Translation Forum Russia (also known as TFR) is Russia's top language industry conference with a focus on practical issues of interpreting and translation. It is an overreaching event that offers opportunities for discussions and best practices exchange to all types of market players – LSPs and their customers, managers, in-house translators and freelancers, schools of interpreting and translation, software and hardware suppliers, translators' associations, publishing companies, etc. This year, the forum will be held for the fifth time, which is a good reason for a celebration. Ekaterinburg will host Translation Forum Russia 2014 from 26 to 28 September.

Institute of Applied Linguistic, University of Warsaw is pleased to announce the first edition of GlobE - Asian conferences: East-Asian Encounters in Discourse Analysis, Translation and Language Teaching to be held in Warsaw, Poland, October 16 – 17, 2014 (globe-asian.blog.ils.uw.edu.pl).

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Arab Society of English Language Studies (ASELS). ASELS aims to promote, strengthen and foster cooperation and understanding between English language scholars.

Department of English and American Studies
Translation and Interpreting Section
Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic is pleased to invite you to the Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc 2014:

"Interchange between Languages and Cultures: The Quest for Quality"

September 19–20, 2014

Following the success of the 2013 international conference "To return here after twenty years - Joseph Brodsky's returns from history", held at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Przekładaniec Journal of Literary Translation is now preparing a special themed issue on Joseph Brodsky.

Centre for Languages and Translation Studies
15-16 October 2014, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan

Call for papers: "Towards a Genetics of Translation"

Proposals: abstracts of approximately 500 words, including some relevant bibliography, should be submitted by 1st August 2014 to Chiara Montini (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

TRANSLATA II 2nd International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Studies
University of Innsbruck,30th October – 1st November 2014

TISLID'14 will be hosted by the ATLAS research group (http://atlas.uned.es) at the University of Salamanca's campus in Ávila (Spain), 7 – 9 May 2014.

The Centre for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT) at CBS is offering the fourth international PhD course in Translation Process Research (TPR) from Monday July 7 to Friday July 11, 2014.