Conferences/Events 2013


2013
 = New conferences added to this list on Tuesday 9 April 2013


APRIL

1 April 2013 
    Making an impact in your teaching practice, York, UK. Free to members of CILIP (the UK's Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Information Literacy Group

2 - 5 April 2013
    IS&T Archiving Conference, Washington, DC, USA.

3 April 2013
    So Many Devices, So little Time. Webinar2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4); 2:00 Eastern; 11:00 Pacific

3 - 6 April 2013 
    'Capitalizing on Creativity' - Visual Resources Association Conference 2013, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

4 - 5 April 2013 
    CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Spring Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA

4 - 5 April 2013
    RDAP13 - Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, Baltimore, USA.

7 - 10 April 2013
    Hobart THETA13 : The Higher Education Technology Agenda, organised by CAUDIT, CAUL and ACODE Online

8 - 10 April 2013 
    Computers in Libraries 2013. Theme: Evolving in New Directions. Washington, DC, USA

8 - 10 April 2013 
    ECLAP 2013 - 2nd International Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment, porto, Portugal

8 - 10 April 2013
    UKSG 36th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Bournemouth International Centre, UK.

9 - 10 April 2013 
    Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit, 'Changing Systems, Changing Lives', Madison, WI, USA

10 April 2013         
    Association of College and research Libraries immersion '13 (Pratical Management Track), Indianapolis, IN, USA

10 April 2013
    NISO Webinar - Universal Accessibility: Creating E-Books Anyone Can Read.  Registration closes on 10 April 2013 at 12:00 pm Eastern. Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Agenda:
Emerging Technologies for the Visually Impaired — Anne Taylor, Director of Access Technology, National Federation for the Blind
Built-in Access for Digital Textbooks — Michele Bruno, Program Manager, Accessibility, Cengage Learning
An Introduction to the Readium-based accessible Bookshare Web Reader — Ginny Grant, Product Manager, Benetech

10 - 12 April 2013
    3rd International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2013), Philippine International Convention Center. Theme: Special Libraries towards Achieving Dynamic, Strategic, and Responsible Working Environment. Pasay City, Philippines. Brochure

10, 12 & 16 April 2013    
    A series of Information Literacy Summits: Bridging the Gap: Knowledge Creation, Information Literacy, and the Role of Technology in Education - taking place in three locations in Illinois, USA: April 10, 2013 (Illinois State University (Normal); April 12 2013 (Moraine Valley Community College (Palos Hills); April 16 2013 (John A. Logan College (Carterville)

10 - 13 April 2013
    acrl 2013 (Association of College & Research Libraries), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

11 - 13 April 2013
    39th Annual Conference and Bookfair, University of Reading, UK.

14 - 16 April 2013
    New York State's Museums in Convention, Doubletree Syracuse, USA. Theme: What does it mean to be diverse?

14 - 17 April 2013 
    17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2013). Gold Coast, Australia

14 - 18 April 2013
    The 34th IATUL Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. Discussions and exchanges on how academic libraries are engaging in various collaborative ventures. The discussions will centre on e-science strategies and beyond, e-learning, cloud computing and its impact on library services, libraries as collaborative hubs for students and faculty, inner university collaboration, libraries and their business partners and inter library networking at national, regional and international levels. 

14 - 20 April 2013
    USA - National Library Week.

15 - 16 April 2013        
    Brave New Worlds: Transforming Museum Ethnography through Technology, Brighton, UK.

15 - 17 April 2013 
    10th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2013), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

15 - 17 April 2013
    The London Book Fair, London, UK

16 April 2013
    #newlibgc webinar. "New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations". Free webinar

17 April 2013 
    NISO Virtual Conference: EPUB3 and the Future of Interoperable E-books: What Libraries Need to Know. 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

17 - 19 April 2013
    The 4th International Conference on Information Science and Information Literacy, Lucian Blaga University, Sibu, Romania.

18 April 2013
     An introduction to instructional design for e-learning, delivered online workshop, JISC Netskills - 10:00 - 16:00 (Only a few places left)

18 April 2013
    American Libraries Live Webinar - The Present and Future of Ebooks. 2-3pm Eastern Time

19 April 2013

22 - 24 April 2013
    6th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, National Art Gallery, Denmark. Virtual participation is available.

