Joan Roura Parella
Joan Roura Parella (Tortellà, 1897 - Middletown, Connecticut, USA, 1983) taught at the Escuela Normal de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1933-1939) and at the Pedagogy section of the University of Barcelona, where he directed a seminar on aesthetic education. Like so many other Catalan intellectuals, in January 1939 he had to go into exile. Until 1945 he was a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Mexico and collaborated actively with Catalan exile circles in that country. In 1946 he moved to the Romance Language Department of Wesleyan University (Connecticut), where he taught until his death. His humanist reflections on “culturalist pedagogy” and the profession of teaching are highly topical and of great interest today.
Programme
1-2 December 2022
Sala de Plens de l’Ajuntament Vell de Tortellà (Plaça Mercat, 21)
(Click here to download the programma in pdf format)
Thursday, December 1st
17.00h:: Opening of the Symposium with Josep Reig i Canals, Mayor of Tortellà, and Joan Vergés Gifra, Director of the Ferrater Mora Chair
17.30h: La metamorfosi de Joan Roura-Parella: una vida a la recerca de l’eternitat
Conrad Vilanou (Universitat de Barcelona)
Papers
19.15h: Joan Roura-Parella en la filosofia catalana, Joan Cuscó
19.35h: Roura-Parella i l’estètica de Dilthey, Ignasi Roviró
19.55h: Joan Roura-Parella: amor y vida auténtica, Alberto Oya
20.15h: Joan Roura-Parella: de Tortellà (la Garrotxa) a la Wesleyan
University (Connecticut, USA), Lluís To
Debate
Friday, December 2nd
9.30h: La influència de l’exili de Joan Roura-Parella en els organismes internacionals. L’impuls de l’Educació per a la Pau
Karine Rivas (Universitat de Barcelona)
11.15h: Joan Roura-Parella durant els anys del Seminari de Pedagogia
Jordi García Farrero (Universitat de Barcelona)
12.30h: Roura-Parella en el context de la renovació pedagògica durant
la Generalitat republicana
Josep González Agápito (Universitat de Barcelona / Institut d’Estudis Catalans)
Papers
16.00h: Narrativa literària de Joan Roura Parella, Josep Cullell Ramis
16.20h: Roura-Parella i els mestres exiliats a Mèxic, Salomó Marquès
16.40h: La pedagogia, qüestió d’esperit, Jordi Castellet
17.00h: Joan Roura-Parella, quàquer. Camí vers la pau, Rosa Serra
Debate
18.30h: Joan Roura-Parella i Agustí Bartra. Epistolari d’exili (1946-1982)
Oriol Ponsatí Murlà (Universitat de Girona)
19.45h: Closure of the Symposium
Joaquim Trias, Sponsor of the Ferrater Mora Chair, and Jordi Font, Director of Memorial Democràtic
Press Releases
Tortellà acull un simposi dedicat al pedagog Joan Roura-Parella, Diari de Girona, 9 december, 2022
La UdG dedica un simposi al tortellanenc Joan Roura Parella, Olot Televisió, 3 December, 2022
Publication
The proceedings of the symposium are expected to be published in the collection Names of the Catalan Philosophy. It will be the 20th issue of the collection.
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