Hay Festival Arequipa 2022 – Journalism

Welcome to the Hay Festival Arequipa 2022 programme, the edition in which we returned to in person events, after two digital editions due to the covid pandemic. Hay Festival Arequipa 2023 will run 9-12 November.

Hay Forum Moquegua was also in person. Hay Forum Moquegua 2023 will be at November 9.

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BBC Mundo digital journalism workshop, with Alejandro Millán

Casa Quellaveco
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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.

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BBC Mundo digital journalism workshop, with Alejandro Millán

Event HFJ3

Carlos Umaña in conversation with Ricardo Grundy

From activism to the Nobel Prize

Universidad Católica de Santa María - Campus Umacollo
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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. In conversation with Ricardo Grundy, director of the School of Political Science and Government at the UCSM.
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Carlos Umaña in conversation with Ricardo Grundy

Event 1

Américo Zambrano Romero in conversation with Victoria Guerrero Peirano

Our dead

Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
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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.

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Américo Zambrano Romero in conversation with Victoria Guerrero Peirano

Event 4

Screening of the documentary Los tsimane. La comunidad de Bolivia donde las personas envejecen más lento

Followed by a talk with Alejandro Millán and Matías Zibell

Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
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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.

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Screening of the documentary Los tsimane. La comunidad de Bolivia donde las personas envejecen más lento

Event 5

Hamja Ahsan, Agustina Bazterrica, Ekaitz Cancela and Juan Manuel Robles in conversation with Karima Ziali

New narrative paradigms

Teatro Municipal
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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

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Hamja Ahsan, Agustina Bazterrica, Ekaitz Cancela and Juan Manuel Robles in conversation with Karima Ziali

Event HFJ6

BBC Mundo digital journalism workshop

With Alejandro Millan and Matías Zibell

Universidad Católica de Santa María - Instituto Confucio
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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.

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BBC Mundo digital journalism workshop

Event 11

Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Castro and Karima Ziali in conversation with Karen Bernedo

Equalities: Who tells our story?

Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
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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

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Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Castro and Karima Ziali in conversation with Karen Bernedo

Event 12

Gemma Ruiz Palà, Julio Villanueva Chang and Iban Zaldua in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo

On magazines

Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
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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.
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Gemma Ruiz Palà, Julio Villanueva Chang and Iban Zaldua in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo

Event HFJ8

Xabier Díaz de Cerio in conversation with Andrea Chanove

The ABC of Peru’s climate

Universidad Católica de Santa María - Instituto Confucio
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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. In conversation with Andrea Chanove.

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Xabier Díaz de Cerio in conversation with Andrea Chanove

Event HFJ7

Gonzalo Zegarra in conversation with Daniel Mitma

Universidad Continental
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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 with Daniel Mitma.
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Gonzalo Zegarra in conversation with Daniel Mitma

Event 57

Luis Llosa in conversation with Enrique Planas

Film and literature

Teatro Arequepay
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The Peruvian filmmaker Lucho Llosa is a director and producer. After time spent as a journalist and film critic, he has since worked making films, being the first Latin American to make three big budget films in the US movie industry. His production company, Iguana Films, creates series and films in Peru and other countries in the region. He has directed films such as Hour of the Assassin, Sniper, The Specialist, Anaconda, The Feast of the Goa and Tatuajes en la memoria. He has also made television series, such as Gamboa and the soap opera Carmín. In addition, he has also worked in the theatre, and on the creation of the “museums of the image” concept. This year he publishes his autobiography, Secretos de un latino en Hollywood. In conversation with Enrique Planas.
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Luis Llosa in conversation with Enrique Planas

Event 52

Diego Enrique Osorno in conversation with Camila Osorio

El País event

Teatro Municipal
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En la montaña is a book about the encounter between the journalist and documentary-maker Diego Enrique Osorno (Mexico) and the Zapatista movement, which is 30 years old this year. This text, which is a mixture of reporting and personal reflection, begins in 2021 with the invitation sent to him by the Zapatista National Liberation Army to join the crew of the ship La montaña, in which a Zapatista delegation was to cross the Atlantic Ocean, beginning a journey of visits to Zapatista communities around the world over the course of many months. His task was to be a witness to register the events of that journey. In conversation with the El País journalist, Camila Osorio.
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Diego Enrique Osorno in conversation with Camila Osorio

Event 56

Diego Enrique Osorno, Federico Rivas and Américo Zambrano Romero in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina

What is happening in the Americas?

Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
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A look at the state of the continent along with some distinguished journalists and festival guests. With Federico Rivas (Argentina), El País correspondent; Diego Enrique Osorno (Mexico), an independent writer and reporter who contributes regularly to Mexican and international media outlets, and author of En la montaña, a book about the Zapatista movement on its 30th anniversary; and Américo Zambrano Romero (Peru), investigative reporter and author of Nuestros muertos, a book about the failed Pedro Castillo coup in Peru. They will talk to Clara Elvira Ospina (Colombia), a journalist with more than 30 years of experience in Colombia and Peru, and founder of the independent media company Epicentro.
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Diego Enrique Osorno, Federico Rivas and Américo Zambrano Romero in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina

Event 63

Juan Manuel Robles in conversation with Paola Donaire

Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
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The writer and journalist Juan Manuel Robles (Peru) will talk to Patricia Donaire about his latest book. In 2017 he was included on the Bogotá39 list as one of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers aged under 40. Author of non-fiction, novels, essays and short stories, his most recent publication is Tragedia en Collins Avenue, an outstanding work of literary non-fiction that recreates the events of 24 June 2021 in Miami, when the Champlain Towers South building, a 13-storey block, collapsed, causing the death of 98 people. Robles uncovers a hidden world of corruption that lies below the surface in opulent Miami Beach, but also reveals the diversity of voices, cultures and nationalities that converge in this complex and moving story.
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Juan Manuel Robles in conversation with Paola Donaire

Event 67

Screening of La Montaña, presented by Diego Enrique Osorno

Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
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The Zapatista movement takes to the high seas, and this event is the one portrayed by Diego Enrique Osorno in the documentary La montaña. For over 50 days, he shared with the crew of this ship, and with seven Zapatista representatives, a journey that emulates the one in which the conquistadors came to the New World. Now, the indigenous world makes contact with Europe in order to bring the news of communities that resist. The director will present the documentary.

Director: Diego Enrique Osorno

Duration: 92 min.

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Screening of La Montaña, presented by Diego Enrique Osorno

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