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.

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Event 14

Juan Cárdenas and Daniel Ferreira in conversation with Margarita Valencia

Histories of the many Colombias

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (Salón del Rey)
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Two perspectives, one from fiction and another from the human and territorial geography of Colombia, of a country that is many countries in one and with a story that needs to be told again and again in order to better understand it. Juan Cárdenas (Colombia), the author of Ornamento and Elástico de sombra, among many other books, presents Peregrino transparente, a novel that recreates the Peregrinación de Alpha, a book published in Colombia in the 19th century as a kind of travelogue of the Comisión Corográfica scientific expedition through the different provinces of the country’s north and centre, which at times reads like an adventure novel, and which seeks to describe Colombia’s human geography, creating maps and locating resources. Daniel Ferreira (Colombia), is the author, among other books, of Viaje al interior de una gota de sangre and El año del sol negro, presents Recuerdos del río volador, the story of Alejandro Plata, a railway inspector at the time of the oil boom who disappears, and is searched for by his family and his lover. This gives rise to a story that deals with a historical moment, the many violences that devastate the territory, and the terrible fact of people who disappear. In conversation with Margarita Valencia.
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Event 40

Andrea Díaz Cardona, Jitomakury and Ñek+na Zafiango in conversation with Daniel Pardo

El holocausto del caucho

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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Screening of the BBC Mundo documentary Los sobrevivientes del “holocausto del caucho” en Colombia, which portrays a moment of our recent history that is often ignored. This is the history of how slavery and extermination reduced the population of La Chorrera (Colombia) from a hundred thousand people to just 64. In this conversation, the documentary maker, Andrea Díaz, the Uitoto filmmaker Jitomakury, and the Uitoto elder Ñek+na Zafiango, sabedora Uitoto, will talk about the investigation that went into the documentary, in conversation with Daniel Pardo.
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Event 60

Oded Galor in conversation with José Manuel Acevedo

Humanity’s journey

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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Why did humans live in stasis throughout most of their existence? What lit the touchpaper of the enormous transformation of our lifestyles just a few hundred years ago? And why has this progress resulted in a vast inequality gap in our world? Asking these questions, the economist and thinker Oded Galor (United States/Israel) reveals, in his influential book, The Journey of Humanity, the keys to understanding two of the great mysteries in the evolution of humanity: progress and inequality. Galor is a Professor at Brown University (United States) and has researched, in depth, processes of change and their impacts, linking them to the economy and social organization. In conversation with José Manuel Acevedo.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

Oded Galor will participate remotely

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Event 63

Richard Firth-Godbehere in conversation with Daniel Pardo

A history of humanity through their emotions

 Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
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We humans like to believe that we act rationally, but the emotions are a much more important part of experience that most of us think. Richard Firth-Godbehere has put his thoughts on this matter into his book A Human History of Emotion, which analyses and studies the role of human emotions throughout history and in different cultures. In conversation with Daniel Pardo, the author will talk about how the emotions, in all their complexity and diversity, have modelled the world that we live in over the course of history. This fascinating work of non-fiction weaves together psychology, neuroscience, art, philosophy and religion.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available




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Event 79

Manuel Lucena Giraldo and Juan Guillermo Martín in conversation with Vanessa de la Torre

Spain and Colombia, a shared historical legacy

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
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The shared stories and histories that unite Colombia and Spain could fill hundreds of books. We talk of histories in plural because this shared history is diverse, involving different points of view, and above all because this is the way to analyse the past, with the learnings, failures and successes involved, and how to continue this fruitful relationship looking to the future. Conversation involving two historians from both sides of the pond, Manuel Lucena (Spain) and Juan Guillermo Martín (Colombia), moderated by Vanessa de la Torre.

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Event HJ17

Richard Firth-Godbehere in conversation with Alberto de Castro

A history of humanity through their emotions

 Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Auditorio Marvel Moreno)
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We humans like to believe that we act rationally, but the emotions are a much more important part of experience that most of us think. Richard Firth-Godbehere has put his thoughts on this matter into his book A Human History of Emotion, which analyses and studies the role of human emotions throughout history and in different cultures. The author will talk about how the emotions, in all their complexity and diversity, have modelled the world that we live in over the course of history. This fascinating work of non-fiction weaves together psychology, neuroscience, art, philosophy and religion. In conversation with Alberto de Castro.

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