CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London)
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Last week the 2024 Joanot Martorell Lecture, organised in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London, took place at Queen Mary. On this occasion, we had the pleasure of being joined by Dr Rhiannon McGlade, former Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies. The title of her lecture was “Irascible Ink: Satire & Subversion in Catalan Feminist Comic Art”.
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The Annual Catalan Lecture 2024 focused on music. The event took place last month at the Octagon, Queen Mary University of London, with performances by soprano Louisa Beard, pianist Clive Pollard and cellist Laura Peribáñez.
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Last weekend, the LXIX Anglo-Catalan Society Annual Conference was hosted by the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde.
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Professor John London, Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies, was invited to give the opening lecture to launch the new Catalan Studies courses at the University of Edinburgh. The topic of this lecture was “Catalan Culture and the Multilingual Translation of the Image”.
Last week, Valencian journalist and sociologist Toni Mollà launched his book Sobretot, que perda el Madrid at Queen Mary in an event organised by ValenciansUK and CatalansUK.
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Last week, Valencian sociologist Alexis Lara Climent, coordinator of “La Comarca Científica” launched his book Negacionisme de gènere: Auge, expansió i mites de l’antifeminisme at Queen Mary in an event organised by ValenciansUK.
Continue reading “Book launch of ‘Negacionisme de gènere’ organised by ValenciansUK at QMUL with author Alexis Lara”Last month we were able to enjoy an evening of theatre in Catalan at Queen Mary as part of the conference ‘Catalan Theatre in English: Past, Present & Future’.
Our PhD student Charlotte Byrne (@CharladyByrne) gave a talk in Catalan at the Ateneu de Bétera, Valencia (@ateneubetera) entitled ‘Anarquisme, feminisme i lesbianisme en la guerra del trenta-sis al trenta-nou’.
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The conference ‘Catalan Theatre in English: Past, Present & Future’ took place on 12 and 13 September at Queen Mary University of London. Several academics, translators, directors and playwrights from England, Wales, Scotland, the United States, and Catalonia reflected on their work and experience and shared their perspectives on a wide range of topics related to Catalan theatre.
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Gemma Bartolí, postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat de Girona, will carry out a stay at the Centre for Catalan Studies. She will spend three months at Queen Mary University of London developing aspects related to her research on Catalan lyric theatre.
Benvinguda, Gemma!
CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London) 