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Catalan Studies Archived Events:
*Event coordinator: Ana-Belén Redondo Campillos redondo.campillos@berkeley.edu
Words in Action 2025: A Multilingual Student Performance.
Catalan 102 students stage the theatre play “L’ascensor” by Anna Maria Ricart.
April 16, 2025, 3-7 pm, Durham Theatre
(Sponsored by Berkeley Language Center)
La mujer escribe. Espacios y géneros para la escritura femenina en la Edad Moderna(link is external)
A seminar by Visiting Professor Eulàlia Miralles Jori (University of Chicago – Universitat de València)(link is external)
March 18, 2025 11 am, Dwinelle 219
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
Llengua i política: un binomi històric? Les llengües dels territoris de parla catalana(link is external)
A talk by Visiting Professor Eulàlia Miralles Jori (University of Chicago – Universitat de València)(link is external)
March 18, 2025, 1 pm, Dwinelle 5125 Library of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
La situació del català a la Catalunya del s. XIX
A talk by Professor Sílvia Perpiñán (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya)
November 14, 2024, 12:30 Library of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB.
(Sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull)
Writing a Novel from Anonymous Diaries(link is external)
A talk with writer Albert Forns Canal (Artist in residence at Djerassi, California)
October 28, 2024, 12:30 pm. Library of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Words in Action 2024: A Multilingual Student Performance.
Catalan 102 students stage a fragment of the theatre play “Morir (Un instant abans de morir”, by Sergi
Belbel Galceran.
April 12, 2024, 3-7 pm, Durham Theatre
(Sponsored by Berkeley Language Center and organized by the Department of Italian Studies)
Embodying Infrastructures(link is external)
A talk with artist Mario Santamaría
October 11, 2023, 12 pm. Library of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Words in Action 2023: A Multilingual Student Performance.
Catalan 102 students stage a fragment of the theatre play “Morir (Un instant abans de morir”, by Sergi
Belbel Galceran.
April 14, 2023, 3-7 pm, Durham Theatre
(Sponsored by Berkeley Language Center and organized by the Department of Italian Studies)
Citizenship and Visuality: Filming Catalonia’s Cultural Landscape(link is external)
A talk by Prof. Antonio Monegal (Institut de Cultura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and Visiting
Professor in Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University, Fall 2019)
December 2, 2019, 2:30 pm. Library of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, Catalonia; the Townsend Center of the Humanities, and co-
organized with the Iberian Studies Working Group, Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Castellers de Vilafranca – Human Towers From Catalonia(link is external)
A performance by 180 members of the troupe Castellers de Vilafranca, from Tarragona (Catalonia).
Human towers at Lower Sproul
A talk on team building by David Miret, a member of the troupe.
October 8, 2019, 11 am – 1:30 pm. 370 Dwinelle Hall and Lower Sproul.
(Sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i47F4pmKEVQ(link is external)
Diada de Sant Jordi: Books, dracs and snacks.
A celebration of Sant Jordi’s Day by the Catalan Language Program.
April 23, 2019, 12-2 pm. Library of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
(Sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Words in Action 2019: A Multilingual Student Performance. Catalan 101.(link is external)
The students of Catalan 101 staged a fragment of the theatre play “El mètode Grönholm”, by Jordi
Galceran.
April 12, 3-7 pm, Durham Theatre.
Dalí’s Origins: Drawings and Paintings from the Cusí Collection(link is external)
A talk by Prof. Jordi Falgàs (Director of Fundació Rafael Masó, Girona, and
Visiting Lecturer in Catalan Studies, Stanford University, Fall 2017)
November 6, 2017, 12 pm. Library of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Institute of
European Studies)
Avi, et trauré d’aquí(link is external)
Screening of the documentary and Q&A with Catalan investigative documentary filmmaker Montserrat
Armengou (NYU - King Juan Carlos Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization for Spring 2017).
March 13, 2017, 4-6 pm. 159 Mulford Hall, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Institute of
European Studies)
Folk Souvenir(link is external)
Songs, echoes and sounds of the popular music of Majorca. Concert by duet Joana Gomila and Laia
Vallès (voice, music and electronic effects).
November 28, 2016, 6 pm. B-4 Berkeley Language Center, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Institute of
European Studies)
A Multilingual Student Performance. Catalan 101.
The students of Catalan 101 sing the song “Me sobren paraules”, by Antònia Font.
April 22, 2016, 4-8 pm. The Osher Studio. UC Berkeley – BLC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2GfWLPLf_Q(link is external)
The current social and political debates confronting Catalonia and Spain: Is there a conflict of identities?(link is external)
A talk by Prof. Salvador Cardús i Ros (Ginebre Serra Visiting Prof. in Catalan Studies, Stanford
University).
November 7, 2016, 12:15 pm. 201 Moses Hall – Institute of European Studies, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Institute of
European Studies)
Xerrada amb la poeta Elia Saneleuterio Temporal (I): Els poetes valencians en la classe de català com a
llengua estrangera: l’exili com a eixida.
Visiting Professor Elia Saneleuterio Temporal (Professor of Pedagogy of Spanish Language and
Literature in Universitat de València).
September 23, 2016, 1-2 pm. B-4 BLC, UCB. Session with the students of Catalan 102.
(Sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Xerrada amb la poeta Elia Saneleuterio Temporal (II): Didàctica de la poesia: representació i dramatització del temps.
September 30th 2016, 1-2 pm. B-4 BLC, UCB. Session with the students of Catalan 102.
(Sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Catalonia and the “Disconnection Process” from Spain.
A talk by Andreu Missé i Ferran(link is external) (Partner and editor-in-chief of “Alternativas económicas”, former vice-editor-in-chief of the newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya and former editor-in-chief of the economics section and delegate reporter in Brussels of the newspaper El País).
December 4, 2015, 12:30 pm. B-4 BLC, UCB.
(Sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Solo veus(link is external)
Catalan Program at UCB Welcome Reception and Show by Singer and Performer Mariona Sagarra
(Electroacoustic, multiple elements and vocal polyphonies show. Repertoire: Poems by Montserrat
Abelló, Joan Vinyoli, JV Foix, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Mercè Rodoreda, Maria Mercè Marçal, Bodelaire,
Cervantes, Josep Maria de Sagarra, Fernando Pessoa, Mossén Cinto Verdaguer, J. Gil de Biedma, etc.).
October 8, 2015, 5:30 pm. B-4 BLC, UCB.
(Co-sponsored by: Institut Ramon Llull, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Institute of
European Studies)
