Event Reviews

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.

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”.

The DFLTI Interpreting Studies sector organized on 27/2/2015 a presentation-discussion in collaboration with the Corfu Bar Association on the topic of “Court Interpreting: Practical problems and potential solutions” with speakers: Zoi Resta and Anastasios Ioannidis, members of the DFLTI interpreting teaching staff, Panagiotis Alevantis, Head of Representation, European Commission Representation in Greece, and Marianna Asimakopoulou, Syn-eirmos Social Solidarity NGO-“Babel” Day Center. The presentation-discussion took place at the Function Hall of the Corfu Bar Association at the Corfu courthouse.

On 16/2/2015, at the function hall of the Public Library of Corfu, professor G. Kentrotis presented his translation of 500 poems by Bertolt Brecht titled “This Babylonian confusion of words and 499 other poems”.