Hay Festival Arequipa 2024 is here! The tenth edition of the festival in Peru will take place from November 7th to 10th, featuring 96 events and over 100 local, national, and international participants. The Hay Festival Forum Moquegua will be held on November 8th. The form to request free tickets for university students and seniors will be available soon.
Starting with one of the stories from her book, Las voces de los árboles, the educator Elisa Guerrawill talk to teenagers about matters such as climate change, migration and resilience, culminating with an active exchange of ideas, based on the question What is the fire that affects you?Elisa Guerra (Mexico) has a Master’s in Education from Harvard University. In 2015 she was named Best Educator in the Latin American and Caribbean region by the Inter-American Development Bank, and was a member of the UNESCO Futures of Education’s International Commission.
BBC Mundo digital journalism workshop, with Alejandro Millán
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Casa Quellaveco
A journalist from one of the world’s most important and prestigious media outlets will give a digital journalism workshop aimed at university students. This member of the BBC Mundo, Alejandro Millán, 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, focussing particularly on audio-visual content creation and managing the social media.
Xabier Díaz de Cerio is a writer and journalist of Spanish origin, known for his work on matters related to ecology and sustainability, and for his dedication to documenting the environmental matters and challenges faced by Latin America. In his new book, Abecedario Climático Peruano, he presents over a hundred illustrated words, with stories and photos collected in the coastal, mountain and rainforest regions of Peru over the course of fifteen years. The work highlights the local "eco-heroes" who lead climate action, while also preserving ancestral knowledge, and it combines personal testimonies with an analysis of the effects of climate change on different communities.
Patricia Salas and Maritza Ramírez in conversation
Education and inclusion
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Casa Quellaveco
Two major figures from the world of Peruvian education will talk about the subject. Patricia Salas (Peru) is a sociologist and expert in matters related to social development; she has a doctorate in Social Sciences from the Universidad Católica de Santa María and has been both Chair of the National Council of Education and Peruvian Minister of Education. Maritza Ramírez (Peru) is a dedicated Kukama activist who works to revitalise the language, as well as on the promotion of bilingual and intercultural education in Peru through documenting the Kukama language, developing educational materials and creating teaching spaces. Her work has been recognised nationally and internationally for its significant impact on the promotion of inclusive education that respects cultural diversity.
The cultural melting pot of traditional and modern knowledge, with all its experimentation, innovation and emergence, which we call “culture and education”, is experiencing a major paradigmatic mutation: the Internet. From this algorithmic network an old bias is arising once again as a planet-wide cognitive challenge: the “hydra of post-truth”. Nelson Vallejo-Gómez is a French-Colombian philosopher who specialises in the paradigm of complexity based on the magnum opus by Edgar Morin, Method. He has been Secretary General of the Association for Complex Thought (APC-France) and of the Scientific Council for National Education (CSEN-France). He is also the Chair of the Council of Honour in Social Science and the Humanities of the University of Caldas (Manizales, Colombia), Scientific Director of PREFALC-FMSH and Inspector General of Education and Research in France.
Evento gratuito hasta completar aforo
Sponsored by Angloamerica and supported by Alianza Francesa de Lima y Arequipa, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH-Paris), Académie des Sciences de France, CLEMI-Canoé, MENJ
The acclaimed Spanish writer will talk con local about his most recent books. The writer and journalist Javier Moro has worked as a scriptwriter and film producer in Hollywood. His books include Senderos de libertad (1992), El pie de Jaipur (1995), The Mountains of the Buddha (2009), Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (2002, written with Dominique Lapierre), Passion India (2007), The Red Sari (2015), El imperio eres tú (2011 Planeta Prize) and the recent Nos quieren muertos, which he will talk about at this event. This rigorous, frenetic work portrays the life of a figure who is central to understanding Venezuela today: Leopoldo López.
Fabiola Hablützel in conversation with Julia Ponce
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Universidad Continental
Fabiola Hablützel presents La hermana del medio,a moving story about the importance of family and our place in the world. With her fiftieth birthday approaching, her mother reveals a secret that has been kept from her all her life, that Fabiola was adopted. The impact of the news leads the author to undertake a journey of self-discovery, from the streets of Callao to Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina. In conversation with Julia Ponce.
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Universidad Católica de Santa María - Instituto Confucio
Carlos Umaña (Costa Rica) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, together with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for raising “awareness about the humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for their efforts to achieve a prohibition on such weapons”. In this conversation with Pablo Cateriano, Umaña will talk about environmentalism and the need to eradicate nuclear weapons from the world, as well as his work as a scientist and activist.
