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Event 83
Pablo Montoya in conversation with Alejandro Gaviria
Memories of Marcus Aurelius
Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
Read morePablo Montoya (Colombia) is a writer and Literature lecturer at Antioquia University, with a Master’s and doctorate in Latin American Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, University. He has published numerous books of short stories, prose poems, essays and novels, including Tríptico de la infamia, winner of the 2015 Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2015. His latest novel, Marco Aurelio y los límites del imperio, offers a profound look at the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius. In conversation with Alejandro Gaviria.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
Event 84
Cindy Herrera, Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, Yurieth Romero and Mayra Santos-Febres in conversation with Rudy Amanda Hurtado
Race and creation
Palacio de la Proclamación
Read moreFour Afro-descendent Latin American writers talk to Amanda Hurtado about creation and race. Cindy Herrera (Colombia), audiovisual media producer and linguistics and literature professional who is in the final stages of her doctorate in Latin American literature, is the author of the short story book El manifiesto del espejo and the book of hybrid narratives Des-entierro; Yuliana Ortiz Ruano (Ecuador) is a poet and writer, the author of Fiebre de carnaval, a novel that pays homage to dance, to Latin American culture, and African roots; Yurieth Romero (Colombia) is the author of Las visitantes, a transmedia project composed of a book of short stories, a television series and a film; and Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico), a novelist, poet, essayist and author of Lecciones de renuncia, which tells the story of the relationship of a woman with language and knowledge, and of different texts which informally incorporate questions of status, ethnicity and sexual identity. In conversation with Rudy Amanda Hurtado.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
With the support of the Ford Foundation-Malunga: Network for Global Justice
Event 85
Screening of the Hay Festival 20 Years documentary
Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
Read moreThis year we celebrate 20 years in Colombia: two decades of conversations, debates, questions, music, film, photography and books. Through the voices of some of the festival’s most iconic guests, as well as those who make this great festival of ideas possible, we mark the date and wish a long life to the Hay Festival in Colombia through this special documentary.
Duration: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Direction: Gustavo Gordillo
Entrada libre hasta completar aforo
Event 86
Alfonso Múnera in conversation with Toni Celia
Cartagena, a city open to the world
Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona)
Read moreCartagena de Indias, aged 491, is one of the oldest cities in the Americas. It has the weight on its shoulders of having been the most important port in the region, because of its geographical position, which made it the focus of a dark trade: the commerce in slaves. One of our most loved historians, Alfonso Múnera Cadavid (Colombia), will talk to Toni Celia about his book Cartagena, una ciudad abierta al mundo, an exhaustive and enjoyable investigation into a territory full of complexities, contradictions and vitality.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
Event 87
Jorge Velosa in conversation with Daniel Samper Pizano
From the plains
Teatro Adolfo Mejía
Read moreJorge Velosa (Colombia) is a poet, minstrel, researcher, actor and popular artist, whose songs have become a unique musical genre, rooted in the stories of the farmers of Boyacá. He has received many accolades, including an honorary doctorate granted by the National University of Colombia in 2012. In conversation with Daniel Samper Pizano, the event will include a short concert.
Price: $70,000.00 (COP)
Sponsored by Fundación BAT
Event 88
Tere Gaviria, Felipe Holguín, Beto Rosero and Mónica Taboada Tapia in conversation with Ricardo Chica Gelis
Caribbean Film
Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
Read moreFour Colombian filmmakers talk about the cinematographic creation that is currently happening in the Caribbean. With Felipe Holguín and Tere Gaviria, director and producer of La Suprema, which opened at TIFF in 2023 and was nominated for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Photography and Best Screenplay at the Macondo Awards; and with Beto Rosero and Mónica Taboada Tapia, producer and director of the film Alma del desierto, about a trans Wayuu woman. Taboada Tapia is the first Colombian woman to take one of her films to the Venice Film Festival, where she won a Queer Lion award. In conversation with Ricardo Chica Gelis.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
Event 89
5th Anagrama Award for Literary Journalism
Felipe Restrepo Pombo and the winner
Palacio de la Proclamación
Read moreThe aim of this award is to stimulate narrative journalism in Spanish and recognise the work of the best commentators in the language. The 5th Anagrama Literary Journalism / Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation Award is made in honour of the great Mexican journalist and writer Sergio González Rodríguez. The award is supported by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation and an alliance with the Hay Festival. We present the winner at this event in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo (coordinator).
