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VIII EAFT Terminology Summit (2016). Speakers proposal and call for presentations for the open sessions

EAFT, in collaboration with TermCoord, is organizing the Eighth Terminology Summit in Luxembourg on November 14–15, 2016.
 
In 2016, the EAFT celebrates its 20th anniversary and it is also a Summit year. Therefore, the Summit will be a good opportunity to go back and look forward at the same time, to present both revisions of the themes of earlier Summits (to see what has happened since then) and visions of where terminology needs to go from there.
 
The overall topic for the summit is: Visions and revisions The Summit will be composed around 8 sections which summarize the themes of the earlier Summits.

Session 1 Cooperation & Collaboration
Session 2 Social Media
Session 3 Quality Matters
Session 4 Terminology - Responsibility and awareness
Session 5 Interaction and Diversity
Session 6 Terminology Profile
Session 7 Terminology: State Of The Art/Domain Loss
Session 8 Declaration

IMPORTANT DATES

• Name/names of the speakers
• Institution 

EAFT General Assembly: 14 November

The EAFT General Assembly will take place on November 14 in conjunction with the Summit. We encourage all EAFT members to actively participate in the General Assembly.
 
A Preliminary programme and registration form will be available soon at http://www.eaft-aet.net. For further details, contact the EAFT Secretariat.
 

VII EAFT Terminology Summit (Barcelona 2014). Proceedings

We are pleased to inform you that the proceedings of the Summit 2014 “ How does social networking affect terminology work?” have been published.
 
The proceedings edited by TERMCAT are also available on the EAFT Summit 2014 website under the programme and news sections.
 
A printed version is about to be launched, and the copies will be distributed among our members during the next Summit in Luxembourg.

TKE 2016

The TKE 2016 Conference is approaching. The special theme of the conference is: “Term Bases and Linguistic Linked Open Data”, and invited speakers are·Eva M. Méndez Rodríguez and Sebastian Hellmann.

The list of accepted papers is already online, please check the conference program.
 

TTT: Workshop on Terminology Teaching & Training

The EAFT organizes a workshop on terminology teaching & training together with the IIFT on 24 June in the framework of the TKE 2016 Conference in Copenhagen. The main goal is to discuss principal aspects of the didactics of terminology.
 
The purpose of the workshop is to: 

• discuss principal aspects of the didactics of terminology in relation to different audiences considering different target groups, pedagogical tools, contents, and media used etc., including the exchange of experience from various teaching contexts
• develop an outline/guide for syllabus components for different modules needed for various TTT situations
• consider the possibilities of creating a didactic electronic forum/platform for terminology teaching and training (TTT) where resources could be uploaded and exchanged 

For information about the program, registration and price, visit the website.
 

Workshop on Neology

An on-line workshop on Neology (2nd edition in English) will start on 8 June and it is offered by IULATERM.
 
Course dates: 8 June–26 July
ECTS credits: 5
Program is taught in English

For further information and registration please visit the site.
 

XIV International Scientific Conference in Ukraine

We also would like to inform you about two events in the Ukraine:

• the XIV International Scientific Conference “Problems of Ukrainian terminology” (WordWorld 2016) which will be held at the Polytechnic National University L’viv (Ukraine) from 29 September to 1 October, 2016.
• the conference “Terminology at the Beginning of the New Century: Theoretical and Practical Aspects” (TBNC-2016) which will be hosted at the NUWEE in Rivne, Ukraine, on 15–16 September 2016.

International Terminology Summer School. Reductions for EAFT members

The International Terminology Summer School (TSS 2016) will take place in Vienna from 11–15 July 2016.

We are pleased to announce that TermNet has offered a 20 % reduction for EAFT members.
 
You can find all information about TSS2016 at the following site or contact: events@termnet.org.
 

Call for contributions for the Newsletter 

Do not hesitate to send us comments or suggestions that could draw our attention to any forthcoming event or activity. We would be pleased to include them in the next issue as well as in our agenda. Remember to send your post before the 15^th if you want to make sure your contribution is included in the Issue of the same month.