CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London)
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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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Last Thursday we enjoyed the 2022 Queen Mary Annual Catalan Lecture with the historian Professor David Abulafia, on Catalans in the Medieval Atlantic.
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We are delighted to be welcoming professor Enric Bou (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia) for this year’s Joanot Martorell Lecture, organised together with the Instituto Cervantes, on December 8, at 6.30pm, at Queen Mary.
The topic will be “Barcelona, Europe in Latitude and Longitude”.
Admission will be free, but booking is essential at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/barcelona-europe-in-latitude-and-longitude-tickets-471348585307
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John London, the Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies, gave a talk to students at the NYU in London on Monday, 7 November. It was a guest lecture for a course on West European Politics. John discussed historical and contemporary debates. The students were especially interested in parallels between Catalonia and Scotland.
It has been confirmed:
We are delighted to be welcoming the prestigious historian Professor David Abulafia (University of Cambridge) to give the Queen Mary Annual Catalan Lecture this year, on 24 November. He will speak on “Where Catalans Fear to Tread: The Catalans in the Medieval Atlantic”.
Put the date in your diary. Full details in the next few days.
Around 30 students of Catalan from all over the world (United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland, Mexico, Brasil, Bosnia, Cuba, etc.) had the chance of spending two weeks in Mallorca, learning Catalan and discovering a new culture. Some of our students from QMUL were there, practising the language while enjoying the island and making new friends.
They have been cooking (and eating!) traditional dishes, such as “coca de trempó”; visiting emblematic buildings, like the Parliament; walking around the city centre in Palma, where amazing views of the Cathedral were to be found anywhere; meeting Majorcan writers like Sebastià Portell; singing Majorcan “gloses”; swimming at the beach, in the amazing blue water… and, more importantly, making new friends and speaking Catalan all the time!!
And this is all free, funded by the Institut Ramon Llull.
If you don’t want to miss this experience, study Catalan with us at Queen Mary University of London!
Today the II School of Catalan Linguistics (EDELC 2022) has just finished and we are very glad to say that it has been a great success!
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If you want to know more about Catalan at QMUL, please send an email to: catalan-centre@qmul.ac.uk
CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London) 