04.05.2021Guest Lecture by Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) "Language, Gender and Social Stereotypes in the Courtroom"

Erez Levon was Professor of Sociolinguistics at Queen Mary University of London, where he began working in 2008, and is Principal Investigator of the Accent Bias in Britain project, researching how accent attitudes impede access to employment in the UK; as of 2020, he is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bern and Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS).

The title of the lecture is: 

"Language, Gender and Social Stereotypes in the Courtroom"

Date: 4 May
Time: 2 pm

Zoom info: 
https://uzh.zoom.us/j/99432603665?pwd=bGdZVldickdqSG04NEkyOTVIUHEvZz09
Meeting-ID: 994 3260 3665
Kenncode: 958661

Everybody welcome (note that for safety reasons, you will be placed in the waiting room first).