Arequipa 2020

A look at the diversity of feminisms that have forged our ways of thinking in conversation with José Luis Ramos Salinas. With the anarcho-feminist and “techno-shaman” María Galindo (Bolivia); the journalist and writer of The Guardian’s Week in Patriarchy column, Arwa Mahdawi (United Kingdom/Palestine); and the lawyer and journalist, Rafia Zakaria (Pakistan), author of Against White Feminism.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

In order to understand the reasons, implications and consequences of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, it is necessary to listen to those who know the situation well. Arwa Mahdawi (United Kingdom/Palestine), a US-based Guardian journalist, has written columns such as What did you do during the genocide in Gaza?, which examines the question of Western complicity. Rodolfo Sánchez-Aizcorbe (Peru) is the co-author of Para entender el conflicto palestino-israelí. In conversation with Natalia Sobrevilla.

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The feminist struggle can be looked at from various angles, and this event features two authors who do so from the intensity of their own experience. Marie-Pier Lafontaine (Canada) resists in the face of family abuse and breaks the silence that surrounds it in Chienne, while Armer la rage takes an angry swing at shame and trauma. The Pakistani lawyer and journalist Rafia Zakaria advocates a dismantling of the hegemony of white, Western, middle-class feminism, complicit in capitalist imperialism. Against White Feminism aims to break a yoke and create a future free of racism. Feminism will be intersectional, or it will not be feminism. In conversation with Nelly Luna.

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The remains of the civilisations of ancient Peru were a great attraction for the French adventurers, dealers and explorers who crossed the Atlantic in search of its mysteries. Pascal Riviale recreates the history of these ethnological journeys in Los viajeros franceses en busca del Perú antiguo (1821-1914). A unique view of French archaeology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Peru. In converation with Mario Rommel Arce Espinosa.

The election of a pope with Peruvian nationality, his role in the changes that are hoped for in the Church, Catholicism’s challenges in terms of maintaining and attracting the faithful in an ever more secular era, what still needs to be done in the dissolution of the Sodalitium… With a quarter of the century passed, it is a good time to ask about the place of religion and Catholicism in the 21st century. Talking about this will be Elise Ann Allen, a journalist who specialises in Catholic affairs, and author of the biography León XIV; Pablo Quintanilla, an essayist and philosopher who has recently published Autoconocimiento y libertad; and Paola Ugaz, one of the journalists who uncovered the systematic abuses of the Sodalitium, and who worked on the book Mitad monjes, mitad soldados; they will be in conversation with the El País journalist Camila Osorio.

From the ecohydrology of the Andes and the Amazon, Fabian Drenkhan and Jhan Carlo Espinoza are direct witnesses of the climate change that our planet is suffering from. The two experts will talk to Santiago Rojas, Northern Regional Manager and Representative of CAF Peru, about a reality that is becoming ever more urgent and dangerous. Climate change is not a future possibility, it is a truth that is already here.

LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available

Teresa Ruiz Rosas (Peru) present her most recent book, Coreografía para trenzas solas, a novel about the private stories of women at war, their pain and their beauty, and about the construction of a world through the unique Andean oral tradition. In conversation with Augusto Carrasco.

From settings as different as clandestine activities during the Chilean dictatorship or a dystopian Lima in ruins Mambo by Alejandra Moffat (Chile) and Criaturas virales by Dany Salvatierra (Peru) converge on a single idea: situating their work in hostile landscapes through which characters affected by silence and violence travel. From a girl who grows up among murmurs and secrets; to the inhabitants of Villa Diodati, creatures who survive drowning in poverty. In conversation with Jorge Malpartida.