The University of Sheffield and Institut Ramon Llull (IRL) are organising a Conference about Catalan Studies the 17th and 18th of May. There will be talks and workshops by people from our university, as well as from other institutions. The main focus will be didactics of Catalan as a foreign language, but there will also be an approach to Catalan culture and history. Furthermore, on the 18th afternoon, the first Catalan Studies Symposium will take place and PhD students from universities across the UK and Ireland will talk about their researchers, with the collaboration from Arts & Humanities Research Council and White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.
WEDNESDAY 17th of May
13.15h – 13.30h Words of Welcome
Professor Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Vice President and Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Dr. Louise Johnson, Director of Catalan Studies
Marc Dueñas, Head of London Office at Institut Ramon Llull
13.30h – 14.45h Workshop
Subtitling, a didactic resource with great potential
Pol Masdeu Cañellas, University of Sheffield Núria Massot, University of Sheffield
14.45h – 15.00h Coffee Break
15.00h – 16.00h Workshop
British Historians and Catalonia
Professor Mary Vincent, University of Sheffield
16.00h – 17.15h Internal meeting: Catalan Studies lecturers in the UK and Ireland
17.15h – 18.00h Campus tour with Catalan students
THURSDAY 18th of May
09.00h – 10.00h Workshop
Challenges in the translation of lliterature from Catalan to English
Dr Louise Johnson, University of Sheffield
10.00h – 10.15h Coffee Break
10.15h – 11.50h Presentations by XarxaLlull lectors
Recording a true crime podcast episode to practise past tenses in Catalan (A2)
Daniel Bastús Castiella, Maynooth University
Society and culture content at the university: another way to expand the Catalan Countries’ visibility
Laia Darder, Sheffield Hallam University
Post pandemic assessment: challenges and suggestions for returning to face-to-face assessment
Maria Ribas Tur, Cardiff University
From the Virgin Mary to Snow White via Robin Hood: explaining Quim Monzó’s narrative
J. Àngel Cano Mateu, University of Leeds
12.00h – 13.00h Lunch
13.00h – 16.00h Catalan Studies Symposium
Diamond - Lecture Theatre 9
Using Ildefons Cerdà’s theory of ‘urbanización’ as a critical framework in literary studies
Matthew Oxley, University of Sheffield
Anarchist social life in Catalonia: intimacies, parenthoods/childhoods, friendships, and workplaces
Sophie Turbutt, University of Leeds
Solidarity versus separatism? The anarchist critique of Catalanisme during the 1920s and 1930s
Joshua Newmark, University of Leeds
Linguistic hospitality in contexts of complex linguistic diversity
Mireia Gómez Martínez, University College Cork
14.15 – 14.30h Coffee Break
An overview: The Renarration of Mercè Rodoreda: Translating Female Voices of the Spanish Civil War from Catalan into English
Daisy Towers, University of Leeds
Measuring domestication and foreignization through inter-rater reliability in re-translations of Mercè Rodoreda’s La Plaça del Diamant
James Robert Turner, Swansea University
Iberian studies through the lens of combined and uneven development: the world-system in literature, translation and multicultural exchange Andrea Lawrence, University of Warwick University and Monash University
The ‘noves dramatúrgies’: situated performance art in contemporary Catalonia (2008-2020)
Marta Duran Arranz, University of St Andrews