The event will take place on 3 December 2021 and is chaired by Leonidas Kourmadas from the European Commission and Vilelmini Sosoni from the Ionian University.

The TEW working languages are English and Greek, and a simultaneous interpreting service will be provided for all the talks but not for the final workshop which will be held exclusively in Greek.

All listed timestamps are Eastern European Time (EET).

• 10:00

  Welcome

  1. Niovi Ringou
     Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Greece
  2. Professor Andreas Floros
     Rector, Ionian University
  3. Professor Sotiris Livas
     Head, DFLTI, Ionian University
  4. Konstantinos Zorbas
     Vice-Governor of Regional Unit of Corfu Island
• 10:20

  The importance of inclusive language in specialized communication (in Greek)

  1. Anastasia Parianou
     Professor, DFLTI, Ionian University
• 10:50

  Inclusive language and the law: Equality versus diversity? (in Greek)

  1. Ifigeneia Kamtsidou
     Associate Professor, Law School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• 11:20

  Break

• 11:30

  Inclusive language at the Secretariat of the Council of the EU (in Greek)

  1. Sikelia Konstantakopoulou
     Translator, Translation Service of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU
  2. Peristera Dimopoulou
     Translator, Translation Service of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU
• 12:00

  Inclusive Language in the Greek public administration (in Greek)

  1. Yianna Hormova
     General Secretary for Demography and Family Policy and Gender Equality
• 12:30

  Lunch Break

• 13:30

  Gender in Danger: Bias and Automatic Translation (in English)

  1. Beatrice Savoldi
     Researcher, University of Trento
• 14:00

  Inclusive Language at the European Parliament (in English)

  1. Isabelle Marton
     Head of the Clear Language and Editing Unit, Directorate-General for Translation, European Parliament
• 14:30

  Using inclusive language when translating European Commission texts into Greek (in Greek)

  1. Yiannis Oikonomou
     Translator, Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission
• 15:00

  Break

• 15:10

  Workshop: How to use inclusive language (in Greek)

  1. Stella Kasdagli
     Writer, Translator and Co-founder of Women on Top
  2. Maria Tsigou
     Associate Professor, DFLTI, Ionian University
• 17:00

  Conclusions and Closing