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
London International Mime Festival
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
SFT Japanese Cultural Evening
Including origami, cuisine and film
Grenoble
France
16-27 January 4-9pm
Winter Lights
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
Golden Genes
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
Born Survivors: Eva Clarke and author Wendy Holden
Event for Holocaust Memorial Day 2017
Jewish Museum
London
20 January 1.30-10pm
CBTI-BKVT New Year Reception and Conference
Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters
Brussels
Belgium
20-21 January 
Salon du Travail & Mobilité Professionnelle
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
Bulgarian Song
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
Technology for Interpreters 
How do you optimise interpreting with a smart pen and apps on your device?
Metropolitan University
London
26 January 2-6pm
Brexit and the EP: what it means for trade
Europe House
London
Twitter: #EPonBrexit
26 January 6-8.30pm
Will French contract law soon govern international business transactions?
Free Bryan Cave Seminar with French Chamber of Great Britain
Bryan Cave offices
London
26 January 7pm
Future Baby
Documentary film on complex field of reproductive medicine
Austrian Cultural Forum CineClub
London
26-28 January
2017 UNConference
Association of Language Companies (ALC)
Sonoma
California
USA
26-29 January
Chinese New Year Celebrations
Manchester
Twitter: #ChineseNewYearMCR #YearoftheRooster
27-29 January
The France Show
Olympia
London


28-29 January
World Championship of Ping Pong
Alexandra Palace
London
28 January-3 February
Snowdrop Days 2017
Chelsea Physic Garden
London

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

29 January 11am-4pm
Chinese New Year Celebrations
Birmingham Southside
Hurst Street/Ladywell Walk
Birmingham
30 January
TAUS Roundtable Vienna 2017
Vienna
Austria




30 January 6.15pm
Rethinking Robespierre
Talk for Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France & Society for the Study of French History
French Institute
London
30-31 January
Agile Content Conference and Workshop
Sadler’s Wells Theatre
London

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


31 January 5.30-7.30pm
French to English Translation Slam
University of Bristol with ITI Western Regional Group
Bristol
31 January-18 February
Tango Fire
Peacock Theatre
London
2 February 10am-5pm
Entrepreneurship in Cultural Heritage Workshop
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
Words to Deeds Conference 2017: Legal Translation to the Next Level
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
Transcreation Workshop
All-Round Translator (ART) event
Nieuwe Energie
Leiden
Netherlands
4 February-5 March
Orchids 2017
Theme: Indian plants and culture
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey
UK
4 February-31 December
Jane Austen 200 – A Life in Hampshire
Events and exhibitions to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Jane Austen’s death in 1817
6 February 12.30-2.30pm
Common Law in French and Civil Law in English –Bijuralism and Bilingualism à la Canadienne 
Quebec House
London
7 February 6.30pm
Unconscious Bias: What is it and what can we do about it?
Skills Matter
Code Node
London
7 February 6.45-9.30
Inspiring Entrepreneurs – Internet Icons
British Library Knowledge Centre
London

7-8 February
Retranslation in Context III Conference
Ghent University
Belgium

8 February
SOAS Centenary Lecture: Food is Culture
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
London
9-10 February
Content Strategy Applied 2017
Theme: Benchmarking Content
London
Twitter: @CSApplied2017
9-19 February
Berlinale 2017
67th Berlin Film Festival

10 February
CLIN27 - Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 27
Preceded by CCL25
KU Leuven
Belgium
11 February-1 March
84th Lemon Festival
Menton
France
Theme: Broadway
13-15 February
ITA 2017 Conference
Israel Translators Association (ITA)
ZOA House
Tel Aviv
Israel

13-17 February
Webstock 2017
Annual web conference and workshops
Wellington
New Zealand

14-15 February
TFM 2017 Japan
Technology for Marketing & Advertising
Tokyo International Exhibition Center
Tokyo
Japan
15-26 February
Flamenco Festival London
Sadler’s Wells
London

18 February 9.30am-5.30pm
World IA Day 2017
Information Architecture talks and workshops
Theme: Information Strategy and Structure
City University
London
Twitter: @WorldIADayLDN
18 February 10.30am-3pm
Waltzing through the UN: 
The Work of the UN in Vienna
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
6th Bremen Symposium on Language Learning and Teaching at Universities
Theme: The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – How do we deal with its gaps?
Bremen, Germany
28 February
SiM2016/2017: The Seven Sisters Indoor Market/El Mercado de Pueblito Paisa
Spanish documentary in English/Spanish with English subtitles
LSE, London
28 February-2 March
LocWorld33 Shenzhen
Theme: Continuous Delivery
Shenzhen
China
2 March
World Book Day
2oth Anniversary
5-6 March
ICPIR 2017
19th International Conference on Patents and Intellectual Rights
Rome
Italy

8-11 March
AIETI8
8th International Conference of the Iberian Association of Translation and Interpreting
University of Alcalà
Alcalà de Henares
Madrid, Spain
Twitter: @aieti8

9-10 March
1st Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting
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
Language Show Live Scotland
Glasgow
Scotland
12-16 March
10th Leipzig International Conference on Translation & Interpretation Studies
Theme: Translation 4.0 – Translation in the digital age
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany

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

17-19 March
London’s St Patrick’s Day Festival
Free event
Trafalgar Square
London
18-26 March
Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie
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
COMTecnica 2017
Tekom Europe and COM&TEC Conference
Theme: Intelligent Information
Aemilia Hotel
Bologna
Italy
23-24 March
Loose in Translation. Translating Wordplay
Seminars in French/English
University of Lille
Lille
France

24-25 March
The Translation and Localization Conference 2017
Warsaw
Poland




24-25 March
Language World 2017
Association for Language Learning
Theme: Progress for ALL
East Midlands Conference Centre
Nottingham
UK

