June 2017-2018 Translation, Interpreting, Language & Cultural Events

Ongoing until 4 June
The Last Supper by Giles Walker
Robotic art performance
Science Museum
London

1-2 June
2nd International Conference on Terminology
Theme: Scientific, Administrative and Educational Dimensions of Terminology
Institute of the Lithuanian Language
Vilnius, Lithuania

1-2 June
Evolution of TC 2017
Theme: Innovations in Software Documentation
Sofia
Bulgaria

1-2 June
Complex Thinking in Translation Studies: in Search of Methodologies
University of  the Free State, South Africa
KU Leuven, Leuven 
Belgium

1-2 June
Plunet Summit
Berlin
Germany

1-3 June
2017 Marketing and Public Policy Conference
American Marketing Association (AMA)
Washington DC
USA

1 June-3 September
Asterix in Belgium
Playful Exhibition about the Northern Gauls
Comics Art Museum
Brussels
Belgium

2 June 9.30am-1pm
Run to Do Good 2017
Give Back to Your Community Run
City Hall 
London

2 June
National Translation Conference 2017
Amersfoort
Netherlands

3 June
Multilingual Language Policies in Europe Conference
University of Dundee
Scotland

5-10 June
UCL Festival of Culture
Festival Book Club
University College London (UCL)
London

6 June
Sweden's National Day
Anglo-Swedish Society Swedish gin and whisky event
Stockholm Room, Acquavit
London

6-9 June

11th ToTh International Workshops and Conference

Theme: Terminology and Ontologies – Theories and Applications

Université de Savoie

Chambéry

France

7-9 June

memoQfest International 2017

Budapest

Hungary

7-9 June

Soap! 2017

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

SEO Workshop

All-Round Translator (ART) event

Nieuwe Energie

Leiden

Netherlands

10-11 June
XML London 2017
Faculty of Engineering Sciences (Roberts Building)
University College London (UCL)
London

10-11 June

NZSTI Annual Conference 2017

Theme: Spreading the Word – Transcending Boundaries & Enriching Lives

Auckland

New Zealand

11-12 June

ICIT 2017

19^th International Conference on Interpreting and Translation

Copenhagen

Denmark

11-15 June
ISB11 2017
International Symposium on Bilingualism
University of Limerick
Ireland

12-13 June
Digital Publishing Innovation Summit 2017
Theme: Engage, Grow and Establish your Audience with Content
Twitter: #DigiPub
St Paul's, London

12-13 June
TAUS Industry Leaders Forum
Girona
Spain

12-15 June
Nordterm 2017
Språkrådet Conference and Terminology Workshop
Kongsberg 
Norway

14 June 8-9.30am
How typographical presentation influences the way people read legal information
Clarity International
London

14 June 5.30-8pm
TechWest.London Launch
Theme: Exploring the impact of AI and automation on the workplace
West London Business event as part of London Tech Week (12-14 June)
Imperial College London - I-HUB, White City, London

14 June 6.30-8pm
Clarity
Part of London Creativity and Wellbeing Week (in English and Spanish)
Museum of Walking
Birdcage Sculpture by German Gymnasium
Kings Cross, London

14-15 June
Mastering Cross-Cultural Communication for Marketing Success 2017
American Marketing Association (AMA)
Chicago
USA

14-16 June
LocWorld 34
Theme: Continuous Delivery
Barcelona
Spain

16 June
11th Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics
McGill University
Montreal
Canada

17 June
La Clave Fest
Latin multi-arts festival
Hornsey Town Hall
London

18 June
International Yoga Day
Alexandra Palace 
London

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

19-20 June
Language, Data and Knowledge 2017
Galway
Ireland
Twitter: @ldk2017galway

19-22 June
12th ITS European Congress
Intelligent Transport Systems
ERTICO
Strasbourg
France

19-30 June
Tradumatica Summer School
Theme: Translation Technologies
Barcelona
Spain

21 June
Society of Indexers' Annual Conference 2017
Theme: Celebrating 60 Years of Indexing
St Anne's College
Oxford University
Oxford
UK

