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 HJ6

Juan José Borrell in conversation with Camilo Rey

Geopolitics and food

 Universidad de Cartagena, Sala de Lectura Biblioteca Fernández de Madrid (Claustro de San Agustín)
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The Geopolitics researcher and lecturer Juan José Borrell (Argentina) will talk to students about his book Geopolítica y alimentos. The food supply system is a vital question for global geopolitics, and in recent decades international competition for resources has meant that food is now included in strategic and security considerations. In a world in which one in nine people suffer from hunger and in which, by 2050, it is estimated that there will be over 9.3 billion inhabitants, it is of particular importance to look at the factors affecting the food supply. Borrell’s text, the subject of this event, contributes to unpick the myths behind the future challenges of food. In conversation with Camilo Rey.
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Event 17

Yayo Herrero, Victoria Amelina and Nilda Meléndez in conversation with Marta Ruiz

Building from the territory

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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The arduous shift towards caring for our environment, creating a dignified quality of life and reconstructing the communities that make this possible is always linked to the territory. What we need to know is about experiences of work in the territory, models of community practice connected with the land that can serve as examples for other places. For this purpose, we bring together the Spanish ecofeminist Yayo Herrero, the Cartagena activist Nilda Meléndez and the Ukrainian writer and activist Victoria Amelina, who will talk to Marta Ruiz.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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Event 20

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Juan Cárdenas and Alia Trabucco in conversation with Camilo Jiménez Santofimio

Progressive trends in Latin America

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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Progressive governments in a number of major countries in the region; government plans and policies that seek to develop state services for citizens. This event is a look at this new order with three festival participants who understand the progressive movement from the inside and who, in different fields, have participated in the region’s social struggles. With Yásnaya Elena Aguilar (Mexico), Juan Cárdenas (Colombia) y Alia Trabucco (Chile) in conversation with journalist Camilo Jiménez Santofimio.
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Event 26

Maria Ressa in conversation with Lydia Cacho

 Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
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Maria Ressa (Philippines), is the journalist that won the Peace Nobel Prize in 2021 for work denouncing Duterte's regimen, corruption and and brutality; she will be presenting her latest book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, a call to the world to raise awareness about social media misinformation and a passionate manifesto about the importance of the freedom of press to ensure democracy's health versus abuse of power by those who control media, said Rodrigo Duterte o Mark Zuckeberg. In conversation with Lydia Cacho.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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Event 42

Emma Graham-Harrison, María Elvira Samper and Fernando Travesí in conversation with Marta Ruiz

Peace, war, (in)security

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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Living in peace: a human right for which, unfortunately, the conditions are not always in place. Wars, violent actions by illegal groups, societies in which security is an urgent and fundamental matter, above and beyond matters like education and health. What is to be done in these cases? We talk to three different voices who, based on their respective experiences, will talk about how to seek this peace which is so important for citizens’ well-being. With the British journalist Emma Graham-Harrison, the Colombian journalist María Elvira Samper and the Executive Director of the ICTJ, Fernando Travesí (Spain), in conversation with Marta Ruiz.
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Event 45B

Lydia Cacho, Sergio Jaramillo, Andrey Kurkov, Oleksandra Matviichuk and Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Catalina Gómez Ángel

Why is Ukraine important for Latin America?

 Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
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In this talk, we will discuss about the repercussions of the war in Ukraine in the world and, in particular, in Latin America; and about the possible bridges that could be built, both as the support that Latinamerican countries could give to a besieged country and as the lessons learned from this war. With the journalist and activist Lydia Cacho (Mexico), Sergio Jaramillo (Colombia) former Peace Comissioner in Colombia, Oleksandra Matviichuck (Ukraine) Director of the Human Rights Organization for Civil Liberties in Ukraine and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022, and authors Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine) and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia). They will talk to the Colombian journalist Catalina Gómez Ángel, war correspondent in Ukraine.

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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 61

Ivan Krastev in conversation with Guillermo Altares

What is happening with the European Union?

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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With the rise of right-wing nationalist parties all over the continent, Brexit, the refugee emergency and the recent war in the Ukraine, the European Union is in crisis. At this event, the renowned intellectual and political commentator Ivan Krastev (Bulgaria) will reflect on the future of democracy in the European Union and the urgent challenges it faces. Ivan Krastev has analysed the European political union of the last 30 years in a number of book-length essays, including Is It Tomorrow Yet (2020), The Light That Failed: A Reckoning (2019) and After Europe (2017).

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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