News & Events
IAFL News Briefing
IAFL News Briefing Welcome to the first news briefing of the International Association of Forensic Linguists! From now on IAFL members will receive a regular briefing with news and information that may be of interest to them. In this first issue, Isabel Picornell,...
2nd Roundtable on Practices and Standards in Forensic Authorship Analysis
The 2nd Roundtable on Practices and Standards in Forensic Authorship Analysis, which is supported by the International Association of Forensic Linguists, will be held online at the University of Manchester on the 7th of July 2021.The event is aimed at moving the field...
IAFL15: The 15th Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
The 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) will be hosted by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL), Aston University, Birmingham, UK from Monday 13th September to Wednesday 15th September 2021. After...
IAFL15 UPDATE: The 15th Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists: Entirely Online
After careful consideration of the current circumstances and due to uncertainties surrounding traveling to the UK, the Organising Committee of the 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) have decided to run the...
IAFL15: The 15th Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists: New Dates announced
The 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) will be hosted by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL), Aston University, Birmingham, UK from Monday 13th to Friday 17th September 2021. Academic sessions...
Virtual roundtable on language and law in Africa, 2021
The North-West University and the University of South Africa will jointly host the Virtual Roundtable on Language and Law in Africa, 2021. The two-day event, which is sponsored by the IAFL, focuses on Forensic Linguistics / Language and Law in Africa and will allow...
IAFL15: The 15th Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
The 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) will be hosted by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL), Aston University, Birmingham, UK from Monday 5th to Friday 9th of July, 2021. The Organising...
IAFL Porto 2020 update on COVID-19: Meeting cancelled
The Organising Committee of the 4th European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL Porto 2020) regrets to inform you that, given the current COVID-19 pandemic, and upon consulting the Executive Committee of the IAFL, it has decided to...
2ND SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IAFL – MEETING CANCELLED
The 2nd Southern African Regional Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, scheduled for 2 and 3 April 2020 in Parys, South Africa, has just been suspended as a result of the world-wide pandemic of the COVID-19 infection declared by the World...
15th IAFL Biennial Conference
We are pleased to announce that the 15th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists will be hosted by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL) at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. The conference is scheduled to be held...
4th European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists on the theme of “Consolidating Forensic Linguistics”
The University of Porto, in Portugal, will host the 4th European Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists on the theme of Consolidating Forensic Linguistics. The conference, which is organised by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, aims to...
Forensic Linguistics Panel at CADAAD 2020
Abstract submissions are invited for a panel on forensic linguistics that Dr David Wright is proposing for the 8th Conference for Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) which will take place from 7-9 July 2020 and will be hosted by the...

