This year, IDLA will take place in the facilities of Diak UAS in Helsinki (Kyläsaarenkuja 2). Suggestions for possible topics can be found on our page https://idla.humak.fi/. We are also open for other topics and themes. The languages used during the seminar are Finnish, Finnish Sign Language, English and international sign.

Information and registration: https://idla.humak.fi/

The VII International Congress on Science and Translation: “Interdisciplinary bridges and dissemination of scientific knowledge will take place online and onsite at the Università del Salento, Lecce.

More information and call for papers > he VII International Congress on Science and Translation: “Interdisciplinary bridges and dissemination of scientific knowledge will take place online and onsite at the Università del Salento, Lecce.

More information and call for papers > https://congresointernacionalcienciaytraduccion.es/

CIUTI annually organizes a conference on Translation & Interpreting at one of its member institutions. From 28-29 May the CIUTI conference ‘Reshaping the T&I Paradigm: Openness and Integration’ will take place in Shanghai.

The conference aims to provide a platform for educators, professionals and industry representatives, to share innovative ideas on strengthening the inclusiveness and interdisciplinary integration in the fields of translation and interpreting studies.

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The Francqui-Sign Language Studies Summer School aims to create a dynamic learning environment for PhD students, post-docs, and early career researchers from various fields of Sign Language Studies with a focus on interpreting and translation. It is also open to MA graduates contemplating undertaking a PhD or wanting to know more about what a PhD entails.

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The Together Conference - Moving our Professions Forward’ is a professional development event for sign language interpreters and translators. This conference aims to enhance professional practice and underpinning knowledge in line with the NOS (National Occupational Standards) for interpreters and translators in the UK and equivalent standards worldwide.

The conference will be accessible in English, British Sign Language, Irish Sign Language and English Captions.

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Maya de Wit Sign Language Interpreting Consultancy is organizing this very popular training! Come and join the two day training for signed language interpreters in Portugal! 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.

Find out more information and register here >

The 12th conference of ALTER, European Society for Disability Research, will be held at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) on 4 and 5 July 2024 on the theme: ‘Disability Research for the Real World.’

You can find the call for papers here. You have until 14 January 2024 to submit your abstracts to the conference website, which will be open in mid-December: https://alterconf2024.sciencesconf.org/

The 11th edition of the Festival Clin d'Œil will be held from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 July 2024 in Reims, France.

The Clin d'Oeil Festival is organized every 2 years by the CinéSourds association, promoting sign language in all its cultural diversity and artistic forms.

More info > https://www.clin-doeil.eu/en/index.html

The 5th Terp Academy Summit will take place from 25 - 28 July (this is a change from the originally planned dates). Further info will follow.

The conference will take place on 11-14 September 2024 at the University of Graz, Austria

See the call for papers and more info on the conference website: https://historyandtranslation.net/htn-2024-graz-call-for-papers/

The event will take place on 12-14 September 2024 at Newcastle University and will also be accessible in 'light-hybrid' mode. It will bring together translation studies scholars and professional translators (freelance and in-house) with academics and professionals from other fields (e.g. nursing, psychology, legal & accounting, coaching) to explore and discuss the complex relationship between ethics and self-care in contemporary practice (see event abstract below).

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The conference of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli) will take place from 13 - 15 September 2024 in Turin, Italy. The conference is organized and hosted by ANIMU.

More info > www.efsli.org

The Department of Legal, Language, Translation and Interpreting Studies (IUSLIT) of the University of Trieste is hosting the International Conference Legal Translation & Interpreting on the move. The conference will take place 2-4 October 2024 at the SSLMIT (Via Filzi 14, 34137 Trieste, Italy).

Call for papers deadline: 30 November 2023, see http://tigim2024.units.it/CfP.html

More info: http://tigim2024.units.it/index.html

É com grande prazer que convidamos profissionais, pesquisadores(as), estudantes de pós-graduação e de graduação nas áreas de tradução, interpretação e linguística para participarem dos Congressos de Pesquisas em Línguas de Sinais organizados pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Em 2024, realizaremos dois eventos imperdíveis:

8ª Edição do Congresso Internacional de Pesquisas em Tradução e Interpretação de Línguas de Sinais

4ª Edição do Congresso Internacional de Pesquisas em Linguística e Línguas de Sinais

This training is Part II of the training 'Interpreting from and to English as a 3rd Language' and based on the lessons learned in Part I. Register by 30 June to get the early bird registration fee!

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The Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT) is hosting their 45th conference from 13-16 November in California, USA.

Call for presentations >

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The conference will discuss the significance of sign language in the field of sign language research, development, teaching, certification, and interpreting training/educational programs. The focus will be on cooperation and exchange of good practices between sign language institutions worldwide.

You are invited to present by submitting an abstract in written English (max 1 page or 500 words) to info@zveza-gns.si by 15th March 2024.

Further information on the website www.zveza-gns.si

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, is organizing on 5 & 6 Decembrer 2024 a conference on Audiovisual translation and media accessibility in education.

Call for papers deadline: 01 June 2024

Registration and more info >

The 10th edition of the SIGN conference series will be held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad & Tobago, 9 -12 December 2024.

There are pre-conference sessions on the morning of Monday 9 December when people can brush up on their International Sign and learn some local signs.

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Addis Ababa University will host the 15th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 15). It will take place from January 14 – 17, 2025. TISLR 15 brings sign language specialists across the world to the political capital of the continent, Addis Ababa. It will primarily be held in person, virtually and hybrid.

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The European Students of Sign Language Interpreting are organizing their 2025 event in Zwickau, Germany, from 23- 25 May 2025.

Keep an eye out here: https://www.instagram.com/esosli_2025/

Contact: esosli25@fh-zwickau.de

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.

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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.

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The 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) will take place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from 8-11 July 2025.

More information on the calls, deadlines etc. will be coming soon. Website >

Sign Cafe 3 will be held in Warsaw Poland on 18 & 19 September 2025. The conference languages are English, International Sign and Polish Sign Language.

More info: presentation in English and International Sign