The Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf will take place from 11 - 15 July in Jeju, South Korea.

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The SCIC universities conference will take place on 17 & 18 November in Brussels (and can be followed online). The event can also be followed online. More details still to be announced, see here the page with general info: https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/interpretation/scic-universities-conference_en

The efsli 2022 conference “#Awkward” is hosted by ASLI, the Association of Sign Language Interpreters in the UK. It will take place on 3 & 4 September 2022 in Manchester, UK.

The deadline to submit an abstract to present is 15 April: more info >

Deafblind International (DbI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Kenya and other partners is organizing the 1st DbI Africa Conference which will be held at the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE) in Nairobi, Kenya from Thursday12th to Saturday 14th May 2022.

The conference theme is: “Deafblind Reality in Africa: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – Opportunities and Challenges”.

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Moscow State Linguistic University, with the support of the Moscow branch of the all-Russian society of the deaf (VOG) and Roo associations of sign language interpreters (RASLI) , are organizing an international scientific conference: 16 & 17 December 2021.

The aim of the conference is to discuss the role of sign languages in the professional training of interpreters and in intercultural communication in general, the “new normal” for sign language interpreters as well as modern interdisciplinary studies of sign languages in Russia and abroad.

Submissions: The deadline for submissions to the Organizing committee at signconf_mslu2021@linguanet.ru is 15 November 2021.

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The APTIS (the Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, UK and Ireland) 3rd Annual Conference is hosted by the Dublin City University on 19-20 November 2021. The title of the conference is 'Evolving Profiles: The Future of Translation and Interpreting Training'. APTIS invites proposals for 20-minute papers, 90-minute hands-on workshops and 2-hour panels for its 3rd Annual Conference. The deadline for sending proposals is 22 April 2021.

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The CIT conference will take place in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA from 19 - 22 September 2021.

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Topic: Ethics and professional codes of practice for translators and interpreters: new contexts in the profession and training. The conference organizers would like to consider lessons learned from the pandemic as well as the reflections generated by its economic and social consequences. Topics are in three blocks: the profession, education & training, and research.

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The 2021 conference of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli) will take place in Cluj, Romania. This conference was originally planned to take place in 2020.

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The fourth Lesico International Conference will be held in Warsaw on 3 - 5 September 2021 (originally scheduled for 2020). The Conference is, in its entirety, about teaching sign language as L1 and L2. It is a place to share experience and research, taken from everyday work of those who teach sign language, and also European and international associations that bring such teachers together. The conference is, in every way, a perfect, spot for Deaf sign language researchers.

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In December 2020 (originally planned for June 2020), ISIT will host the next CIUTI conference’s edition on our campus. Four days debating and thinking of AI and intercultural intelligence: experts from all over the world will present their work.

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The focus of this year’s conference is on the challenges and opportunities opening up in this evolving T&I landscape, specifically during this time of insecurity and rapid change experienced by the profession in the past months.

The Organising Committee is calling for abstract submissions from a wide variety of interdisciplinary theoretical and practitioner perspectives. The submission deadline is 20 July 2020.

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The conference is postponed to 2021 - dates to be announced.

Sejam todos bem-vindos aos eventos de 2020 que estão sendo organizados pela UFSC com o apoio de várias universidades do Brasil e da França: 3º Congresso Nacional de Pesquisas em Linguística e Línguas de Sinais; 7º Congresso Nacional de Pesquisas em Tradução e Interpretação de Libras e Língua Portuguesa e o 4º Seminário Franco-Brasileiro de Estudos Surdos:Línguas de Sinais, Artes e Tradução e Interpretação.

PACTE (Process of Acquisition of Translation Competence and Evaluation) is organising the Fifth International Conference on Research into the Didactics of Translation (didTRAD), which will be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 8-10 July, 2020.

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The 7th International Conference on Public Services Interpreting and Translation (PSIT7), with The Human Factor in PSIT theme, will be held in the context of these premises at the University of Alcalá (Madrid) on the 26th and 27th of March 2020. The main objective of this seventh edition of the conference is to continue with the dialogue and the exchange of projects and experiences on PSIT carried out in previous meetings.

T&I professionals, researchers, educational authorities and public and private institutions, linguistic service providers or anyone interested in making our world more sustainable are invited to participate.

“Let’s have a fika – culture in a cup!” Interpreting in, between and about cultures

The Swedish Sign Language association is proud to welcome all to the 2019 AGM and conference of the European Forum for Sign Language Interpreters. The event takes place in lovely Malmö and there we will immerse ourself in interpreting and culture- in every way we can.

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The CIUTI conference will be held from 3 - 5 June 2019 by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. 

The conference seeks to provide a forum for T&I academics, trainers and educators, professionals, and industry representatives to share innovative ideas on how to strengthen the interface between research and practice in the field of translation and interpreting studies.

The call for papers has been published. Abstracts for presentations should be submitted to CIUTI‐2019@monash.edu by 30 September 2018 and include a biographical statement of no more than 100 words.

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EULITA (European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association) is organizing in cooperation with ALTI (Association luxembourgeoise des Traducteurs et Interprètes) a conference on 28 and 29 March 2019:

“The impact of interpreters on the judiciary at national and international level”

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The Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies (APTIS) of the UK and Ireland is hosting their first conference on 'Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Translation & Interpreting'. The conference is hosted by Aston University.

Call for papers and more information: https://easychair.org/cfp/APTIS201

The efsli AGM & conference 2018 will take place on 14-16 September in Dubrovnik, Croatia. More info >

The 3rd International Congress of Sign Language Teachers will be held in Basel, Switzerland. The program consists of lectures, workshops and poster presentations.