Keen; Meyan, Songmao; Thangjiu Methiam; Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2024). Topographical sensitivity of verbs for “to go” in Thang Wolam & Pounyiu. 4th International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India. The English and Foreign Languages University. Shillong. link typologyWolamThangPounyiuKhiamniungan

Sakhamo, Thüküvela; Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2024). The Structure of Chokrimi Society in Porba Village Nagaland. First International Conference on Social Sciences. Tharananellur Arts & Science College. Kerala. NagaChokri

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2024). Understanding J. F. Needham’s 19th century description of Muishaung as a record of language change in the Eastern Himalaya. Legacy materials as data sources for language description and documentation (DiLegMa 1). Université Paris Cité. Paris. link historicallegacy materialsTangsa

—(2024). Hidden compounds and the importance of diachrony in synchronic description: The case of Khiamniungan. 21st International Congress of Linguists. Międzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie. Poznań. link historicalKhiamniunganWolam

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Rupini, Meri. (2024). Substratum effects in modern Rupini Kok: Is there evidence for a non-Tibeto-Burman origin of Old Rupini? International Seminar on Kokborok as a look out of Literature & Linguistics. Government Degree College . Department of Kokborok. Khumulwng. historicalKokborokRupini

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2024). Multilingual Computational Linguistics: Data collection & structuring for multilingual computational linguistics; Introduction to linguistic phylogenetics; Language processing. Summer School of Linguistics. Summer School of Linguistics. České Budějovice. link computational2024.08.21 – 2024.08.23

—(2024). Bridging the gap between computational methods and language documentation. Universität Regensberg. Department of General and Comparative Linguistics. Regensburg. computationaldocumentation

—(2024). Computationally-focused fieldwork with under-described languages. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Leipzig. computationaldocumentation

—(2024). Keynote: Novel computational methods for analysing languages: What Bayesian inference can and can not tell us about Kokborok. International Seminar on Kokborok as a look out of Literature & Linguistics. Government Degree College . Department of Kokborok. Khumulwng. link computational

Karim, Shuan Osman; Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2023). The potential areality of pitch-based word-level prominence marking in Kurmancî. 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics. Frankfurt. link pitch

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2023). Reconstructing subtribe names for identification on early 20th century maps of the Patkai range. 3rd International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India. Silchar. link historical

—(2023). A Bayesian phylogeny of Patkaian (Northern Naga). 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Heidelberg. link computational

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Muheim, Nora. (2023). A first description of Kaisan, a Tibeto-Burman language of Myanmar. 26th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Paris. link documentation

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2023). Toneme neutralisation in Tibeto-Burman iambic compounds. Speech Units Workshop. Zürich. link tone

—(2023). A Bayesian phylogeny of Bodo-Garo: Testing novel methods on established groupings. 12th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistics Society. Guwahati. computationalBarish

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Rupini, Meri. (2023). The position of Old Rupini: Analysing the linguistic evidence for a substratum reflecting Palaungic origins. 12th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistics Society. Guwahati. historicalKokborokrupini palaung

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Kanshouwa Susie. (2023). A reconstruction of proto-Maringic. 12th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistics Society. Guwahati. historicalMaring

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2023). Developing Bayesian language phylogenies from previously published data: A case study of Bodo-Garo. Workshop on New Results and Methods in Reconstructing Population History. Zürich*. computational

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Muheim, Nora. (2023). Reduplicated intensifiers as Northeast areal feature. 3rd International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India. Silchar. intensifiers

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2023). Lexical phylogenies of under-described languages: Two case studies from Tibeto-Burman. Out of Asia workshop. Zürich. computational

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Thaam, Keen. (2023). A first description of Wolam Ngio, a Khiamniungic language of Nagaland and Myanmar. 56th International Conference on Sino–Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok. descriptionWolamKhiamniungan

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Muheim, Nora. (2023). On the Reconstructability of a Sal pronominal system. 56th International Conference on Sino–Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok. historicalSal

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2023). Developing & Maintaining Community-Driven Language Resources: Dictionaries & Narratives. Workshop on Pedagogic Development. Organised by the Wancho Literary Mission with support from the Assam Rifles. Longding. Wancho

