ACADEMIA: SUNDRY Current Presentations Wednesday 4 February 2026, 17:30-19:00 – Polari Presented to Proudly King’s Group for LGBT+ History Month Powerpoint Lecture notes Putting on the Dish – Script Polari to English Word List Polari to English and English to Polari Dictionary Paul Baker – Polari and the Hidden History of Gay Seafarers Paul Baker – Polari: the lost-and-found language of gay men Jonathon Green – Polari Chi Luu – The Unspeakable Linguistics of Camp Pascale Smorag – From Closet Talk to PC Terminology: Gay Speech and the Politics of Visibility Friday 30 April 2021, 13:00-14:00 – Being Someone: Language and Selfhood Presented as part of the KCL SECS Academic Presentation Programme Powerpoint Booklet Thursday 17 June 2021, 19:00-20:00 – Building up to Selfhood: An anthropological perspective on where selfhood came from, and the selves humans have Foundation talk for the Open Foundation series Breaking Down the Self PowerPoint Booklet Ideas Fibonacci Poems Language Essays Trying Times Academic versus Business Register Leverage How the Dreeb Learned Language Playing Other Games with Language Chomsky and Idealism Language Events What stopped me from becoming a Generativist Seminar, 21 May 2001 – Integrational and Systemic-Functional Linguistics: Prospects of Dialogue? Mythology Essays The First Legend of Merlin Thor and Loki, Sun and Moon, and Santa’s Reindeer: Sex Strike Theory and Nordic mythology