CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London)
at Queen Mary University of London
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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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.
