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• Assistant Professor Ioannis Karras delivered an open lecture (invited speaker) at the University of Macedonia entitled "Developing Intercultural Communication Skills in Business and Management" (5 December, 2016).

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.

On 03/12/2016 the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI) organised in association with the Hellenic Society of Translation Studies the 1st "Young Researchers day conference" on the subject of "Translation and Translation Studies in the Hellenic Community".

Assistant Professor Ioannis Karras delivered a series of lectures entitled “Intercultural approaches to the teaching of EFL” within the framework of Erasmus+ mobility at the University of Cyprus (English Studies Department). The lectures were given to the Undergraduate and Postgraduate program (8-11 November, 2016).

In October 21st-27th, 2016, Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor of DFLTI, in cooperation with Østfold University College organised the international conference "Spielräume der Übersetzung" in Rome, in which she presented her paper.

Assistant Professors Maria Tsigou and Sotirios Livas participated in the 38th International Conference of Functional Linguistics (Université de La Rochelle, France, 17-21 October 2016). They presented a paper entitled "La Charte Européenne pour les langues régionales et minoritaires d’un point de vue linguistique et juridique" (The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages from a linguistic and legal point of view).

Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor of DFLTI, took part in the European Programme MUST (MUltilingual Student Translation corpus), which was activated in 2016, under the supervision of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics of the Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium.

In September 2016, the book by Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor of DLFTI, entitled "Risikokommunikation und Übersetzen – Das Beispiel der Instruktionstexte" was published by DIAVLOS Publications.

Assistant Professor Ioannis Karras published a paper entitled "A Genre Analysis of Luxury Hotel Brochures" in an edited volume by M, Grygiel and M. Rzepecka (Eds.), Specialist Communication in Education, Translation and Linguistics. Rzeszów, Wydawnistwo UR.

In September 2016, a book by Panayotis Kelandrias, Associate Professor of DLFTI, entitled Functional Didactics of Translation was published by DIAVLOS Publications.

In September 2016 the international collective volume entitled "Language and Nation Crossroads and Connections" was published by Waxmann Publishing GmbH which has been edited by Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor of DFLTI, along with Guri Ellen Barstad, Arnstein Hjelde, Sigmund Kvam and John Todd. Dr. Parianou has also contributed with her article "Nation, Translation und kleine Sprachen".