March 2, 2010

Location

Ateneu Barcelonés

6 Calle Canuda 08002 Barcelona

93 343 6121

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    The whole idea of Catalunya as a separate nation can be hard for foreign residents to understand. Many people sense how important it is locally, but don't understand much about it. Metropolitan hopes to lend a hand by offering a free educational forum on April 8th at the Ateneu Barcelonés (C/ Canuda 6), at 7pm, in which both sides of the issue will be presented, in English.

    Two representatives of Catalan political parties will explain their parties' positions on the proposed new version of the estatut and Catalan nationalism. Nito Foncuberta of Ciutadans (C's), which is opposed to Catalan nationalism, and Marta Rovira from Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, which supports it, will be joined by native English speakers and long-time Barcelona residents, Charles Ablett, a scholar of Catalan history who isn't in favour of local nationalism, and Erik Jeffery, who owns a business here and supports Catalan nationalism.

    Each speaker will have 10 minutes, then the floor will be opened to questions from the audience. The forum will be moderated by Richard Schweid, a founding editor of Barcelona Metropolitan.

    Please note the starting time is slightly later than that advertised in the March edition of Metropolitan.

    March 2, 2010

    Latest Comments

    • sort of summary

      I wrote some sort of summary of the debate on my blog: http://dinzo.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/debate-about-catalan-nationalism/
      I didn´t have enough time to write it really well, so a lot is missing. Also I can´t guarantee that it´s 100% objective :)

      By the way, anyone can help me out about what was the name of the last speaker (who represented ERC)?

      Posted by machiel April 09, 2010 19:01:50

    • RE: Possible transcript

      Dear Michael,
      Thank you for your comment. Please note that we have plans to put up on the website a video of the evening at some point in the future.
      Many thanks, Katy

      Posted by Katy (Metropolitan) April 09, 2010 10:02:12

    • Possible Transcript??

      Thanks for hosting this event. I would love to attend, but I will be working and will be unable to be there. I was wondering if there would be a recording or possible transcript of this event. I know there are a lot of people who would love to listen in on this topic, but can not be there for whatever reason. If anyone obtains a copy would you please let me know...
      Michael
      mshy87@gmail.com

      Thanks in advance

      Posted by Michael April 08, 2010 18:15:35

    • The problem is lying and distorting History

      Catalan nationalists and their followers in power now in Spain have distorted reality and lied about their History and its relation with the rest of Spain. Its romantic view of their 'country' and its independence is just a not very clever approach to the reality of a land, the Spanish, which has been united for more than 500 years.
      The catalan language, derived from the 'Languedoc' occitan language, was brought from the South of France by the immigrants Charlemagne sent to stop the muslims invasion in the early middle ages, creating what was called the 'Marca Hispanica', nowadays deleted from History books of the catalan schools.
      Lying will get them nowhere...

      Posted by Alfonso April 07, 2010 14:24:49

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