The Department of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies of the University of Liverpool has organised a week of events to celebrate the cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. This way, on the occasion of the 6th edition of the Allison Peers Symposium on 16 October, the research on the teaching of Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Portuguese will be discussed. The programme also includes lectures, film screenings, performances, seminars, poetry readings, live music and dance.

Among the conferences scheduled for the symposium, there is “From Catalonia Infelix to the 2014 Turnover” by the Catalan politician and Doctor of the University of Girona Joaquim Nadal. Andreu Bosch, director of the Department of Language and Universities at Institut Ramon Llull, will be participating at the symposium’s opening ceremony, where he will offer a talk about Catalan language, “El catalán, una lengua mediana con proyección internacional”.

On this occasion, the Catalan chef Ada Parellada will be at Lunya restaurant in Liverpool to launch the English translation of her last novel, Sal de Vainilla. The cook will also be presenting the book in Manchester, as part of Institut Ramon Llull’s grants for translation and promotion abroad.