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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.
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Secundaria General mariano Matamoros, Santa Rosa Járegui
Ernesto Galán has degrees in Performing Arts and Law. He is the Artistic Director of the Miscelánea Teatro company and has written and directed a range of plays. He is also the manager of a reading space for child workers, and creator of the La Bodega forum and the La Miscelánea theatre festival. In this conversation with Elisa Guerra he will discuss the subject of drama based on his experience with children and young people.
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
Andrés Cota Hiriart is a biologist, zoologist and writer. He has written books including Cabeza ajena (2017), Faunologías (2015), El ajolote. Biología del anfibio más sobresaliente del mundo (2016) and Fieras familiares (2022), and has come close to all kinds of animals in their natural habitats, travelling to some amazing places around the world, like the Galapagos, Borneo, Sulawesi and the island of Guadalupe. At this event, Cota will focus on a wonderful creature from his native Mexico: he will start out with the iconic axolotl and move onto the ajolote of Queretaro state, which is not so commonly mentioned. During the event, he will share images and excepts from his books.
The French author Neige Sinno has recently published her book Triste tigre in Spanish. This is a work that has startled the world of publishing. The book, which won the 2023 Fémina Proze, takes a precise and pitiless look at the monstrous and taboo theme of incest, which the author tackles based on her own experience, discovering it to be a crime that affects both family and society, which lives among truths and lies, and is linked to consent and the desire for power, and whose consequences are far-reaching in the lives of victims. It is also a book that speaks about the role of language and literature as safe spaces, which allow a freedom of thought. In conversation with Elvira Liceaga.
Los buscadores de migrantes perdidos en el desierto de Sonora
Valentina Oropeza, José María Rodero and Alberto Ortega with Daniel Pardo
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
According to the International Organization for Migration, hundreds of migrants disappear and die each year in the Sonoran Desert between Arizona and California; this makes it the most dangerous overland migration route in the world. A brave group of people, known as the Desert Eagles, dedicate their weekends to looking for migrants lost in this hostile territory, where temperatures can reach 50ºC and dehydration is the main cause of death. Valentina Oropeza and José María Rodero, from BBC Mundo, accompany members of this team on one of their expeditions, in which they hope to rescue people before they perish, something that is not always possible. One of the members of the Eagles, Alberto Ortega, will be present. In conversation with Daniel Pardo, BBC Mundo journalist.
Vasilisa Stepanenko in conversation with Daniel Pardo
Lviv Bookforum series: 20 Days in Mariupol
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Teatro de la Ciudad
The Ukrainian Vasilisa Stepanenko, in conversation with the BBC Mundo journalist Daniel Pardo, will talk about 20 Days in Mariupol, a documentary project, co-produced by her, which won an Oscar in 2024. This award-winning work offers a detailed look at the siege which the city experienced, capturing the impact on the population and the devastation caused by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This is a valuable testimony to the impact of the war on the civilian population, and the resistance of the Ukrainian people.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Screening of short documentaries by Brenda Vanegas, Comfrey Films and Joel Zito Araújo
Film with a message
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
An event featuring short films made in different parts of the world, presented by their creators, which are certain to move the audience. With Brenda Vanegas (El Salvador), a film director and producer, who specialises in gender and migration, who presents xxx; with the participation of XXX from Comfrey Films (United States), a production company whose goal is to empower black people who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming or intersex, offering them training and support as they launch a career in independent filmmaking; and with Joel Zito Araújo (Brazil), a Brazilian filmmaker, researcher and academic, acclaimed for his work in documentary cinema and in the representation of the Afro-descendent population of Brazil.
Queretaro Symphony Orchestra and the pianist Marcela Roggeri in concert
Lviv Bookforum series
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Teatro de la Ciudad
A special concert with the Queretaro Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Ukrainian Mark Kadin, together with the Argentinian pianist Marcela Roggeri. The programme includes Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Shostakovich’s First Piano Concierto and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
Screening of the documentary followed by a discussion with Ángeles Cruz and Santiago Esteinou
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
On the International Day of the Indigenous Woman, we present the documentary Mukí sopalírili aligué gawíchi nirúgame (“The Woman of Stars and Mountains”), about the heartbreaking, incredible story of the Raramuri woman Rita Patiño, from Chihuahua. Rita left her community in the Tarahumara mountains and walked all the way to Kansas, where she was interned in a psychiatric hospital against her will, since the hospital authorities were unable to determine who she was, where she came from and what language she spoke.