25 March 9.30am-5pm
Chartered Institute of Linguists’ Members’ Day 2017
Including optional CIOL AGM and Annual Threlford Lecture
QEII Conference Centre
London

26-29 March
GALA 2017
Globalization & Localization Association Conference
Theme: The Language of Business – The Business of Language
Amsterdam, Netherlands
27-28 March
8th Annual International Translation Conference
Theme: 21st Century Demands: Translation and Interpreting Towards Human and Social Responsibilities
Translation and Interpreting Institute, Doha, Qatar


27-31 March
Trust, Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation 2017
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
UK
28-29 March
Legalex
Excel Centre 
London
Theme: Business behind Law: modernising law firms, technology
28-30 March
Intelligent Content Conference
Content Strategy for Marketing Professionals
Las Vegas
USA
30-31 March
The Many Facets of Legal Interpreting and Translation
Joint EULITA and ÖVGD event
Vienna
Austria
31 March-2 April
Symposium on Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Research
Gallaudet University
Washington DC
USA

1 April
Regex Workshop 10am-2.30pm
All-Round Translator (ART) event
Nieuwe Energie
Leiden
Netherlands

3-7 April
51st IATEFL Conference, Pre-conference and Exhibition
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Glasgow, Scotland
Facebook 
Twitter: @iatefl #iatefl2017
6-7 April
Brighton SEO
Specialist Search Marketing Training and Conference
The Brighton Centre
Brighton
UK
6-10 April
Heritages of Migration: Moving Stories, Objects and Home
National Museum of Immigration
Buenos Aires
Argentina
7-9 April
RHS Cardiff Flower Show
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff
Wales


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

14 April
Springfest
UK’s Largest German Bier Festival
Alexandra Palace
London
20-21 April
12th EUATC Conference
T-Update on Management & Skills
Berlin
Germany

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

22-23 April
4th IAPTI International Conference
Buenos Aires
Argentina


24-26 April
SpeechTEK 2017
Speech Technology
Washington Marriott Wardman Park
Washington
USA

25-26 April
TAUS Executive Forum Tokyo 2017
Oracle Japan
Tokyo
Japan

27 April 9.30am-1.30pm
CBTI-BKVT French Editing/Translation Workshop
Brussels
Belgium




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

4 May 9.30am-1.30pm
CBTI-BKVT French Editing/Translation Workshop
Brussels
Belgium

4-5 May
Elia ND Focus – Networking Days for Executives
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
STC 64th Annual Summit
Society for Technical Communication
Washington DC
USA

8 May 2pm
Lay Down Your Arms! On Peace in Europe
One woman show: Soul of Fire followed by short lecture
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature
Senate House, London

8-9 May
tcworld China 2017
Theme: Let’s implement the future now!
Intercontinental Shanghai Pudong
Shanghai
China
9-13 May
ERACON 2017
13th Annual Erasmus Congress and Exhibition
Maribor
Slovenia
11-14 May
WordFast Forward User Conference 2017
Varna
Bulgaria
17-18 May
IEn2017
Information Energy Conference 2017
Theme: The Emergence of Content 4.0
Utrecht
Netherlands



17-20 May
ALC 2017 Annual Conference
Association of Language Companies
Eden Roc Resort
Miami
Florida
USA

17-28 May
70th Cannes Film Festival
Cannes
France
18-20 May
Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) Conference 2017
Cardiff
Wales

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

19-21 May
Esperanto Conference
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
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Prestigious Flower Show and Garden Design Showcase
London
24 May
Camp Digital 2017
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
Translation Forum Russia
Theme: Territory of Concentrated Knowledge
Business Bureau of the Association of Interpreters
Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan
Russia

26 May-4 June
30th Anniversary Hay Festival
Hay-on-Wye
Wales
28-31 May
EAMT 2017
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
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
NZSTI Annual Conference 2017
Theme: Spreading the Word – Transcending Boundaries & Enriching Lives
Auckland
New Zealand
11-12 June
ICIT 2017
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
12th Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legal Linguistics
Poznan
Poland
28-30 June 10am-4pm
21st Conference on Language for Specific Purposes 2017
Theme: Interdisciplinary Knowledge-making - Challenges for LSP Research
Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication
NHH, Bergen, Norway
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

4-9 July
RHS Hampton Palace Flower Show
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
Elia ND Focus
Geneva
Switzerland
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
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
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


30-31 July
Centenary of Passchendaele – 3rd Battle of Ypres

3-5 August
FIT 2017 - XXI World Congress of the 
Federation of International Translators
Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre
Brisbane, Australia
Theme: Disruption and Diversification
Early Bird Registration extended to 13 March

11-13 August
CLINT 2017
Latin American Translation Industry Conference
Holiday Inn
Cordoba
Argentina
Facebook
28 August-1 September
2nd International Summer School in Translation Technology
KU Leuven University
Antwerp
Belgium
8-17 September
Jane Austen Festival
Including 2017 Grand Regency Costumed Charity Promenade on Saturday 9th September
Bath
UK
Twitter: @JAFestBath
Facebook
12-15 September
EAIE 2017
Theme: Internationalisation of Higher Education
Seville
Spain


16-17 September
Open House London
Annual Festival of Architecture and Design
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
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



30 September
International Translation Day
FIT 2017 Theme



12-13 October
Elia Networking Days
Bucharest
Romania
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

20 October-28 February 2018
Harry Potter at the British Library
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
TAUS Annual Conference 2017
San Jose
California
USA

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




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
7-8 December
Elia ND Focus on Project Management
Prague
Czech Republic
13-15 December 2017
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









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

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

9-14 July 2018
ESOF 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.


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