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.

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Event 3

María Elvira Samper and Maryluz Vallejo in conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof

Exclusions: Xenophobia and the political use of extradition

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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Racism can be institutional and is always linked to cultural practices that have often been perpetuated over generations, even when there are laws against it. Extradition laws, which in theory facilitate the workings of justice, can be used for political motives. Luckily, more legislation and citizen awareness might be finally changing attitudes behind the systematic discrimination against millions of people, and which have supported illegal extraditions. Talking about these kinds of exclusion will be María Elvira Samper (Colombia), author of Extradición: De Lehder y los Rodríguez a Otoniel. Cuarenta años de “guerra contra las drogas”; and Maryluz Vallejo (Colombia), author of Xenofobia al rojo vivo en Colombia. In conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof.


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Event 5

José Antonio Figueroa and Paula Marcela Moreno in conversation with Aurora Vergara

Challenging unequal attitudes

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
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We celebrate the role of people, particularly those of non-white or of African heritage, who have played major roles in the history of Colombia and the region, but who have often been ignored in the official histories. José Antonio Figueroa (Colombia), anthropologist, thinker, lecturer at the Central University of Ecuador and researcher with the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, is the author of Republicanos negros, which looks at this essential part played by Afro-descendents in the tradition of republicanism and liberalism in Latin America. Paula Marcela Moreno (Colombia) is an influential social leader, former Minister of Culture, Chair of Corporación Manos Visibles and author of Soñar lo imposible, which brings to light the stories of people who have worked within civil society and offered their talents to create a better country. They will talk to Aurora Vergara.
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Event HJ4

Indhira Serrano in conversation with Laura Romero

 Universidad de Cartagena, Aula Máxima de Derecho (Claustro de San Agustín)
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Based on their experiences of racism and inequality, our two guests will talk about the mindsets that hinder the realization of racialized individuals, launching a message of self-acceptance, respect for differences and pride in the Afro-Colombian heritage. Indhira Serrano began her career as a model, which gave her a very clear view of the media’s influence on people’s perceptions of themselves. Since 2015 she has been running a series of talks and workshops called Reconstruyendo Imaginarios (“Rebuilding Mindsets”), which reflects on the relationships we have with money, education, our partners and power. She has just published her first book, Rosa la crespa. In conversation with journalist Laura Romero.
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Event HC5

Indhira Serrano

 Institución Educativa Puerto Rey
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Based on her experience of racism and inequality, Indhira Serrano will talk about the mindsets that hinder the realization of racialized individuals, launching a message of self-acceptance, respect for differences and pride in the Afro-Colombian heritage. Serrano began her career as a model, which gave her a very clear view of the media’s influence on people’s perceptions of themselves. Since 2015 she has been running a series of talks and workshops called Reconstruyendo Imaginarios (“Rebuilding Mindsets”), which reflects on the relationships we have with money, education, our partners and power. She has just published her first book, Rosa la crespa.
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Indhira Serrano

Event 22

Jacqueline Novogratz in conversation with Andrea Bernal

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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Jacqueline Novogratz (United States) is the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, a pioneering non-profit investment fund that uses business strategies to solve some of the problems of global poverty. A former investment banker, Novogratz is also the author of The Blue Sweater, a book that aims to revise the notion of charity, proposing a form of philanthropical investment she calls “patient capital”. In her new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, she talks about the new skills and values needed to live together in this world. She will talk to the journalist Andrea Bernal.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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Event 27

Andrew Bastawrous, María Adelaida López and Louisa Mitchell in conversation with Andrea Bernal

Three ways of changing the world

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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The guests at this event have made changes to the world for which they have been recognized; all of them have experience working for social change, creating and maintaining organizations that have had a positive impact on the lives of many. Andrew Bastawrous (United Kingdom) leads Peek Vision, whose platform strengthens health systems to improve vision and eye health. María Adelaida López (Colombia) is the head of aeioTU, a social enterprise that develops the potential of childhoods throughout Colombia and which offers education of quality, helping to decrease the inequality gap. Louisa Mitchell (United Kingdom) runs West London Zone, an organization that works with young people at risk of social exclusion, and with their families and educators. Andrea Bernal will talk to these guests about the reasons they have chosen the area where they work, what motivates them and what their personal experiences have been.

