CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London)
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Warm congratulations to our friend Eva Baltasar whose novel Boulder is on the short list for the 2023 International Booker Prize!
Eva came to the Centre for Catalan Studies at Queen Mary last year where she read from her work. She also signed books and met some of her many readers.
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Balearic Islands Doctoral Studentship in Catalan Studies
The Centre for Catalan Studies at Queen Mary University of London, invites applications for a three-year Doctoral Studentship in any aspect of Catalan Studies. A studentship will be awarded in August 2023 to the most highly qualified candidate applying for a full-time PhD programme starting in September 2023. In order to be considered for an award, applicants should have (or expect to have by the end of the 2022/23 academic year) an MA or equivalent qualification.
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On 15 May, Professor M. Àngels Francés, from Universitat d’Alacant, gave an online lecture on the changes in the literary canon, ‘Back with the literary canon: alternative-creating dynamics, dialogues and echoes’, as part of a research project she is participating in.
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On April 23 we celebrated Sant Jordi in London in an event organised by the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the United Kingdom and Ireland, along with other organisations, such as the Institut Ramon Llull, the Castellers of London, the London Catalan Choir, the Penya Blaugrana London, the Escola Catalana de Londres or Catalans UK.
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On 17 April we held the first Queen Mary Catalan Book Club meeting of 2023. On this occasion we discussed Jordi Martí Rueda’s Brigadistes: Vides per la llibertat (Brigadistes: Lives for Liberty). We were lucky enough that both the writer and the translator of the book, Mary Ann Newman, joined us for the event.
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On 30 March, a Translation, Transmission and Cultural Transfers Seminar, organised in association with the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies was held under the title “Sismondi, Roscoe and Comparative Literature in English”.
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On 28 March our first year students participated in an improvisation workshop delivered by the Valencian London-based actor, improviser, and theatre facilitator Ferran Luengo.
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On 1st March the book launch of Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage took place online in an event organised together with the Catalan Philology Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
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On 20 December we held the last event of 2022, a Book Club on Irene Solà’s Canto jo i la muntanya balla (When I Sing, Mountains Dance). We were lucky enough that the translator of the novel, Mara Faye Lethem, joined us for the event.
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On 8th December we enjoyed the Joanot Martorell Lecture, organised together with Instituto Cervantes London, in which Professor Enric Bou gave a talk on “Barcelona, Europe in Latitude in Longitude”.
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CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London) 