22 June
2nd CTS Postgraduate Conference
Theme: Power, Ideology and Beyond: New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK

22 June 10am to 12 noon
Dance for Parkinson's Taster Session
Free taster event with carers - booking essential
English National Ballet
Grand Opera House 
Belfast
Northern Ireland

22-23 June
The Book Index Conference
Bodleian Centre
Weston Library
Oxford University
Oxford
UK

22-23 June
CNET Translation Summit 2017
Theme: Translation in a Digital World
Paris
France

22-24 June
IKLR 2017
The First Austrian Language Service Providers' Days
Vienna
Austria

23-25 June

12th Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legal Linguistics

Poznan

Poland

24-25 June
West End Live 2017
Free Annual Musical Showcase
Trafalgar Square
London

26-27 June
PILAS Annual Conference 2017
Postgraduates in Latin American Studies/Society for Latin American Studies
Theme: Discontinuities and Resistance in Latin America
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

26-30 June

Translate at City

4th Literary Translation Summer School

Choice of 11 languages

City University

London

26 June-7 July
IBN TIBBON 2017: Translation Studies Doctoral & Teacher Training Summer School
Granada
Spain

27-29 June
Game QA & Localisation Europe 2017
Berlin
Germany

28-30 June 10am-4pm

21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes 2017

Theme: Interdisciplinary Knowledge-making - Challenges for LSP Research

NHH, Bergen
Norway

29-30 June
ICLLS 2017
3rd International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies
CIOL Hong Kong Society
Open University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

30 June
8th International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain

1 July

Jane Austen Festival 2017 Summer Ball

Includes Pre-Ball Regency Dance Workshop

Banqueting Room

The Guildhall

Bath

UK

2 July 12 noon-6pm
Eid Festival
Trafalgar Square
London

3-4 July
Transcollaborate
Collaborative Translation Symposium and Workshop
University of Monash
Prato
Italy

3-31 July
Summer School in Audiovisual Translation
Dubbing, voice-over, subtitling for the deaf, audio description for the blind
UCL
London

4-9 July

RHS Hampton Palace Flower Show

Hampton Court

Surrey

UK

5-7 July

8th Asian Translation Tradition Conference

School of Oriental and African Studies 

University of London

London

Theme: Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Mediation - Hearing, Interpreting, Global Voices

5-8 July
SSAWW 2017
Theme: Border Crossings. Translation, Migration & Gender in the Americas, Transatlantic, & Transpacific
University of Bordeaux Montaigne
Bordeaux, France

6-7 July

Elia ND Focus

Geneva

Switzerland

6-7 July
One rule for home, one rule for school?
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
UK

6-9 July
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting 2017
Utrecht University
Utrecht
Netherlands

7-8 July
4th Translation and Interpreting Conference 2017
COTICH
Theme: Specialised Translation and Interpreting
Santiago
Chile

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

9 July

Red Bull Soapbox Race

Alexandra Palace

London

10-14 July

International Terminology Summer School 2017

TH Köln

Cologne

Germany

NB: Student rate available

10-14 July

IAFL Porto 2017

13^th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists

Theme: New Challenges for Forensic Linguists

University of Porto

Porto, Portugal

10-14 July
ICLC 14
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
ICLA and ECLA event
University of Tartu/Estonian National Museum
Tartu, Estonia

13-14 July
Translation and Interpreting in Transition 3
Ghent University
Gent
Belgium

14 July-14 August

London 2017 – Summer of World Athletics

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

London

Also World ParaAthletics Championships 14-23 July and IAFF World Championships 4-13 July

15 July 1.30-6.30pm
Liberty Festival
Free event to try a range of sports and activities, deaf and disability arts
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
London

15-16 July
Faiths in Tune: Festival der Religionen
Werkstatt der Kulturen
Berlin
Germany

22 July
Watch Your Language Training Day 2017
Deaf Access event - Sign Language Interpreters
City Lit

London

23-29 July
International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School
BCLT/Writers Centre Norwich
8 workshops to date, including Bengali, Korean & Lithuanian
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK

29-30 July
ARTIS@Bangkok2017: Translatorship
Chulalongkorn University & Thammasat University
Bangkok
Thailand

