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 BBC Mundo, 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 thinkers that will offered their inspiring talks to us on a weekly basis were: Lydia Cacho, Javier Cercas, Miriam González Durántez, Paul Krugman, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Venki Ramakrishnan, Saskia Sassen, Fernando Savater, Elif Shafak and Juan Villoro.
Venki Ramakrishnan. What is out place in the natural world? Nature, social inequality and human arrogance during the pandemic
The Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan (India), looks at the pandemic through a scientific and humanistic lense, asking not only how the world is going to be after this crisis, but how human beings should reflect on how we relate to nature, to our fellow people and to our own social and economical systems.
J.M.G. Le Clézio - For Izti, Imagining a Better World. The Importance of Memory, Justice and Learning from Indigenous Peoples
The Nobel Prize for Literature winner shares the reading of a beautiful letter addressed to his granddaughter, in which he reflects on the teachings and difficulties that this pandemic brings for humans and the environment. Using historical memory as an instrument of analysis, he comes close to the teachings of first nation people to build societies that are more fair and more respectful of the environment. A beautiful reading with the exceptional prose of Le Clézio and the teachings and reflections that we urgently need.
Breaking Taboos in the Pandemic: The Situation of Women and Domestic Work
The Palo Alto based spanish lawyer, an expert on EU legislation and founder of the project Inspiring girls, speaks to us about the unpaid and undervalued domestic work that allows family units to function but is still not accounted for or legislated. The coronavirus crisis has shifted the attention to what goes on inside the home and González Durántez will help us understand why domestic work is so crucial for society.
Juan Villoro - New Fire. The End of the World and other Chronic Issues
Chronicler, writer and sharp current affairs commentator, Juan Villoro talks to us about how the urgent, global situation created by COVID-19 requires us to take a humanistic and brave posture in order face it.
Saskia Sassen - Cities in check
The sociologist, writer and professor Saskia Sassen won the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. One of her main scientific contributions, widely used around the world, has been the concept of “global cities”, that she will revisit for the digital audience, in the light of this new reality.
Paul Krugman - Beyond economics: the implications of covid19 for the new world order
Paul Krugman (United States) is an economist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008. Professor and media commentator, his analisis on the global financial situation in the context of the pandemic will be a very necessary note in order to understand what’s coming.
Elif Shafak - Towards a more equal world: pandemic, knowledge, rights and civic compromise
Elif Shafak is an activist for women's rights, minority rights, and freedom of speech. Her latest book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker prize and shortlisted for the Prix de Livre Etranger in France. She reflects on issues very close to her heart within the current context, such as social justice, dignity, human rights, equality, public benefit, diversity…. and a new kind of political action.
Javier Cercas - Against Populism, the Battle for Telling the True Tale
The award-winning writer Javier Cercas (Spain) analyzes how the battle for narrating and contextualizing the reality of the global pandemic can generate interesting questions about our way of living. But, if they are not asked from the point of view of critical thinking, this can also serve to foment nationalist movements or the rise of populist leaders. With reference to the works of philosophers and thinkers that we all should know, Cercas contemplates this historical moment with lucidity.
LYDIA CACHO - Journalism with a gender perspective: let´s think about new masculinities
The journalist and activist Lydia Cacho (Mexico) has spent decades fighting for women rights through her journalistic work with gender perspective, created a shelter for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking in Cancun and has written several books. She will speak to us about her journalistic work, and her book #Theyspeak, on which through several in depth interviews with men, they reflect together on what means to be a man; Cacho reads from her book with a new perspective, that of the global pandemic and how it has contributed to this very urgent question around masculinity.
Fernando Savater - Note on the pandemic: solidarity and science
The renowned Spanish philosopher, an expert on Ethics and a prolific writer, reflects from his Basque Country home about the immediate effects of the covid19 crisis on our psyche, how solidarity is probably the most relevant concept now for human beings, and how we need to trust the scientific method. Savater at its most honest and intimate.
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