The Principal of the Universitat de València, Esteban Morcillo, will welcome the attendees at 18:00. Then, the round table ‘Trajectory and main milestones of the Department’ will start. It will count on the participation of former directors: Jaume Pérez Montaner, Antoni Ferrando, Manel Pérez Saldanya, Carme Barceló, Rafael Ramos and Ramon Rosselló. Maria Josep Cuenca will moderate the table.

 At 19:00 Santi Cortés will be present the work ‘The beginnings of the department, from 1976 and 1983’. Then, Miquel Francés and Antoni Medall will present the documentary ‘40 years working for the language and literature’.

At 20:00 the Orchestra of the Universitat de València will play ‘Le carnaval des animaux’ of Saint-Gaëns, under the direction of Hilari Garcia.

The event will finish at 20:45 with the intervention of the General Manager of Language Policy, Rubén Trenzano.

The Department of Catalan of the Universitat de València has commemorated its 40th anniversary with a number of events that have taken place during the year. The department was created by Manuel Sanchis Guarner in 1976. Up to this time, Sanchis Guarner, the first full university professor of Catalan Linguistics, promoted some Catalan extracurricular courses. And before that, there were seminars and other initiatives that the Franco’s dictatorship abolished.