The Symposium for UK and Ireland-based Catalan Tutors, organised by the University of Edinburgh and the Institut Ramon Llull, will take place on May 30 and 31, at the Scottish university's School of Literatures, Language and Cultures.
The Symposium will be a meeting point, a forum for debate and a common space for experience exchange that will help create a network and foster knowledge sharing between Catalan studies teachers in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Previously, this meeting has been held at the universities of Manchester (2010 and 2021), Birmingham (2011), Queen Mary of London (2012), Bristol (2015), Liverpool (2018) and Sheffield (2023).
The closing session will feature the poets Jordi Larios and Xavier Mas Craviotto, who will speak about poetry and read excerpts of their work.
Programme
Thursday, 30 May
15.00h — 15.15h | Registration
15.15h — 15.30h | Welcoming
Guy Puzey, Head of DELC (Department of European Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh)
Carlos Soler Montes, Head of SPLAS (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Josep-Anton Fernàndez, Director of the Department of Language and Universities, Institut Ramon Llull
15.30h — 16.15h | Language Policy in Scotland: Gaelic and Scots
Robert Dunbar, University of Edinburgh
16.20h — 17.05h | Catalan Studies at The University of Edinburgh: History, Challenges and Solutions*
Sergi Mainer, University of Edinburgh
17.10h — 17.20h | Coffee Break
17.20h — 18.30h | Meeting of the Teaching Staff of Catalan Studies from British and Irish Universities
18.30h — 20.00h | Edinburgh City Tour by The Edinburgh Book Lover’s Tour
Friday, 31 May
09.00h — 09.45h | Towards a Linguistic Curriculum for Inclusion. Reflections on Language Teaching from the Perspective of Equality**
Carlos Soler Montes, University of Edinburgh
09.50h — 10.50h | Panel
The Evolution of Twentieth-Century Barcelona: A Look at its History, Culture and Resilience* Pol Masdeu Cañellas, University of Liverpool
Cultural Video Capsules: A Symbiotic Experience of Interuniversity Telecollaboration* Ares Llop Naya, University of Cambridge
Do we Fake it? Pragmatics Applied to the CFL Classroom: Speech Acts and Phraseology* Pau Francesch Sabaté, University of Oxford
10.55h — 11.05h | Coffee Break
11.10h — 12.30h | Panel
From Bartolí to Aurel: Retreat and Exile, Memory and Post-Memory* Josep Vicenç Saval, University of Edinburgh
Linguistic Diversity in the University Classroom: Experience and Exercise Proposal* Laia Benavent Llinares, University of Birmingham
Art inside (and outside) the Classroom: The Case of the Course “Surrealist, Fantastic and Uncanny Encounters in Catalan Culture”* Anna Vives Riera, University of Edinburgh
We are booktubers* Marta Aragonés López, University of Glasgow
12.35h — 13.45h | Lunch
13.50h — 14.30h Research presentations
Decidim: Civic Technology Made in Catalonia at the Service of European Democracy* Elisabet Vives i Requena, University of Edinburgh
The Antic Teatre’s ‘New Drama’ and Some Necessary Theoretical Displacements * Marta Duran Arranz, University of Saint Andrews
14.45h — 15.45h | Jordi Larios & Xavier Mas Craviotto: Catalan Poets in Dialogue
16:00h | Closing
*In Catalan ** In Spanish
