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The North American Catalan Society (NACS) is a professional association
of scholars, students, and people with a general interest in any
aspect of Catalan culture (literature, linguistics, visual and performing
arts, history, and philosophy, among other disciplines).
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Founded in 1978, during the First Colloquium of Catalan Studies in North America (held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the NACS is committed to encouraging and advancing the study of Catalan language and culture in the North American academy. It seeks to foster greater visibility for and dissemination of scholarship in the field of Catalan Studies and serves as a central point of reference, as well as a public voice, for a network of scholars in this field. To this end, the NACS holds triennial colloquia (along with occasional smaller symposia) and publishes the Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture.
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Artist: Antoni Miró, www.antonimiro.com
Title: NACS 1997 (20 anys)
Size: 34 cm × 34cm
Material: acrylic on canvas
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Catalan is a Romance language spoken by a population of around ten million people in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula (Catalonia, Balearic Islands, most of the Valencia region, and the eastern fringe of Aragon) and the Principality of Andorra. In addition, Catalan is still spoken in the French region of Roussillon and the town of Alghero (L'Alguer) on the island of Sardinia.
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Catalan, like other Romance languages, evolved from Latin during the Middle Ages. The first written documents in Catalan are the Homilies dOrganyŕ, a compilation of sermons from the11th century. From Medieval times until our days, Catalan has continued to be one of the main languages of everyday use and literary expression in the eastern areas of the Iberian Peninsula. After a politically and culturally hegemonic period up to the 16th century, ...
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