30-31 July

Centenary of Passchendaele

Ypres
Belgium

31 July-11 August
33rd Cambridge Conference Interpretation Course (CCIC)
Hilton Cambridge City Centre
Cambridge
UK

3-5 August

FIT 2017 - XXI World Congress of the 

Federation of International Translators

Brisbane, Australia

Theme: Disruption and Diversification

4-6 August
2017 Summer AMA Conference
American Marketing Association
Theme: Innovation & Sustainability in Marketing
San Francisco
USA

8-10 August
ICT-16: 16th International Conference on Translation
Theme: The Value of Translation in Society
University of Malaya
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

11-13 August

CLINT 2017

Latin American Translation Industry Conference

Holiday Inn

Cordoba

Argentina

Facebook

24-27 August
Translate in the Laurentians / On traduit dans les Laurentides
Master class training for French>English and English>French translators
Estérel, Quebec

Canada 

26-28 August
Notting Hill Carnival
Notting Hill
London

1-2 September
International Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition
Mendoza 
Argentina

4-8 September
2nd International Summer School in Translation Technology
KU Leuven University
Antwerp
Belgium

4-8 September
Transtech 2017
3rd Summer School in Translation Technologies
University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Slovenia

7-9 September
ILLA 2017
Theme: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation & Social Conflicts
International Language and Law Association
University of Freiburg
Germany

7-11 September
EMNLP 2017
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 
Copenhagen
Denmark

8-17 September

Jane Austen Festival

Including 2017 Grand Regency Costumed Charity Promenade on Saturday 9^th September

Bath, UK

Twitter: @JAFestBath

Facebook

9-10 September
Efsli 2017 AGM & Conference
European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters
Theme: Interpreting in Heathcare
Toulouse
France

9-11 September
2nd International Conference on Translation and Interpreting in Uruguay
Montevideo
Uruguay

11-13 September
American Marketing Association (AMA) Annual Conference 2017
Las Vegas
USA

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

13-15 September
GSCL 2017 
Theme: Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age
Berlin
Germany

13-20 September
Summer School 2017: Translation in History - History in Translation
University of Vienna
Vienna
Austria

15-16 September
TTI 5
5th International Conference on Teaching Translation and Interpreting
University of Łódź

Łódź
Poland

15-16 September 
Study Weekend 2017
CIOL German Society
Theme: The Hanseatic League - Myth and Reality
Lübeck
Germany

16-17 September

Open House London

Annual Festival of Architecture and Design
London

18-22 September
16th Machine Translation Summit
Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)
Nagoya University
Japan

21-22 September
The ATC Annual Conference 2017
Association of Translation Companies
Call for Papers
UK Venue to be advised

21-23 September
11th PLAIN International Conference
Theme: Improving Customer Relationships
Plain Language Association International
Graz
Austria

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

23-24 September

ASLI 30th Anniversary Conference 2017

Association of Sign Language Interpreters

Theme: Recognition

Institute for Child Health

London

25 September
Mums Enterprise Roadshow
Child-friendly Work & Business Exhibition
Business Design Centre
London
Also Birmingham 17 October 2017 and Brighton 22 February 2018

25-26 September
Intermedia 2017
International Conference on Audiovisual Translation
Poznan
Poland

26-28 September
TCUK 2017
Theme: Staying on Topic - Topic-based authoriing, skills and methodologies
Technical Communication UK Conference
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Nottingham
UK

27-28 September

TFM 2017

Technology for Marketing

Olympia

London

28-30 September

Lenguas 2017

International Forum for Interpreters and Translators

Plenary Sessions and Practical Workshops

Mexico City

Mexico

29-30 September
Drongo Festival 2017
Utrecht
Netherlands

30 September

International Translation Day

FIT 2017 Theme

5-7 October
ICIQ3 
International Conference on Interpreting Quality
Granada
Spain

6-7 October
Realiter 2017
Theme: Terminology for Standardization and Internationalization
Barcelona
Spain

12-13 October
Elia Networking Days
Bucharest
Romania

13-15 October
LESICO 2017
3rd International Congress of Sign Language Teachers
Theme: Professionalism and quality of sign language teaching
Basel
Switzerland

