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Among the activities planned, there are to be two lectures from the researchers Joan-Lluís Marfany, Reader at the University of Liverpool, and Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera, Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, entitled Decadence and renaissance in the linguistic and cultural history of Catalonia: The need for a radical review, and Linguistics and Spanish linguistic nationalism, respectively.

The event is to be opened by professors Isidor Marí and Joan Pujolar, who have been the directors of Catalan Language and Literature at the UOC over these ten years. There is also to be a presentation from Salvador Climent, the current director of the Catalan Language and Literature degrees.The closing of the event is to involve the Director of the Arts and Humanities Department, Carles Sigalés.

A benchmark university

The first semester of this academic year saw 553 students enrol on the current Catalan Language and Literature degree; a figure which makes the UOC one of the universities with the highest number of students studying this degree in the Catalan-speaking regions.

The UOC has seen constant growth in the number of students on the officially recognised Catalan Language and Literature degree since it began in the academic year 1998-1999. The first year saw 121 students enrol, and two years later this figure was already up to 252. Over 300 enrolled in the academic year 2003-2004, when the total reached 323, and the first semester of the academic year 2007-2008 saw the number reach 503.