21+ Translation Conferences to Check Out in 2021
By: Julija Savić
Tags: Translation, Localization, Conference, Language Industry, Resources

As this insane year reaches its end and a new, hopefully more sane one begins, the Zing team decided it might be a good time to list out some translation events to look forward too.

While there’s currently no way to tell what 2021 will bring, conference organizers have grown increasingly flexible throughout the past year. As it stands right now, some of these translation conferences will be held online, while others are supposed to be held in person — but there shouldn’t be any issue with them switching online as well. After all, we had a great time at KTLC2020 online and managed to meet and stay in touch with some awesome people there!

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The 21+ translation conferences listed below are ordered by the month and date they’re held in. They cover a wide array of topics, from translation practices and the language industry, to translation studies and linguistics.

[Note: when a website is pasted into a Medium blog post, it can appear as a link box. However, some website links do not turn into link boxes, which is an issue we’ve encountered in our list of associations as well. This is most likely due to an issue with the page itself. In such cases, we’ve listed the websites as simple links and added link boxes to the conferences’ social media profiles.]

March

CIOL Conference 2021

Place: Online

Time: March 11–13

Fee: £90–150

9th Asian-Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies

Place: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Time: March 18–20

Fee: $125–250

[Updated!] EULITA Conference: The use of technology in the fields of legal Interpreting and legal translation

Place: Online

Time: March 19

Fee: €90

[New entry!] TranslateCluj Booster 2021

Zing is a conference partner for this one! 🐙

Place: Online

Time: March 20

Fee: €17

GALA Connected 2021

Place: Online

Time: March 23–25

Fee: $295–355

[New entry!] MICATA 2021 Virtual Conference

Place: Online

Time: March (26–)27

Fee: $35–180

April

Global Ready Conference by Smartling

Place: Online

Time: April 14

Fee: Free!

BP21 Translation Conference

Place: Online

Time: April 20–23

Fee: €41–66

May

MultiMeDialecTranslation 8 — Dialect Translation in Multimedia

Place: Online

Time: May 6–7

Fee: €20–80

Breaking Down The Walls of Babel: Dialogues in Translation

Place: Warwick, UK

Time: May 8

Fee: TBA

[New entry!] Institute of Translation and Interpreting Conference 2021

Place: Online

Time: May 14–16

Fee: £180–260

NAJIT 42nd Annual Conference

Place: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Time: May 14–16

Fee: TBA

June

LocWorldWide44

Place: Online

Time: June 8–10

Fee: TBA

Translating minorities and conflict in literature

Place: Cordóba, Spain

Time: June 10–11

Fee: €30–150

[New entry!] 16th Conference on Legal Translation Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics

Place: Online

Time: June 18–19

Fee: €25–75

Picturebooks and Graphic Narratives in Education and Translation:

Mediation and Multimodality

Place: Lisbon, Portugal (might be held online)

Time: June 24–25

Fee: €50–100 (fees will be reduced in case of the switch to online)

3rd International Conference on Translation, Interpreting & Cognition

Place: Bologna, Italy

Time: June 24–25

Fee: €35–225

Pragmatics of Translation

Place: Basel, Switzerland

Time: June 24–26

Fee: 40 CHF — 60 CHF