Thursday 2 June 2016

2017 Translation, Language and Cultural Events

Pic of finger about to press 2017 start button


List of translation and interpreting conferences and cultural events from January to December 2017 to help you plan the year ahead.



1 January 12 noon onwards
Central London route from Green Park to Westminster via Trafalgar Square


Throughout 2017

UK City of Culture 2017



Europe-wide events to celebrate the flagship EU Programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport

European Capital of Culture 2017


European Capital of Culture 2017

European Green Capital 2017




Jane Austen 200
Celebrations of her life and work in Winchester, Hampshire
Also see Jane Austen Festival in Bath, Somerset in July and September
including Joseph Conrad and the founder of Esperanto


Ongoing exhibition until 22 January
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
Krakow, Poland

Ongoing exhibition until 5 February
National Portrait Gallery
London


Ongoing exhibition until 26 February
South Africa: the art of a nation
British Museum
London
5-8 January
MLA 2017
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
Theme: Boundary Conditions
Philadelphia
USA
6 January 3.30-5pm
Free event at the Geffrye Museum
Christmas Past: 400 years of Seasonal Traditions in English Homes Exhibition
London
6-12 January
Il Centro
Italian Cultural Centre
Vancouver
Canada
9 January-4 February
Various venues
London
12-13 January
Theme: Short- and Long-term Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Language Professions
Geneva, Switzerland


13 January 5-10.15pm
Including origami, cuisine and film
Grenoble
France


16-27 January 4-9pm
Free event: Light installations and interactive art
Canary Wharf
London


17 January 3.30pm
Free event
University of Bath with ITI Western Regional Group
Bath


17 January 7pm
Documentary on technological and medical advances followed by Q&A with director
Austrian Cultura Forum CineClub
London
19 January- 26 February
Magical Lantern Festival
Chiswick House Gardens
London

19 January 6.30-8pm
Event for Holocaust Memorial Day 2017
Jewish Museum
London
20 January 1.30-10pm
Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters
Brussels
Belgium
20-21 January 
Paris
France
21 January
Women's March on London
Part of Washington DC Women's March now global
9 cities in France including Paris
London March is starting at US Embassy
Grosvenor Square
London
21 January
London Bulgarian Choir with Chubrica Choir from Amsterdam
St Peter’s Church, Notting Hill
London




23-28 January
All Lorca Season
Dramatised readings & performances of Lorca's work in Spanish/English
Cervantes Theatre
London

25-27 January
CPDP 2017: 10th International Conference
Computer, Privacy & Data Protection
Theme: The Age of Intelligent Machines
Brussels


26 January 9.30-3pm
How do you optimise interpreting with a smart pen and apps on your device?
Metropolitan University
London


26 January 2-6pm
Europe House
London
Twitter: #EPonBrexit
26 January 6-8.30pm
Free Bryan Cave Seminar with French Chamber of Great Britain
Bryan Cave offices
London


26 January 7pm
Documentary film on complex field of reproductive medicine
Austrian Cultural Forum CineClub
London


26-28 January
Association of Language Companies (ALC)
Sonoma
California
USA
26-29 January
Manchester
Twitter: #ChineseNewYearMCR #YearoftheRooster
27-29 January
Olympia
London


28-29 January
Alexandra Palace
London


28 January-3 February
Chelsea Physic Garden
London

29 January 10am-6pm
Year of the Rooster
Chinatown, West End with finale in Trafalgar Square
Chinatown Chinese Association (LCCA)
London

29 January 11am-4pm
Birmingham Southside
Hurst Street/Ladywell Walk
Birmingham


30 January
Vienna
Austria




30 January 6.15pm
Talk for Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France & Society for the Study of French History
French Institute
London


30-31 January
Sadler’s Wells Theatre
London

31 January
Author's talk on multilingual environment for children with practical, research-based advice for parents
French Institute
London




31 January 5.30-7.30pm
University of Bristol with ITI Western Regional Group
Bristol




31 January-18 February
Peacock Theatre
London



2 February 10am-5pm
Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage
Birmingham
UK
2 February
Evening of Maltese Culture and Language
Malta's EU Presidency Event
Europe House
London
3-4 February
Gray’s Inn, London
1. A Practical Workshop on using Corpus Linguistics for Law
2. EU Legal Translation: Past, Present and Future?