—(2023). Research Methodology: Ethnography & Anthropological Linguistics. Nagaland University. Kohima. documentation

—(2023). Developing & Maintaining Community-Driven Language Resources: Dictionaries & Narratives. Workshop on Pedagogic Development. Longding. tools & resources

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2022). Semantic Splits in Northern Naga: Lexical disambiguation through partial sound changes in polysemes. 2nd International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India. Guwahati. link TangsaPatkaian

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2022). Working with tone in Sino-Tibetan languages of Southeast Asia. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Department of Linguistics. Freiburg im Breisgau. toneTibeto-Burman

—(2022). The Cooperative Principle for academic writing: Grice's Maxims as a tool for authors. TiBLANEI. (online). link writing

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Kurabe, Keita. (2021). A comparative account of the Jinghpaw lexicon in China Myanmar and India: Evidence of the limited effects of language contact. 6th Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China. Kōbe*. historicalTibeto-Burman

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Das, Bishakha. (2021). Reduplication of intensifiers in Ollo (Laju) and Kasik (Khapa) Nocte. Workshop on ideophones and interjections. (online). link documentation

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Goswami Dipjyoti. (2021). Demonstratives as sentential comparatives in Pangwa Tangsa. 30th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. (online). link documentation

Inman, David; Natalia; Vuillermet, Marine; Chousou-Polydouri; Dam, Kellen Parker van; Easterday, Shelece; Rose, Françoise. (2021). Is there a typological profile of isolates? Societas Linguistica Europaea. Athens*. typology

Rose, Françoise; Vuillermet, Marine; Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2021). Reassessing the areality of sociative causation. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. (online). areas

Dam, Kellen Parker van; Rahman, Syed Iftiqar. (2020). A diagnostic featural list for classification of varieties within Tangsa-Nocte. 11th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistics Society. Kokrajhar. typology

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2020). Borrowing and re-borrowing in Southeast Asia: Complicating factors in historical reconstruction. Workshop on Tracing contact in closely related languages. Universität Zürich. Zürich. link contact

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2019). Developing software for collaborative community-driven dictionaries of under-documented languages: An example with a large-volume Tai Phake dictionary. Uppsala Language Documentation Group workshop. Uppsala. link tools & resources

Morey, Stephen; Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2019). Material culture and agriculture in Tangsa (Naga) languages – Evidence from Tai borrowings and traditional song texts. 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Australian National University. Canberra. link contact

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2019). Horsing around: The Complicated State of Tangsa-Nocte *aŋ Rhymes. 52nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics; 25th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Sydney. link historicalcontact

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2016). Dealing with Tone in an Undocumented Tibeto-Burman Language. Australian Linguistic Society. Melbourne. tone

—(2016). A Cross-varietal Description of Modifiers of Basic Colour Terms in Tangsa-Nocte. 9th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistics Society. Tezpur. intensifiers

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2016). A crowd-sourced collaborative dictionary project for documentation of under-described languages. ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language Tools & Methods Summit. University of Melbourne. Melbourne. tools & resources

—(2016). Modifiers of Basic Colour Terms in Tangsa-Nocte. La Trobe University. Melbourne. intensifiers

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2014). An Answer to Y. R. Chao's Problem of Affricate Distributions in Wú. Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States. Vancouver. historicalSiniticcontact

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2014). Fighting Language Loss in China – New Approaches to Dialect Preservation. Royal Asiatic Society. Shànghǎi. Sinitictools & resources

—(2014). Crowd Sourced Dialect Documentation & Preservation. TEDx. United International College. Zhūhǎi. Sinitictools & resources

—(2014). Grassroots dialect diversity preservation efforts in China and Taiwan. National Chiao Tung University College Of Hakka Studies. Zhúběi. Sinitic

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2010). Written Standardization as a Precursor to Diglossia: A Case Study of Wú. 37. Hamilton. Linguistics Association of Canada & the United States. Sinitic

Dam, Kellen Parker van. (2010). The Future of the Shanghai Dialects. Xīndānwèi. Shànghǎi. Sinitic