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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”.

GeoLab Institute organises in co-operation with the St. Tikhon University (Moscow) and the History Department of the Social and Pastoral Theology Faculty of the Aristotle University (Thessaloniki) School of Theology, a one-day seminar on ''Russia's relations with Hellenism during the Ottoman rule'' on February 19th, 2015.

A 10 hour course on the Finnish language was offered gratis at the DFLTI (14-21 November 2014) by Ms Maria Martzoukou, philologist and translator of Finnish literature.

The members of the teaching staff, Zoi Resta and Anastasios Ioannidis, received the Best PhD Student Paper Award at the international conference on translation and interpreting TRANSLATA II of the University of Innsbruck (1/11/2014) for their paper titled: "The transposition of Directive 2010/64/EU and legal, institutional and actual deficiencies of court interpreting in Greece".

Vilelmini Sosoni, Lecturer, became one of the three members of an Ionian University group (the other two being K. Kermanidou, Lecturer, and D. Tsoumakos, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University) to succeed in securing funding within the framework of the programme Horizon2020 for a submitted proposal. Out of a total budget of 3 million Euros available for this programme, 400,000 euros will be allotted to the Ionian University and the two Departments. The submitted proposal pertains to machine translation in the context of the Massive Open Online Courses in more than 10 European and BRIC languages.

On the occasion of the 18th World Congress of Sociology (which will take place in Yokohama on July 13th to 19th 2014), this conference on the influence of the Japanese Culture aims to show the interaction between the “globalised” contemporary everyday life and some of its traits considered as of Japanese origins. In this organization (which is meant to be an approach of the culture of the (...)

The External Evaluation Report by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University has been published.

The new book of William Mallinson entitled The Same Things Return with Different Colours is already published.