The twentieth edition of Els Juliols gets record figures in registration
The first courses of Els Juliols, start next Monday, and though the enrolment can be done until the day before the start of the course, now the numbers in registration are over the average numbers of previous editions: more than a thousand people registered in some courses, whereas last year the number of registrations was around seven hundred.
The first courses of Els Juliols, start next Monday, and though the enrolment can be done until the day before the start of the course, now the numbers in registration are over the average numbers of previous editions: more than a thousand people registered in some courses, whereas last year the number of registrations was around seven hundred.
The courses have a length of twenty hours; they are distributed within a week, with morning and afternoon sessions. With a teaching staff from different fields, university and professional areas, public and private sectors, the offer is structured in four big blocs: Arts and Humanities, Social sciences, Resources and strategies, Natural and Health sciences.
History, art and literature, theme focuses of the courses in the first week
Among the courses to be given during the week of July 4, the course dedicated to ten days that moved the world stands out. It touches on several topics, from the Titanic sinking to 11-S global terrorism, going through significant moments such as the Wall Street crash, the Night of broken glass, the nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima, Tianʼanmen massacre or the Chernobyl disaster. This course has the support of the Center for International History Studies of the University of Barcelona.
Celebrating the hundred anniversary of Dadaism, one of the courses touches on the phenomenon of this artistic moment that started in 1916 with night shows in Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and which had, and still has, a big repercussion. Different experts of this field will analyse ideas, polemic situations, actions, contradictions, personalities and vitality of this movement which spread simultaneously in cities such as Berlin or New York.
The novel from the authorʼs, editorʼs, librarianʼs perspective, and even the academic world, is the theme of the course From underdog to best-seller: writing, publishing and writing a novel today. The program has reflections around the best-sellers and analysis of genres such as Noir fiction, Science fiction, lineage, romance, or thriller, and the teaching staff is made up by writers, screenwriters, journalists, editors, librarians and Philology lecturers of the University of Barcelona.