General Announcements

The International Summer Academy for Intercultural Communication (ISAIC) will be held in June, 2018 for the first time at the Department of Foreing Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI) of the Ionian University. The main goal of the Academy is to cultivate intercultural understanding and awareness and develop intercultural skills. More info: http://www.dflti.ionio.gr/en/summer-schools.

Zoi Resta, member of the Interpretating Studies teaching staff at DFLTI, represented the Panhellenic Association of Professional Translators Graduates of the Ionian University (PEEMPIP) and received the 2017 FIT Prize for Interpreting Excellence in a special ceremony held in Brisbane, Australia as part of the 2017 FIT Congress.

On the 31st of May 2017, the new book of Nikos Papadimitriou, Associate Professor at DFLTI, entitled "A Postmodern Requiem - Issues of European Philosophy, Art and Politics in the 21st Century" (Athens, Gutenberg) was presented by Joseph Papadatos, Deputy Rector of the Ionian University and Professor at the Department of Music Studies in Corfu, Greece and by Nasos Martinos, litterateur and psychiatrist from Corfu.

On May 20th, 2017, Professor Yorgos Kentrotis was honoured with the first prize of the 1st International Poetry Contest "Giorgos Seferis" for his poem entitled "Dionysios Solomos annotates and comments as he translates the Aria of Pietro Metastasio". The award ceremony took place in the Sala delle Capriate of Palazzo Steri in Piazza Marina, Palermo, Italy.

• In May 2017, the theatrical play entitled "Bloody Counter-parts", written by the Greek sketch artist Arkás and translated into French by Dimitrios Filias, Associate Professor at DFLTI, was published by Grigoris Publications. The play is the inaugural publication of the brand new book series called “Modern Greek Literature Translated”, the scientific coordinator of which is Professor Filias.

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).