Studies

The Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI) at the Ionian University in Greece and the European Commission co-organise an online Translating Europe Workshop (TEW) on Tuesday, October 8 2024 under the title "AI Τranslation vs Ηuman Τranslation: Τraining Perspectives and the Impact on the Translation Profession".

The academic calendar for the year 2024-2025 is published with dates on tuition, exams and holidays.

On Tuesday, 10th October 2023, the Erasmus Incoming Students Welcome Day 2023-2024 was successfully held on the premises of the Ionian University Library.

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Faculty of Education and International Studies of OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University and the DFLTI of the Ionian University opens new paths for the two institutions.

We are pleased to announce the approval by the Albanian Ministry of Education of the new undergraduate degree programme "Translation and Interpreting into Greek and English".

DFLTI and the Educational Centre of the Embassy of Iran have signed a memorandum of scientific and cultural cooperation.

The International Summer Academy for Intercultural Communication will run for the second consecutive year between the 1st and the 9th of July, 2019 at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting. The Summer Academy aims to raise intercultural awareness and understanding and cultivate intercultural communication skills. The Director of the International Summer Academy for Intercultural Communication is Asst. Prof. Dr Ioannis Karras. See more: http://dflti.ionio.gr/en/summer-schools.

The Laboratory for Geocultural Analyses of DFLTI / GeoLab and the British Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS) organise in Corfu the International Summer School in Mediterranean Security and Culture on July 3-7, 2019. More information at https://director2222.wixsite.com/smsec.

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.