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Events across the world on sign language interpreting, sign language and more
Disclaimer: this is an overview of international events related to sign language and sign language interpreting. For any information on the events, please contact the organizers directly by clicking on the event and the link to the event’s web page. Maya de Wit Sign Language Interpreting Consultancy cannot be held accountable for the accuracy of the information listed.
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.
Days and times:
11 April: 9.30 - 16.30 hours
12 April: 9.30 - 16.30 hours
As a sign language interpreter you are increasingly requested to work into and from English as non-native speakers. During the two day training you will learn linguistic and coping strategies in order to match these demands.
Part II of the training ‘Interpreting from and to English as a 3rd language’ organized by Maya de Wit Sign Language Interpreting Consultancy.
You will have the opportunity to learn with peers from across Europe through in depth practice sessions, games, and discussions. Through intensive practice and the individual and peer feedback, you will enhance your acquired skills to work between English and your national sign language.
The ICTIC 5 conference will take place from 2-4 June in Kristiansand, Norway.
The theme for the fifth iteration of the ICTIC conference is Translation and Cognition on the ground. What is now recognized as legitimate empirical phenomena within the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies is a much broader and more inclusive category than was the case just a couple of decades ago. The remit of the field is expanding to encompass multiple new forms of mediated communication in a range of new scenarios.
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 efsli conference takes place in Lisbon 12-14 September 2025. The theme is "Translating Culture". You can find more information and the call for papers here: https://www.anapilg.pt/call-for-papers
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: More info: http://sign.uw.edu.pl/en/sign-cafe-3/
A call for papers for the conference “ELF Communication Today: Acceptability and Accessibility in Focus” that will be held on 4 and 5 December 2024 at the University of Salerno, Italy.
See the conference website for more info: https://jaiello00.wixsite.com/elf2024unisa
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!
The MITS Public Online Seminar, taking place on October 5th from 9:45 AM to 13:00 PM, 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 expert speakers, Peninnah Vulimu and Herbert Klein, will present their fieldwork experiences.
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
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 > https://torino2024.efsli.org/
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).
The conference will take place on 11-14 September 2024 at the University of Graz, Austria
See more info on the conference website: https://translationhistory.uni-graz.at/en/
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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/
This special training is for signers to learn more about International Sign (IS). During the two days you are introduced to the basics of International Sign, some theory as well as practice. The training is for those signers who already know a national sign language, but want to practice and learn more about IS.
More info and registration: https://www.mpdfonlus.com/it/Le-attivit%C3%A0/International-Sign-Training-for-signers-819/
Maya de Wit is invited to give a workshop for LIBRAS interpreters, hosted by AIIC Brazil & APIC: Interpreting multilingual High-Level meetings & conferences
Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2024
More info> https://katu-symposiumi.com/first-circular-and-call-for-papers-2024/
The theme of the 2024 KäTu Symposium is Connection. The theme is meant to highlight the importance of translation, interpreting, and other translatorial activities in enabling connection between languages and cultures.
AIIC Brazil and APIC invited are hosting an online lecture by Maya de Wit, PhD on 10 April: Mixing it up! Conference signed and spoken language interpreters collaborative practices.
On Friday 19 January from 9.30 to 11.30 CET you have the opportunity to take a refresher course 'Interpreting from English into your National Sign Language'.
This course is especially for those who have completed Part I or Part 2 of Maya de Wit’s two day on-site training courses.
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?
“The integration of social-haptic communication in deafblind interpreting and educational settings”, which will be held on the 4th and 5th of September 2023 in person in Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and on Zoom.
The conference aims at gathering international and national expertise around the integration of social-haptic communication in the practice of deafblind interpreting and in deafblind learning environments.
See the Call for Abstracts for other details.
The participation will be free of charge.
The Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf will take place from 11 - 15 July in Jeju, South Korea.
The 2023 conference of the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI) will take place 5-9 July in Jeju Island, Korea. A call for proposals to present at the pre-conference and conference has been launched in English, Korean Sign Language, and International Sign.
Conference Website: https://wasli2023.blogspot.com/
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.
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 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.
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
Conference on New Trends in Translation and Technology will take place 4-6 July 2022 in Greece.
The aim of the conference is to bring together academics in linguistics, translation studies, machine translation and natural language processing, as well as developers, practitioners, language service providers (LSPs) and vendors who work on or are interested in various aspects of technology for translation.
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