Waldir Maqque and Alessandra Yupanqui in conversation with José Luis Ramos Salinas
Two influencers and their love of Peru
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
The Cusco influencer, chef and social media phenomenon, Waldir Maqque, presents his book Qué riquito, based on the recipes he has shared with the public in recent years, in his own particular idiom and with all his passion for cookery. Alessandra Yupanqui, a designer, tiktoker and content creator, has created a personal project that has become a community in which she and her followers share stories, reports and reflections on identity and racial discrimination in Peru. Both will talk about their experiences and challenges with José Luis Ramos Salinas, Doctor in Social Sciences and UNSA lecturer.
Martha Canfield, Sharon Lerner, Guillermo Niño de Guzmán and Renato Sandoval in conversation with Hernando Torres-Fernández
Sketches of Jorge Eielson
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Teatro Arequepay
A hundred years after the birth of Jorge Eielson (Lima 1924- Milan 2006), five figures from the literary and cultural spheres will talk about this brilliant Peruvian poet and artist, who lived for much of his life in Italy. Martha Canfield, an Italian-Colombian poet and lecturer in Literature, is the Director of Florence University’s Jorge Eielson Studies Centre, where she teaches. Sharon Lerner is the Director of MALI and curated the first retrospective exhibition of Eielson’s work in Peru. The writer, literary critic and essayist Renato Sandoval, the writer Guillermo Niño de Guzmán, and the diplomat Hernando Torres-Fernández have all known the famous author and artist. Together, they will tell personal anecdotes and talk about his extensive body of work, bringing us the creative world of this extraordinary poet and visual artist.
Xabier Díaz de Cerio in conversation with Andrea Chanove
The ABC of Peru’s climate
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Universidad Católica de Santa María - Instituto Confucio
Xabier Díaz is a writer and journalist of Spanish origin, known for his work on matters related to ecology and sustainability, and for his dedication to documenting the environmental matters and challenges faced by Latin America. In his new book, Abecedario Climático Peruano, he presents over a hundred illustrated words, with stories and photos collected in the coastal, mountain and rainforest regions of Peru over the course of fifteen years. The work highlights the local eco-heroes who lead climate action, while also preserving ancestral knowledge, and it combines personal testimonies with an analysis of the effects of climate change on different communities. In conversation with Andrea Chanove.
Gonzalo Zegarra, who studied Law at Peru’s Pontificia Universidad Católica and did a Master’s in the discipline at Yale, is the former editor of Semana Económica and is a member of major press councils. He will talk about his book La democracia del click y del TikTok, which deals with the challenges of the social media for politics, highlighting both their capacity to democratise public voices as well as their potential for creating intolerance and polarisation, emphasising the need to reinvent democratic institutions in the digital era. In conversation withDaniel Mitma.
Carlos Umaña (Costa Rica) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, together with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for raising “awareness about the humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for their efforts to achieve a prohibition on such weapons”. In this conversation with Pablo Cateriano, Umaña will talk about environmentalism and the need to eradicate nuclear weapons from the world, as well as his work as a scientist and activist.
Serge Barbet in conversation with Nelson Vallejo-Gómez
Education, information and citizenship
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
The education/information/citizenship triad is key for strengthening enlightened democracy. This event will involve sharing experiences of the French educational system in terms of education, teaching tools and continuous training on the subject for teachers, particularly including the topics of news, a critical spirit and civic values. With Serge Barbet(France-Argentina), a journalist who specialises in education and, since 2018, Director of the French Centre for Education on the Media and Information, in conversation with the French-Colombian philosopher Nelson Vallejo-Gómez.
Serge Barbet will join the event remotely.
This event has taken place
With the support of the French Embassy, Alianza Francesa de Lima y Arequipa, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH-Paris), Académie des Sciences de France, CLEMI-Canopé, MENJ
Patricia del Río and Patricia Villanueva in conversation with Augusto Carrasco
Literature for girls and boys, ¿A mini-Boom in Peru?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
We are witnessing that, recently, lots of very interesting children's literature books are being published by authors who previously only explored adult narratives... Is publishing for children profitable? How do we approach the editing of children's literature, and who is involved? What can we observe in other countries with important children's book markets? How are informative or educational books for children created? With Patricia del Río, linguist and journalist, author of Desde la Luna,her first work for children; and Patricia Villanueva, visual artist, curator and educator; co-author of Grandes culturas milenarias,a history of the cultures that came before the Inca Empire. In conversation with Augusto Carrasco, designer, editor, and curator of the children’s project Héroes y heroínas de la peruanidad. 200 historias para celebrar el bicentenario.
