General Announcements

Associate Professor Anastasia Parianou published a paper entitled "Risikokommunikation und Translation leicht gemacht – oder: von der Pythia zur Risikoempathie" (Risk communication and translation made easy – or: from Pythia to risk empathy) in an edited volume by M. Calderón Tichy, R. Heuberger & E. Chamson (Eds.) (2017), Gesundheit & Sprache / Health & Language, Series: InnTrans. Innsbrucker Beiträge zu Sprache, Kultur und Translation. New York; Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Dr Anastasia Parianou, Professor at DFLTI, and Dr Sigmund Kvam, Professor at the Østfold University College in Norway, led a seminar entitled 'Textanalyse und Translation' (Text analysis and Translation).The seminar was held between the 3rd and 6th April 2017 at DFLTI, in which the German-speaking students of the DFLTI took part.

Panayotis Kelandrias and Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professors of DFLTI, took part in the works of the Procés d'Adquisició de la Competència Traductora i Avaluació group (PACTE) which was held on March 16th, 2017 in the Faculty of Translation & Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) as part of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Programme (CEFR).

• 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).

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".

On the 6th of June, DFLTI professor G. Kentrotis received the “Aris Alexandrou - Translated Poetry Award” for his book, a translation of poems by Bertolt Brecht, titled “This Babylonian confusion of words” (Athens: Gutenberg, 2014).

Maro Mantziara, a graduate of our Interpretation track, was given a scholarship to do a joint (3 European Universities: UNIVE Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia - UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - UPVM Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier) Master’s degree in “Cultural Mediation in the Mediterranean” within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus programme.

Two DFLTI students of Interpreting Studies, Maria Dimitropoulou and Maria Mantzara, presented the results of their innovative dissertation on “Interpreting in the Greek Asylum System – A case study” at the TransLaw 2016 conference, University of Tampere, Finnland, in May 2016.