23 - 25 April 2013 
    4th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2013, Irbid, Jordan

24 - 26 April 2013    
    AIIC 2013, Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference, Azores Islands, Portugal.

24 - 26 April 2013
    Postgraduate Supervision Conference, Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Conference topic: Candidates, supervisors and institutions: pushing postgraduate boundaries

25 - 29 April 2013
    Art Libraries Society of North America, Annual Conference, Convention Center, Pasadena, California, USA - Theme: Crafting Our Future



26 - 27 April 2013
    Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries' (CISSL) 3rd International Research Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Theme: Digital Youth, Inquiry, and the Future School Library ... Research to Practice

28 - 30 April 2013
    22nd National Conference on Family Literacy, Louisville, KY, USA

30 April 2013
    Extending access to e-books for public libraries:New strategies. Webinar2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4); 2:00 Eastern; 11:00 Pacific

30 April - 2 May 2013 
    SPRUCE Mashup Leeds Workshop, Leeds, UK


MAY

1 - 3 May 2013 
    ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference, Paris, France

1 - 3 May 2013
    USCAL (U.S. Conference on Adult Literacy) Southeastern Regional, Nashville, TN, USA

3 May 2013 
    Oregon Virtual Reference Summit, Silverton, Oregon, USA

2 - 4 May 2013
    LOEX 2013, Sheratown Nashville Downtown Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Showcase your greatest instruction and information literacy hits at LOEX 2013

3 May 2013
    Making an impact in your teaching practice, York, UK. Free to members of CILIP (the UK's Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Information Literacy Group

3 - 4 May 2013

    Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC / NWA Conference 2013), University of British Columbia

3 - 8 May 2013
    2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Medical Library Association (MLA ’13), the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), the 7th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS), and the 6th International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC). “One Health: Information in an Interdependent World”, Boston, MA, USA

5 - 10 May 2013
    MetLib 2013 - Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Theme: Without Borders: the Integrated Library

6 - 7 May 2013
    DigCurV International Conference. Theme: framing the digital curation curriculum. Florence, Italy




6 - 8 May 2013 
    5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2013), Aachen, Germany

6 - 8 May 2013
    Women in Tertiary Education Leadership Program, Sydney, Australia.

7 - 9 May 2013
    The International Conference on E-Technologies and Business on the Web (EBW2013), Bangkok, Thailand

8 - 10 May 2013 
    3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2013, Aachen, Germany

8 - 10 May 2013 
    9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST 2013, Aachen, Germany

8 - 10 May 2013
    29th Annual Florida Literacy Conference, Captiva, FL, USA

8 - 10 May 2013
    Canadian Information Literacy Conference (WILU 2013), The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Theme: Synchronicity: The Time is Now. 

8 - 10 May 2013
    Institute for Healthcare Advancement 12th Annual Health Literacy conference, 'Operational Solutions to Low Health Literacy', Irvine, CA, USA

12 - 17 May 2013 
    DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle (Session 1), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

13 - 14 May 2013
    MuseumNext, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Now in its fifth year MuseumNext looks to bring together the leading themes, trends and related best practice from the digital side of museums, with the aim of providing a clear insight into how technology and media are shaping our institutions and the world around us.

13 - 15 May 2013
    International Educational Technology Conference 2013 (IETC 2013), Malaysia. Conference language: English, Turkish & Malay.

13 - 16 May 2013
    South African National Library and Information Consortium Workshop (SANLiC). Theme: Ever-Evolving eBooks. Misty Hills, northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa

17 - 20 May 2013
    Museums Australia National Conference, Canberra, Australia. Theme: How museums work: people, industry and nation.

19 - 22 May 2013
    American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting and Museum Expo, Baltimore Convention Center, USA.