Daniel Mordzinski in conversation with Jorge Jaime Valdez
On photography
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Universidad Continental
Daniel Mordzinski(Argentina), known as the “writer’s photographer”, has created a body of photographic work and an aesthetic closely linked to literature and its mystique: from his first photos of Jorge Luis Borges in 1978, including hundreds of writers who have passed in front of his camera, and with over 15 years of work linked to the Hay Festivals. He will talk about his extraordinary career, which has been built up at the frontier of images and words. In conversation with Jorge Jaime Valdez.
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Universidad Católica de Santa María - Campus Umacollo
The Uruguayan writer Pablo Vierci is the author of a book telling a true story, one that is both unthinkable and extraordinary, which has inspired one of the most moving and striking films of 2023: Society of the Snow. In 1972, Flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed in the Argentinean Andes en route from Montevideo to Santiago de Chile. On board were five crew-members and 40 passengers: a team of young rugby players who were going to attend a tournament with some friends and family. The book recreates the incredible story of the 16 young men who survived the snow at 4,000 metres above sea level, without any communication with the outside world, or food or shelter, facing the death of their loved ones. Vierci, who went to school with the survivors, started to write the book in 1973. He later went to the crash site with a group of survivors and their children. He published the book in 2009. In conversation with xx, he will talk about the story, which has been with him for over half a century, and the great work that came out of it.
Américo Zambrano Romero in conversation with Victoria Guerrero Peirano
Our dead
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Américo Zambrano Romero (Peru) is a writer and journalist who is known for his ability to tell complex stories, bringing a human dimension to the cold statistics of crime. Winner of the 2023 National Journalism Prize, he talks to us about his recent book, Nuestros muertos, an in-depth investigation focussing on the events of 2023 after the failed coup attempted by Pedro Castillo in Peru. In the book, the author examines the decisions taken by the government to try and stop the protests that marked the beginning of its mandate. In conversation with Victoria Guerrero Peirano.
Stefano Varese in conversation with Xabier Díaz de Cerio
Essays on the Amazon
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Teatro Municipal
The Italian-Peruvian anthropologist and activist Stefano Varese is Emeritus Professor of the University of California in Davis, and founder of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas. In 2017 he was awarded the Haydée Santamaría Medal, a prestigious recognition given by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba. He has written, solo or with other authors, a number of books, including Proyectos étnicos y proyectos nacionales, El arte del recuerdo and the anthology Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi (2020), about knowledge and spirituality in various communities around the world. On this occasion he presents El bosque civilizado: Ensayos amazónicos, an extensive work that shows his passion for and knowledge of the Amazon region. In conversation with Xabier Díaz de Cerio.
The Symphony Orchestra of the Universidad Nacional San Agustín, conducted by maestro Christophe Talmont (France), will offer a very original programme that centres on the Requiem, Op.48, by Gabriel Fauré, on the centenary of his death in 1924. This innovative concert has been prepared with the close involvement of Talmont and the conductor of the UNSA Symphony Orchestra, Pilar Lopera (Peru), and proposes the performance of works that represent a certain idea of the French approach to music, so well represented by Fauré, whose message is one of intimacy and interiority and which focusses on the purity of the musical idea. His Requiem is an example of this, from the very first chords, and, thanks to its consoling message, it has moved audiences and musicians ever since it was first played.
Price: S/35.00 (PEN)
With the support of the Alianza Francesa in Arequipa and the French Embassy
Screening of the documentary Los tsiname. La comunidad de Bolivia donde las personas envejecen más lento
Followed by a talk with Alejandro Millan and Matías Zibell
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
This event involves the screening of a 15-minute documentary, followed by a conversation between Alejandro Millán, producer of the documentary and BBC Mundo journalist, and Matías Zibell. The Tsimane are one of the 36 indigenous nations officially recognised by the plurinational state of Bolivia. Its 16,000 semi-nomadic members live in the Misión Fátima region, a remote corner of the Bolivian Amazon. Experts believe that it is their very isolation that contributes to the unique way in which this ethnicity ages, something that scientists have been studying for decades.
Giacomo Roncagliolo in conversation with Jorge Malpartida
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Establecimiento penitenciario de varones de Arequipa
The author and musician Giacomo Roncagliolo (Peru) published stories and poems in the former fanzine Morfina between 2011 and 2013. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the Clarín Novel Prize for his book Ámok. His recent novel, El fantástico sueño de aniquilar esto, is a disturbing thriller that explores the addictive power of virtual sexuality and its sinister influence on contemporary desire. In conversation with Jorge Malpartida.
