There will be guest speakers, research discussions and poster sessions at BMCC’s Forensic Linquistics Conference. See guest speakers (pdf)
This event is (co) sponsored by The CUNY Justice Academy and A Title V Collaborative Grant (Office of Post-Secondary Education). For more information contact Dr. Brenda K. Vollman of the Department of Social Science, Human Services, and Criminal Justice at bvollman@bmcc.cuny.edu.
Please RSVP below
| TIME | ACTIVITY | LOCATION | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Opening remarks, Kenneth Levinson, ALL Dept Chair | N-452 | |
| 9:15-10:30 a.m. | Linguistic Issues in Legal Interpretation -Lawrence Solan, Don Forchelli Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Education, Brooklyn Law School |
N-452 | |
| 10:30-11:45 a.m. |
Panel: Current studies by graduate students in Forensic Linguistics at Hofstra -Introduced by Tammy Gales |
N-452 | |
| 12:00-1:30 p.m. | Lunch Break | On you: Tribeca/BMCC cafeteria | |
| 1:30-2:00 p.m. | Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner, Christine Jacknick, & Maureen Matarese (discussing our FL course and research focus of the course, etc.) | N-452 | |
| 2:00-3:15 p.m. | Current Threat Assessment Practices and Research -Tammy Gales, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Hofstra University |
N-452 | |
| 3:15-3:45 p.m. | Coffee and cookies break and poster session of choice BMCC LIN 250 student research | Big stairs outside N-452 | |
| 4:00-5:15 p.m. | Forensic Linguistics Applications to Domestic and Foreign Counter-Terrorism, Civil, Criminal, and Intelligence Cases, and the Innovative Hofstra Forensic Linguistics Capital Case Innocence Project -Robert Leonard, Professor of Linguistics, Hofstra University |
N-452 | |
| 5:15 p.m. | Closing | N-452 |
For more information contact Dr. Maureen Matarese of the Department of Academic Literacy and Linguistics at mmatarese@bmcc.cuny.edu
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