Institut Ramon LLull

UCLA Celebrating Sant Jordi with Catalan Symposium

Thought.  Los Angeles, 24/04/2018

UCLA is celebrating its Second Catalan Symposium on Catalan Studies this year, and its events are free and open to the public.




Monday April 23,  Royce Hall 306


8:30-9:00 am     Breakfast

9-9:15 am           Welcoming Remarks
                      John Dagenais, Gemma Repiso

9:15 – 10:45 am    Linguistic Variation and
                           Language in Contact
                           Moderator: Ji Young Kim

Dues llengües, dues pronunciacions? Un projecte de corpus per a la fonologia bilingüe del castellà i català
Monja Burkard (University of Vienna)

El català i el castellà: comparació de les actituds lingüístiques a Palma i Barcelona
Anna Tudela (Beijing Foreign Studies University)

Flexibilitat sintàctica del verb interessar
Carles Royo (Universitat de Barcelona)

10:45 - 11 am      Coffee break

11-12:30 am  Catalan in Translation
                   Moderator: Rebecca Glasberg

Overcoming Barriers for Minoritized Languages through Translation
 Policy: the Institutionalization of Catalan
Javier Moreno (UCLA)

The Politics of Translation: World Literature in Catalan
Eloi Grasset Morell (UC Santa Barbara)

Translating Ramon Llull’s Doctrina pueril
John Dagenais (UCLA)


12:30-1:30 pm      Lunch for participants

1:30 – 3:00 pm    Dictatorship and Exile
                         Moderator: Elizabeth Warren
Les ambigüitats polítiques d’Antoni Tàpies durant el Franquisme
Claudia Grego March (UC Santa Barbara)

Emigrants, Indianos, Exiles: The Cultural Legacy of Catalans in Cuba
Jennifer Monti (UCLA)

Between Opacity and Clarity: Josep Maria Forn, Pere Portabella, and Catalan Cinematic Representation under Franco
Brad Epps (University of Cambridge)

3:00 -3:15 pm    Coffee break

3:15-4:45 pm     Catalan as a Second Language
                        Moderator: Victoria Mateu

Estudiar català a l'estranger. Per què?
Ruben Manuel Oronich (University of Manchester)

L'elaboració d'un curs híbrid de català
Gemma Repiso (UCLA)

Cap a una interllengua catalana comuna
Mireia Toda Cosi (University of Maryland- BC)


5 pm Sant Jordi Celebration


Tuesday 24 April, Royce Hall 306



9:30 – 11:00 am    Literature and Politics
                             Moderator: Gemma Repiso


Precariedad en la Cataluña de posguerra: inseguridad económica y afectiva en La plaça del Diamant (1964) y El carrer de les Camèlies (1966)
Alba Constela (UC Santa Barbara)

Metaphor at Work: An Analysis of the Catalan Independence Discourse
Albert Ventayol i Boada (UC Santa Barbara)

“¿No te he dicho que has de hablar castellano?”: The Politics of Language Choice in Guillén de Castro’s La verdad averiguada y el casamiento engañoso
Laura Muñoz (UCLA)

11:00 -11:30 am     Coffee break

11:30-1:00 pm  Modernity and Interculturality
                        Moderator: John Dagenais

La presencia catalana y su reconocimiento cultural en Guadalajara, México
Andrea Ruíz (Universidad de Guadalajara, México)

La interculturalitat en l’obra de Monika Zgustová
Mireia Toda Cosi (University of Maryland)

Holy Sadomasochism as Anticlerical Resistance: Lluís Borrassà’s La flagellation du Christ (c.14161420) and Joan Sanxo Farrerons’ El pájaro azul (c. 1931)
Eilene Powell (UCLA)

12:30 - 1 pm Closing Presentation
La història del Casal dels Catalans de Califòrnia
Pere Garriga (Vice President)

1:00  pm Reception - Brindis de comiat

 

April 23-24, 2018

Royce Hall 306
Free and open to the public

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