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.

The fourth season of Imagine the world arrives again with the reflections of the great thinkers, coming from different disciplines, all fundamental to understand our historical moment, presented in an accessible way, in which they will be analyzing education, civil society, ethics This fourth season also pays tribute to the influential Edgar Morin, who considers humanist and intersectional knowledge as the main basis for the education of the human being, touching on all the disciplines that can integrate an educational program, investigating concepts and crucial issues for societies, such as those treated by the thinkers of Imagine the World, fourth season.

Imagina el Mundo, first season

Imagina el Mundo, second season

Imagina el Mundo, third season

Carlos Granés speaks with the acclaimed German writer and philosopher Wolfram Eilenberger, about his latest book, Feuer der Freiheit (2021), in which he describes the lives of Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt. These four philosophers faced the turbulent reality of the 20th century and it was in writing that they found the space to express their ideas, oppose totalitarianism and exalt the highest expressions of human experience.

In the search of balanced societies - César Rendueles

César Rendueles (Spain) is a philosopher and professor of sociological theory at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid. He has also been a professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid and a guest lecturer at several Spanish and Latin American universities. He tells us about his latest book, Contra la igualdad de oportunidades: Un panfleto igualitarista where he analyzes in detail the supposed egalitarianism derived from equal opportunity policies, which he identifies as a form of elitism that benefits those most have. In this fascinating talk, Rendueles vindicates the need for a more balanced society, but one that takes into account the needs of each individual.

How will education improve? Marina Garcés

Marina Garcés is a philosopher, teacher and writer, whose work is focused on politicas and critical thinking. Her latest book is La escuela de aprendices (2020), a deliberation about education currently, permeated by concepts such as presence and virtuality, capitalism and progress.

Buy La escuela de aprendices (In Spanish)

Richard Sennett - Cities for free citizens

Richard Sennett (USA) is a sociologist, London School of Economics and New York University proffesor, creator of Theatrum Mundi, a research foundation on urban culture, and consultant to the UN. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Hegel Prize in 2006, the Gerda Henkel in 2008 and the Spinoza in 2010, as well as an honoris causa doctorate from Cambridge University and the Harvard Centennial Medal. He is the author of The Fall of Public Man, The Corrosion of Character, The Personal Consequences Of Work In the New Capitalism, The Craftsman, The Culture of New Capitalism and many more books. Fifty years after the publication of his classic The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life, where Sennett warned for the first time about the harmful effects that the projection of preconceived and rigid models on the urban environment had on those they intended to shelter, Sennett returns together with Pablo Sendra to the theses that guided this fundamental title: that the idea of an orderly and planned urban space constituted a trap that carried within it the seeds of corruption in the life of cities, and that the existence of a certain form of disorder was an unavoidable requirement for the gestation of a citizenry critical and emancipated.

A.C. Grayling - The frontiers of knowledge

The british writer and philosopher A.C. Grayling will reflect on the human condition, particularly about his masterpiece The Good Book: A Secular Bible.

Anthony C. Grayling is professor of philosophy at Birbeck College. Committed philosopher and excellent communicator, Grayling writes regularly in media: The Guardian, Literary Review, Financial Times, The Economist, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent and New Statesman. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays; among them: Among Dead Cities, The Choice of Hercules, Against All Gods, and Truth, Meaning and Realism and The Good Book: A Secular Bible, In this book A. C. Grayling collects, edits, rearranges and organizes the collective secular wisdom of the world in one highly readable volume.

Buy here El buen libro. La Biblia humanista.

Julia Carabias: Environmental and Social Sustainability

Julia Carabias is a Mexican biologist whose research has focused on environmental issues, particularly in the regeneration of tropical forests, environmental restoration, natural resource management, ecology and productive systems. She was president of the National Institute of Ecology in 1994 and head of Semarnap (1994-2000). Getty Award 2000, International Cosmos Award 2004, Champions of the Earth Award 2005, Belisario Domínguez Medal 2017. Honorary doctorate from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León in 2013 and from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in 2019. She brings us ideas from her book Sustentabilidad ambiental y bienestar social, edited by El Colegio Nacional. In this book the author presents the current situation in terms of sustainable development and conservation of natural heritage, while pointing out the urgent need to generate a collective conscience regarding humanity's dependence on natural resources and the consequences of exploit them excessively.

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