Dear colleagues, The International Language and Law Association (ILLA) is pleased to announce the V ILLA General Conference to be held at the University of Alicante (Spain) from 7 to 9 September 2021. As in the last two editions—University of Freiburg 2017 and UCLA 2019, the General Conference will be preceded by other pre-conference academic events: the II ILLA Colloquium for PhD Students (5 September 2021) and the III ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics (6 September 2021) to be held at the University of Alicante too.ILLA and the local organising committee from the University of Alicante are planning for II ILLA Colloquium for PhD Students, the III ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics, and the V ILLA General Conference to proceed, while simultaneously making contingency plans for remote participation and attendance options. The call for papers will be open on 1 October 2020 and closed on 1 December 2020. Registration will be opened on 1 March 2021. We will inform participants about further developments concerning the organisation of the conference.This site includes all practical information about the V ILLA General Conference, and the pre-conference academic events —i.e., abstract submission, registration, payment of the conference fees, conference programmes, tips for accommodation and transportation, among other things.
The Conference Venue
Since its official reopening in 1979, the University of Alicante (www.ua.es) (from now on UA), former Colegio de Santo Domingo in Orihuela (1834), has been a public university of the Autonomous Community of Valencia in Spain. The University of Alicante is on the outskirts of Alicante. The city, which has around 350,000 inhabitants, is on the Eastern coast of Spain by the Mediterranean. It is 13 km away from the airport (around 22 minutes' drive), and well connected to the city of Alicante, which is 13,4 km away (around 21 minutes’ drive), by public transport. From Alicante, attendees can reach the University by tram (Luceros-University—Line 2), bus (Line 24), and short distance train (Alicante-San Vicente del Raspeig—Line C-3). Today, UA is an international campus, with around 3,800 academic and administrative staff members and over 32,000 students enrolled in official degrees, master’s degrees and PhD programmes. UA welcomes about 1,200 international students every academic year and 2,000 students from other parts of the country. The University of Alicante is a well-reputed campus for the study programmes it offers, the innovative, wide-ranging and quality research carried out by scholars in most fields of sciences, social sciences and humanities, its modern infrastructures, its implementation of gender equality policies, and its concern for the transfer of knowledge to the society of knowledge and information. UA enjoys prominent positions in the three main world rankings for universities: ARWU (Shanghai), QS and THE.
V ILLA General Conference
Title: Language and Law in the Age of Migration
Date: 7-9 September 2021
Conference Chair: Victoria Guillén-Nieto
Local Organising Committee: José Mateo-Martínez, Francisco Yus-Ramos, Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos, Isabel Balteiro-Fernández, Sara Prieto-García-Cañedo, José Antonio Sánchez-Fajardo, Dyango Bonsignore-Fouquets
Thematic areas Coordinators:
- Language as the mirror of human rights issues in law and legal discourse. Coordinator: Frances Olsen (UCLA)
- Inequality, discrimination and violence in language and law. Coordinator: Victoria Guillén (University of Alicante)
- Experimental approaches to language, law and human rights. Coordinators: Benedikt Pirker & Jennifer Smolka (University of Fribourg)
- The migrant’s language rights. Coordinator: Anna Lisa Kjaer (University of Copenhagen)
- Interpretation of migrant laws. Coordinator: Ralph Poscher (University of Freiburg)
- Philosophy of law. Coordinator: Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagellonian University, Krakow)
- Pragmatics of legal discourse. Coordinator: Dieter Stein (Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf)
- Free speech in the arts – Coordinator: Anna Arzoumanov (Sorbonne University)
- Discourse analytic approaches to power and justice in language and law. Coordinator: Meizhen Liao (Central China Normal University, Wuhan)
- Historical perspectives on legal pragmatics. Coordinator: Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky, (University of Vienna)
ILLA Steering Committee: Frances Olsen (UCLA) (President for the area of law), Victoria Guillén-Nieto (President for the area of Linguistics), Felix Tripps (Assistant Manager), Friedemann Vogel (University of Siegen), Dieter Stein (Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf), Anna Lisa Kjaer (University of Copenhagen), Ralph Poscher (University of Freiburg), Janet Giltrow (University of British Columbia, Canada), Pirker (University of Fribourg)
Administration: Fundación General (UA)-Escuela de Negocios
The topic
At present, more than 1 billion people are migrants. Migration has become a global phenomenon and a burning issue provoking social conflict and political instability in modern societies all over the world., e.g. the case of Syrian refugees in Europe or the case of the US-Mexico border. The question of dealing with migrants and asylum seekers has dominated the political discourse, has given rise to national and international laws on emigration and immigration, some of them including discriminatory provisions, pressed laws against immigration (Acts of exclusion), encouraged international cooperation on migration, and prompted anti-migration rhetoric. This conference aims to invite scholars working in different disciplines such as law, linguistics, the media, multilingualism, legal translation and interpreting, among other fields, to share their views and insights into various aspects of the broad, but not exclusive, umbrella topic we propose: Language and the Law in the Age of Migration.
