The final MITS seminarProfessional Advances: Signed Language Interpreting & Translation Studies will be held on9 & 10 October 2025 in Siena, Italy.
Nineteen professional signed language interpreters from nine European countries, the MITS students, will present and discuss their final research results. Their research in the field of interpreting and translation studies covers a wide variety of topics.
MITS is hosting their second online seminar on 22 March from 10.00 - 14.00 CET. The seminar will tackle a pressing and fundamental topic: the rights and risks of signed language translation and Interpretation in the context of the EU legal framework.
Here is your opportunity to acquire skills and strategies to interpret between your national sign language and English. Training Part I will take place in Brussels on 11 & 12 April 2025. As a sign language interpreter and a non-native English speaker, you are increasingly requested to work into and from English. This two day training will give you hands on practice and knowledge to learn linguistic and coping strategies to match these demands.
Come and join signed language interpreters from across Europe in Part II of the training ‘Interpreting from and to English as a 3rd language’: 16 & 17 May 2025 in France!
Through intensive practice and the individual and peer feedback, you will enhance your acquired skills to work between English and your national sign language.
Delighted to be presenting at the upcoming AIIC webinar organized by AIIC Training and Professional Development (ATPD) and AIIC’s Sign Language Network (SLN) on 30 November from 14.00 - 16.00 CET. In this free two-hour online information session, you will learn what SLI is all about, why it is important to make it available at meetings, how and where it can be learned and taught, how SLI can be included in mixed teams with spoken language interpreters, and much more.
It has been a bit of a wait, but the fourth article of my PhD dissertation is now published! ‘International Sign conference interpreters as a Community of Practice’ is published in Meta Journal des traducteurs Translators’ Journalco-authored with Dr. Onno Crasborn and Prof. Jemina Napier. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/meta/2024-v69-n1-meta09627/1113947ar/
The MITS Public Online Seminar, taking place on October 5th from 9:45 to 13:00 CET, will focus on deaf persons in conflict zones and humanitarian crises, with particular emphasis on the role of sign language interpreters in these contexts.
Two deaf experts, Peninnah Vulimu and Herbert Klein, will present their fieldwork experiences.
As announced at the 2024 efsli conference: In 2025 I will conduct another European survey on the development of the signed language interpreter profession. The 2025 research will be done in collaboration with the European Union of the Deaf (EUD) as they are conducting a census that year. You can contribute your wishes for the new 2025 edition. Please fill out this form >
I am delighted to present at the efsli conference in Torino, Italy. During my presentation ‘Eternally qualified!?, I will delve into the complexities around the qualification and quality maintenance of signed language interpreters in Europe. I am looking forward to exchanges with many colleagues and friends!
The sign language interpreting program in Innsbruck welcomed their second cohort in 2023. I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and teach this 2nd semester (May 2024) on ‘Team Interpreting’. Thank you to Elisabeth Keckeis, director of the program, for inviting me!
A very special moment last Thursday: the students who had been selected for the new postgraduate degree program Multilingual Sign Language Interpreting & Translation Studies (MITS) met for the first time at Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF) in Siena, Italy.
For the first time the training ‘Interpreting from and to English, Part I’ is coming to Portugal! The training will take place on 1 & 2 July 2024.
Come and join colleagues from around Europe at this popular two day training for signed language interpreters! In this interactive training you will learn new strategies and improve you interpreting skills from and to English.
Early bird registration deadline is 1 May.
AIIC Brazil and APIC invited to give an online lecture on 10 April: Conference signed and spoken language interpreters collaborative practices. This will followed with an online workshop ‘Interpreting multilingual High-Level meetings & conferences’ for LIBRAS interpreters on 20 April.
Always wanted to learn more about International Sign and also practice yourself? Come to the special training for signers in Siena, Italy. Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF) is hosting the training together with Siena University.
Invitation to submit an abstract by 20 June 2024 to The Interpreter and Translator Trainer for a special issue on Training signed language interpreters and translators!
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/training-signed-language/
Delighted to be the guest editor together with Sabine Fries and Irene Strasly.
The 11th EST Congress: The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting (Studies) will take place in Leeds, United Kingdom, from 30 June to 4 July 2025.
See for more info the conference page >
The 24th International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED 2025) will take place from 7-11 July 2025 in Rome, Italy.
The call for abstracts opens on 15 March 2024 and closes on 30 September 2024. The early registration deadline is 30 January 2025.
Questions? Contact conference organizers via: info@iced2025.com
The European Colloquium on Gender and Translation is coming to Barcelona from 8-10 July 2025. The colloquium has a two-fold aim: (a) to critically discuss power dynamics in a broad sense (what is translated, by whom and how) and (b) to explore how translation and interpreting may be used to perpetuate or dismantle interlocking systems of oppression and discrimination within which gender hegemonies operate.
The Colloquium will take place in person at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Papers will be 20-min long, and will be followed by a 10-min Q&A.
Call for papers and further information >
Key dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 December 2024
Notification of acceptance: 30 January 2025
Registration (Early Bird): 1 March to 30 April 2025
Registration (Full Fee): 1 May to 15 June 2025
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A sign language interpreter is the communication link between sign language users and persons who do not know sign language. Through professional interpreting services a deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing person can access employment, education, and daily life activities. The skills and expertise of each interpreter varies and it is important that the interpreter can meet the demands of the job and the client. I can provide interpreting services within a large range of skills and coordinate interpreters for event.
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