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
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 26 February
South Africa: the art of a nation
British Museum
London
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Birmingham Southside
Hurst Street/Ladywell Walk
Birmingham
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
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
2 February
Evening of Maltese Culture and Language
Malta's EU Presidency Event
Europe House
London
Gray’s Inn, London
1. A Practical Workshop on using Corpus Linguistics for Law
2. EU Legal Translation: Past, Present and Future?
10 February
CLIN27 - Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 27
Preceded by CCL25
KU Leuven
Belgium
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
Common Law in French and Civil Law in English –Bijuralism and Bilingualism à la Canadienne
Quebec House
Quebec House
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
20 February-10 March
Same but Different Photography Exhibition
Diversity of women working in Britain today
City Hall
London
2nd
Conference
Theme: Communicating for Success
Theme: Communicating for Success
Berlin
Germany
23-24 February
TCWorld India 2017
Bangalore
India
9 March-18 June
The American Dream - pop to the present
British Museum
London
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
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
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
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 MarchLegalex
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
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
4
May 9.30am-1.30pm
Brussels
Belgium
4-5 May
Chania, Crete
Greece
Greece
4-6 May
BP17
Budapest
Hungary
Twitter:#BP17conf
6 May 2-6pm
Westminster Morris Men, Day of Dance
Trafalgar Square
London
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
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
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
25 May-13 August
Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave
British Museum
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
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
UA Europe 2017
Conference for Software User Assistance Professionals
Harrogate
UK
10-11 June
14-16 June
LocWorld 34
Theme: Continuous Delivery
Barcelona
Spain
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
8-9 June
7-9
June
Annual Conference for product-related
content
Theme: Problem solving
Krakow, Poland
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
Theme: Spreading the Word – Transcending Boundaries & Enriching Lives
Auckland
New Zealand
11-12
June
19th International Conference on
Interpreting and Translation
Copenhagen
Denmark
LocWorld 34
Theme: Continuous Delivery
Barcelona
Spain
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
Includes Pre-Ball Regency Dance Workshop
Banqueting Room
The Guildhall
Bath
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
6-7 July
Geneva
Switzerland
8 July 1-8pm
Pride in London
Pride Parade and Festival for LGBT Community
Trafalgar Square
London
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
28 August-1 September
2nd International Summer School in Translation Technology
KU Leuven University
Antwerp
Belgium
12-15 September
EAIE 2017
Theme: Internationalisation of Higher Education
Seville
Spain
27-28 September
Elia Networking Days
Bucharest
Romania
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
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
12-13 October
28-30
September
International Forum for Interpreters and
Translators
Plenary Sessions and Practical Workshops
Mexico City
Mexico
30
September
FIT 2017 Theme
Elia Networking Days
Bucharest
Romania
14-15
October
Call for papers in German only
Hanover
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
17-19
November
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
Languages (ACTFL)
Music City Center
Nashville, TN
13-15 December 2017
Theme: Minority languages, risks, disasters and regional crises
UCL CEnTraS at Europe House, London
9-10 March 2018
24-27 October 2018
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
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.