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2010-2011
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 June 2011 ModernArt.Cat, an international conference called with the aim of reassessing Catalan art from the Modernisme movement at the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, and in particular its place within the context of European art and culture. Link to programme [pdf]; link to poster [pdf].
Tuesday 1 February, Prof. Gaspar Jaén i Urban (Universitat d'Alacant) ‘Tres poetes: Vicent Andrés Estellés, Joan Margarit i Joan Navarro’ (Session 1)
Wednesday 2 February 2011, The same continued (Session 2)
Wednesday 16 February, Prof. Robert Davidson (2011 Writer-in-Residence) ‘Barcelona’s Jazz Age Lens’.
Thursday 17 February, Prof. Robert Davidson (2011 Writer-in-Residence) ‘Barcelona Siege City’
Wednesday 23 March 2011 Joan Ramon Veny, Jordi Malé and Anna Comas ‘El Corpus Literari Digital, un projecte de gestió, difusió i estudi de patrimoni literari’
Wednesday 8 December 2010
(Iberian & Latin American Studies Research Seminar)
James Hawkey (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘“De mica en mica s’omple la pica”: Experimental findings from Barcelona.’
Link to abstract [pdf format].
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Trueta: The life and works of Catalan doctor Josep Trueta, exiled in England and Professor at the University of Oxford, presented in a dynamic performance by Àngels Aymar i Ragolta and Montserrat Roser i Puig.
Link to poster [pdf format].
2009-2010
25-26 June 2010
Conference: Narratives of illness in Catalan culture
Tuesday 17 November 2009
James Hawkey (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Language policy in post-1975 Catalonia’
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Andrew Dowling (Cardiff University),
‘“Autonomistes”, “Catalanistes” and “Independentistes”: Politics in Contemporary Catalonia’
23-26 March 2010
Najat El Hachmi as writer-in-residence
Thursday 25 March
Dr Mercè Picornell (Universitat de les Illes Balears), ‘Heterotopía e identidad nacional en la ciudad en transición: Itinerarios por la obra del cantautor “galáctico” Jaume Sisa’
2008-2009
Gabriel Ferrater (International Conference 2-3 July 2009)
2007-2008
Catalan literature, culture and thought in exile (7-8 July 2008)
2006-2007
International Conference: Catalan Culture and Identity in the Digital Era (5-7 July 2007)
Colloquium: Unity within Diversity in the Catalan-speaking lands (14 September 2007)
2005-2006
Conference: Catalan Women's Writing: Space and Desire (17 March 2006)
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