4 February 10am-5pm
All-Round Translator (ART) event
Nieuwe Energie
Leiden
Netherlands


4 February-5 March
Theme: Indian plants and culture
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey
UK
4 February-31 December
Events and exhibitions to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Jane Austen’s death in 1817
6 February 12.30-2.30pm
London


7 February 6.30pm
Skills Matter
Code Node
London
7 February 6.45-9.30
British Library Knowledge Centre
London

7-8 February
Ghent University
Belgium

8 February
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
London


9-10 February
Theme: Benchmarking Content
London
Twitter: @CSApplied2017
9-19 February
67th Berlin Film Festival



10 February
CLIN27 - Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 27
Preceded by CCL25
KU Leuven
Belgium
11 February-1 March
Menton
France
Theme: Broadway


13-15 February
Israel Translators Association (ITA)
ZOA House
Tel Aviv
Israel

13-17 February
Annual web conference and workshops
Wellington
New Zealand

14-15 February
Technology for Marketing & Advertising
Tokyo International Exhibition Center
Tokyo
Japan
15-26 February
Sadler’s Wells
London

18 February 9.30am-5.30pm
Information Architecture talks and workshops
Theme: Information Strategy and Structure
City University
London
Twitter: @WorldIADayLDN
18 February 10.30am-3pm
Chartered Institute of Linguists – Business, Professions & Government Group
Birmingham, UK


20 February-10 March
Same but Different Photography Exhibition
Diversity of women working in Britain today
City Hall
London

23-24 February
Elia Together
 
2nd Conference
Theme: Communicating for Success
Berlin
Germany
23-24 February
TCWorld India 2017
Bangalore
India






24-25 February
Theme: The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – How do we deal with its gaps?
Bremen, Germany
28 February
Spanish documentary in English/Spanish with English subtitles
LSE, London


28 February-2 March
Theme: Continuous Delivery
Shenzhen
China


2 March
2oth Anniversary




5-6 March
19th International Conference on Patents and Intellectual Rights
Rome
Italy

8-11 March
8th International Conference of the Iberian Association of Translation and Interpreting
University of Alcalà
Alcalà de Henares
Madrid, Spain
Twitter: @aieti8

9-10 March
Includes exhibition
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong

9 March-18 June
The American Dream - pop to the present
British Museum
London

10-11 March
Glasgow
Scotland
12-16 March
Theme: Translation 4.0 – Translation in the digital age
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany

16-17 March
Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description
Barcelona
Spain

17-19 March
Free event
Trafalgar Square
London


18-26 March
French language and French-speakers’ week
Digital Theme for 2017: 
Dis-moi dix mots sur la Toile / Tell me Ten Internet Words


22-23 March
Tekom Europe and COM&TEC Conference
Theme: Intelligent Information
Aemilia Hotel
Bologna
Italy


23-24 March
Seminars in French/English
University of Lille
Lille
France

24-25 March
Warsaw
Poland




24-25 March
Association for Language Learning
Theme: Progress for ALL
East Midlands Conference Centre
Nottingham
UK

25 March 9.30am-5pm
Including optional CIOL AGM and Annual Threlford Lecture
QEII Conference Centre
London

26-29 March
Globalization & Localization Association Conference
Theme: The Language of Business – The Business of Language
Amsterdam, Netherlands


27-28 March
Theme: 21st Century Demands: Translation and Interpreting Towards Human and Social Responsibilities
Translation and Interpreting Institute, Doha, Qatar


27-31 March
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
UK
28-29 March
Legalex
Excel Centre 
London
Theme: Business behind Law: modernising law firms, technology
28-30 March
Content Strategy for Marketing Professionals
Las Vegas
USA
30-31 March
Joint EULITA and ÖVGD event
Vienna
Austria