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Event 32

Paula Marcela Moreno, Ronna Rísquez and Alonso Sánchez Baute in conversation with Alejandra Miller

Minefields: the use of identity characteristics in wars

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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In the context of an armed conflict those who belong to groups such as the LGTBIQ+ and women are more likely to suffer from harm; race, gender, social origin and sexual orientation become characteristics that the individual has to negotiate, or perhaps even hide. With Paula Marcela Moreno (Colombia), Ronna Rísquez (Venezuela) y Alonso Sánchez Baute (Colombia), in conversation with Alejandra Miller.
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Event HC13

Indhira Serrano

 Casa Comunitaria Tierra Baja
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Based on her experience of racism and inequality, Indhira Serrano will talk about the mindsets that hinder the realization of racialized individuals, launching a message of self-acceptance, respect for differences and pride in the Afro-Colombian heritage. Serrano began her career as a model, which gave her a very clear view of the media’s influence on people’s perceptions of themselves. Since 2015 she has been running a series of talks and workshops called Reconstruyendo Imaginarios (“Rebuilding Mindsets”), which reflects on the relationships we have with money, education, our partners and power. She has just published her first book, Rosa la crespa.

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Indhira Serrano

Event 45

Lydia Cacho in conversation with Mábel Lara

Letters of love and rebellion

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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An intimate, brave and moving book about a journalist who becomes a symbol of the fight for human rights. The author Lydia Cacho (Mexico) submerges herself in 46 years’ worth of diaries, photographs, letters and other mementos that she kept, as if she knew she would become a pioneering feminist journalist. In Cartas de amor y rebeldía, Cacho traces a life committed to existential search, romance, passion, poetry and the indignation of living in an unjust world. This is her most intimate and revelatory book. In conversation with Mábel Lara.

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Event 47

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Amets Arzallus and Darrel McLeod in conversation with Ingrid Bejerman

Between cultures

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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Hegemonic and even official cultures that live alongside those of people who come from other parts of the world, who are the descendents of migrants or who belong to indigenous cultures. How can we navigate through what can be seen as cultural wealth but which can also involve difficulties, often due to disagreement caused by a lack of understanding of others, since we operate in different codes or even languages, and a frustration that can be generated by seeing badges of identity disappear? Yásnaya Elena Aguilar (Mexico), mixe thinker and writer; Amets Arzallus (Basque Country/France), writer and poet in the Basque language; and Darrel McLeod (Canada), writer and Executive Director of Education and International Affairs of the Canadian Assembly of First Nations, will talk to Ingrid Bejerman.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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Event 48

Juan José Borrell, Ana Catalina Suárez and Moisés Wasserman in conversation with Fernando Quijano

Grupo BIOS event: Towards greater food security

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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We are what we eat and our health will always be linked to our food. We humans obtain our energy and develop a strong immunological system through the nutrients provided by what we eat. For this reason, health and quality of life require sustainable, quality sources of food. With Juan José Borrell (Argentina), researcher and writer; Ana Catalina Suárez, Latin American Regional Director of The Global FoodBanking Network; and Moisés Wasserman (Colombia), educator and writer. Moderated by the journalist Fernando Quijano.
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Event 52

Darrel McLeod, Paula Marcela Moreno and Maria Ressa in conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof

Towards more equitable societies

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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A society that offers its citizens quality public services, where peace and access to education are guaranteed, is also a less violent and unequal society, one where cultural manifestations flourish. We speak to four experts who, from their various specialities, present ideas about how to achieve this equity. With Darrel McLeod (Canada), a writer who was chief negotiator for land claims with the Canadian Federal Government and Executive Director of Education and International Affairs of the Canadian Assembly of First Nations before turning to writing; Paula Marcela Moreno (Colombia), former Minister of Culture, Chair of Corporación Manos Visibles and author of Soñar lo imposible and Maria Ressa (Philippines), journalist, winner of the Peace Nobel Prize in 2021 for work denouncing Duterte's regimen, corruption and and brutality. In conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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Event 57

Farid Kahhat in conversation with Claudia Gurisatti

How to solve Latin America

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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Farid Kahhat (Peru), author of Tiempos violentos, which is an analysis of some of the most outstanding events that have characterised the international political context of the moment. They will talk about some of our most urgent questions, in conversation with Claudia Gurisatti.
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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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