LINGUIST List 34.811
Thu Mar 09 2023
Summer Schools: 5th Forensic Linguistics Short Course / Germany
Editor for this issue: Zachary Leech <zleechlinguistlist.org>
Date: 31-Jan-2023
From: Dominic Schmitz <contact
div-ling.org>
Subject: 5th Forensic Linguistics Short Course / Germany
E-mail this message to a friend Host Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Website: https://div-ling.org/en/events/forensic-linguistics-short-course-en/
Dates: 05-Sep-2023 - 07-Sep-2023
Location: Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
Focus: Forensic Linguistics, disputed meaning, authorship analysis, case studies
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum
Description:
As in previous years, we invite students (Bachelor’s and Master’s) as well as graduate students, postdocs and more senior researchers from Linguistics (and its sub-disciplines), Phonetics and Phonology, Law/Legal Studies, and related fields to apply for this international interdisciplinary program. All sessions will be conducted in English.
The FLsc is taught by Dr Isabel Picornell and Dr Krzysztof Kredens and will take place on 5 - 7 September 2023. This year’s programme focuses on:
- Disputed meanings (indeterminacy in language; threads, malicious communications and defamation)
- Authorship analysis (profiling; theoretical foundations; casework examples and methods; faked contexts; native language identification; suicide notes)
- Guided case study (analysis and presentation of findings)
Our lecturers are well-known members of the Forensic Linguistics community:
- Dr Isabel Picornell is a Consultant Forensic Linguist and Director of QEDforensics, providing forensic linguistic services to the corporate, investigative, and intelligence industry. She is the President of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguists, a member of the Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics, and a certified fraud examiner (ACFE).
- Dr Krzysztof Kredens is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University. He is Director of the Centre for Forensic Text Analysis at the University’s Institute for Forensic Linguistics and Programme Director on the MA Forensic Linguistics. He has ample casework experience, both as an expert witness and in policing contexts. He has worked on over 100 cases involving questions of authorship, disputed meanings and language proficiency assessment, and provided investigative support and expert reports for law enforcement agencies and courts in Australia, England, Norway and Poland. He has been cross-examined in the Central Criminal Court in London (‘The Old Bailey’) and is registered on the UK National Crime Agency’s Expert Advisors Database as a specialist in forensic linguistics.
Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics
Subject Languages: English
Tuition: 400 EURO
Tuition Explanation: The FLsc fee covers the costs for course rooms, snacks and drinks, lunch, the
payment of our two lecturers, and the maintenance of our website. Our fees are
calculated without a profit margin, the FLsc is a non-profit event.
Registration: Open until 16-Apr-2023
Contact Person: Dominic Schmitz
Email: contact
div-ling.org
Registration Instructions:
Applications will open on 1 February 2023. Use the provided link to find further information and the relevant application form.
Page Updated: 09-Mar-2023