Leading Catalan writer and diplomat Carles Casajuana spoke about his work and his experience of bilingualism at the annual Perez de Ayala lecture at the University of Southampton. His latest book The Last Man Who Spoke Catalan won the 2009 Ramon Llull award. The novelist was Spanish Ambassador to...

Internationalisation has become the dominant trend in many areas of life, not least in higher education, where there is much talk of ‘internationalising the curriculum', ‘internationalisation at home', and the like. Universities have had little to say, by contrast, about the de facto lingua...