The University of Vic pays tribute to Rusiñol

An academic conference brings together the main experts in the work and figure of Señor del Cau
Tuesday 25 November 2025
  • La Universitat de Vic homenatja Rusiñol

The University of Vic has called for an academic session to pay tribute to Santiago Rusiñol for Friday, November 28, on the occasion of the centenary that was paid to the Lord of the Cave in late 1925 and early 1926 by a large and varied group of intellectuals and which was called the Tribute of Catalonia.

The initiative will feature three conferences, given by experts on Santiago Rusiñol: Margarida Casacuberta, Juan Carlos Rodríguez and Vinyet Panyella. It has also scheduled a round table and a session to present new publications on Rusiñol's work.

The conference is organized by the Verdaguer Chair of Literary Studies at UVic-UCC, with the collaboration of the Verdaguer Society, the Ter Museum, the Cau Ferrat Museum, and the Research Group in Applied Linguistics, Didactics and Literature (GLOSSA), and has the support of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Institution of Catalan Literature.

PROGRAM

Sala Segimon Serrallonga (UVic-UCC)
C/ Perot Rocaguinarda, 17, Vic

Friday, November 28, 2025

9.30 a.m. Opening ceremony

10 a.m. Opening: Inaugural lecture: Margarida Casacuberta, ‘The homage of the Catalan intellectuals’ to Santiago Rusiñol: the consolidation of a myth

11 a.m. Lecture: Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Santiago Rusiñol’s Catalanism, through his writings in ‘L’Esquella de la Torratxa’

Break

12.30 p.m. Round table: Santiago Rusiñol around the world, moderated by Pere Quer

Lourdes Sánchez, The Italian imprint on the work of Santiago Rusiñol

Pere Rosselló, Rusiñol and Mallorca: the relationship with Gabriel Alomar

Andreu Bosch, Santiago’s literary correlate Rusiñol in Cau Ferrat

Free lunch

4 p.m. Presentation of new publishing, by M. Àngels Verdaguer and his authors

In the shadow of the nightingale, by Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Writings by Santiago Rusiñol in ‘L’Esquella de la Torratxa’, by Andreu Bosch and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
The poetics of gardens. Santiago Rusiñol in Granada, by Lourdes Sánchez
5 p.m. Closing conference: Vinyet Panyella, The artistic thought of Santiago Rusiñol

Closing