21 - 22 May 2013 
    INFORUM 2013: 19th Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, Czech Republic

23 - 24 May 2013 
   code{4}lib unconference. Theme: computational thinking. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

23 - 25 May 2013
    IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory, international New Professionals unconference organized by the global NPSIG network. Theme: Motivation - creation and upkeeping. Kaliningrad, Russia

24 - 25 May 2013
    8th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems 2013 (MWAIS 2013), Emphasis on Big Data in the Heartland and other IS related topics, Normal, Il, USA

27 - 31 May 2013
    3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-3), Morocco; Theme: Digital Libraries and Archives in Africa: Changing Lives and Building Communities

28 - 29 May 2013
    SES 2013 (Search Engine Strategies), Shanghai, China 

28 - 31 May 2013
    ELAG 2013, annual conference of the European Libraries Automation Group. Theme: The INSIDE_OUT Library. Ghent, Belgium

28 - 31 May 2013 
    International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), Cologne, Germany



29 - 31 May 2013
    The Archives Association of Ontario (AAO) 2013 Conference, Ottawa, Canada. Theme: Is the Medium Really the Message?: Digital v Traditional Formats, Should You, When Could You, and Why on Earth Would You?

30 - 31 May 2013
    Academic Librarian 3: The Yin-Yang of Future Consortial Collaboration and Competition, Hong Kong, China.

30 - 31 May 2013
    Fourth Annual Open Access Symposium - Futures of Academic Publishing. Organised by the University of North Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA


JUNE

4 - 7 June 2013    
    5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2013), Rome, Italy

5 - 6 June 2013
    2nd ASIST European Workshop, Abo Akademi University, Turku/Abo, Finland. Theme: Digital information and institutions: changing practices of management and use. 

5 - 7 June 2013
    Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, USA

6 - 7 June 2013 
    EOD (eBooks on Demand) Conference: To Digitise or not to Digitise: Copyright, Public Domain, Orphan Works and Other Issues, Tartu, Estonia

6 - 9 June 2013
    North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) 28th Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY, USA.

7 June 2013
    3rd Annual Connecticut Information Literacy Conference, Capital Community College, Hartford, CT, USA. Title: Enlightened hunters and Gatherers: Teaching Information Literacy Skills for Life

8 - 16 June 2013
    Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business. Organised by the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology. Sudak, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

9 - 11 June 2013
    Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.

10 - 12 June 2013
    Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries, Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel, China

10 - 13 June 2013
    2013 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Albuquerque, New Mexico

10 - 14 June 2013 
    17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Karlskrona, Sweden

10 - 14 June 2013 
    21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaption, and Personalization (UPAM 2013), Rome, Italy

13 - 14 June 2013
    International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults, Seoul, South Korea

13 - 14 June 2013
    The Future of Publishing and Accessibility, international publishing conference. Copenhagen, Denmark

14 - 16 June 2013
    14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, Beidaihe, China

15 - 17 June 2013
    Cape Town Book Fair, Cape Town, South Africa

16 - 18 June 2013
    2013 GITMA (Global Information Technology Management Association),
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

17 - 20 June 2013
    26th International Conference on The First-Year Experience, Waikoloa, Hawaii. 

18 June 2013 
    EVIA 2013: The Fifth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access. A Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-10. Tokyo, Japan

18 - 26 June 2013
    Cycling for libraries-unconference, Amsterdam to Brussels



19 - 21 June 2013
    CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8), University of Geneva, Switzerland.

19 - 21 June 2013 
   OAI8, the 8th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva, Switzerland

19 - 22 June 2013
    ATLA Annual Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Hosted by Carolinas Theological Library Consortium (CTLC)

20 - 26 June 2013
    American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA

24 - 26 June 2013 
    International Conference on Information society - i-Society 2013, Toronto, Canada

24 - 28 June 2013
    47th Conference/ AGM and Exhibition (Zimbabwe Library Association), Peacock Hotel & Villas, Mutare, Zimbabwe

24 - 27 June 2013
    18th World Conference on Cooperative & Work-Integrated Education, International Convention Centre, Durban

25 - 27 June 2013
    International Conference on New Horizons in Education, Rome, Italy. Conference languages: Italian, Turkish, English, Czech, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian

25 - 28 June 2013
    4th Information: Interactions and Impact (i³) Conference, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

26 - 28 June 2013
    5th African Conference for Digital Scholarship and Curation, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

26 - 29 June 2013
    LIBER 42nd Annual Conference, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany. Theme: Research information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries. 

