General Events

The graduation days at the Ionian University's Departments on 7th-8th December 2023 offer the opportunity to share a small but important part of our university's and island's intangible heritage: a publication on the first graduation ceremony of the Ionian University in April 1989; the first graduates were students of the Department of Foreign Languages and Interpreting.  

The National Section of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts CIOFF®, official partner of UNESCO, the IONIAN UNIVERSITY and the Educational & Cultural Association of Sinies – Corfu,  organize the International CIOFF® Festival of Mediterranean Cultures, in Corfu, 6-10 September 2023.

As part of the two-day conference "Exploring the world of translation", which is held by the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting, Friday, April 28th, will be dedicated to preparing for a successful career.

This online workshop, co-organized by the Oslo Metropolitan University and the Ionian University, attempts to shed some light on the degree of professionalization of PSI in two countries, namely Norway and Greece, where perceptions of the role and function of public services, multilingualism among users of public services and interpreters providing specialized services for multilingual/multiethnic users differ considerably, thus affecting the extent of professionalization, the corresponding legal framework, and the prevailing administrative culture.

DFLTI works actively offering opportunities to academics at risk; Scholars at Risk Section Greece is a reality due to the efforts of the Deputy Head the Department Professor Stavros Katsios

 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 (...)