Plenary Speakers
The plenary speakers below have confirmed their participation:
Diana Eades (University of New England, Australia), Circumstances, context and contextualisation: addressing referentialism in law’s approach to language
Janet Giltrow (University of British Columbia, Canada), Language-based methods for the study of discrimination and prejudice
Teun van Dijk (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Aspects of social movement discourse
Antonio Doval (University of Alicante), Hate speech in Spain: Limits in criminal law and practice
Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom), "Protecting borders and climate"— the normalisation and mainstreaming of the far-right
Thamatic areas
The V ILLA Conference will welcome abstract submissions dealing with topics that relate to any of the ten thematic areas listed below:
- Language as the mirror of human rights issues in law and legal discourse. Coordinator: Frances Olsen (UCLA)
- Inequality, discrimination and violence in language and law. Coordinator: Victoria Guillén (University of Alicante)
- Experimental approaches to language, law and human rights. Coordinators: Benedikt Pirker & Jennifer Smolka (University of Fribourg)
- The migrant’s language rights. Coordinator: Anna Lisa Kjaer (University of Copenhagen)
- Interpretation of migrant laws. Coordinator: Ralph Poscher (University of Freiburg)
- Philosophy of law. Coordinator: Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagellonian University, Krakow)
- Pragmatics of legal discourse. Coordinator: Dieter Stein (Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf)
- Free speech in the arts – Coordinator: Anna Arzoumanov (Sorbonne University)
- Discourse analytic approaches to power and justice in language and law. Coordinator: Meizhen Liao (Central China Normal University, Wuhan)
- Historical perspectives on legal pragmatics. Coordinator: Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky, (University of Vienna)
Abstract submisson
Abstract submission procedures are web-based (email attachments will not be accepted). Please note that abstracts should deal with research that is clearly in progress (if not yet completed). The abstract should be structured as follows:
- Purpose statement
- A precise formulation of the research problem
- A brief reference to the state of the art
- Well-formulated hypotheses or research questions
- A good description of the methods, instruments and tools
- Summary of the main conclusions or statement about the relevance and potential impact of the piece of research
- References (up to five).
For abstract submission please visit the official conference website.
Guidelines for abstract submission:
- Title (14pt Times New Roman, bold type)
- Text (12pt Times New Roman)
- Length: No more nor less than 500 words
- Keywords: up to five keywords separated by a semicolon
- Language: English
- Please follow APA style
- Note: Failure to follow the guidelines may be a reason for abstract rejection.
- Deadline for abstract submission: 20 January 2021
When the abstract is ready for submission, please click on the label for submission, select one of the ten thematic areas, and follow the steps for abstract submission: 1 metatext, 2 Title, 3 Anonymised abstract, and 4 Keywords).
Abstracts will go through a blind peer-review process. Authors should receive notification about the result of the blind peer-review process by 1 February.
Registration
Registration and payment of the conference fees are web-based.
The fees include both the III ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics (6 September 2021) and the V ILLA General Conference (7-9 September 2021). Registration will be open as from 1 March 2021.
For registration please visit the official conference website.
Early registration: from 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021
- Academics and professionals: €300
- Students: €150
After 30 May 2021
- Academics and professionals: €350
- Students: €175
There will also be the opportunity for remote attendance (video streaming) for attendees:
-III ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics (full focus conference), and
-V ILLA General Conference (the plenary talks and a selection of papers from the ten thematic areas).
Early registration (from 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021):
- Academics and professionals: €150
- Students: €75
After 30 May 2021:
- Academics and professionals: €200
- Students: €100
