THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORENSIC LINGUISTS’ TENTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
Date: Monday 11th – Thurs 14th July 2011
Venue: Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Call deadline: 3rd January 2011
Registration is now open for the tenth biennial conference of The International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL10). The conference will be held at the Centre for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, U.K, and will be based entirely on Aston’s attractive campus in the heart of Birmingham, including delegate accommodation. Delegates will therefore have easy access to all conference activities, the extensive campus facilities and all the amenities of Birmingham city centre right on their doorstep. Aston also enjoys excellent transport links via road, rail and air, with Birmingham International Airport only a short distance away. The conference dinner will be held at another internationally famous local attraction, Aston Villa Football Club, offering fine dining with a stunning view of the famous pitch.
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Prof. Ray Bull: Professor of Forensic Psychology,University of Leicester, UK
David Allen Green: Lawyer and writer; legal correspondent ofthe New Statesman; blogs as JackofKent;head of media practice atPreiskel & Co. He is an active advocate forthe reform of English libel law.
Daniel Greenberg: Parliamentary Counsel for the UK Govt 1991-2010; now Parliamentary Counsel atBerwin LeightonPaisner LLP; General Editor of Annotated Statutes, Westlaw UK and Editor ofCraies on Legislation, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary andJowitt's Dictionary of English Law.
Dr Martha Komter: Lecturer in DutchLanguage and Culture, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Peter Patrick: Professor of Sociolinguistics,University of Essex, UK
Prof. Roger Shuy: Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA
Call for papers:
The conference will be a forum for the discussion of all aspects of forensic linguistics/language and law including, but not limited to, the following:
Legal Discourse
· Courtroom, police and prison language
· Investigative interviewing, including interviews with children
· Power and legal discourse
· The communicative challenges of 'vulnerable' witnesses
Language minorities and the legal system
· Linguistic analysis in the determination of origins in asylum seeker cases
· Language and disadvantage before the law
· Bilingual courtrooms and second language issues within the legal system
· Courtroom interpreting and translating
Law on language
· Language rights
· The right to silence
· Consent
· Language crimes
· Offensive language/group vilification
Investigative linguistics and language evidence
· Authorship analysis
· Plagiarism
· Computational author identification or profiling
· Forensic phonetics and speaker identification
· Trademarks
Legal Languages
· The history of legal languages
· Written legal genres (including warnings)
· The readability/comprehensibility of legal documents
· Critical approaches to legal languages
· Language education for law professionals
(1) INDIVIDUAL PAPERS are invited for presentations of 20 minutes, with a further 10 minutes allowed for questions. Abstracts should be 250-300 words long. Unsuccessful proposals may be offered to be presented alternatively as a poster (see below).
(2) COLLOQUIA, scheduled for 2-hour blocks, with a maximum of two linked sessions. Colloquia organisers may organise as they choose, but time should be allocated for presentations, discussion and audience response. Colloquia organisers serve as the liaison between participants and the conference organisers. Proposals will also be reviewed by the Scientific Committee. Proposals should be 250-300 words long, with an indication of participants and a brief description of their contribution.
(3) POSTERS. Proposals for posters should be up to 250 words long. Posters should be of A0 size (841mm x 1189mm) in portrait orientation. Posters may be accepted for research projects (for example from student dissertations) where no data has yet been collected.
(4) GRADUATE PROJECT WHIRLWIND. We propose to hold a session designed to enable current PhD researchers and graduate students to make contact with others who may be facing similar issues in their research and receive advice from more experienced researchers. The session will comprise a series of 5 minute slots where presenters might wish to speak about how they got access to sensitive data, how they overcame a particular analysis problem or how their research question changed over the course of their PhD. The five minute slots will be interspersed with 10 minute discussion sessions. To participate in the whirlwind no abstract is required, but please indicate your interest on the electronic registration form and we will contact you with further details nearer the conference.
Abstracts and proposals should be submitted, by 3rd January 2011, to: www.forensiclinguistics.net/iafl2011_abstracts.htm
Scientific Committee:
Janet Ainsworth, Ron Butters, Janet Cotterill, Diana Eades, Phil Gaines, Chris Heffer, Alison Johnson, Frances Rock, Larry Solan, Peter Tiersma.
Chair: Malcolm Coulthard; Secretary: Sam Tomblin
Registration:
Online registration is now available at:
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/news-events/conferences-seminars/summer-2011/iafl2011/
Fees:
Student IAFL member: / IAFL Member: / Non-member:Early bird rate: / £225 / £250 / £300
After May 1st 2011: / £250 / £300 / £350
Day rates will be available once the programme is announced.
Student travel grants:
We are pleased to announce that financial support is available for two postgraduate students to attend the forthcoming meeting of theInternational Association of Forensic Linguists in Birmingham in 2011. These grants are made in honour of (1) Professor Malcolm Coulthard, the Founding President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, and (2) Professor Roger Shuy, whose generous founding gift of a postgraduate travel fund has made a second award possible. In naming the awards after these two preeminent scholarsin our field of study, the IAFL acknowledges their immensecontributions to the establishment and promotion of the field. Theawards provide a waiver of conference registration and accommodation fees, as well as reasonable travel costs up to a maximum of £800.
Each award is available to a postgraduate student who intends topresent a paper at the biennial conference of the IAFL. In decidingwho should receive the awards, preference will be given to
applicants who:
(1) reside outside Western Europe (including the UK and Ireland), Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand;
(2) provide evidence of the potential to contribute to thedevelopment and promotion of the discipline of forensiclinguistics; and
(3) are deserving of financial assistance to attend the conference.
Applications should be submitted by email to Dr Krzysztof Kredens . Each application should be in the form ofa 300-400-word statement detailing the applicant's qualifications and academic experience and addressing each of the criteria in theparagraph above. The abstract of the paper the applicant intends topresent at the conference should also be appended to the emailmessage.
Applications will be processed by the local Organising Committee in co-operation with the IAFL Executive Committee. The deadline forapplications is 18 January 2011. Winners will be announced on 14 February 2011.
Selection Committee
Prof. Ron Butters, IAFL President
Dr Tim Grant, IAFL Treasurer and Local Organising Committee member
Justice Peter Gray, IAFL Executive Committee member
Dr Kate Haworth,Local Organising Committee member
Dr Krzysztof Kredens, IAFL Secretary andLocal Organising Committee member
IAFL10 Organising Committee: Malcolm Coulthard, Tim Grant, Kate Haworth, Krzysztof Kredens
To contact the organisers, please email: .
For further details and updates, please visit the CFL website: www.forensiclinguistics.net.