27 June 2013 
    2013 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA

27 - 28 June 2013
    ICEL 2013: 8th International Conference on e-Learning, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town. Early bird registrations closes on 18 April 2013.

27 June - 2 July 2013
    2013 ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA

28 June 2013
    Association of College and Research Libraries Immersion '13 (Teaching with Technology Track), Chicago, IL, USA

28 - 29 June 2013
    Everyday Language, Everyday Literacies, The Centre for the Study of Literacies, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK.


JULY

1 - 6 July 2013 
    2013 Information Science + IT Education Conferences, Porto, Portugal

1 - 6 July 2013
    Making Education Inclusive Conference, Wits School of Education, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa

2 July 2013 
    Strategies for marketing and promotion of electronic library resource collections, Pre-African Library Summit 2013 Workshop, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

2 July 2013
    The Art of the Strategic Influence: Essential Skills for Leaders, Pre-African Library Summit 2013 Workshop, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

2 - 3 July 2013
    Umbrella Conference (Information literacy), Manchester, UK. Theme: Information to best support society: Information and digital literacy in education, work, health and leisure.

2 - 4 July 2013 
    SPRUCE Mashup Leeds Workshop, Leeds, UK

2 - 5 July 2013   
    African Library Summit 2013, University of South Africa, South Africa. Theme: The Horizon and Beyond. Deadline for submission of poster abstracts: 26 April 2013. Registrations: (speakers and delegates): 25 February to 14 June 2012



3 - 7 July 2013 
    15th International conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2013, Angers, France

6 July 2013 
    Digital Heritage 2013: Interfaces with the Past, York, UK - Call for papers closes midnight on 2 April 2013

8 - 12 July 2013 
    Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013, Oxford, UK

8 - 12 July 2013 
    Open Repositories Conference (OR 2013), Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

9 - 12 July 2013 
    7th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2013, Orlando, Florida, USA

9 - 12 July 2013 
    11th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications - EISTA 2013, Orlando, Florida, USA

12 - 13 July 2013 
    National Association for Media literacy Education, 'Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media', Torrance, CA, USA






15 - 17 July 2013 
    International Distance education Conference IDEC 2013, Suwon, Korea



15 - 18 July 2013
    7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP7), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. Themes: Beyond the horizon (visioning the future, investigation, discovery); Ploughing new terrain (cultivating and enhancing productivity through innovation, experimentation, transforming practice); Harvesting the rewards (assessing outcomes, impact, value) and Summer fallow (lessons learnt, reflection, insight).

15 - 19 July 2013
   Visitor Studies Association , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.  Where Innovation Meets Rigor: Shaping the Next Decade of visitor Studies. Theme: Learn about the Power of Storytelling

21 - 23 July 2013 
    Digital Directions: fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

22 - 25 July 2013
    10th Northumbria International Conference ob Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, York, UK.

22 - 26 July 2013
    ACM/EEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013): Digital Libraries at the Crossroads, Indianapolis, Indiana

28 July - 1 August 2013 
    SIGIR 2013 - The 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Dublin, Ireland

28 July - 2 August 2013
    Association of College and Research Libraries Immersion '13 (Teacher and Program Tracks), Seattle, WA, USA


AUGUST

6 - 8 August 2013 
    Balisage: The Markup Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [5 August 2013 - Pre-Conference Symposium: Native XML User Interfaces]

8 - 16 August 2013
    Art Librarians down Under 2013: Study Tour of Australian Art libraries and Museums. Sydney, Canberra and Darwin, Australia

10 - 17 August 2013
    The International Council of Museums (ICOM Rio 2013), Rio se Janeiro, Brazil

14 - 16 August 2013
    7th Creating Knowledge conference. Win-win ways: Educational enhancement through collaborative partnership between students, academics and librarians, Lund, Sweden 

15 - 16 August 2013
    IFLAcamp², the WLIC2013 unconference for new and established professionals, Singapore




15 - 17 August 2013
    19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (Ancillary programs on 14 August 2013), Chicago, Illinois, USA 

17 - 23 August 2013
    IFLA World Library and Information Congress (79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly), Singapore

19 - 21 August 2013    
    4th International Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Scholarly Publishing Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.

