The Rise of Catalan Identity Social Commitment and Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century

Pompeu Casanovas is Research Professor at La Trobe University Law School (Melbourne). He is also Director of Advanced Research and Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Law at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB Faculty of Law), and since 2014 onwards, Honorary Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His research interests encompass intellectual history, legal theory, anthropology, ethics, AI, and semantic and data analysis.  He is developing regulatory models to implement principles of linked democracy, privacy, and the rule of law (meta-rule of law) on the web of data. At present, he is working on rights, legal compliance and governance in the Australian government-funded Data to Decisions CRC Project, and the EU H2020 Projects TakeDown and SPIRIT (cyber-security) and LYNX (knowledge graph of legal and regulatory data).  He belongs to the board of several scientific associations, and serves as general co-editor (with Giovanni Sartor) of the Law,Governance and Technology Series, at Springer.

Montserrat Corretger is Associate Professor in the Department of Catalan Philology, at  Rovira i Virgili University, and member of the GRILC (Identity Research Group in Catalan Literature). Her research focuses on contemporary Catalan literature and on literary history and criticism, with special attention to the turn of the century, the 1920s and 30s, and the 1939 exile. Her latest books and articles are devoted to Domènec Guansé, Vicent Riera Llorca and Odó Hurtado.

Vicent Salvador (Paterna, l'Horta, 1951) is Professor of Catalan Philology at Jaume I University in Castelló (Valence).  He has been member of the Patronato de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (2005-2008) and Vice-president of the Catalan Pen Club (2007-2015).

He has worked mainly in the field of discourse analysis and stylistics as well as in the field of contemporary literature studies. He has published numerous articles, books, and book chapters as well as essays and poems. Among his books are La frontera literària (The literary borderline, 1988), Fuster o l'estratègia del centaure (Fuster or the Centaur's Strategy, 1994), Elements de lingüística per al discurs literari   (Elements of lingüístics for literay discourse, coauthored with Dominique Maingueneau, 1995), Poesia, ciutat oberta (Poetry, Open City, 2000), Els arxius del discurs (The Archives of Discourse, 2001),  Figures i esbossos (Figures and Sketches, 2013). He has supervised so far 21 Doctoral Thesis in different Spanish universities.