Hamja Ahsan, Agustina Bazterrica, Ekaitz Cancela and Juan Manuel Robles in conversation with Karima Ziali
New narrative paradigms
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Teatro Municipal
Official narrative, non-hegemonic narratives. How do the guests at this event position themselves? We talk to Hamja Ahsan(United Kingdom), Agustina Bazterrica(Argentina), Ekaitz Cancela (Spain) and Juan Manuel Robles(Peru) about their ways of narrating, and their choices when it comes to telling stories and representing reality. In conversation with Karima Ziali.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Price: S/15.00 (PEN)
Sponsored by the British Council and supported by Casa Árabe
Felipe Restrepo Pombo, Philippe Sands and Gabriela Wiener in conversation with Cristina Fuentes
Explorers, dreamers and thieves
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
In 2022, Hay Festival and the British Museum came together to organise the anthology Volver a contar: Escritores de América Latina en los archivos del Museo Británico, for which a group of ten writers examined narratives about the past through a collection of Latin American objects in the museum never seen in public before. In 2023 we presented the anthology Exploradores, soñadores y ladrones, in which six authors looked at the museum’s collections in order to create new compilation of texts that question and reimagine the predominant narratives. With Felipe Restrepo Pombo (Colombia), Philippe Sands(United Kingdom) and Gabriela Wiener (Peru), in conversation with Cristina Fuentes La Roche (Spain).
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Guillermo Niño de Guzmán in conversation with Dante Trujillo
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Guillermo Niño de Guzmán is a writer, publisher, translator and screenwriter. He studied Literature at the Universidad Católica and in 1984 published his first book of short stories, Caballos de medianoche,with an introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa. Since then he has published short stories, essays and historical novels for young adults. His most recent work is Mis vicios impunes: Cuaderno de letraherido II, a personal and literary almanac that unites brief texts on art and the writing trade with his adventures as a reader, film buff and jazz fan. The author will talk to the writer and publisher Dante Trujillo.
Fabiola Hablützel and María Larrea in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina
Literary families
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Teatro Colegio de Abogados
Two authors examine, through their work, the meaning of family and identity as linked to origins and nationality. Fabiola Hablützel(Peru/Chile) presents La hermana del medio,a moving story about the importance of family and our place in the world. With her fiftieth birthday approaching, her mother reveals a secret that had been kept from her all her life, that Fabiola was adopted. The impact of the news leads the author to undertake a journey of self-discovery, from the streets of Callao to Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The director, screenwriter and novelist María Larrea(Spain/France) was born in Bilbao (Spain) and grew up in Paris, where she studied film at La Fémis. She presents her first novel, Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren, in which Larrea tells the story, backwards, of a complicated family history, with illegal adoptions in the dying days of the Franco dictatorship. In conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
María José Caro and Susanne Noltenius in conversation with Enrique Planas
Natural histories
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Teatro Arequepay
Two Peruvian writers talk to Enrique Planas about their latest books, in which nature and human emotions play major roles. The writer and social communicator María José Caro was included on the Hay Festival 2017 list of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers aged under 40. Her most recent work, Vida animal, tells the story of four friends on a hen night in Chosica, in which the author uses references to the animal world in order to guide us around the complexity of the human relationships. Susanne Noltenius, an outstanding Peruvian writer of German origin, is a graduate of the School of Creative Writing run by Alonso Cueto and Iván Thays, and has published successful works including Crisis respiratoria and Tres mujeres (2017 National Literature Prize in the Short Story category) and a number of books for children. Her latest book, Se hace otoño, tells the story of a woman who, under stress due to the political changes in her country and a difficult family history, seeks a new life in Germany, surrounded by nature and aiming to find emotional stability.
Alessandro Maccarrone in conversation with Azael Paz Aliaga
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Universidad Continental
El infinito placer de las matemáticas has become an unexpected bestseller, with almost twenty thousand copies sold in Spanish alone. The author, the Spaniard Alessandro Maccarrone, holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Barcelona, and is a science educator and secondary school teacher. For the last 15 years he has been working as a teacher and popular educator, and he has discovered that physics and mathematics are not only infinite in breadth, but also in depth, and that in the most basic and everyday questions lies a great wealth, complexity and beauty. In conversation withAzael Paz Aliaga.
Event free for the university community
With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
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Universidad Católica de Santa María - Instituto Confucio
Two journalists from one of the world’s most important and prestigious media outlets, Alejandro Millán (Colombia) and Matías Zibell(Argentina), will give this digital journalism workshop aimed at university students. The two 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, focussing particularly on audio-visual content creation and managing the social media.
