Below is an archive of the Hub’s Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice series. Most of these are original commentaries by Hub members as well as other scholars and practitioners working in relevant fields.
Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice
Past Spotlights by Year: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
Past Spotlights by Area of Interest: Corpus Linguistics, Ethnography, Human and Language Rights, Law and Language, Indigenous and Minoritized Languages, Interpretation/Translation, Language and International Law, Language in Courts and Legal Proceedings, Language Ideology, Language in Education, Language Policy, Language in migration, refugee resettlement and asylum seeking , Race and Language
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November 2019: ‘A Look at Language and Culture Issues in Mass Violence Trials’
What kinds of misunderstandings emerge in the context of criminal trials dealing with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide? What are the impacts of different linguistic and cultural practices on both the proceedings and the ways in which these proceedings are understood? While various scholars and observers have mapped parts of this vast terrain… Read More
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October 2019: ‘Exploring Interpretation as a Right in the Context of Migration’
The Trump administration recently decided that providing in-court interpretation during initial-phase immigration proceedings represents an unnecessary expense in an already bogged-down system. Migrants will be shown a film explaining legal procedures in a variety of languages but will not be able to ask questions and receive more information on the spot. According to the San Francisco… Read More
