Hay Joven is the Hay Festival branch exclusively aimed at the University community, thanks to the joint work between public and private universities of Queretaro. All events are free to enter, until full capacity.
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Brenda Lozano in conversation with María Concepción Castillo González and Mariana Oliveros Trujillo
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Tec de Monterrey, Punto Blanco
Brenda Lozano (Mexico) is a fiction writer, essayist and publisher. In 2017 she featured on the Bogotá39list as one of the best Latin American fiction writers under the age of 40. She is the author of the novels Todo nada (2009), Loop (2019), Witches (2022) and the recent Soñar como sueñan los árboles (2024), which tells the story of two women whose lives cross after the kidnapping of a girl, in the Mexico City of the 1940s; this is a story full of suspense, but also of humour, which portrays a period of splendour for the capital and Mexican culture. It also focuses on matters of contemporary interest, such as motherhood, and women’s place in society. In conversation with María Concepción Castillo González and Mariana Oliveros Trujillo.
BBC MUNDO workshop with Valentina Oropeza and Daniel Pardo
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Auditorio Fernando Díaz Ramírez de la UAQ
Two journalists from one of the world’s most important and prestigious media outlets will give this journalism workshop aimed at university students. Valentina Oropeza and Daniel Pardo, members of the BBC Mundo team, will explain the working model of the Spanish-language section of this British news service, which is over a hundred years old and is renowned for its news rigour and quality. Our guests will talk particularly about broadcasting content creation and managing the social media.
Henry Marsh in conversation with José Luis Copado Gutiérrez
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Universidad Anáhuac, Aula Magna Edificio C
Henry Marsh is a renowned British writer and retired neurosurgeon. He is the author of, among other books, And Finally. Matters of Life and Death, which tells of his own experience as a cancer patient. At this event he will talk about the principles and goals of palliative care, and about the challenges and opportunities that currently exist in terms of a dignified death, offering advice and recommendations to help patients and their loved ones face this difficult stage of life with dignity and compassion. In conversation with José Luis Copado Gutiérrez.
Angela Saini is a British scientific journalist and radio presenter, as well as a writer whose work has been acclaimed and translated into 14 languages. Her penultimate book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named Book of the Year by Nature, the Financial Times and the NPR programme Science Friday. On this occasion she presents The Patriarchs, an audacious, radical book that unearths the roots and history of how this system of domination arose for the first time in societies and spread around the world, from prehistory to the present. Saini offers a hopeful narrative bringing to bear the many possible human agreements that question the old stories of inevitable male supremacy, and reveals that these stories are an element that is constantly changing within systems of control. She will talk to Eduardo Becerra.
In English
Event free for the university community
With the support of Open Society Foundations and the BC
Guiomar Rovira and Rosaluz Pérez Espinosa in conversation with Kevyn Simón Delgado
South to south conversations: Thirty years of the Zapatista movement
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Auditorio del Campus Amealco de la UAQ
2024 is the thirtieth anniversary of one the most important revolutionary uprisings of the last half century, one that resonated internationally and which continues to inspire emancipatory movements around the world. The Zapatista movement, with its egalitarian, community organization, its advocacy of traditional knowledge, and its impressive capacity for communication (it was one of the first resistance movements to use the Internet to publicise its ideas), offers us a living alternative to raw capitalism. At this event, Rosaluz Pérez Espinosa, who has studied at first hand the role of women in the construction of the Zapatista political project; and Guiomar Rovira(Spain), journalist, writer and author of Zapata vive, will talk to the Queretaro academic and writer Kevyn Simón Delgado, the author of Querétaro, historia de lucha. Izquierdas y luchas sociales en Querétaro.
Event free for the university community
With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E