The Castlemaine Historical Society will hold its next monthly meeting on Wednesday June 3.
The guest speaker will be Professor Georgina Heydon who will speak on Forensic Linguistics: language analysis for fun and profit. Mostly fun.
In this presentation, Professor Georgina Heydon, forensic linguist and criminologist, will explain how linguistics is used in authorship analysis, helping to solve historical mysteries and unmask anonymous authors.
Professor Heydon is also likely to stray into adjacent territory such as the history of, and key changes in, English language, the vagaries of hearing and why forensic linguists hate spell checkers and autocorrect more than most people.
Questions welcome.
Georgina Heydon is Professor of Forensic Linguistics in the Criminology and Justice Studies Discipline at RMIT University. She also hosts Language Warning, a monthly linguistics edition of SciCurious on MainFM first Tuesday in the month 10am-11am.
The meeting will be at the Former Court House, 7 Goldsmith Crescent, Castlemaine from 4pm.
All welcome, CHCI looking forward to seeing you there.