Conferences

The UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage, the Laboratory for Geocultural Analyses (GEOLab), Department F.L.T.I. and the Laboratory for the Documentation of Cultural & Historic Heritage, Department ALMS of the Ionian University organised on 15th March 2023 18:00-20:30 a hybrid Workshop "Threats to Cultural Heritage: normative and ethical approaches and contradictions".

On August 11, 2022, the inaugural workshop took place in the framework of the collaboration between the UNESCO Chair of the Ionian University with the Institute of Studies on the Mediterranean Rim of China's Zhejiang University of International Studies.

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 NOVEL ENCOUNTERS is a festival of four Irish novelists and four Greek novelists, organised by the Durrell Library of Corfu (www.durrelllibrarycorfu.org) and the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI) of the Ionian University.   The novelists are: IRELAND: Katy HAYES, Deirdre MADDEN, Paul MURRAY and Paraic O'DONNELL GREECE: Christos CHRYSSOPOULOS, (...)

The Postgraduate Programme in Creative Writing of the University of Western Macedonia in collaboration with the Joint Postgraduate Programme in Creative Writing (Hellenic Open University - University of Western Macedonia) and the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University announce the organisation of the 3rd International Conference in Creative Writing (...)

​The first International Conference on Tourism and Crime (Yellow Tourism) ​is taking place at the Ionian University (Ionian Academy) from April27 ​th to April 29th2017.

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".

Panayotis Kelandrias, Asscociate Professor of DFLTI, and Vilelmini Sosoni, Lecturer of DFLTI, represented the Department at the 13th Thessaloniki Book Fair (12-15 May 2016) by organising a Round Table titled "Training translators: experience and testimonies" within the framework of the "Haunt of Translation".

On 12/4/2016 at the central library of the Ionian University, took place a presentation of the book “The New Science” of Giambattista Vico translated by Professor G. Kentrotis.

On 5/10/2015 Vilelmini Sosoni, Lecturer, DFLTI, and Ismini Karantzi, postgraduate student of the Postgraduate Studies Programme “Translation Science”, held a presentation titled “AVT and Accessibility of People with Disabilities into Audiovisual material: SDH and AD”.

On 27/4/2015 Vilelmini Sosoni, Lecturer, DFLTI, was invited to give a lecture to students of the Modern Greek Language Program of the Department of Classical Studies, Boston University, titled “Translation is the Language of Europe: The EU, its Policy of Multilingualism and its Implications for Translation”.