30.289, Confs: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Forensic Ling, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 30.289, Confs: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Forensic Ling, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:49:27
From: Monika Rathert [rathert at uni-wuppertal.de]
Subject: Legal Communication in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context

 
Legal Communication in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context 

Date: 05-Mar-2019 - 07-Mar-2019 
Location: University of Wuppertal, Germany 
Contact: Monika Rathert 
Contact Email: rathert at uni-wuppertal.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This international workshop is meant to feature a mix of linguists and legal
scholars with expertise in areas of potential interest to both groups, and who
are interested in communication, multilingualism and/or multicultural issues. 

There will be talks by Larry Solan (Brooklyn Law School), Janny Leung (The
University of Hong Kong), Silvia Ferreri (Università di Torino), Chris Heffer
(Cardiff University), Christine Corcos (Louisiana State University), Alan
Durant (Middlesex University London), Werner Gephart (Käte Hamburger Kolleg
''Recht als Kultur''), Ino Augsberg (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel),
Peter Robson (University of Strathclyde), Richard Powell (Nihon University),
Luping Zhang (China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing), Robin
Conley Riner (Marshall University), Agnieszka Doczekalska (Kozminski
University), Tommaso Agnoloni (Institute of Legal Information Theory and
Techniques), Guilia Venturi (Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa),
among others.

There is no conference fee! 

Looking forward to meeting you in Wuppertal,
- Monika Rathert
 

Program:

Monday, 4-3-2019

Arrival of the speakers at Hotel Astor
https://www.hotel-astor-wuppertal.de/en/home 

18:00-21:00:
Warming up, Cafe Island https://island-wuppertal.de 

Tuesday, 5-3-2019

09:30-10:00:  
Registration, Coffee, Posters

10:00-10:30:  
Prorektor Michael Scheffel, Monika Rathert: Welcome & Opening

10:30-11:15:  
Jacqueline Visconti (Genova): On the clarity of court proceedings

11:15-12:00:  
Agnieszka Doczekalska (Warsaw): Languages in contact – multilingual and
multicentric legislative drafting in the European Union from the perspective
of a Member State

12:00-13:30: Lunch on Campus

13:30-14:15:  
Luping Zhang (Beijing): Linguistic Look at the Internet Defamation-- A Case
Study 

14:15-15:00:   
Ino Augsberg (Kiel): Legal philology

15:00-15:30: Coffee, Posters

15:30-16:15:  
Janny Leung (Hong Kong): Making Sense of Legal Multilingualism

16:15-17:00:  
Richard Powell (Tokyo): Multilingualism, multiculturalism and multijuralism in
Malaysian law
  
Evening program: trip with the Kaiserwagen on the Schwebebahn (suspension
railway, above the river). Dinner for the invited speakers downtown (Alaturka,
http://alaturka-restaurant.de ) 

Wednesday, 6-3-2019

09:30-10:00:  
Registration, Coffee, Posters

10:00-10:45:  
Robin Conley Riner (Huntington): A culture of killing?: The language of Texas
death penalty jurors

10:45-11:30:  
Chris Heffer (Cardiff): Perjury and Pathology: The Multifarious Nature of
Untruthfulness in the Legal Process

11:30-11:45: Quick Coffee

11:45-12:30:  
Silvia Ferreri (Turin): False friends in English legal language

12:30-14:00: Lunch on Campus

14:00-14:45:   
Tommaso Agnoloni (Florence): Semantic technologies for Law and Language

14:45-15:30:  
Guilia Venturi (Pisa): Natural Language Processing methods to support legal
communication

15:30-16:00: Coffee, Posters

16:00-16:45:  
Jan Kruse (Cologne): Zwischen Volk und Vielfalt - welche Relevanz hat
europäische Sprachenpolitik heute?

16:45-17:30:  
Alan Durant (London): Legal uses of language: ‘key words’ in intellectual
property law

Evening program: Guided tour through the Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden
(http://skulpturenpark-waldfrieden.de/en/home.html ), Dinner for the invited
speakers at the restaurant in the park. (If the weather doesn’t allow this, we
will change this program)

Thursday, 7-3-2019

08:30-09:00: 
Registration, Coffee, Posters

09:00-09:45: 
Christine Corcos (Baton Rouge): Alienating the Other: Psychics and
Fortunetellers in Narratives of Trials and Popular Culture

09:45-10:30: 
Peter Robson (Glasgow): Vengeance in Film - developments in the 21st century

10:30-11:00: Coffee, Posters

11:00-11:45: 
Werner Gephart & Theresa Strombach  (Bonn): Legal Communication in the Light
of the Law-as-Culture-Paradigm

11:45-12:30: 
Larry Solan (New York): The Promise of  Europe’s Multilingual Legal Order: Has
it been Fulfilled?

12:30-13:00: 
Plenary Discussion

13:00-14:00: Lunch on campus, farewell





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