31 March-2 April
Gallaudet University
Washington DC
USA

1 April
All-Round Translator (ART) event
Nieuwe Energie
Leiden
Netherlands



3-7 April
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Glasgow, Scotland
Twitter: @iatefl #iatefl2017
6-7 April
Specialist Search Marketing Training and Conference
The Brighton Centre
Brighton
UK


6-10 April
National Museum of Immigration
Buenos Aires
Argentina
7-9 April
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff
Wales


14 April
Passion of Jesus
Wintershall Players bring Easter story to life
Trafalgar Square
London

14 April
UK’s Largest German Bier Festival
Alexandra Palace
London
20-21 April
T-Update on Management & Skills
Berlin
Germany

22 April 12 noon-6pm
Feast of St George
Trafalgar Square
London

22-23 April
Buenos Aires
Argentina


24-26 April
Speech Technology
Washington Marriott Wardman Park
Washington
USA

25-26 April
Oracle Japan
Tokyo
Japan

27 April 9.30am-1.30pm
Brussels
Belgium






29 April
Vaisakhi Festival 2017
Sikh festival and heritage
Trafalgar Square
London

4 May 9.30am-1.30pm
Brussels
Belgium

4-5 May
Chania, Crete
Greece 


4-6 May
BP17
Budapest
Hungary
Twitter:#BP17conf



6 May 2-6pm
Westminster Morris Men, Day of Dance
Trafalgar Square
London

7-10 May
Society for Technical Communication
Washington DC
USA

8 May 2pm
One woman show: Soul of Fire followed by short lecture
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature
Senate House, London

8-9 May
Theme: Let’s implement the future now!
Intercontinental Shanghai Pudong
Shanghai
China
9-13 May
Maribor
Slovenia
11-14 May
Varna
Bulgaria


17-18 May
Information Energy Conference 2017
Theme: The Emergence of Content 4.0
Utrecht
Netherlands



17-20 May
Association of Language Companies
Eden Roc Resort
Miami
Florida
USA

17-28 May
Cannes
France
18-20 May
Cardiff
Wales

18-21 May
Somerset House
London
Twitter: #PhotoLondonFair17 @PhotoLondonFair

19-21 May
100th Anniversary year of founder Ludwik Zamenhof’s death
Edinburgh
Scotland


21 May 6.30-8.15pm
London Symphony Orchestra
Free, Rachmaninov open air concert
Trafalgar Square
London


22-24 May
Going Global 2017
British Council
London
Theme: Global Cities: Connecting Talent, Driving Change



22-24 May
Nodalida 2017
21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics
Gothenburg
Sweden


23-27 May
Prestigious Flower Show and Garden Design Showcase
London


24 May
Seminars for Digital, Design and UX Communities
Manchester Town Hall
Manchester
Twitter: #Campdigital


25 May-13 August
Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave
British Museum
London


26-28 May
Theme: Territory of Concentrated Knowledge
Business Bureau of the Association of Interpreters
Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan
Russia

26 May-4 June
Hay-on-Wye
Wales


28-31 May
20th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
Prague
Czech Republic
1-30 June
London Festival of Architecture 2017
London 
UK
Twitter: @LFArchitecture #LFA2017



6-9 June
Theme: Terminology and Ontologies – Theories and Applications
Université de Savoie
Chambéry
France


7-9 June
Budapest
Hungary
7-9 June
Annual Conference for product-related content
Theme: Problem solving
Krakow, Poland
8-9 June
UA Europe 2017
Conference for Software User Assistance Professionals
Harrogate
UK


10 June 10am-2.30pm
All-Round Translator (ART) event
Nieuwe Energie
Leiden
Netherlands
10-11 June
Theme: Spreading the Word – Transcending Boundaries & Enriching Lives
Auckland
New Zealand


11-12 June
19th International Conference on Interpreting and Translation
Copenhagen
Denmark
14-16 June
LocWorld 34
Theme: Continuous Delivery
Barcelona
Spain