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
All Sunday 2 February events will be free for people from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your ID, between 27 Janaury and 2 February.
Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
Event HFJ23
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
¿Qué nos hace humanos?
Uninorte Barranquilla
Read moreRodrigo Quian Quiroga (Argentina) es físico, matemático y neurocientífico y una autoridad en el tema de mecanismos neuronales de percepción visual y memoria. En su último libro es Cosas que nunca creeríais. De la ciencia ficción a la neurociencia, el autor explora el funcionamiento del cerebro. Quian Quiroga es descubridor de las ‘neuronas de concepto’ o ‘neuronas Jennifer Aniston’, e investiga los avances científicos en torno a la neurología que nos están acercando a posibilidades que hasta ahora parecían de ciencia ficción. Desde 2019 es miembro de la Academia de Ciencias Médicas de Reino Unido y actualmente es profesor en el Instituto de Investigación del Hospital del Mar, en Barcelona. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ofrece su conferencia ¿Qué nos hace humanos?, seguida de una sesión de preguntas del público.
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Event HFJ24
Natalie Haynes
Uninorte Barranquilla
Read moreLa genial periodista y divulgadora Natalie Haynes (Reino Unido), gran defensora de los clásicos y colaboradora de medios como The Times, The Independent, The Guardian o The Observer, nos invitó a revisitar el mundo clásico en su obra. La autora de Las mil naves. Y ahora presenta Las miradas de Medusa (2024), donde explora la historia de la temida Medusa. Haynes, considerada una autoridad del mundo clásico, es autora de seis libros sobre el tema y lidera un programa de la BBC con la misma temática.
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Event HFJ25
Conferencia de Thomas Hertog
Sobre el origen del tiempo: la última teoría de Stephen Hawking
Uninorte Barranquilla
Read moreEl cosmólogo belga Thomas Hertog estudió Física en su país natal y realizó un doctorado en Cambridge sobre la expansión cósmica bajo la supervisión de Stephen Hawking. Sobre el origen del tiempo narra la historia de la colaboración prolongada entre Hertog y Hawking, y lo que descubrieron sobre el big bang a lo largo del camino. El libro trata sobre algunas de las grandes preguntas que la humanidad siempre se ha planteado, en el contexto más amplio del desarrollo histórico de la cosmología y con el toque personal del vínculo del autor con Hawking.
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Event HFJ26
Susan Neiman
Izquierda no es woke
Uninorte Barranquilla
Read moreSusan Neiman (Estados Unidos) es una destacada filósofa y escritora conocida por sus contribuciones a la filosofía moral, la Ilustración, la metafísica y la política. Formada en Harvard, Neiman ha enseñado en Yale y en la Universidad de Tel Aviv, y, desde el año 2000 dirige el Einstein Forum en Potsdam, Alemania. Su nuevo libro, Izquierda no es woke, examina críticamente la distinción entre los principios de la izquierda y el fenómeno conocido como woke, argumentando que el verdadero espíritu de la izquierda se basa en el universalismo, la justicia y la posibilidad de progreso, valores que considera distorsionados por algunas corrientes actuales que priorizan identidades tribales, tendiendo al conservadurismo.
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Evento gratuito para la comunidad universitaria
Event HFJ27
Wolfram Eilenberger
Uninorte Barranquilla
Read moreWolfram Eilenberger (Alemania) es filósofo, periodista y escritor. Su pasión es la aplicación de ideas filosóficas en la vida cotidiana, ya sea en política, cultura o deportes. Editor fundador de Philosophie Magazin, ha publicado Tiempo de magos. La gran década de la filosofía: 1919-1929, y ahora presenta Espíritus del presente, en el que explora el pensamiento de Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, y Paul Feyerabend. El libro traza el recorrido de un conjunto de ideas que serán fundamentales para la historia reciente: desde desmontar el mito de la fe ciega al progreso de las teorías de la conspiración; de la liberación sexual al wokeness más reduccionista. En conversación con Óscar Guardiola-Rivera.
Evento gratuito para la comunidad universitaria
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