During the first day of the conference, there will be a celebration of the Sant Jordi tradition with books and roses for all registered attendees. The symposium is supported by the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Institut Ramon Llull.
Of Books and Roses: First California Symposium on Catalan Studies
Monday, April 24 - Royce Hall 306
8:30-9:00 Coffee and registration
9-9:15 Welcoming Remarks.
John Dagenais, Gemma Repiso
9:15 – 10:45 Urban Barcelona: literature and cultural representations. Moderator: Isabel Villanueva
“A la sombra se cobija el amo y señor de esta ciudad muerta”: l’urbanisme assassí de Ciutat morta. Alba Marcé (University of California, Davis)
La necessitat i la dificultat de ser traduït a l’anglès. Francesc Borrull (Universitat de Vic)
"An Imagined Raval: How the Linguistic Landscape can MisrepresentSocial Realities". José Antonio Jódar Sánchez (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Catalan syntax and phonology. Moderator: Victoria Mateu
Lateral Darkness in Barcelonan Catalan: What Has Become of the ela catalana. Justin Davidson (University of California, Berkeley)
Non-Personal Catalan Clitic Pronouns: Language Change in Progress? Adriana Soto-Corominas (Western University)
La restricció dels sintagmes nominals escarits postverbals en els verbs psicològics catalans. Una explicació des del punt de vista informatiu. Carles Royo (Universitat de Barcelona)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch for Participants
13:30-15:00 Catalan collective memory: war, exile and dictatorship. Moderator: Elizabeth Warren
Forbidden behavior and cultural spaces in Jordi Grau’s film ‘A Love Story’ (1966). Hugo Pascual Bordón (University South Carolina)
Fugida y Homenaje a Cataluña dos relatos testimoniales del exilio y de la huida catalanes durante la Guerra Civil Española. Carlos Arturo Sanabria (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:15 Communication and language. Moderator: Javier Moreno
The Catalan language and its electronic communication. Anna I. Montesinos López (Universitat Politècnica de València)
Digitalización e internacionalización de la cultura catalana: los casos de Opera Oberta y Catalunya Música. Isabel Villanueva Benito (University of California, Los Angeles and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya)
16:15-18:00 Sant Jordi Celebration – Books, Roses and Poster session
Tuesday, April 25 - Lydeen Library
9:30 – 11:00 Catalan syntax and phonology II. Moderator: Ji Young Kim
Argument structure of nouns in Catalan: a descriptive approach. Elga Cremades (Masaryk University)
What We Don't Know about Catalan Pronoun Clusters, and Why We Need to Know. Adriana Soto-Corominas (Western University)
Schwa-Zero Alt[ə]rnations Cat[ə]lan Singular Determin[ə]rs. Calvin Cheng
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -13:00 History, Liteature and Culture. Moderator: John Dagenais
Seasonal Economic Patterns in the Medieval Catalan Pyrenees: the Example of Puigcerdà 1321-1322. Elizabeth Comuzzi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Grotesque Europeanization in Bigas Luna’s La teta y la luna. Elizabeth Warren (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Yearnings, Failures, and the Recuperation of Memory: Rewriting Gender in Margarida Aritzeta’s L’herència de Cuba. Jennifer Monti (University of California, Los Angeles)
13:00– 13:30 Closing remarks
