Hay Festival Joven Querétaro

Mildred Calvillo and Diana Jiménez in conversation with Iliana Padilla

Letters to Rosario, an epistolary anthology

Thursday 4 September 2025, 12pm –  UNAM ENES

The Epistolary Literary Prize Cartas a Rosario pays tribute to writer Rosario Castellanos as a conmemoration of the centenial of her birth. Mildred Calvillo, winner of the postgraduate category, and Diana Jiménez, winner of the undergraduate category, talk about the anthology published by Editciones UNAM, with litters written to her by students. In conversation with Iliana Padilla.

With the support of UNAM

Ramón Gener in conversation with Felipe Bohorquez

Love for the piano

Thursday 4 September 2025, 1pm –  Universidad Anáhuac, Aula Magna Edificio C

Ramón Gener (Spain) has found a true vocation in education on the subject of music, bringing his love of opera and art to new audiences. More than just a conversation, he will offer a journey of (re)discovery, allowing music to excite us, and talking about Historia de un piano, a captivating novel about the life of an instrument that becomes a metaphor for the redemptive power of love, friendship, beauty and, of course, music. In conversation with Felipe Bohorquez.

Digital workshop with Jorge Hernández

To leave the algorithm on read

Thursday 4 September 2025, 3pm –  Universidad Anáhuac, Aula Magna Edificio C

Lecture by Elisa Guerra

Schooling in the era of artificial intelligence

Thursday 4 September 2025, 4pm –  UAQ, Auditorio Jesús Pérez Hermosillo de la Facultad de Ingeniería

With the arrival of large language models such as ChatGPT, the whole world has been turned upside down. Will our brains be replaced by technology? What are the risks and the opportunities? Elisa Guerra, educator, author of La enseñanza en la cuarta revolución industrial and a member of the UNESCO International Forum on the Futures of Education, will try to answer an important question: can schooling survive the invasion of artificial intelligence?

Liliana Viola in conversation with Carmen Dolores Carrillo Juárez

The nun who would take no more

Friday 5 September 2025, 9am –  Biblioteca Campus Centro Histórico - Dirección General de Bibliotecas UAQ

In La hermana, the Argentinean journalist Liliana Viola reconstructs the story of Martha Pelloni, the nun who challenged the political authorities of Catamarca (Argentina) in the 1990s after the rape and murder of the young woman María Soledad Morales. A profile and a work of literary journalism that has won the 6th Anagrama Reporting/Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation Award. In conversation with Carmen Dolores Carrillo Juarez.

Marina Azahua in conversation with Paulina Macías and María José Vázquez de la Mora

Friday 5 September 2025, 10am –  Tec de Monterrey, Punto Blanco

Archivo agonía is the debut novel by Marina Azahua (Mexico), who, using the epistolary genre, creates a voice that offers personal testimony and reflection on the last moments of life. We see memory as a palimpsest, and however much we try to forget the past, mourning, loneliness and pain persist. This is an introduction to a writer whose style is startling, poetic and precise. In conversation with Paulina Macías and María José Vázquez de la Mora.

Reed Brody in conversation with Noemí Rubio Gudiño

How to trap a tyrant

Friday 5 September 2025, 10am –  Auditorio José Arana Morán, Facultad de Derecho

In his fascinating work, To Catch a Dictator, Reed Brody (USA) shows how, sometimes, the struggle for justice and in favour of victims can overcome impunity. The lawyer known as the Dictator Hunter has written a book telling the story of the campaign to bring the Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré, known as the «African Pinochet», to trial. A reminder that even the most powerful tyrants can be brought to justice. In conversation with Noemí Rubio Gudiño.

Tania Tagle in conversation with Jazmín Agreda Ríos

Friday 5 September 2025, 10am –  UAQ, Central de Servicios a la Comunidad (CESECO) Norte

Tania Tagle (Mexico) is a writer with a meticulous literary style, one employed in Fauce to tell how, after a bereavement, the protagonist finds the words to speak to her son through a fog of silence. In Jardines errantes, her previous book, she cultivates a garden of words with a sensitive approach that allows her experiences as a daughter, mother, reader and inhabitant of this world to flourish. In conversation with Jazmín Agreda Ríos.

Mar García Puig in conversation with Ester Bautista Botello

The value of metaphors

Friday 5 September 2025, 12pm –  Biblioteca Campus Centro Histórico - Dirección General de Bibliotecas UAQ

In her long essay Això tan tenebrós, Mar García Puig (Spain) makes a defence of the power of figurative language, since existence unfolds among metaphors, and these represent not only all that exists, but everything we can conceive of. This is a matter that women know particularly well, given that they can give life, but also take it away. In conversation with Ester Bautista Botello.

