Hay Festival Imagines the World after Covid-19

Let’s listen to the thinkers that can look into what it is happening now, using imagination, knowledge and creativity. From the Hay Festival, with the support of our regional ally SURA and in partnership with El País, we have commissioned ten of the most brilliant minds on the planet for the series of digital talks Imagine the World; the talks bring us inspiring ideas and will be broadcasted weekly here so that you can watch them from your home. These amazing thinkers reflect on the current moment, from the point of view of their field of work, thinking about the different possibilities that emerge from this extraordinary global situation: COVID-19. The users can send questions to each participant, which will be answered in a Q&A session five days after the talk has been shared online.

We will shortly introduce all the thinkers who will participate in the project.

Marcus du Sautoy. Programmed to create

Jon Lee Anderson

Rita Segato. About time and presence

Taiye Selasi. Towards a world without racism

John N. Gray. Towards a new paradigm. The stability of a less integrated and more fragmented system.

José Ignacio Latorre. In defense of Enlightenment: Education & freedom

Elena Poniatowska. Education, culture and environment

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar. How to survive a pandemic. Collaboration, self-management and mutual support

Nick Stern. Covid and finances, towards a sustainable recovery

Alma Guillermoprieto. A tale for the future