19 - 22 August 2013
    CoLIS 8, the Conference on Conception of Library and Information Science, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark - Call for submission: [Doctoral Forum at CoLIS 8: 18 August 2013]

28 August - 1 September 2013
    Beijing International Book Fair, China International Exhibition Center, China


SEPTEMBER

2 - 6 September 2013        
    DC-2013: 'Linking to the Future" International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications , Lisbon, Portugal.

4 - 6 September 2013
    4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, Limerick, Ireland

4 - 6 September 2013 
    13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Computing, Graz, Austria

10 - 12 September 2013 
    8th International conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2013), Islamabad, Pakistan

19 - 21 September 2013
    Segundas Jornadas Regionales de Alfabetización Informacional: ALFIN. Theme: “Hacia una nueva cultura informacional” (Towards a new information culture) takes place in Córdoba, Argentina. Call for papers and posters: May 2013

20 - 21 September 2013
    Georgia international Conference on information literacy, Savannah, GA, USA

22 - 26 September 2013   
    17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Valletta, Malta. 

23 - 26 September 2013
    16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2013), Hong Kong, China. Theme: Asian Values, Western Thought, World Treasure!

26 - 27 September 2013
    The 11th International Conference on Books and Publishing,
Universität Regensburg Universitätsbibliothek, Regensburg, Germany.

29 September - 3 October 2013 
    Digital Fabrication Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA


OCTOBER

7 - 9 October 2013 
Science and Information Conference 2013, London, UK

7 - 10 October 2013    
    Namibia Libraries Symposium 2013, Safari Hotel, Windhoek, Namibia

16 - 18 October 2013
    13th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply Conference 2013, Beijing, China

16 - 18 October 2013
    13th Interlending and Document Supply Conference. Theme: Resource Sharing: Global Vision, Local Strategy. Peking University, Beijing, China

20 - 25 October 2013    
    eResearch Australasia Conference. Theme: emPowering eResearch, Sydney, Australia

21 - 22 October 2013
    TAFE Australiasia Library Conference (TALC): Adapt, Change, Evolve. Brisbane, Australia.

22 - 25 October 2013
    European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), Istanbul, Turkey

24 - 26 October 2013
    Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum, EMF, Tbilisi

25 October 2013
    100th Anniversary Norwegian Library Association, Oslo, Norway





29 - 31 October 2013 
    The international ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'13), Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg

31 October - 2 November 2013 
    U.S. Conference on Adult Literacy, Washington, DC, USA


NOVEMBER

1 November 2013
    Brick and Click Libraries Symposium (#bnc13), Northwest Missouri University, Maryville, Missouri, USA

4 - 8 November 2013 
   14th International Society for Music Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2013), Curitiba, Brazil

7 - 10 November 2013 
    2013 LITA Forum: Creation, Collaboration, Community, Louisville, KY, USA

11 - 12 November 2013
    #museum2013. The Museums Association Conference & Exhibition 2013 is the essential event in the museums and heritage calendar and one of the biggest networking opportunities for museum professionals in Europe. BT Convention Centre, Liverpool, UK

19 - 22 November 2013 
    MTSR 2013 - 7th metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece

20 - 24 November 2013
    Association of college and Research Libraries Immersion '13 (Assessment Track), Nashville, TN, USA

20 - 24 November 2013
    Association of college and Research Libraries Immersion '13 (Intentional Teaching Track), Nashville, TN, USA

22 - 25 November 2013
    European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), Istanbul, Turkey



DECEMBER

4 - 6 December 2013 
    Online Educa Berlin 2013 - 19th International Conference on technology Supported Learning & Training, Berlin, Germany

9 - 11 December 2013 
    International Conference of Asia-pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), Bangalore, India

12 - 14 December 2013
    International Conference on Quality in Higher Education (ICQH 2013), Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey - Abstract deadline: 1 December 2013 - Official languages of conference: English & Turkish