Biennial Conference of the Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto
- November 2, 2023 – November 4, 2023
Meeting on Morphosyntax of Portuguese Sign Language and other Sign Languages
- November 16, 2023 – November 17, 2023
CEGOT - Centro de Estudos em Geografia e Ordenamento do Território
The concept of sustainability is key to the conception, planning and implementation of new development processes and actions.
In the current climate change scenario, solving the environmental imbalances can be an opportunity to build a renewed perspective of society’s progress and welfare, having as a starting point the conciliation of economic, social, and environmental interests.
In this sense, the 4th International Conference of CEGOT has a significant objective to debate the role of Geography in the Construction of Sustainable Territories.
Geography integrates natural and social components. Therefore, this discipline has advantages and increased responsibilities in the construction of sustainability proposals. With its’ 4th International Meeting, CEGOT intends to promote the reflection on the contribution of geographic knowledge in the construction of sustainability and the conceptual and methodological challenges that geographers face in the study and construction of more sustainable territories.
In an important moment of the History of Humanity, Geography has an excellent opportunity to reaffirm itself as Science.
In this context, CEGOT invites submissions of studies and reflections from Geography researchers and related scientific areas, involving the dimensions of territory, nature, and/or society.
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October 25, 2022 – October 28, 2022
4th INTERNATIONAL CEGOT MEETING
Geography in the Construction of Sustainable Territories
25 - 28 OCTOBER 2022
PORTO
4Th CEGOT Meeting website
IWSC 2019: International Wiki Scientific Conference
Today, the term Wiki is inseparable from the Internet and the collaborative participation in the production and continuous dissemination of knowledge.
Browse, edit and access in a freely, agile and simple way are the basis of projects such as Wikipedia, a modern version of the Enlightenment ideal for reason, education and knowledge as mechanisms for a fairer society. Wikipedia is the contemporary heiress of Diderot's and d’Alembert's ideal of "Encyclopedia", an unprecedented experience of generating, organising, assessing, promoting, spreading and sharing knowledge, openly and throughout a broad community, spread across different countries and in different languages.
The aims of the IWSC 2019 are to bring the academic community closer to Wiki contexts and technology, and particularly to Wikipedia, to promote its use as a reliable source of knowledge, educational tool and research subject of study, to increase the amount of content in Portuguese and stimulate the interchange of reflection and experience about it with the international academic community.
In 2018, after the European Year of Cultural Heritage was celebrated by the first time and by the initiative of the European Union, the IWSC 2019 promotes Heritage, both material and intangible, to draw attention to the presence of Culture and heritage on Wikipedia and to the contribution this digital resource/look could have on social and economic development in Europe and worldwide.
Therefore, works will be considered provided they focus on Wikipedia as a topic, source or way of spreading scientific knowledge and teaching tool and, particularly in the scope of heritage. Texts should be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese and will be assessed by members of the Scientific Commission.
Submission period starts on the 15 October and ends on the 8 February 2019. Authors will be notified whether their works have been accepted by the 15 February 2019.
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IWSC 2019: International Wiki Scientific Conference
March 11, 2019 – March 13, 2019The International Wiki Scientific Conference 2019 will be held on March 11, 12 and 13, 2019 in Porto (Portugal) and will take place at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
REGISTRATION/PAYMENT
In order to attend, go to: REGISTRATION/PAYMENT and select: International Wiki Scientific Conference.
All participants enrolled in IWSC 2019 are entitled to attend one or more workshops.
