Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

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

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.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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Oded Galor will participate remotely