The international conference, organised by the Department of Catalan Studies, takes several balls parlats to the streets, where they reinterpret and modernise the role that patriarchy has traditionally assigned to women
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10/07/2026
Under the shadow of the Moon
The total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026 will be a once in a lifetime event, and the URV has turned it into a scientific outreach opportunity by organising events that explore the phenomenon in a way that cuts across disciplines and highlights different ways of understanding the world
It hasn’t happened in over a century. The last total eclipse visible from Catalonia was in 1905, and it will happen again on 12 August 2026. From 19.35,
28/11/2025
A multifaceted figurehead
The URV highlights the figure of Antoni Rovira i Virgili, who, like the university that bears his name, had an interdisciplinary career marked by a commitment to influencing society to make it fairer and more open, more democratic, more cultured and more progressive
When the new public university of southern Catalonia was created in 1991 from the parts of the University of Barcelona that were already present in Tarragona and Reus, it was decided that the new institution’s name must both
An academic referent in Catalonia and Europe, he is responsible for the translations into Catalan of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the complete theatrical work of Samuel Beckett
Òmnium Cultural del Tarragonès has donated a book collection owned by the critic and journalist Domènec Guansé to the URV. The collection consists of about 800 documents from 1870 to 1978 and many of them have dedications by different authors, such as Prudenci and Aurora Bertrana, Carles Soldevila, or JV Foix.
The article, published originally in number 3 of the journal (2014), has been translated into Chinese
The Research Group in Language and Linguistics (ROLLING) of the URV has organized this school aimed for doctoral students, which starts with nine courses
The book presents the evolution of Catalan folk literature studies in the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories from the 19th century
A series of activities took place from 5 to 19 May to inform people about urban life in classical antiquity
She is studying Catalan at the Eötvös Loránd University and participated in the Cafè Català, an exchange activity with students from the URV’s Department of Catalan Studies
21 students on the Doctoral Degree in Humanistic Studies present their research during a series of seminars to exchange knowledge and solve problems through interactions with fellow students
The Czech university is the only one in the world outside the Catalan speaking areas with a higher university qualification in Catalan