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 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 (...)

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.

Associate Professor Anastasia Parianou published a paper entitled "Risikokommunikation und Translation leicht gemacht – oder: von der Pythia zur Risikoempathie" (Risk communication and translation made easy – or: from Pythia to risk empathy) in an edited volume by M. Calderón Tichy, R. Heuberger & E. Chamson (Eds.) (2017), Gesundheit & Sprache / Health & Language, Series: InnTrans. Innsbrucker Beiträge zu Sprache, Kultur und Translation. New York; Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.