Simon Reynolds in conversation with Ramón Santillana

The music of the future

Friday 5 September 2025, 12pm –  Tec de Monterrey, Punto Blanco

After almost a decade of silence, Simon Reynolds (United Kingdom) is back with a very optimistic conclusion: that music has a future. If Retromania exposed the lack of innovation in the industry, on the other hand Futuromania maps the electronic soundscapes that are our present and future. From Kraftwerk to Daft Punk, via Giorgio Moroder, Arca and Travis Scott. In conversation with Ramón Santillana.

Event in English

With the support of British Council

Tamara Tenenbaum in conversation with César Andrés García Sánchez

Friday 5 September 2025, 1pm –  UAQ, Auditorio de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales

In order to understand Un millón de cuartos propios (2025 Paidós Prize) by Tamara Tenenbaum, we must go back to mid-2022, when the Argentinean writer was asked to translate Virginia Woolf’s famous book, A Room of One’s Own. Against this background, she proposes a re-reading of the classic work in order to reflect on the current situation of women. Her view is that even a major landmark of feminism such as Woolf’s deserves an update, a hundred years after it was first published. In conversation with César Andrés García Sánchez.

Mariana Matija in conversation with Mariana Rodríguez Granada Vázquez

Another relationship with the Earth

Friday 5 September 2025, 1.30pm –  Universidad Anáhuac, Aula Magna Edificio C

Mariana Matija (Colombia) is a communicator and creative researcher who explores other relationships with the Earth and its creatures and cycles; she is also the author of Niñapájaroglaciar. With a familiar, reflective voice, she offers a proposal of conscious and harmonious relations with nature, based on an everyday ecology, one that is eminently possible. This would put care of the planet at the centre, and make it possible to live in the world in a more balanced way. In conversation with Mariana Rodríguez Granada Vázquez.

Linda Kamau in conversation with Enrique García Alcalá and Diana Hernández

Women in technology

Friday 5 September 2025, 2pm –  Tec de Monterrey, Punto Blanco

Linda Kamau (Kenya) is a pioneer in the field of the inclusion of women in technology. As a co-founder of AkiraChix, she has trained hundreds of young people in programming, offering them tools to transform their lives and communities. She has been recognized by initiatives such as the Obama Foundation’s Leaders Africa programme, and is a member of the Segal Family Foundation. Her leadership has encouraged a generation of women who are transforming technology. In conversation with Enrique García Alcalá and Diana Hernández.

Event in English

In partnership with Nairobi Litfest, and with the support of British Council’s UK/Kenya Season 2025

Michel Nieva in conversation with Abdiel Hernández Mendoza

The hacking of science fiction

Friday 5 September 2025, 2pm –  UNAM ENES

Michel Nieva (Argentina) is a creator of gaucho-punk, which fuses the gauchesca tradition with the cyberpunk genre. In Ciencia ficción capitalista he draws our attention to the capitalist fantasies of the technological gurus. This essay explores how the language of science fiction has been kidnapped by the neoliberal ideas of Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and co. In conversation with Abdiel Hernández Mendoza.

Tania Tagle in conversation with Angélica Aguado

Friday 5 September 2025, 3pm –  UAQ, Sala Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, Facultad de Psicología y Educación, Centro Universitario

Tania Tagle (Mexico) is a writer with a meticulous literary style, one employed in Fauce to tell how, after a bereavement, the protagonist finds the words to speak to her son through a fog of silence. In Jardines errantes, her previous book, she cultivates a garden of words with a sensitive approach that allows her experiences as a daughter, mother, reader and inhabitant of this world to flourish. In conversation with professor Angélica Aguado.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Julieta Díaz Barrón

Friday 5 September 2025, 4pm –  Tec de Monterrey, Punto Blanco

Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most celebrated and outstanding authors in contemporary Colombian literature. At this event he will talk about his most recent book, Los nombres de Feliza, a recreation of the life of the sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, who was a freethinking artist who went beyond the limits set by the times for women like her. This rigorous novel weaves together art, history and memoir. In conversation with Julieta Díaz Barrón.

Jumko Ogata in conversation with Paola Gallardo

A practical guide to antiracism

Friday 5 September 2025, 4pm –  UNAM ENES

In the tradition of Ibram X. Kendi (How To Be an Antiracist) and Djamila Ribeiro (Pequeno manual antirracista), the writer, translator and antiracist activist Jumko Ogata (Mexico) presents ¡Quiero ser antirracista!, a practical manual for taking a step forward and combatting structural racism in all its forms. In conversation with Paola Gallardo.

Performative lecture by Mariela Sancari

Turn the eye into a hand. Turn the hand into an eye.

Friday 5 September 2025, 4pm –  Biblioteca Campus Centro Histórico - Dirección General de Bibliotecas UAQ

We know that the relationships between images and texts can be multiple and open, and can even go beyond logocentrism. In her performance/talk Hacer del ojo, mano. De la mano, ojo, the artist Mariela Sancari will explore the notion of heterotopía through photographs and texts. To do so, she will transform a table into a device for thinking: a surface where images and words participate in a play of ever-changing and reconfigurable relationships.