[RNLD List] Melbourne Linguistics in the pub April 2021 (in person): Forensic Linguistics 6-8pm Wednesday 28th April

[Ruth Singer]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub

NOTE: this is an in person event at Naughton's hotel, Parkville (Melbourne,
Australia) - not online

*Forensic Linguistics and the new Research Hub for Language in Forensic
Evidence*
Discussion led by: Debbie Loakes

The Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence has recently been
established as a joint venture between the Arts Faculty and School of
Languages and Linguistics at The University of Melbourne, with Helen Fraser
as director. It has been established to serve as a national hub
coordinating research involving linguistics, law, and law enforcement. The
main aim of the Hub is to assist the courts in ensuring that language and
speech used in forensic evidence is managed in the best interests of
justice and fairness.

Language and speech can be used as forensic evidence in a range of ways,
such as speech evidence like covert recordings and sometimes other
modalities such as lip reading and sign language, written language such as
documents, emails, text messages or social media. Language and speech may
also used in presenting evidence in court, for example when expert
witnesses explain difficult concepts, or when witnesses from different
language and cultural backgrounds recount their evidence.

In this session I will discuss some of the main activities of the Hub since
its inception, describing some of the main issues and research topics, and
I will also engage in some forensic linguistic “mythbusting”.

Resources:
Fraser, H. and D. Loakes (in press) “Acoustic injustice: The experience of
listening to indistinct covert recordings presented as evidence in court”
in Mehera San Roque, Sarah Ramshaw and James Parker (Eds.) Law, Text,
Culture (special issue “The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound”).
Vol. 24.

Blog for the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence:
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/#tab59
(you can also watch our launch video from here)

Helen Fraser’s website: https://forensictranscription.net.au/

Date:      Wednesday 28th April 2021
Time:       6:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue:     Function room, Naughton’s Parkville Hotel
Address: 43 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052
Phone:   (03) 9347 2255
http://parkvillehotel.com.au/  (menu available online)

LIP is a gathering of language activists and linguists in Melbourne
coordinated by a committee: Ruth Singer (Melbourne Uni), Andrew Tanner
(RNLD), Lauren Gawne (LaTrobe Uni), Jill Vaughan (Melbourne Uni), Chloé
Diskin-Holdaway (Melbourne Uni), Fergus Boyd (Melbourne Uni), Ruby Mineur
(Melbourne Uni) and Jonathon Lum (Melbourne Uni).

-- 
Dr Ruth Singer
ARC Future Fellow
School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Research Unit for Indigenous Language (RUIL):
http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL):
http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/

https://unimelb.academia.edu/RuthSinger
http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person2621
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