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Commemorating the Life and Works of Ramon Llull

The Faculties of Sciences and Biosciences at UAB will host this year's commemoration of the life and works of Ramon Llull, born in Mallorca in the 13th century and one of the pioneers of Catalan literature. The event will take place on 30 November at noon.

28/11/2011

The Arxiu Lullianum, research group affiliated to the Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies, organises a yearly academic event dedicated to Ramon Llull and coinciding with the day of his patron saint on 27 November, to share the works of Ramon Llull with the university community. The 2010 edition was celebrated at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and, in 2009, at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

This year's event will begin with presentations by Jordi Bartrolí, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences; Jordi Barbé, Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences; and Pere Villalba and Óscar de la Cruz, director and researcher at Archivium Lullianum.

Agustí Nieto-Galan, director of the UAB Centre for the History of Science, organisation dedicated to the research, teaching and dissemination of the history of science, technology and medicine in Catalonia and Spain, will offer a conference on present views on science and history of Ramon Llull, entitled "Ramon Llull, la ciència i la història: algunes reflexions actuals".

The second conference will be offered by Jaume Medina, professor of the Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies and researcher of Archivium Lullianum, who will speak on Llullian figures and Breviculum miniatures, a summarised compilation of the works of Ramon Llull written by his disciple, Tomàs Le Myésier, with a series of one dozen miniatures depicting the life of Llull.

The event will end with a visit to the exhibit "Ramon Llull: les figures artístiques o la màquina de la veritat" dedicated to the figures of his rationalist method and literary references to his works and on exhibit from 21 November to 9 December at the Humanities Library.

Ramon Llull is considered one of the most prominent thinkers to have ever existed. His extensive work produced some 280 pieces written in Latin, Catalan and Arab, and discussed such disciplines as philosophy, theology, logic and poetry. He was a precursor to modern computing and literature written in Catalan.