The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) takes place at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh on 23 and 24 November 2023. The theme for IPCITI 2023 is Lines of Enquiry, and the conference will have a focus on methodological innovation in translation and interpreting studies.

The Association of Greek Sign Language Interpreters (AGSLI - SDENG) is hosting the 2023 AGM and Conference of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli) in Thessaloniki, Greece. The event will take place from the 15th to 17th September 2023 under the title: Rights. Right?

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

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Call for papers: panel on Gesture in spoken and signed-to-spoken language interpreting within the IPrA (2023) conference.

The conference will take place in Brussels, 9 to 14 July.

The 8th International Conference on Public Services Interpreting and Translation (PSIT8) will take place 23 - 25 March 2023 at the University of Alcalá, Madrid.

Deadline for abstracts: 5 November 2022

More info: https://fitisposgrupo.web.uah.es/en/conference-psit-8/

From 7 - 9 December 2022 the 3rd International Conference on interpreting will take place organized by Hong Kong Baptist University. The conference will be held onsite and online. The theme of the conference is ‘Interpreting and Technology: Interplay and Transformation’. The submission deadline for the call for papers is 30 April 2022.

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The 2022 edition "Plurilingualism: between diversity and universality" which will be held in Cadiz, Spain, wishes to highlight the deep issues of plurilingualism and the areas of fracture, both conceptual, cultural, mental, and social and territorial.

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The 14th conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research will take place in Osaka, Japan. The dates are planned from 26 September to 1 October 2022 at the National Museum of Ethnology.

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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 >

Special Thematic Session (STS) at the scientific conference ICCHP-AAACE 2022 (July) in Lecco, Italy: ‘Language Accessibility for the Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing’. The session invites contribution on all aspects of the accessibility, usability, and intelligence of ICT-based systems and applications that make spoken language and translation more accessible.

More about the STS and call for papers: https://www.icchp-aaate.org/session/21770

The 2022 Events organized by UFSC with the support of several Brazilian and French universities: 3th National Congress on Linguistics and Sign Languages; 7th National Congress of Research on Libras and Portuguese Translation and Interpreting and 4th French-Brazilian Deaf Studies workshop: Sign Language, Arts along with Translation and Interpreting.

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The Department of Translation Studies at the University of Graz is organizing a PhD conference on the topic of reflexivity.

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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 conference strives to bring together scholars from various fields of translation and interpreting studies to share their perspectives on the human factor in their studies. Keynote speakers are Susan Bassnett, Lawrence Venuti, Jan Pedersen, and Nadja Grbić.

See the call for abstracts, deadline for submission is September 30, 2020.

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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 2nd UMAQ Conference on “Understanding Quality in Media Accessibility and Audiovisual Translation” will take place at the University of Vigo on 16-17 September, 2021. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2021. See here the call for papers.

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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ICTIC has become one of the most important venues for scholars working at the interface of translation, interpreting and cognition. Participants are invited to submit proposals addressing cognitive aspects from any theoretical and methodological perspective of topics.

• Submit panel proposals from July 1 until September 30, 2020.

• Submit abstracts from November 1, 2020 until January 31, 2021.

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The next Deaf Academics and Researchers' Conference will take place on June 19-23, 2021, in Montreal, Canada. Subscribe to the Newsletter.

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The ninth meeting of the “Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory” (FEAST) colloquium will go online on 1-4 June, 2021. It is organized by The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies of CUHK.

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The 2nd international conference on interpreting will take place at the Hong Kong Baptist University on 8 &9 April 2021. It is organized by the Centre for Translation and the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies Hong Kong Baptist University. Keynote speakers are Adolfo Garcia and Brooke Macnamara. You can submit an abstract by 15 November 2020.

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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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