19 June 9.45-10.30am
Armed Forces Day
City Hall
London


23-25 June
Poznan
Poland
28-30 June 10am-4pm
Theme: Interdisciplinary Knowledge-making - Challenges for LSP Research
Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication
NHH, Bergen, Norway


1 July
Includes Pre-Ball Regency Dance Workshop
Banqueting Room
The Guildhall
Bath
UK
2 July 12 noon-6pm
Eid Festival
Trafalgar Square
London

4-9 July
Hampton Court
Surrey



5-7 July
School of Oriental and African Studies 
University of London
London
Theme: Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Mediation - Hearing, Interpreting, Global Voices
6-7 July
Geneva
Switzerland


8 July 1-8pm
Pride in London
Pride Parade and Festival for LGBT Community
Trafalgar Square
London

9 July
Alexandra Palace
London
10-14 July
TH Köln
Cologne
Germany
NB: Student rate available
10-14 July
13th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists
Theme: New Challenges for Forensic Linguists
University of Porto
Porto, Portugal

14 July-14 August
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
London
Also World ParaAthletics Championships 14-23 July and IAFF World Championships 4-13 July


30-31 July

3-5 August
Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
Brisbane, Australia
Theme: Disruption and Diversification
Early Bird Registration extended to 13 March



11-13 August
Latin American Translation Industry Conference
Holiday Inn
Cordoba
Argentina


28 August-1 September
2nd International Summer School in Translation Technology
KU Leuven University
Antwerp
Belgium
8-17 September
Including 2017 Grand Regency Costumed Charity Promenade on Saturday 9th September
Bath
UK
Twitter: @JAFestBath


12-15 September
EAIE 2017
Theme: Internationalisation of Higher Education
Seville
Spain




16-17 September
Annual Festival of Architecture and Design


22-24 September
Anglophoner Tag
Hosted by ITI German Network
Chester Racecourse
Chester
UK

23-24 September
Association of Sign Language Interpreters
Theme: Recognition
Institute for Child Health
London


27-28 September
Technology for Marketing
Olympia
London



28-30 September
International Forum for Interpreters and Translators
Plenary Sessions and Practical Workshops
Mexico City
Mexico



30 September
FIT 2017 Theme



12-13 October
Elia Networking Days
Bucharest
Romania


14-15 October
Call for papers in German only
Hanover
Germany


14-16 October
Olympia
London

20 October-28 February 2018
Exhibition to mark 20th Anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
British Library
London


24-26 October
Tcworld Conference 2017
Stuttgart
Germany


25-27 October
Slovko 2017
9th International Conference on NLP, Corpus Linguistics, Terminology and e-Terminology
Slovak National Corpus
Bratislava, Slovakia


25-28 October
58th ATA Annual Conference
American Translators Association
Washington DC
USA

26-28 October
METM17
Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting 2017
Brescia
Italy

30-31 October
San Jose
California
USA

1-3 November
Theme: Continuous Delivery
Santa Clara
California
USA




16-17 November
Theme: Technology tools for interpreting
London


17-18 November
Berlin
Germany



17-19 November
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Music City Center
Nashville, TN
USA


7-8 December
Prague
Czech Republic
13-15 December 2017
Theme: Minority languages, risks, disasters and regional crises
UCL CEnTraS at Europe House, London



Dates to note for 2018

European Capital of Culture 2018

European Capital of Culture 2018



European Green Capital 2018









9-10 March 2018
Tolk-en Vertaal-Congres
2nd Joint Dutch and Belgian Association Conference

7-12 May 2018
International Conference on Language Resources and Education
Phoenix Seagaia Resort
Miyazaki
Japan

9-14 July 2018
8th Euroscience Open Forum
Toulouse
France






24-27 October 2018
59th ATA Annual Conference
American Translators Association
New Orleans
Louisiana
USA

NB: Inclusion in this list does not constitute endorsement of any conference, event or third party. This list is for information purposes only. All details should be checked on the organisers' websites, as they may be subject to change.