Patricia del Río and Fernanda Trías in conversation with Dante Trujillo
Inhabiting the wild
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
A mountainside, in the novel by Fernanda Trías (Uruguay), and an Andean village, in the novel by Patricia del Río (Peru), are the settings for El monte de las furias and Jauría respectively. Two places for a discussion of the wild, and memory. The first is narrated by a woman in whose garden dead bodies begin to appear. The second is told from the point of view of the ten dogs who have become the guardians of the memory of the village’s last inhabitant. In conversation with Dante Trujillo.
Nelly Luna and Josefina Townsend with David Marcial Pérez
South to North Conversations: this democracy is not democracy
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Teatro Arequepay
The rise of authoritarianism, disinformation, inequality and organised crime is threatening democracy as we know it. Nelly Luna, head of OjoPúblico, and the journalist Josefina Townsend present Esta democracia no es democracia, which analyses the interaction between the climate crisis and democratic collapse in the region through eleven interviews that explore matters such as the democratic promise, stories of resistance, memory, transformation and community work in order to rethink these urgent times. In conversation with David Marcial Pérez.
Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost (USA/Peru) had been a quiet but important figure in the Peruvian church. He spent 40 years in the country, from his early days in the Augustinian mission in Chulucanas, to his appointment as Bishop of Chiclayo. The journalist Elise Ann Allen, who specialises in Catholic affairs and writes for Crux, has recently published his biography. In conversation with Paola Ugaz.
Dario Sztajnszrajber in conversation with Daniel Mitma and Jorge Jaime Valdez
Love is impossible
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Universidad Continental (auditorio)
Darío Sztajnszrajber (Argentina) has brought philosophy to thousands of people, filling venues and appearing on television and radio. He has captivated non-specialist audiences, dealing with the big philosophical questions of history and in contemporary ideas. In the eight theses of El amor es imposible, he dismantles the myth of normative romantic love. The philosopher questions ideas such as the perfect partner and invites us to rethink the notion of falling out of love as part of the desire for the impossible. In conversation with Daniel Mitmay Jorge Jaime Valdez, professor of the Communication Sciences programme.
Pedro Cateriano in conversation with David Marcial Pérez
El País lecture: Vargas Llosa, political biography
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Teatro Municipal
Vargas Llosa, su otra gran pasión is the first political biography of Mario Vargas Llosa. Pedro Cateriano offers a detailed reconstruction of the ideological background of the Arequipan intellectual: from his Communist youth, through his rupture with the Cuban Revolution, to his transition to liberalism and failed bid for the presidency. This portrait offers a political life of one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most influential thinkers. In conversation with David Marcial Pérez.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Marie-Pier Lafontaine and Rafia Zakaria in conversation with Nelly Luna
South to North Conversations: in first person
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
The feminist struggle can be looked at from various angles, and this event features two authors who do so from the intensity of their own experience. Marie-Pier Lafontaine (Canada) resists in the face of family abuse and breaks the silence that surrounds it in Chienne, while Armer la rage takes an angry swing at shame and trauma. The Pakistani lawyer and journalist Rafia Zakaria advocates a dismantling of the hegemony of white, Western, middle-class feminism, complicit in capitalist imperialism. Against White Feminism aims to break a yoke and create a future free of racism. Feminism will be intersectional, or it will not be feminism. In conversation with Nelly Luna.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
This event has taken place
With the support of Open Society Foundations and the Canadian Embassy in Peru and Bolivia
Alberto Fuguet in conversation with Enrique Planas
Fuguet: yesterday and today
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
It is a great time to read Alberto Fuguet. Missing, his fifth novel, mingles fiction and reality in order to talk about the disappearance of his uncle. It is the third Fuguet book to be republished this year, after Aeropuertos and No ficción. What is more, the Chilean writer published Ciertos chicos last year, a coming of age novel about two teenagers, Tomás y Clemente, in 1986, during the Chilean dictatorship. In conversation with Enrique Planas.
Pedro Salinas in conversation with Santiago Vanegas
Sodalitium: rise and fall
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Colegio de Arquitectos (auditorio)
The Sodalitium of Christian Life was a machinery of power and abuse, and one of the darkest cases involving the Church in Latin America. In La verdad nos hizo libres, Pedro Salinas (Peru) reconstructs the workings of the sect through personal testimonies and rigorous research. This was a network of power and concealment that began to unwind when victims raised their voices and finally the truth became stronger than impunity. The writer will talk to the BBC Mundo journalist, Santiago Vanegas.
Carlos Chávez and Esther Cruces in conversation with Edward de Ybarra
Eccles Institute event: archives of a return journey
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Teatro Arequepay
Archives are the last bastion of a memory and history shared on both sides of the ocean. What is, on the face of it, a simple deposit of documents is really a story of past voices and lives, something that can guide our present. Talking about this matter will be three expert archivists and historians: Carlos Chávez(Peru), historian and ex coordinator of the PUCP Film Library; and Esther Cruces Blanco(Spain), archivist and recently the director of the Archivo General de Indias. Moderated by Edward de Ybarra, who was responsible for the project creating the Archivo Cinematográfico del Sur in Arequipa.
This event has taken place
With the support of the Eccles Institute for American Studies at the British Library and PUCP
Alejandra Moffat (Chile) is a natural when it comes to telling stories, whether as novels, tales or for the screen, and this is clear from her many successful screenplays for fiction, animation and documentary film. The young people who attend the workshop will learn basic notions when it comes to expressing their ideas in the outline of a script: from developing the plot to profiling the characters, and setting out the progression of the action.
