CONGRESS SCHEDULE

Wednesday 26th

7:45 - 8:00 Departure from Alcañiz.
10:15 Estimated time for arrival at Tarragona.
10:30 Lluís Pignol, director of the Historical Museum of Tarragona, will offer a guided visit to the Roman walls, praetorium, Museum, circus and amphitheater, as well as to the scale model of the ancient colony of Tarraco.
14:00 Welcome by the City of Tarragona at the building "Casa Castellarnau" and snack.
15:30 Guided visit to the paleochristian necropolis and to the theater and forum of the colony.
18:15 Departure to the Rovira-Virgili University of Tarragona.
18:30 Juan F. Alcina's (Rovira-Virgili University, Tarragona) lecture: The Latin poetry in the province of Tarragona in the 16th century
19:30 Departure from Tarragona by bus.
21:00 Dinner.
23:00 Estimated time for arrival at the hotels in Amposta.

Thursday 27th, Amposta

10:00 Demetrios Koutroubas' (University of Athens) lecture: Towards a Universal Democratic State on the Basis of Greco-Roman and Christian Humanism.
11:00 Papers.
12:00 Terence Tunberg's (University of Kentucky) lecture: How long and how consistently did the humanists given to Ciceronianism reject the practice of extempore Latin conversation, which was especially common in schools during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
13:00 Panel about "New Methodologies for teaching Latin".

Moderator: Eduardo Engelsing.
Speakers: Juan Cienfuegos
Emilio Canales Muñoz and Antonius González Amador
Virpi Seppälä-Pekkanen

15:00 Lunch.
17:00 Dirk Sacré's (University of Louvain) lecture: The writing style of Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
18:00 Papers.
20:00 Andreas Fritsch, Free University of Berlin, will argue The need to remember and to read again Ioannes Amos Comenius' OPERA DIDACTICA OMNIA first printed 350 years ago in 1657
21:00 Dinner.

Friday 28th, Amposta

10:00 Milena Minkova's (Universidad de Kentucky) lecture: Application of Active Techniques in Different Methods of Teaching Latin.
11:00 Papers.
13:00 Joaquín Pascual's (University of Cádiz) lecture: Bartolomé Bravo's (1550-1607) school manuals and the teaching method in the Society of Jesus
15:00 Lunch.
17:00 Papers.
18:00 Tuomo Pekkanen's (University of Jyväskylä) lecture: Kalevala Canora: the use of the music to teach Latin.
19:00 Closing of the Congress: Speeches by Mr. Joan M. Roig i Grau, Mayor of Amposta, Mr. Antoni Sabaté, Director of the Services of the Departament of Culture at the Lands of Ebro, Mr. Tuomo Pekkanen, President of the ALF, Mr. Antonio Capellán García, Promoter of the ALF Congresses, as well as Mr. José María Maestre and Mr. Joaquín Pascual Barea, Directors of the Congress.
20:00 Music performance (CFK Jazz Quartet).
21:00 Dinner.

Saturday 29th

10:00 Departure from the hotels of Amposta
1:00 Estimated arrival at the International Airport of Barcelona

ROOMS

ALCAÑIZ
Lectures and Papers will take place at the Municipal Theater.

AMPOSTA
Lectures and Papers will take place in the District Museum of the Montsià, 34 Gran Capità street.

In this Museum, the participants are welcome to visit the exhibitions on sculptors from Zimbabwe and on documents from Catalonia.