The 11th edition of the Festival Clin d'Œil will be held from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 July 2024 in Reims, France.

The Clin d'Oeil Festival is organized every 2 years by the CinéSourds association, promoting sign language in all its cultural diversity and artistic forms.

More info > https://www.clin-doeil.eu/en/index.html

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 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.

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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/

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?

Deadline for call of presenters, 31 January 2023 >

The Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf will take place from 11 - 15 July in Jeju, South Korea.

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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

The 2022 Events organized by UFSC with the support of several Brazilian and French universities: 3th National Congress on Linguistics and Sign Languages; 7th National Congress of Research on Libras and Portuguese Translation and Interpreting and 4th French-Brazilian Deaf Studies workshop: Sign Language, Arts along with Translation and Interpreting.

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Deafblind International (DbI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Kenya and other partners is organizing the 1st DbI Africa Conference which will be held at the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE) in Nairobi, Kenya from Thursday12th to Saturday 14th May 2022.

The conference theme is: “Deafblind Reality in Africa: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – Opportunities and Challenges”.

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Moscow State Linguistic University, with the support of the Moscow branch of the all-Russian society of the deaf (VOG) and Roo associations of sign language interpreters (RASLI) , are organizing an international scientific conference: 16 & 17 December 2021.

The aim of the conference is to discuss the role of sign languages in the professional training of interpreters and in intercultural communication in general, the “new normal” for sign language interpreters as well as modern interdisciplinary studies of sign languages in Russia and abroad.

Submissions: The deadline for submissions to the Organizing committee at signconf_mslu2021@linguanet.ru is 15 November 2021.

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The conference strives to bring together scholars from various fields of translation and interpreting studies to share their perspectives on the human factor in their studies. Keynote speakers are Susan Bassnett, Lawrence Venuti, Jan Pedersen, and Nadja Grbić.

See the call for abstracts, deadline for submission is September 30, 2020.

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The CIT conference will take place in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA from 19 - 22 September 2021.

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The 2021 conference of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli) will take place in Cluj, Romania. This conference was originally planned to take place in 2020.

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ICTIC has become one of the most important venues for scholars working at the interface of translation, interpreting and cognition. Participants are invited to submit proposals addressing cognitive aspects from any theoretical and methodological perspective of topics.

• Submit panel proposals from July 1 until September 30, 2020.

• Submit abstracts from November 1, 2020 until January 31, 2021.

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The next Deaf Academics and Researchers' Conference will take place on June 19-23, 2021, in Montreal, Canada. Subscribe to the Newsletter.

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/dac_2021

The conference is postponed to 2021 - dates to be announced.

Sejam todos bem-vindos aos eventos de 2020 que estão sendo organizados pela UFSC com o apoio de várias universidades do Brasil e da França: 3º Congresso Nacional de Pesquisas em Linguística e Línguas de Sinais; 7º Congresso Nacional de Pesquisas em Tradução e Interpretação de Libras e Língua Portuguesa e o 4º Seminário Franco-Brasileiro de Estudos Surdos:Línguas de Sinais, Artes e Tradução e Interpretação.