Interpreting and Translation Linguists Collective Conference & Celebration of International Mother Language Day 2026

Archive - 2025

Friday, 21 February 2025

Online

Programme

LC Conference & IMLD Celebration

Friday, 21 February 2025, 10:00 - 22:00 (London, UK Time)

Words that Work: Language Solutions for Professional Excellence

Make Languages Count for Sustainable Development

Preserving the Unheard: Celebrating and Safeguarding Rare and Endangered Languages

Voices in Action: Training

Interpreting the Future: Translators and Interpreters in an AI-Driven Global World

Voices in Action: The Essential Role of Interpreters and Translators in Advocacy and Professional Fields

Meet the Speakers: LC Conference & IMLD Celebration 2025

Lynne Townley

Chair

Kayleigh Unitt

Host

Raisa McNab

The Languages Gateway.

Mike Orlov

Public Sector Language Service update.

Prof J. Mark Bishop

Deep Stupidity: AI and Semantics

Anne Appleton Makepeace

The remarkable story of cultural revival through language reclamation: The making of We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân.

Prof. Chungmin Lee

Attitude predicates and complementation: FACT, SAY, and Fiction.

Joseph A. Koenig

Understanding the Real Message.

Carmen Barreras Moreno

The Power of Images.

Dr. Muhammad Sayed Inam

The significance of mother tongue in healthcare delivery systems.

Sue Elizabeth Leschen

Need - to - knows for Aspiring Interpreters.

Mr. Fakhruddin Akhunzada

Revitalizing Indigenous Language Poetry in Northern Pakistan.

Dr. Andrea Denby

The origins of the Hungarian languages and rare languages related to it.

Navcha Murray

Flipped Learning and Experience of a Mongolian Linguist in the changing world with AI.

Abdur Rahim

Simultaneous Interpretation: A Demanding Task with Fewer Rules.

Dr. Muhammad Y. Gamal

Translation in Museums in the Arab world.

Dr Alan Reed Libert

Creating Words that Work: Vocabulary Design in Artificial Auxiliary Languages.

Frida Dalia RODAS GUILLÉN

The Challenges of Legal Translation

Mohammad Amir Salari

How AI and Machine Learning are Transforming Language Accessibility in Healthcare and Education

Ms Gintare Rudd

Stakeholders' collaboration: dialogue, support and best practice

John Anderson

Building Trust with Non-Native Speakers in Need

Muhammad Yeasin

Preserving Identity Through Language: Rohingya Refugee Children and Mother Tongue Education

Jean-Pierre Raymond Allard

The challenges and opportunities for use of AI and AI Avatars for transforming and enriching global business communications.

Helena El Masri

Mastering the Art of Note-Taking for Interpreters

Dr Marine Milad Shalaby

AI-Assisted Blended Instruction in Blended Learning: Your Way AI Way; Let’s Meet Halfway

Dr. Ellen Cressman Buchmann Frye

No Such Thing as a Dead Language: Resurrecting Latin through Romansch.

Dev Aditya

Preserving Native Languages in AI through Mixed Dialogue and Communication