Javier Ortiz Cassiani in conversation with Raúl Ballesteros
La Canoa Literaria
The historian Javier Ortiz Cassiani received an award for Afro-Colombian of the year in the Media and Journalism category in 2014. He has been an advisor to the Ministry of Culture, the National Centre for Historical Memory, of the Truth Commission, the Cartagena de Indias Historical Museum and Cartagena University’s Claustro la Merced cultural space. He is the author of El incómodo color de la memoria, Un diablo al que le llaman tren and his recent Bailar con las trompetas del apocalipsis, a book that imagines the Caribbean from the point of view of the personal and the collective, looking at its recent past and observing the unstoppable passage of time. He will be in conversation with Raúl Ballesteros.