14 October 12-6pm
Africa on the Square 2017
Part of Black History Month 2017
Trafalgar Square
London

14-15 October

BDÜ Language and Law Conference 2017

Call for papers in German only

Hanover

Germany

14-16 October

Language Show Live

Olympia
London

15 October 1-7pm
Diwali Festival 
Trafalgar Square
London

19-20 October
AETC 2017
Association of Estonian Translation Companies Conference
Theme: The Lifecycle of the LSP
Tallinn
Estonia

20 October-28 February 2018

Harry Potter at the British Library

Exhibition to mark 20^th 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

9^th 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

TAUS Annual Conference 2017

San Jose

California

USA

1-3 November

LocWorld Silicon Valley

Theme: Continuous Delivery

Santa Clara

California

USA

4 November
Translation Conference 2017

Theme: Translation and Disruption: Global and Local Perspectives
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth
UK

5-8 November
LavaCon Conference 2017
Content Strategy Conference
Theme: Spanning Silos, Building Bridges
Portland Oregon
USA

6-7 November
Translating Europe Forum
Theme: Translators' Skills and Employability
Brussels
Belgium

9-10 November
5th Translation Technology Terminology Conference
Theme: One Step Ahead - Translating the Future
Bled
Slovenia
Twitter: @TTCConference #TTTconf

9-10 November
1st Balkan Language Symposium
Serbian Association of Translation Companies
Belgrade
Serbia

9-11 November
11th Hellenic Language and Terminology Conference
Athens
Greece

13-14 November
MUMTTT 2017/Europhras 2017
3rd Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology 
Theme: Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology
London

13-14 November
International Symposium on Terminology and Translation
Theme: Terms of Environment/Environment of Terms
University of Bucharest
Romania

16-17 November

TC39- 39th Translating and the Computer Conference

Theme: Technology tools for interpreting

London

17-18 November

Expolingua Berlin

Berlin

Germany

17-19 November

2017 ACTFL Convention and World Languages Expo

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Music City Center

Nashville, TN

USA

22-24 November
NTIF 2017
Nordic Translation Industry Forum 2017
Helsinki
Finland

23-24 November
VocUM 2017 - Language and globalization
University of Montreal
Quebec
Canada

24 November-30 December
Christmas at the Botanics
Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh
Scotland
Ticket sales from 5 June

26-27 November
Mexican Translators' Association (OMT) Conference
Guadalajera
Mexico

30 November-1 December
The TraFilm Conference
Call for Papers by 18 May 2017
Barcelona 
Spain

6-8 December
OEB
Technology-supported training and learning conference
Berlin 
Germany

7-8 December

Elia ND Focus on Project Management

Prague

Czech Republic

11-13 December 
Language Standardization and Linguistic Variation in Asia from Social Linguistics Perspectives
University of Nottingham Campus
Ningbo
China

13-15 December

V International Conference - Translating Voices, Translating Regions

Theme: Minority languages, risks, disasters and regional crises

UCL CEnTraS at Europe House, London

Dates to note for 2018

European Capital of Culture 2018

Valletta, Malta

European Capital of Culture 2018

Leeuwarden, Netherlands

European Green Capital 2018

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Inaugural European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018

9-10 March 2018

Tolk-en Vertaal-Congres

2^nd Joint Dutch and Belgian Association Conference

17 March 2018
EULITA GA2018
Sofia
Bulgaria

7-12 May 2018

LREC 2018

International Conference on Language Resources and Education

Phoenix Seagaia Resort

Miyazaki

Japan

27-29 June
3rd International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation
University of Alicante
Spain

3-6 July 2018
IATIS 6th International Conference
Theme: Translation and Cultural Mobility
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong

9-14 July 2018

ESOF 2018

8^th Euroscience Open Forum

Scientific research in Europe
Toulouse

France

Call for 2018 Papers
Call for 2020 Hosts

24-27 October 2018

59th ATA Annual Conference

American Translators Association

New Orleans

Louisiana

USA

2019
The Year of Indigenous Languages

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.