The UOC is to award Aina Moll an honorary doctorate at noon on Tuesday 8 May at a ceremony at the university’s headquarters. The UOC awards this distinction in recognition of this Minorcan philologist’s contribution to linguistic normalisation in the Catalan-speaking territories. The ceremony will be opened and closed by UOC President Imma Tubella. The oration will be given by Isidor Marí, UOC lecturer and President of the Philological Section of the Institute of Catalan Studies.
Venue
Seu central de la UOC
Av. Tibidabo, 39-41
Barcelona
Espanya
When
08/05/2012 12.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Program
Aina Moll Marquès (Ciutadella de Menorca, 1930) is daughter of Francesc de Borja Moll, with whom she worked on the Diccionari català-valencià-balear [Catalan-Valencian-Balearic Dictionary]. She graduated in Philosophy and Letters, specialising in Romance Languages, in 1953. She studied further in Paris, Strasbourg and Zurich, among other places. She is member of the Catalan Sociolinguistics Group and was Director General of Language Policy in the Catalan government between 1980 and 1988. She joined the Philological Section of the Institute of Catalan Studies in 1993. She published La nostra llengua in 1990 and the biography Francesc B. Moll: la fidelitat tossuda in 2004. Among other awards, she received the Saint George’s Cross from the Catalan government in 1989 and the Ramon Llull Prize from the Balearic government in 1997.
Honorary doctorate
The honorary doctorate is the highest academic distinction awarded to individuals by the UOC in recognition of their professional and academic merits, their contribution to science, their contribution to the development of knowledge and their expertise in their area of study. The UOC’s first honorary doctorate was awarded to Josep Laporte i Salas in 2003. Subsequently, doctorates have been awarded to Tony Bates (2005); Jordi Pujol (2006); William J. Mitchell (2006); Alain Touraine (2007); Timothy Berners-Lee (2008) and Brenda M. Gourley (2011).