ACTIVITIES

• Thursday, 16 March 2006:
  Annual pilgrimage to Montségur

As indicated in the introduction to the Fellowship, activities in North America will develop as the Fellowship grows and we can engage in our own activities. Until that time, we are happy to provde a summarization of up-coming activities in France and other locations.

Some of the many activities and associations that will be working in cooperation with us and our friends in Europe will involve the following:

• One annual gathering of the « Companhons de Paratge » (Occitan history and society through the ages)

• Two annual gatherings among various European universities [dialogues in religion, power, and philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present]

• One annual gathering of Occitan Literature [philosophy, history, sociology, ethnology]

• One annual Week of Sacred and Secular Music and Chant of Medieval Europe

• Reactivation of the intercultural group known as « Maïmonide-Averroès-Lull » [gatherings among the various religious and non-religious traditions in Toulouse]

• One annual Week of Naive Arts focusing on the theme of Occitan culture through the ages

• Publication of the semi-annual journal called Agora Néa focusing on research in Occitania: historiography, archaeology, philosophy, theology, sociology, ethnology, literature, etc. As well as an annual press conference and gathering.