One-day workshop "Audio-Visual Translation (AVT) and access for people with disabilities"

On 02/12/2016 DFLTI organised a one-day workshop entitled "Audio-Visual Translation (AVT) and access for people with disabilities" in collaboration with European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Translation (DGT) Office of Athens. The workshop was held at the Ionian Academy of Corfu. Invited speakers were the internationally renowned researchers Jorge Diaz-Cintas, Director of the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS), School of European Languages, Cultures and Societies (SELCS), University College London, Anna Matamala, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Lucile Desblache, London Director of the Centre for Research in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Roehampton, Department of Media, Culture and Language and Panayota Georgakopoulou, Director of Research and International Development, Deluxe Media. Opening speeches were delivered by: Georgios Kentrotis, Professor of DFLTI, Georgios Mihalakopoulos, Associate Professor and current Head of DFLTI, Panagiotis Alevantis, Head of European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) Office of Athens and Elina Roinioti, scientific collaborator of the General Secretariat for Media and Communication. Right after that, Vassilis Chrissikopoulos, Rector of the Ionian University, gave a welcome speech. Maria Tsigou, Assistant Professor of DFLTI, and Vilelmini Sosoni, Lecturer of DFLTI, coordinated workgroups. In addition, Louisa Desilla, UCL-Associate Lecturer, University of Surrey and Emmanouela Patiniotaki were the lecturers of the workgroups. This one-day workshop was a success and sparked the interest of many stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. You can access the workshop proceedings on the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/greece/sites/greece/files/20161202_conclusions_workshop_audiovisual_translation.pdf. The first part of the workshop was broadcasted via live streaming on the Ionian University website. The video footage is also available on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZr0nFMmZs0