Saturday 8 June, al local (88, Rue de la Semois; Luxembourg Ville), the Catalan Center of Luxembourg invites you to the screening of a documentary and an interesting conference. The chosen documentary, Columbus and the Catalan Royal House (2011), directed by Dani of the Order, tries to dismantle the fallacy of a plebeian Columbus, illiterate and foreigner who holds the high political and military positions that only members of the royal house and certain nobles had. The documentary, based on the studies of Jordi Bilbeny, aims to explain the facts and to make sense of the royal mentality of the discoverer and the dynasty that the Columbuses created on the other side of the Atlantic. The screening will begin at 15.30.
Then, approximately at 16.30, we hear George Bilbeny conference entitled "Recovering the past, state matter. The manipulation of the history of Catalonia in the fifteenth, XVI and XVII through evidence and documents ". Jordi Bilbeny (Arenys de Mar, 1961) is a writer and researcher. Degree in Catalan Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and PhD in Modern History at the University of Barcelona. In recent years he has combined his research work with teaching Catalan language for adults. In the mid eighties, censorship began studying Christian texts throughout history. Documenting for a novel, realizes that the information about Christopher Columbus and are inconsistent, even, contradictory, and begin a historical investigation of the case. From here, began his career as a historian. His first book, Brief relation of the destruction of history, was the result of his research on censorship, which led him to open a new perspective on the history of Catalonia.