My name is Xavier Rubert de Ventós and I cannot pronounce the letter r. This is how my first course at the University of Barcelona began in 1966. I remember it with absolute clarity, perhaps because, as a child, my own name was unpronounceable for me. The...

Museum of the History of Catalonia. Wednesday, March 9th. The film Pioneers (University Women of the Second Republic), written and directed by Lala Gomà Presas, is being screened. The room is packed. All ages are present. Many women. A long-thought-out...

In his acceptance speech for the International Catalonia Prize, Ngugi wa Thiongo said: "My mother, whose name was Wanjiku, never went to school. She did not know how to read or write, but she was the one who sent me to school. It was Mother Wanjiku who...

El singular neix del plural. Eulàlia Bosch. 30 de juny 2020  Molts singulars junts fan un plural, ens deien de petites a l’escola. Avui penso que és curiós que les nostres mestres no haguessin après que el plural és anterior al singular quan elles...