The Hay Festival reading club comes to Arequipa lead by Omar Zevallos presenting Andrés Barba (Spain) and his novel Auge y caída del conejo Bam. This animal fable, featuring a rabbit protagonist, is a tale about social manipulation, ideals and lies, fear and violence.
Ricardo Raphael in conversation with David Marcial Pérez
The Wallace case: a fabricated mourning
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Teatro Arequepay
The story that all Mexico believed: the kidnapping of a child and the later media campaign of a mother seeking justice, which involved the highest spheres of power in the country. This was the Wallace case, when the victim became the perpetrator. In Fabricación, the journalist and writer Ricardo Raphael (Mexico) tells how a manufactured mourning became a spectacle, and a manipulation of the reality, justice and the media. A true story that could have been a thriller and a systematic reminder of the impunity that haunts us. In conversation with David Marcial Pérez.
Roxana Barrantes, Luis Carranza and Pedro Francke in conversation with Fernando Carvallo
Can the free market promote social equity?
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Teatro Municipal
The polarization of Peruvian society is clear in many spheres, including the economy. Given this situation it is appropriate to wonder whether a right-wing political economy can integrate social policies for the most disadvantaged. Can social equity be promoted with free-market basis? With a general election coming next year, two former Economic ministers —Luis Carranza and Pedro Francke—, and one of the directors of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Roxana Barrantes, will talk about these matters together with the journalist Fernando Carvallo.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Natalia Sobrevilla and Alberto Vergara in conversation with María Luisa del Río
Peru explained
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Explaining the past helps us to understand the present, and even more so when dealing with a country as complex as Peru. Natalia Sobrevilla and Alberto Vergara will be the ones to undertake this challenge, in a conversation that will begin with their recent publications. Perú global, co-edited by Vergara and Adrián Lerner, is the first volume in a series to cover the issue of Peru in the world. Around 20 researchers analyse key moments from the country’s past, set in a global context. Sobrevilla has written about the life of Ramón Castilla in Los años de Castilla (1840-1865), telling us about the figure who was president of the republic on two occasions. In conversation with María Luisa del Río.
Pedro Baños in conversation with Hernando Torres-Fernández
Geopolitics: a Hispano-American viewpoint
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Colegio de Arquitectos (auditorio)
Pedro Baños (Spain), a retired army colonel and geopolitical analyst, is a highly influential thinker about strategy and international relations in the Spanish-speaking world. In his latest book, Geohispanidad, he considers a geopolitical strategy to unite the Spanish-speaking countries and reinforce their global influence. He will talk to the diplomat and expert in international relations, Hernando Torres-Fernández, about the new alliances that are coming together, and the geopolitical board taking shape today.
The Hay Festival Arequipa presents A City In A City (1971), a documentary directed by Roberto Savio about the Saint Catalina Convent, written and narrated by Mario Vargas Llosa. This cinematic masterpiece, awarded at the Cannes film festival in 1971, captures a unique historical moment: the first opening of the cloisters to the public. Roberto Savio, recognised Italian journalist and commentator, will offer an exclusive and once-in-a-life-time testimony on his creative process and his collaboration with the Peruvian Nobel prize winner, bringing back a valuable document of our cultural memory. Presented by José Carlos Mariátegui.
Reading club with Alejandra Moffat and Omar Zevallos
Mambo
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Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán
The Hay Festival reading club comes to Arequipa lead by Omar Zevallos presenting Alejandra Moffat (Chile) and her novel Mambo, a novel that represents the Chilean wave known as “literature of the children of the dictatorship”. The book’s protagonist, Ana, is a girl who has grown up through the clandestine years of the 1980s. She and her sister Julia, in all their innocence, recreate a childhood even in the midst of violence.
Héctor Abad Faciolince in conversation with Jeremías Gamboa
Sensitivity in the face of barbarism
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Teatro Municipal
Héctor Abad Faciolince(Colombia) has been captivating readers for almost 20 years with the book Oblivion, the moving homage to his murdered father. Now his writings bring to us an even more personal event, the 2023 missile attack on a pizzeria in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region of the Ukraine. Abad Faciolince was unharmed, but Victoria Amelina (Ucrania), his travel companion and guide, died in the Russian attack. Ahora y en la hora is his report of the events, and a meditation on life, aging, death, war, violence and guilt. In conversatio with Jeremías Gamboa.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Eduardo Dargent and Susan Neiman in conversation with Pablo Quintanilla
Caviar, woke, left?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Caviar and latte liberals, woke, lefties… all pejorative terms linked to a left wing, and all becoming more and more common. But, what is the woke left? Who are the latte drinkers? In Left Is Not Woke, Susan Neiman (United States) argues that the true progressive spirit —universalism, justice, reason— has broken up into identitarian posturing that is resulting in a new woke conservatism. The political commentator Eduardo Dargent (Peru) analyses the Peruvian version of the phenomenon in Caviar. Del pituco de izquierda al multiverso progre; as an insult, a label or a smokescreen, “caviar” is one of the most effective and persistent threads in the national political discourse. A conversation about works that (de)construct the left, with Pablo Quintanilla.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
This event has taken place
With the support of Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán
Alonso Ruiz Rosas in conversation with Ignacio Medina
Arequipa taste
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
From the emblematic chupe de camarones soup to the essential ocopa, adobo cold cut, stuffed peppers, and all kinds of traditional tastes from the picanterías and kitchens of Arequipa households. The new edition of La gran cocina mestiza de Arequipa, by Alonso Ruiz Rosas —also the author of El recetario de Arequipa—, delves into a unique cuisine and produces a book that is vital for all those who love Arequipa and its cookery. This recipe book is also steeped in the historical context of its flavours, and has now been re-published, over ten years after its first release. The culinary critic Ignacio Medina will season the conversation with Ruiz Rosas.
