The University of Melbourne and Monash University are jointly hosting the Second Symposium on Catalonia in Australia. The event will take place on 27th July and will bring together, sixteen years after its first edition, the main researchers and research students from Catalonia in this continent.
The Symposium will be held at Melbourne University and has a varied programme, consisting of the following sessions: “Catalans abroad”, “Catalonia: Community, Commitment and Collective Action”, “Barcelona: the great enchantress” and “Catalan Literature: Classic and Contemporary”.
The event, which is free, celebrates the resumption of the teaching of Catalan language and culture at an Australian University, and comes at a very timely moment for Catalonia. It is currently facing a major challenge that could define its future as a country, after the massive demonstrations on 11th September which saw some 1.5 million people filling the streets of Barcelona in favour of the right to a State of their own, independently of Spain.
The Symposium is supported by the Catalan Centre of Victoria, the only organised Catalan community in Australia working to promote its culture.