THE ANGLO-CATALAN SOCIETY
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1954-2010

 

LV Anglo-Catalan Society Conference

University of Edinburgh

13-15 November 2009

 

 

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Conference Programme

(Pdf printable version here)

Friday 13 November

2.30pm Arrival and Registration / Tea and coffee will be available

St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

3.15pm Welcome Address

3.30pm Session 1 - St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

Chair: Elisenda Marcer

Kathryn Crameri ( University of Sydney )

Independence without Nationalism: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and 2014

Jordi Cornella-Detrell (Bangor University)

Míster Evasió de Blai Bonet i Señas de identidad de Juan Goytisolo. Exili i canvi en la societat catalana dels anys 60: dues visions complementàries

Jordi Larios (Queen Mary, University of London )

La modernitat com a decadència i la temptació del feixisme: Els casos de Josep Pla i Llorenç Villalonga

5.00pm Coffee / St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

5.30pm Joan Gili Lecture: Geoffrey Ribbans

"Joan Maragall, bourgeois extraordinaire"

St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

7.00pm "Trueta"

Angels Aymar and Montserrat Roser i Puig

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Saturday 14 November 2009

9.15 – 9.30am Arrival Tea / coffee will be available in the St Leonard 's Hall

Foyer

9.30am Session 2 - St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

Chair: Jill Buckenham

Josep-Anton Fernàndez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona)

Queer Temporalities of Secrecy and Trauma: Ventura Pons's Barcelona: Un Mapa

Robert A. Davidson ( University of Toronto )

Barcelona is Different

Anna Vives ( University of Leicester )

La imatge de la ciutat en la poesia de Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Carles Salvador i Carles Sindreu

11.00am Coffee - St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

11.30am AGM - St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

1.00pm Buffet Lunch – St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

2.00pm Session 5 - St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

Chair: Dominic Keown

Montserrat Lunati ( Cardiff University )

“Marriage of true minds”: Dol i creativitat a Un home de paraula (2006), d'Imma Monsó

Stewart King ( Monash University , Australia )

Keeping Up Appearances: Image and Performance in Teresa Solana's Un crim imperfecte and Drecera al paradís

3.30pm Coffee / tea - St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

4.00pm Trobada entre el Centre Català d'Escòcia i l'Anglo Catalan Society

Chair: Josep Saval

Approximately 5.30 pm Visit to Scottish Parliament

Arrive at Parliament main entrance by 6.00pm.

Tours (2) start at 6.10/6.15pm.

Tour length - 45 minutes.

Maximum 40 - Minimum 20 delegates.

There will be English-speaking guides).

8.00pm Conference Dinner – St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

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Sunday 15 November 2009

9.45 – 10.00am Arrival Tea/coffee will be available in the St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

10.00am Session 6 - St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

Chair: Josep-Lluís González

Colleen Culleton (University at Buffalo)

Visca la terra! and Long Live the River: The Symbolic Value of Water in Contemporary Catalonia

Sergi Mainer ( University of Edinburgh )

The Geographical Transplantation of the Matter of Britain: Guillem de Torroella's Faula (c. 1370-75) and Guillaume le Clers's Roman de Fergus (c. 1200-50)

Claudi Balaguer (Universitat de Perpinyà)

Les relacions occitanocatalanes a la Catalunya del Nord d'ençà el segle XIX

11.30am Coffee - St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

12.00 noon RIMAT - St Leonard 's Hall, St Trinnean Room

Christopher Whyte

‘Lost Rebels and Uncanny Sisters'

1.00pm Lunch – St Leonard 's Hall Foyer

End of Conference

Enquiries regarding the Conference Programme should be addressed to this year's Organiser

Dr Josep Saval, Division of European Languages and Cultures (Hispanic Studies), David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX – Jose.Saval@ed.ac.uk