Dear Colleagues,

The Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (GSFL) is pleased to announce its second call for papers for its 5th annual conference from Aug. 24th to Aug. 27, 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Invited topics for paper and poster abstracts include but are not limited to the following  areas: Forensic Linguistics; Forensic Phonetics; Language and Law;  Translation and Interpreting;  Forensic Phonetics and Phonology; Education and Forensic Linguistics. 

To register, use this link: <http://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/roundtable/registration-2/>

OUR CONFIRMED GUEST SPEAKERS								                 
Dr. Jens Vedsted-Hansen (Department of Law, Aarhus University, DENMARK) Current challenges to the international human rights system: The European situation in view of the asylum and migration crisis	

Dr. Bente Jacobsen (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, NORWAY) Court interpreting and pragmatics: A quest for accuracy

Dr. Marit Olave Riis-Johansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY) Communicative dilemmas in police interviews of adult witnesses: A discourse analytic approach to investigative interviewing

Dr. Mette Hjortshøj Sørensen (Aarhus University and Kriminalfonetik.dk, DENMARK) How Individual is the Individual Speaker: The issues involved in forensic phonetic comparisons of single speakers against background populations.

Ms. Joanne Traynor (Essex Police Department, UNITED KINGDOM) 	Will your voice be heard?  Exploring representations, constructs and recontextualization, during emergency calls to the police

More information on our guest speakers can be found here: http://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/roundtable/guest-speakers/ 


All interested authors are requested to submit a 250-word abstract by June 1, 2017.  To submit your abstract, please use this link: <http://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/roundtable/abstract-submission/>.  All submissions must be in either English, German, or Danish.    

To encourage continuing interest in Forensic Linguistics, students are also warmly encouraged to attend the Emerging Scholars’ Day on August 24, 2017.  The preliminary schedule and info on registration can be found here: <http://germanicsocietyforensiclinguistics.org/emerging-scholars-day/>

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact GSFL President, Dr. I. M. Nick ([log in to unmask]).

We look forward to welcoming you!