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Chair in Multilingualism

Linguamón
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Presentation

PRESENTATION / About us

The Chair’s Management Board, made up of representatives of the UOC and Linguamón–House of Languages, was formed in March 2007 and has delegated the roles of Director and Secretary of the Chair to the lecturers Isidor Marí and Miquel Strubell, respectively:       
 

Isidor Marí was formerly a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of the Balearic Islands. From 1980 to 1996, he held diverse posts in the Generalitat, such as the Head of the Language Advisory Service (1980-1988) and Deputy Director of Language Policy up to 1996, the year that he joined the Open University of Catalonia.

Miquel Strubell was Head of the Language Standardisation Service of the Generalitat of Catalonia in 1980. He subsequently held the positions of Director of the Institut de Sociolingüística Catalana (Catalan Sociolinguistics Institute), Secretary of the Consell Social de la Llengua Catalana (Social Council of the Catalan Language) and Vice-President of the Consorci per a la Normalització Lingüística (Consortium for Language Standardisation), until 1999, when he became a lecturer at the UOC. 

The members of the Chair’s Board are:


  • The Director of Linguamón–Casa de les Llengües, Antoni Mir ;
  • Linguamón–Casa de les Llengües, Marta Xirinachs ;
  • The Vice-President for Postgraduate Studies, Continuing Education and Multilingualism at the UOC, Josep Maria Duart;
  • The Vice-President for Technology at the UOC, Llorenç Valverde ;
  • The Director of Studies for Language and Culture at the UOC, Joan Pujolar
  • The Director of the Chair, Isidor Marí; and 
  • The Executive Secretary of the Chair, Miquel Strubell.