Dear Colleagues, 

The Fifth Annual Roundtable on Forensic Linguistics and Phonetics will be held from the 26th to the 28th of August 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark.  The Roundtable is sponsored by the Germanic Society of Forensic Linguistics (GSFL) in coperation with the University of Copenhagen and the University of Roskilde.  The purpose of this conference is to provide FL/FP researchers, educators, and practitioners the opportunity to share their work in an interdisciplimary, supportive, and respectiful scholarly environment.  

Paper and poster submissions are cordially welcome on any area of FL/FP.  Examples of possible presentation topics include the following: 

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS (speaker identification; authorship identification, verification, and attribution; plagiarism detection; linguistic profiling; corpus analysis of forensic texts such as courtroom transcripts, police protocols, suicide letters, confessions, ransom notes, threatening letters, etc.); 

FORENSIC PHONETICS (speaker discrimination; perceptual speaker identification; foreign/second language speaker identification; formant measurement, dynamics, and pattern identification; automated speaker recognition; intra- and interspeaker variation); 

LANGUAGE AND THE LAW ( language minorities and the law;ear witnesses and lineups; courtroom interpreting and translating; multilingualism and the legal system; legal discourse and legal texts; interviewing and interrogation practices; deception detection); 

FL/FP AND EDUCATION (developing FL/FP programs and curricula; FL/FP instructional materials; interdisciplinary challenges and promises; teaching ethical standards; establishing scientific codes of practice).

All interested participants are requested to submit a 250 word abstract by June 1, 2017 via the GSFL website <http://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/> To encourage continuing interest in FL/FP, a special Student Day will be held for undergraduates and graduates who are interested in researching and working within this field.  If you have any questions about the Roundtable, the Emerging Scholars' Day, or the GSFL, please do not hesitate to contact, GSFL President Dr. I. M. Nick <[log in to unmask])

We look forward to welcoming you to Copenhagen, DENMARK!

The 2017GSFL Organizational Team