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5th Forensic Linguistics Short Course
The 5th FLsc will be an in-person event located at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. Düsseldorf is the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most densely populated state, and home to historic buildings, a rich city culture, and one of Europe’s biggest Japantowns.
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 Annina Heini and will take place on 5 – 7 September 2023. This year’s programme focuses on:
- Disputed meanings (indeterminacy in language; threats, 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)
Applications were open from 1 February 2023 to 16 April 2023 (midnight, GMT -12; i.e. applications were open as long as it was 16 April anywhere in the world). Notifications of acceptance were sent in the first week of May 2023. If there are any questions regarding applications, please ask the coordinators via our contact form here.
Participation Fee
Our association and the FLsc work on a strict non-profit basis, that is all participation fees are used to pay the FLsc’s costs. This year, we were lucky to obtain funding by the Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf e.V. which allows us to offer the following participation fee:
The participation fee is 350 Euro.
Payment Modalities
Deadline for fee payment is 31 July 2023. If you cannot afford to pay the total fee at once, please contact the coordination team for payment by instalments. Payment is currently only possible via wire transfer. 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.
If you cannot attend the summer school, you may cancel your participation until 05 August 2023. Up until this deadline, no fee has to be paid. In case your fee is already paid, you will get back the entire amount paid. However, if you cancel afterwards or do not show up, you are expected to pay the full fee.