Poetry reading-workshop for women. With Elisa Guerra
At your age, I wore a darkness
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Establecimiento penitenciario de mujeres de Arequipa
Poetry reading-workshop for women, taking the text by the poet Maggie Smith as a first inspiration to share and create poems together. It is not necessary to have written poetry before, but if participants have written any before, it is suggested they take some to the event. The workshop is moderated by the educator Elisa Guerra, shortlisted for the 2023 Loewe Poetry Prize. Her book Ellas, Afasia won the poetry prize awarded by the magazine Punto de Partida, published by UNAM (Mexico). Guerra runs Las Primeras Letras, a literary podcast-workshop for children.
The Uruguayan writer Pablo Vierci is the author of the book Society of the Snow, which tells a true story, one that is both unthinkable and extraordinary, which has inspired the striking film of the same name. In 1972, flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed in the Argentinean Andes en route from Montevideo to Santiago de Chile. On board was a team of young rugby players who were going to attend a tournament with some friends and family. The book recreates the incredible story of the 16 young men who survived the snow at 4,000 metres above sea level, without any communication with the outside world, or food or shelter, facing the death of their loved ones. Vierci, who went to school with the survivors, started to write the book in 1973. In conversation with Judith Vélez, he will talk about the story, which has been with him for over half a century, and the great work that came out of it.
Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Castro and Karima Ziali in conversation with Karen Bernedo
Equalities: Who tells our story?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
We talk about our challenges as global societies from non-hegemonic perspectives. Hari Kunzru, a graduate of Oxford University with a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick, has been a member of the executive board of the English PEN and named by Granta as one of the "best young British novelists"; he has also won various awards, such as the Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year and a British Book Award. In May this year he published his new book, Blue Ruin. Jonathan Castro (Peru) is a political and investigative journalist who works for the La Encerrona outlet. Karima Ziali is a Spanish writer and researcher of Moroccan origin. She has a degree in Philosophy, a Master’s in Anthropological Research and a doctorate in Migratory Studies. Her first novel is entitled Una oración sin dios. In conversation with Karen Bernedo.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Price: S/15.00 (PEN)
With the support of the British Council and Accion Cultural Española, AC/E
Gemma Ruiz Palà, Julio Villanueva Chang and Iban Zaldua in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo
On magazines
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Magazines which include long-running reports, magazines that support the use of a minority language, magazines that act as platforms for new writers. With the journalist and writer Gemma Ruiz Palà (Spain); Julio Villanueva Chang, founding editor of the magazine Etiqueta negra;and Iban Zaldua, who was a member of the team which published the magazine of literary activism Volgako Batelariak.In conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo, writer, journalist and former editor of Gatopardo magazine.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
With the support of the Instituto Ramón Llull and the Instituto Etxepare
Waldir Maqque and Alessandra Yupanqui in conversation with José Luis Ramos Salinas
Two influencers and their love of Peru
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Teatro Colegio de Abogados
The Cusco influencer, chef and social media phenomenon, Waldir Maqque, presents his book Qué riquito, based on the recipes he has shared with the public in recent years, in his own particular idiom and with all his passion for cookery. Alessandra Yupanqui, a designer, tiktoker and content creator, has created a personal project that has become a community in which she and her followers share stories, reports and reflections on identity and racial discrimination in Peru. Both will talk about their experiences and challenges with José Luis Ramos Salinas, Doctor in Social Sciences and UNSA lecturer.
Martha Canfield, Sharon Lerner, Guillermo Niño de Guzmán and Renato Sandoval in conversation with Hernando Torres-Fernández
Sketches of Jorge Eielson
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Teatro Arequepay
A hundred years after the birth of Jorge Eielson (Lima 1924- Milan 2006), five figures from the literary and cultural spheres will talk about this brilliant Peruvian poet and artist, who lived for much of his life in Italy. Martha Canfield, an Italian-Colombian poet and lecturer in Literature, is the Director of Florence University’s Jorge Eielson Studies Centre, where she teaches. Sharon Lerner is the Director of MALI and curated the first retrospective exhibition of Eielson’s work in Peru. The writer, literary critic and essayist Renato Sandoval, the writer Guillermo Niño de Guzmán, and the diplomat Hernando Torres-Fernández have all known the famous author and artist. Together, they will tell personal anecdotes and talk about his extensive body of work, bringing us the creative world of this extraordinary poet and visual artist.
Gonzalo Zegarra, who studied Law at Peru’s Pontificia Universidad Católica and did a Master’s in the discipline at Yale, is the former editor of Semana Económica and is a member of major press councils. He will talk about his book La democracia del click y del TikTok, which deals with the challenges of the social media for politics, highlighting both their capacity to democratise public voices as well as their potential for creating intolerance and polarisation, emphasising the need to reinvent democratic institutions in the digital era. In conversation withDaniel Mitma.
