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Jordi Martí Rueda’s ‘Brigadistes: Lives for Liberty’ in the Queen Mary Catalan Book Club

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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Why was Sismondi’s ‘Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe’ so important for Catalan literature?

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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Mara Faye Lethem on Irene Solà’s ‘Canto jo i la muntanya balla’ (‘When I Sing, Mountains Dance’)

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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The 2022 Joanot Martorell Lecture: Enric Bou

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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Queen Mary Annual Catalan Lecture: David Abulafia

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.