5th Forensic Linguistics Short Course

Host Institution: Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
Website: https://div-ling.org/en/events/forensic-linguistics-short-course-en/application/

Dates: 03-Sep-2024 - 06-Sep-2024
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Focus: Forensic Linguistics
Minimum Education Level: n/a

Description:
As in previous years, we invite students (Bachelor’s and Master’s) as well as graduate students and postdocs 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 3 – 6 September 2024. For the first time, the FLsc will span four instead of three days, as we want to give participants the chance to practice what they have learnt in more detail. This year’s programme will focus 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, which provides forensic linguistic services to the corporate, investigative, and intelligence sector. Isabel holds a PhD from Aston University and is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Text Analysis (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics). Her research interest is authorship style in deceptive contexts. She is Immediate Past President of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguists, a certified Expert Witness (CUBS), and a certified fraud examiner (ACFE-retired).
- 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): Discourse Analysis
Forensic Linguistics
General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Tuition: 450.0 Euro
Tuition Explanation: The tuition is solely used to cover expenses such as lecturers, meals and snacks, beverages, and excursions.

Registration: 06-Apr-2024 to 31-May-2024

Contact Person: Dominic Schmitz
Email: [email protected]

Apply on the web: https://div-ling.org/en/events/forensic-linguistic

Registration Instructions:
Applications will open on 6 April 2024. Use the provided link to find further information and the relevant application form. Applications via email will not be considered.