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On 8/3/2016, Assistant Professors Maria Tsigou and Sotirios Livas gave a lecture titled “Linguistic pluralism and human rights in crisis-ridden Europe” at the Solomos Museum, Corfu, within the framework of collaboration between the Laboratory for Language and Politics of DFLTI and the Society for Corfiot Studies.

The Collective Volume "Citizenship in Transition – New Perspectives on Transnational Migration from the Middle East to Europe" (Ed.: Αnnemarie Profanter & Francis Owtram) in which Assistant Professor Sotirios Livas participated with the 6th chapter: 'Xenophobia, Alienation, Heterotopias and Cultural Limits: Fictional Boundaries of the Athens Pakistani and Afghani Communities', has become the Cambridge Scholars Publishing “Book of the Month” for October 2015.

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”.

Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor, is participating in VISTAC – Science and Technology Visuals in Translation organized by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) (http://act.nmt.edu/humanizingtechnology/cluster-i/visualizing-science-and-technology-across-cultures-vistac/vistac-science-and-technology-visuals-in-translation/ http://act.nmt.edu/humanizingtechnology/cluster-i/researchers/).

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.