Alessandro Maccarrone in conversation with Norka Bedregal
Pleasurable maths
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
El infinito placer de las matemáticas has become an unexpected bestseller, with almost twenty thousand copies sold in Spanish alone. The author, the Spaniard Alessandro Maccarrone, holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Barcelona, and is a science educator and secondary school teacher. For the last fifteen years he has been working as a teacher and popular educator, and he has discovered that physics and mathematics are not only infinite in breadth, but also in depth, and that in the most basic and everyday questions lies a great wealth, complexity and beauty. In conversation with Norka Bedregal.
This event has taken place
Sponsored by Credicorp and with the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Sheila Alvarado and Marisa Godínez in conversation with Álex Huerta-Mercado
Illustrators
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Teatro Arequepay
The artist Marisa Godínez(Lima, 1950) studied at the PUCP’s School of Art, and was a pioneer in feminist drawing in Peru. In 1978 she was invited to contribute to the satirical magazine Monos y Monadas with drawings whose subject matter was poetic and notably anti-patriarchal. This multi-talented artist, who uses a range of different media, returned to drawing in 2017 and in 2022 held the La Niña No Mirada exhibition at the Luis Miró Quesada Garland Gallery in Miraflores. Sheila Alvarado (Lima, 1979) is an artist, writer and LGTBI activist. She graduated from the National School of Fine Art, with a silver medal in printmaking. In 2019 she won the Peruvian Ministry of Culture’s Child and Young Adult Literature Prize. In 2020, she was one of the winners of the same ministry’s National Competition for Creative Child and Young Adult Literature Projects and a year later represented Peru as an illustrator and writer at the Guadalajara Book Fair. Both artists will talk to Álex Huerta-Mercado about activism through art.
Since the arrival of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, the entire planet is thinking about it, and the questions are starting to pile up: will our brains be replaced by technology? What are the possibilities and the risks? Elisa Guerra, educator, author of the book La Enseñanza en la Cuarta Revolución Industrial, and former member of the UNESCO Futures of Education’s International Commission, will talk to secondary students in order to try to answer a big question: can school survive the invasion of artificial intelligence?
Leontxo García(Spain) trains in educational chess and has experience in over 30 countries. He has spoken publicly about the educational, social and therapeutic applications of chess (with regard to brain aging and Alzheimer’s), as well as about the history of the game and its champions (he has met every world champion since Botvinnik). This Member for Educational Chess of the International Chess Federation has been a journalist since 1983. He will offer us a fascinating look at the educational potential of chess, particularly among children, linking it to the most common school subjects. He will talk toGabriel Ñaña.
María Larrea, Enrica Pérez y Judith Vélez in conversation with Cintya Vera
Talking about film
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Universidad Católica de Santa María - Campus Umacollo
Within the framework of the new film law in Peru, two Peruvian filmmakers and a Spanish-French director will talk about the science and art of creating films, as well as about their great cultural value. María Larrea (Spain/France), director, screenwriter and fiction writer, born in Bilbao (Spain) and raised in Paris, where she studied film at La Fémis, is the author of Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren. Judith Vélez (Peru), a director, university lecturer and active participant in the Association of Women Film Directors, has made outstanding movies, including her prizewinning first film, La prueba (2006), and Volver a ver (2018),which represented Peru at the Goya Awards. Enrica Pérez (Peru) also trained as a filmmaker at La Fémis and studied Film Direction at the University of Columbia, New York; in 2009 she founded Sexto Sentido Producciones, and through this company she developed, produced and distributed her first work, Climas. In conversation with Cintya Vera.
Irene Vallejo in conversation with Patricia del Río
The invention of books
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Teatro Municipal
Irene Vallejo (Spain) is the author of one of the most read Spanish-language non-fiction books in recent years, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, published in 40 countries and selling over half a million copies. The work has been a publishing phenomenon and has received prestigious awards, including the 2020 National Prize for Non-fiction in Spain. This writer, academic and author of a lucid opinion column for El País newspaper, is one of the most followed intellectuals in the Spanish-speaking world. In conversation with Patricia del Río, she will talk about her love for the world of books, libraries, and the essential role of reading in education.
Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru in conversation with Matías Zibell
Literary pairs
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
As part of the Literary Pairs series run by Hay Festival and the British Council, and an event that will be repeated at the Hay-on-Wye Festival in 2025, the BBC Mundo journalist Matías Zibell will talk to Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru. Agustina Bazterrica (Argentina) is a writer and cultural manager; as well as short story collections, she has published Tender Is the Flesh, translated into 25 languages, and the novel that she presents here: The Unworthy, a disturbing dystopian book that deals with the matter of friendship. The writer Hari Kunzru (United Kingdom), who has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian and Wired, has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library and the American Academy in Berlin. His novels have won a range of prestigious prizes and have been translated into over 20 languages. He presents Red Pill, a novel about the far right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history.
With simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish
Maritza Ramírez and Patricia Salas in conversation with Jorge Bedregal La Vera
Education and inclusion
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
Two major figures from the world of Peruvian education will talk to Jorge Bedregal la Vera about the importance of education in strengthening social and community fabrics. Patricia Salas(Peru) is a sociologist and expert in matters related to social development; she has a doctorate in Social Sciences from the Universidad Católica de Santa María and has been both Chair of the National Council of Education and Peruvian Minister of Education. Maritza Ramírez (Peru) is a dedicated Kukama activist who works to revitalise the language, as well as on the promotion of bilingual and intercultural education in Peru through documenting the Kukama language, developing educational materials and creating teaching spaces. Her work has been recognised nationally and internationally for its significant impact on the promotion of inclusive education that respects cultural diversity.
Luis García Montero and Alonso Ruiz Rosas in conversation with Verónica Ramírez
Cultural fusions
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Teatro Arequepay
Ever since the Inca Garcilaso said, over four centuries ago, that he was a mestizo and proud to be so, much has been written, said and discussed regarding the exciting and often dramatic processes of mixing cultures, something that characterises a large section of Latin American society. Two poets, one Spanish and the other Peruvian, discuss this matter, together with the moderator, the Peruvian writer and journalist Verónica Ramírez. Luis García Montero is a poet, professor at the University of Granada and current Director of the Instituto Cervantes. His most recent poetry book is Un año y tres meses. Alonso Ruiz Rosas has published a poetry book, Contra el Leteo (2023), and is the former Director of the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Centre. The novel by Verónica Ramírez, Casi todo desaparece, has just been republished in Spain.
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
The Settlers,a Chilean film directed by Felipe Gálvez, opened at the 76th International Film Festival in Cannes and was the Chilean candidate for the Oscar nomination for Best International Film in 2024. Set in 1901, in Tierra del Fuego, it tells the story of three riders –a British lieutenant, an American mercenary and a mixed-race guide– who travel the territory with the mission of preparing a route for the trade in sheep. What follows is the raw, disturbing realty of colonisation: the absolute destruction of the native peoples.
Felipe Gálvez in conversation with Alejandro Millán
The Settlers
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Felipe Gálvez (Chile) is, together with Antonia Girardi, one of the creators of Los colonos, a film that captures the brutality of colonisation and its lasting impact on Chilean identity, set in early 20th-century Patagonia. The film can be seen as part of the festival programme. At this event, the film’s director and screenwriter, Gálvez, will talk with the BBC journalist Alejandro Millán about how he has captured, with a striking visual style, such a profound narrative and complex characters, questioning the official versions of history; it invites us to reflect on the question of injustice and oppression in order to understand the past and its importance in Chilean society.
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata in conversation with Matías Zibell
Africa is a continent
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
The podcast and book It’s a continent are two of the best contemporary introductions to the history and current affairs of African countries intended for a broad public. Created and produced by two British communicators with African origins, Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, it explores in an entertaining and accessible way the history of each African country, dismantling myths and celebrating the cultural and historical riches of a set of countries and peoples that constitute a very large percentage of the world population. Together with the BBC journalist Matías Zibell, Madimba and Ukatawill tell us how the idea for the podcast arose, and why it is important to communicate the reality of each African country to a world that still has much to learn and a long way to go in terms of decolonising.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
