CENTRE FOR CATALAN STUDIES (Queen Mary University of London)
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On Tuesday 20 June, a group of 30 Y10 students visited Queen Mary University of London to attend the Languages Summer School organised together with Capital L, and one of the sessions offered focused on Catalan Language and Culture: You Know More Catalan Than You Think!
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The Catalan Press, TV, radio and other News Outlets:
Analysis and Comparison
A Day of Discussion
13 September 2023, Queen Mary University of London; in person
Do Catalan newspapers have a unique point of view not represented elsewhere in the Spanish press and ignored abroad? Has this always been the case historically? Is it possible to specify a particular style of Catalan TV or radio? How are the journalists of the Països Catalans using twenty-first-century media? And how does Catalan journalism compare with the profession in other European countries or the US?
Proposals are welcomed for this meeting of journalists, scholars, students, and all those interested in the past, present and future of the press. There will be time to exchange views with professionals from Britain (including Wales). We will be offering a number of bursaries to enable speakers to travel to and stay in London for two nights free of charge. Possible lines of inquiry include:
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Last week, on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 May, the workshop for UK and Ireland based Catalan tutors was held at the University of Sheffield. This meeting is organised every two years and it’s a chance for the Catalan tutors from Institut Ramon Llull to meet and share their experiences.
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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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