Professor Margarida Casacuberta, Department of Philology and communication, Universitat de Girona. She has published numerous books on modern and contemporary Catalan literature, focusing especially on the modernista movement and writer and painter Santiago Rusiñol. She has also translated many authors from French to Catalan (Zola, Pérec, Némirovsky). She is the curator of the literary festival MOT and the director of the Càtedra Joan Vinyoli de Poesia Contemporània.

Josep Maria Muñoz, historian, editor and translator, currently resident at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU. Since 2000, he has been the editor of L’Avenç, one of Catalonia’s most important cultural journals. He has published extensively on the work of the historian Jaume Vicens i Vives (1910-1960). He was a member of the cabinet of Barcelona’s Mayor Pasqual Maragall (1987-1995) during the Olympic years, and has also been the director of Cultural Services of the MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (1995-1999).

October 21, Indiana University at Bloomington

Josep Maria Muñoz and Margarida Casacuberta

From the Catalan Mountain to the Catalan State.

Mini-symposium.

November 4, Georgetown University, Washington DC

Josep Maria Muñoz:

Conflicting narratives: the Catalan democratic revolt and the Spanish crisis.

Lecture.

November 14-15, University of Chicago

Josep Maria Muñoz and Margarida Casacuberta, lectures.

December, Richmond University

Josep Maria Muñoz, lecture.