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Translation, Transmission and Cultural Transfers Seminar: “Sismondi, Roscoe and Comparative Literature in English”

30th March 2023

On Thursday 30th March we discussed the importance of Sismondi’s Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe, and its translation into English by Thomas Roscoe, especially for Catalan literature, in an event organised in association with the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies.

Improvisation workshop with Ferran Luengo

28th March 2023

The Valencian London-based actor, improviser, and theatre facilitator Ferran Luengo delivered delivered an interesting and fun improvisation workshop to the first year students of Catalan at Queen Mary University of London.

The 2022 Joanot Martorell Lecture by Professor Enric Bou

8th December 2022

Professor Enric Bou (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) gave this year’s Joanot Martorell Lecture, organised together with Instituto Cervantes London, on “Barcelona, Europe in Latitude in Longitude”. Speeches from Víctor Ugarte, Director of the Instituto Cervantes in London, and Professor John London, Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies, preceded the lecture.

David Abulafia at Queen Mary for the 2022 Catalan Annual Lecture

24th November 2022

Professor David Abulafia (University of Cambridge) gave this year’s Catalan Annual Lecture on “Where Catalans Fear to Tread: The Catalans in the Medieval Atlantic”. The lecture was preceded by speeches from Francesc Claret, Representative of the Government of Catalonia to the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Professor John London, Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies.

“El tocadiscos de Joan Fuster” at QMUL

30th October 2022

We enjoyed this stage play at the Harold Pinter Studios, where a cultural journalist –Lara Salvador– interviewed Joan Fuster –Alfred Picó– on the Nova Cançó singer-songwriters, such as Raimon, Ovidi Montllor, Lluís Llach or Maria del Mar Bonet, among others, whose songs were played by Pau Alabajos.