Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

Welcome to the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias 2023 programme, to be held from 26 to 29 January. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Joven activities tor university audiences, Hay Comunitario sessions which will take place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.

The tickets of the general programme and reading clubs are on sale for in person events. If you wish to register to see the live streaming of events, please select the option "Register to watch online" when this option is available. Hay Joven, Hay Comunitario and Talento Editorial are 100% in person and free of charge.

If you have any issues regarding the payment of your tickets, please contact us at tickets@hayfestival.org or at +57 317 516 55 13.

If you are a students a wish to request free tickets, you can write to us at estudiantes@hayfestival.com.

If you have any general questions, you can find us at contacto@hayfestival.org.

Event HJ18

Serge Haroche in conversation with Rafael González

The Science of Light

 Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Auditorio Marvel Moreno)
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How has the role of light in understanding the universe changed, and how is it still changing? In 2012, Serge Haroche (France) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, together with David J. Wineland, for his innovative work in the field of quantum optics. Their discoveries make use of the properties of light particles to create new technologies, such as ultrafast quantum computers. With The Science of Light: From Galileo’s Telescope to Quantum Physics, this Nobel laureate offers a revealing narrative about what we now know about light, from relativity theory to quantum physics, about how we have learned it and how this knowledge has led to many inventions that have changed our lives. In conversation with Rafael González.

Simultaneous interpreting from French to Spanish available

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Event HJ19

Conference by Claudine Haroche

 Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Auditorio Marvel Moreno)
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Sociologist Claudine Haroche (France) is director of medical at National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) of France. The is the author of multiple books. On this ocasion, Claudine Haroche will talk about her areas of expertise, including bodily conducts, psychological functioning, human ways of being and feeling.

Simultaneous interpreting from French to Spanish available
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Conference by Claudine Haroche

Event HJ20

Andrés Felipe Solano and Amets Arzallus in conversation with Josef Amon and Daniella Sánchez Russo

 Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Auditorio Marvel Moreno)
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Two writers talk about their most recent work in converation with Josef Amon and Daniella Sánchez Russo. Andrés Felipe Solano is a writer, essayist and author of books including the novels Los hermanos Cuervo, Cementerios de neón and Sálvame, Joe Louis; of the work of journalism Salario mínimo: Vivir con nada, and also of Corea, apuntes desde la cuerda floja, a book that won the Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize in 2016. His latest book is Gloria. Amets Arzallus (Basque Country) is a jounalist, writer and bertsolari improvisor (a traditional Basque oral poet), winner of multiple championships. Alonside Ibrahima Balde, a migrant from Guinea in Europe, he wrote the book Hermanito, that tells the journey of Ibrahima since he leaves his country in search of his younger brother. This book has been translated into 10 languages.
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Event HJ21

Cristina Romera in conversation with Óscar Álvarez

AntropOcéano

 Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Auditorio Marvel Moreno)
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The oceanographer Cristina Romera (Spain) works in the Institut de Ciències del Mar in Barcelona. With a degree in Chemistry and a doctorate in Sea Sciences, she is currently studying the impact of microplastics on marine ecosystems and on the climate, as well as bacteria that are capable of breaking them down. She has received a number of awards for her work, including the L'Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science (2019); the 2020 Raymond L. Lindeman Award, given by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography; and a L'Oreal-UNESCO International Rising Talents award in 2020. She presents her book AntropOcéano. En conversation with Óscar Álvarez.
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Event HJ22

Esther Paniagua in conversation with Jesús Anturi

 Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Auditorio Marvel Moreno)
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Esther Paniagua in conversation with Nelson Jiménez

The Internet is a powerful instrument, yet also a double-edged sword: it has opened up information that can be accessed cheaply and immediately, in an unprecedented transformation; but it is also a medium that, with the social media, has submitted many people to manipulation and addiction. Another unsettling aspect is that we can now no longer imagine a world without the Internet, a tool that just a few decades ago did not even exist. Esther Paniagua (Spain) is a writer and journalist who specializes in matters related to science and technology. Her brilliant and bold essay Error 404. ¿Preparados para un mundo sin internet? (2021), proposes a vision of what would happen if we were suddenly left without the Internet. How far are we from a life without connection to the web? Perhaps we are closer than we suspect. In conversation with Jesús Anturi.
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