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If you want to participate only in the workshops you must register, with a REGISTRATION FEE €15 each workshop. (limited places)
MARCH 11th
14:30 – Workshop 1 – Measuring Wikipedia (and other Wikis) using Machine Learning (Aaron Lee Halfaker and Diego Saez-Trumper | WikiResearch - Wikimedia Foundation)
MARCH 13th09:30 – Workshop 2 - Editing on Wikipedia (Luís Ângelo de Almeida Fonseca and José Mário Candeias Ramalho Pires| Portuguese Wikipedia Administrators)
09:30 – Workshop 3 – Wikipedia as an instrument for the dissemination of knowledge: Wiki Health (João Magalhães|WikiProject Med Foundation)
14:30 – Workshop 4 - Wikipedia as an open educational resource: what possibilities for curricular integration? (Teresa Cardoso and Filomena Pestana | Universidade Aberta - LEAD)
14:30 – Workshop 5 - The Wiki as an instrument for the dissemination of knowledge: Wikis on literary, cultural and artistic heritage (Luísa Alvim | CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora; J. João Almeida | Universidade do Minho)
ORGANIZATION | SPONSORS:
CIC.DIGITAL Porto (PT) | Wiki Educação Brasil (BR) | FLUP - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (PT)
Universidade Federal Fluminense (RJ-BR) | Universidade Aberta (PT) | CITCEM (PT) | US Embassy-American Corner FLUP | FCT
International Conference: Ways of "Making"
- October 17, 2018 – October 19, 2018
15th INTERNATIONAL ISKO CONFERENCE
Founded in 1989, ISKO is the leading international society for organization of knowledge. ISKO has a broad and interdisciplinary scope. ISKO's mission is to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes, such as databases, libraries, dictionaries and the Internet.
As an interdisciplinary society, ISKO brings together professionals from many different fields. ISKO counts more than 400 members all over the world, from fields such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, as well as special domains such as medical informatics.
In order to achieve its mission and goals, ISKO works to
- promote research, development and applications of knowledge organization systems that advance the philosophical, psychological and semantic approaches for ordering knowledge
- provide the means of communication and networking on knowledge organization for its members
- function as a connecting link between all institutions and national societies, working with problems related to the conceptual organization and processing of knowledge
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15th INTERNATIONAL ISKO CONFERENCE
July 9, 2018 – July 11, 2018The 15th International ISKO conference, under the theme Challenges and opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the digital age will occur in 9, 10 and 11 july 2018, in Porto (Portugal), and will take place in Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.
Founded in 1989, ISKO is the leading international society for organization of knowledge. ISKO has a broad and interdisciplinary scope. ISKO's mission is to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes, such as databases, libraries, dictionaries and the Internet.
As an interdisciplinary society, ISKO brings together professionals from many different fields. ISKO counts more than 400 members all over the world, from fields such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, as well as special domains such as medical informatics.
In order to achieve its mission and goals, ISKO works to
- promote research, development and applications of knowledge organization systems that advance the philosophical, psychological and semantic approaches for ordering knowledge
- provide the means of communication and networking on knowledge organization for its members
- function as a connecting link between all institutions and national societies, working with problems related to the conceptual organization and processing of knowledge
Post-Grad Workshop on Information Science
- October 25, 2019 – October 25, 2019
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V WPGCI Post-Grad Workshop on Information Science
November 16, 2018 – November 16, 2018The Workgroup on Information Science of SOPCOM is organising the V Post-Grad Workshop on Information Science (V WPGCI 2018), to be held at the University of Aveiro. 6 November 2018
This #5WPGCI intends to be a forum for dissemination, discussion and sharing of research that is being carried out by the 2nd and 3rd study cycles, in all thematic areas within the scope of Information Science.
The event hosts master's or doctoral studies still in progress or completed after May 31, 2017, in Portuguese or foreign Higher Education institutions. Papers are accepted in three languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Registration:
Registrations are available here
The registrations in the #5WPGCI event are available until November 12, 2018 (Monday).
The registration is free, but mandatory.All participants enrolled in the Workshop will obtain a certificate of participation.
You need to register here for free in order to have access to the conference content.
Important dates:
Deadline for submitting the proposals [Extended abstract - 2000 words, max. 2 pages A4, Times New Roman]: September 10, 2018 (Monday)Authors' notification (double-blind review): October 5, 2018 (Friday)
Deadline for sending full texts for publication: November 30, 2018 (Friday)
- September 25, 2017 – September 25, 2017
New Job Opportunities in Translation and Interpreting
Few professions have been so radically changed by globalization in the last twenty years than that of language services providers (LSPs) and, although the pace of change is different from one country and/or language to another, it is not slowing down.
The last 20 years have seen LSPs embrace the Internet for information and publicity, welcome translation memories and terminology databases to accelerate their work, and react ambivalently to machine translation and other language technologies. The universities have struggled to innovate their curricula in order to meet demands that their graduates should be qualified for a job.
