Mihály Kocis (SZAB), President of the Linguistics and Literature Committee, will open the event. He will be followed by a session of Catalan presentations by various professors and linguists between 10.15 am and 12 noon. Xavier Lamuela, a Catalan linguist and Doctor in Romance Language Philology, currently working as a professor at the University of Girona, will speak on The Codification of Catalan, along with other linguists including Ildikó Szijj, Andreea Stefan and Carles Dachs.
They will be followed at 1.00 pm by the closing ceremony of the Pompeu Fabra: A Complete Language exhibition at the KÖNYVTÁR Library (Klebelsberg Könyvtár). The ceremony will be hosted by Tibor Berta , Doctor in Linguistics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, who obtained his degree in Spanish, Latin American and Portuguese Philology from the same university.
Tibor Berta, Diána Gál and Zsófia Jójárt (SZTE) , and Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria Lete (UPV/EHU), will then lead a session of presentations in Hungarian and Spanish from 3.00 pm to 4.50 pm.
The closing address will end at 4.50 pm and be followed, at 7.30 pm, by a Catalan dinner and concert by Halldor Marr, a singer and guitarist from Reykjavik, Iceland. His music is based on acoustic folk and alternative traditions. Some of his career has been dedicated to translating songs by Catalan singer-songwriters into English, and he has presented various programmes related to Catalan culture around the world.
The International University Network of Catalan Studies takes part in the Year of Fabra Celebrations and has sent the Pompeu Fabra exhibition to Hungary for a two-week period as part of the ‘Language, Literature and Nation’ programme.
Pompeu Fabra. A Complete Language presents Fabra’s contribution to Catalan, and highlights the major social importance of his life and work in Catalonia and the impact of his work on promoting the language. This touring exhibition was created by the Directorate General for Linguistic Policy and managed by the Catalan Culture Departments and the Consortium for Linguistic Normalization. Jordi Ginebra, who curated the Year of Fabra, was responsible for the contents of the exhibition. This tour is just one of the international activities organised by IRL as part of the Any Year of Fabra.
The Eötvös Loran Tudománygyetem (ELTE) and Szegedi Tudománygyetem Universities belong to the International University Network of Catalan Studies, coordinated by the Institut Ramon Llull. The network currently comprises 150 universities from 30 differents countries that teach Catalan language and culture outside language classes. IRL supports these international university studies by signing agreements to launch or consolidate Catalan studies at these institutions and by organising a variety of programmes and grants for these universities, their teaching staff and their students.