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Universidad Católica de Santa María - Instituto Confucio
Xabier Díaz is a writer and journalist of Spanish origin, known for his work on matters related to ecology and sustainability, and for his dedication to documenting the environmental matters and challenges faced by Latin America. In his new book, Abecedario Climático Peruano, he presents over a hundred illustrated words, with stories and photos collected in the coastal, mountain and rainforest regions of Peru over the course of fifteen years. The work highlights the local eco-heroes who lead climate action, while also preserving ancestral knowledge, and it combines personal testimonies with an analysis of the effects of climate change on different communities.
Carlos Umaña (Costa Rica) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, together with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for raising “awareness about the humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for their efforts to achieve a prohibition on such weapons”. In this conversation with Pablo Cateriano, Umaña will talk about environmentalism and the need to eradicate nuclear weapons from the world, as well as his work as a scientist and activist.
Serge Barbet in conversation with Nelson Vallejo-Gómez
Education, information and citizenship
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
The education/information/citizenship triad is key for strengthening enlightened democracy. This event will involve sharing experiences of the French educational system in terms of education, teaching tools and continuous training on the subject for teachers, particularly including the topics of news, a critical spirit and civic values. With Serge Barbet(France-Argentina), a journalist who specialises in education and, since 2018, Director of the French Centre for Education on the Media and Information, in conversation with the French-Colombian philosopher Nelson Vallejo-Gómez.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
With the support of the French Embassy, Alianza Francesa de Lima y Arequipa, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH-Paris), Académie des Sciences de France, CLEMI-Canopé, MENJ
Patricia del Río and Patricia Villanueva in conversation with Augusto Carrasco
Literature for girls and boys, ¿A mini-Boom in Peru?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
We are witnessing that, recently, lots of very interesting children's literature books are being published by authors who previously only explored adult narratives... Is publishing for children profitable? How do we approach the editing of children's literature, and who is involved? What can we observe in other countries with important children's book markets? How are informative or educational books for children created? With Patricia del Río, linguist and journalist, author of Desde la Luna,her first work for children; and Patricia Villanueva, visual artist, curator and educator; co-author of Grandes culturas milenarias,a history of the cultures that came before the Inca Empire. In conversation with Augusto Carrasco, designer, editor, and curator of the children’s project Héroes y heroínas de la peruanidad. 200 historias para celebrar el bicentenario.
Alessandro Maccarrone in conversation with Norka Bedredal
Pleasurable maths
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Teatro Colegio de Abogados
El infinito placer de las matemáticas has become an unexpected bestseller, with almost twenty thousand copies sold in Spanish alone. The author, the Spaniard Alessandro Maccarrone, holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Barcelona, and is a science educator and secondary school teacher. For the last fifteen years he has been working as a teacher and popular educator, and he has discovered that physics and mathematics are not only infinite in breadth, but also in depth, and that in the most basic and everyday questions lies a great wealth, complexity and beauty. In conversation with Norka Bedregal.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
Sponsored by Credicorp and with the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Marisa Godínez and Sheila Alvarado in conversation with Álex Huerta-Mercado
Illustrators
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Teatro Arequepay
The artist Marisa Godínez(Lima, 1950) studied at the PUCP’s School of Art, and was a pioneer in feminist drawing in Peru. In 1978 she was invited to contribute to the satirical magazine Monos y Monadas with drawings whose subject matter was poetic and notably anti-patriarchal. This multi-talented artist, who uses a range of different media, returned to drawing in 2017 and in 2022 held the La Niña No Mirada exhibition at the Luis Miró Quesada Garland Gallery in Miraflores. Sheila Alvarado (Lima, 1979) is an artist, writer and LGTBI activist. She graduated from the National School of Fine Art, with a silver medal in printmaking. In 2019 she won the Peruvian Ministry of Culture’s Child and Young Adult Literature Prize. In 2020, she was one of the winners of the same ministry’s National Competition for Creative Child and Young Adult Literature Projects and a year later represented Peru as an illustrator and writer at the Guadalajara Book Fair. Both artists will talk to Álex Huerta-Mercado about activism through art.
Since the arrival of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, the entire planet is thinking about it, and the questions are starting to pile up: will our brains be replaced by technology? What are the possibilities and the risks? Elisa Guerra, educator, author of the book La Enseñanza en la Cuarta Revolución Industrial, and former member of the UNESCO Futures of Education’s International Commission, will talk to secondary students in order to try to answer a big question: can school survive the invasion of artificial intelligence?