However, the market continues to change, driven by technology, the recession and the laws of supply and demand. As with other industries, large international organizations and companies subcontract smaller ones or freelancers, and all are becoming the beneficiaries (victims?) of the videoconference, the virtual office and the ‘cloud’. Besides, LSPs often feel their work is being threatened by amateurs, volunteer collaborative networks, crowd sourcing, and fan-subbing.
How can LSPs react to all this imaginatively and turn it to their advantage?
How can universities prepare their present students for the future, and what kind of specialist or life-long learning programmes can be provided?
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Challenges for University Programmes and Language Services Providers
March 25, 2015 – March 27, 2015NEWS!
Please go to our new page at http://www.translationcongress.com/ for the latest information on the programme and other topics.Description:
Few professions have been so radically changed by globalization in the last twenty years than that of language services providers (LSPs) and, although the pace of change is different from one country and/or language to another, it is not slowing down.
The last 20 years have seen LSPs embrace the Internet for information and publicity, welcome translation memories and terminology databases to accelerate their work, and react ambivalently to machine translation and other language technologies. The universities have struggled to innovate their curricula in order to meet demands that their graduates should be qualified for a job.
However, the market continues to change, driven by technology, the recession and the laws of supply and demand. As with other industries, large international organizations and companies subcontract smaller ones or freelancers, and all are becoming the beneficiaries (victims?) of the videoconference, the virtual office and the ‘cloud’. Besides, LSPs often feel their work is being threatened by amateurs, volunteer collaborative networks, crowd sourcing, and fan-subbing.
How can LSPs react to all this imaginatively and turn it to their advantage?
How can universities prepare their present students for the future, and what kind of specialist or life-long learning programmes can be provided?
The topics to be addressed in the papers we have received are:
- Language Service Providers or Intercultural Communicators?
- Multilingualism & Language Rights – political, legal, and economic issues
- Volunteer networks, crowd-sourcing and fan-subbing – threats or opportunities?
- Language services for the media, the Internet, social networks, special needs, and special domains
- Diversification – learning new skills and working with multidisciplinary teams
- The relativity of the quality of LSPs and their products and the market
- English as a ‘bridge’ language – solution or problem?
- Working with or for translation and interpreting technology?
- New technology-supported forms of interpreting and the changing role of conference interpreters
- Public Service translation and interpreting – by and for whom?
- Sworn translators and interpreters – a legal necessity?
- Professionalization of terminologists – a solution for confusion?
There will be round tables on the following topics:
1. Linguistic Rights, Multilingualism and Fundamental Rights: Current Practice and Implications
2. The role of Quality: the perspectives of the profession, the market and the universities
In answer to requests from those interested, we intend to publish the proceedings with an international publisher.Plenary speakers
Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University)
Nike Pokorn (University of Ljublana)
Yves Gambier (University of Turku)
Organizing Committee (University of Porto)
Anette Kind
Belinda Maia
Elena Galvão
Joana Guimarães
Jorge Teixeira
Susana Peixoto
Thomas Husgen
For more information, contact: newjoboti@letras.up.pt
FIDEM Congresses and Meetings
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Secrets and Discovery in the Middle Ages - 5th European Congress of Medieval Studies
June 25, 2014 – June 29, 2014The 5th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales (FIDEM) is organized by the Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval (Instituto de Filosofia), Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Congress Poster (pdf) | Congress Leaflet/Call (pdf)
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ISKO
Founded in 1989, ISKO is the leading international society for organization of knowledge. ISKO has a broad and interdisciplinary scope. ISKO's mission is to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes, such as databases, libraries, dictionaries and the Internet.
As an interdisciplinary society, ISKO brings together professionals from many different fields. ISKO counts more than 400 members all over the world, from fields such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, as well as special domains such as medical informatics.
In order to achieve its mission and goals, ISKO works to
- promote research, development and applications of knowledge organization systems that advance the philosophical, psychological and semantic approaches for ordering knowledge
- provide the means of communication and networking on knowledge organization for its members
- function as a connecting link between all institutions and national societies, working with problems related to the conceptual organization and processing of knowledge
More about ISKO: http://www.isko.org/about.html
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I Congress of ISKO Spain and Portugal / XI Congress ISKO Spain
November 7, 2013 – November 9, 2013
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