Thursday, 05 September 2019

[HJ1]

Date

05

Sep
2019

Journalism: the BBC Mundo model. With Lucía Blasco, Alberto Nájar and Juan Carlos Pérez

At this workshop, editors and journalists from the BBC’s Spanish-language service will talk about the experience of BBC Mundo: broadcasting, scope, new media, working models, etc. The BBC is a gold standard for news quality, journalistic rigour and diversification with several radio and television channels and a strong online presence.

Event for university students only 

ITESM.

Time: 13:00 - 14:30.

[HJ2]

Date

05

Sep
2019

Roberto Emparan in conversation with José Carlos Arredondo Velázquez

The Spanish physicist Roberto Emparan has put into prose his research into quantum gravity in the fascinating book Iluminando el lado oscuro del universo: Agujeros negros, ondas gravitatorias y otras melodías de Einstein. One of the most brilliant scientific minds of our times, Emparan will talk about black holes, gravitational waves, superstring theory and general relativity, shining light on the secrets of the cosmos. In conversation with José Carlos Arredondo Velázquez, rector of the UTEC.

Event for university students 

With the support of Acción Cultural Española

Auditorio UTEQ.

Time: 14:00 - 15:00.

[HJ3]

Date

05

Sep
2019

Filippo La Porta in conversation with Fabrizio Cossalter

Filippo La Porta is an Italian journalist, essayist and literary critic. His most recent book is Disorganici. Maestri involontari del Novecento (2018), which analyses the work of people who have contributed to moulding Western culture and thought in the 20th century, such as Albert Camus, George Orwell, Simone Weil, Nicola Chiaromonte, Carlo Levi and Pier Paolo Pasolini. 

Event for university students

With the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Universidad Anáhuac.

Time: 14:30 - 15:30.

[HJ4]

Date

05

Sep
2019

Funderelele. Laura García in conversation with Sandra Hernández

How does the use of a word begin? How does a word acquire a meaning? Why is one word, and not another, used to construct a sentence? Lexicographer and communicator Laura García invites the reader to explore new linguistic terrain in her book Funderelele y más hallazgos de la lengua (2018), a compilation of essays about certain words selected by the author. The texts of Laura García reflect how, more than just expanding our vocabulary, words contribute to changing our way of seeing the world.

Event for university students

ITESM.

Time: 18:00 - 19:00.

[HJ5]

Date

05

Sep
2019

Filippo La Porta in conversation with Fabrizio Cossalter

Filippo La Porta is an Italian journalist, essayist and literary critic. His most recent book is Disorganici. Maestri involontari del Novecento (2018), which analyses the work of people who have contributed to moulding Western culture and thought in the 20th century, such as Albert Camus, George Orwell, Simone Weil, Nicola Chiaromonte, Carlo Levi and Pier Paolo Pasolini. La Porta, an experienced literary critic, will dissect this important discipline, one that is vital in order to build the link between readers and good literature.

Event for university students

With the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Tec Milenio.

Time: 18:00 - 19:00.

Friday, 06 September 2019

[HJ6]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Indigenous World Views. Yásnaya Elena Aguilar and Carleigh Baker in conversation with Ingrid Bejerman

An Ayuujk linguist and a Canadian writer tell the stories of First Nation peoples. Yásnaya Elena Aguilar has a Master’s in Linguistics from UNAM and writes in Mixe, Spanish and English, while also working on projects for the preservation of the Mixe languages. Carleigh Baker is an award-winning nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân /icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the x?m??k??y??m, Skwxwu7mesh, and s?l?ilw?ta peoples. She writes reviews for the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings (2017). She is currently a writer in residence at Simon Fraser University. They will talk to the journalist, researcher and university lecturer Ingrid Bejerman.

Event in English and in Spanish

With the support of Blue Metropolis Festival

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

[HJ7]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Alejandra Costamagna in conversation with Juan Carlos Franco

The award-winning Chilean writer and journalist, Alejandra Costamagna, has published a dozen novels, short story collections and non-fiction books, and her work has been included in several short story anthologies. In her most recent publication, El sistema del tacto (shortlisted for the 2018 Herralde Novel Prize), the protagonist, Ania, travels to the other side of the Andes mountains to visit a dying relative. As well as dealing with the themes of family and the past, the novel explores issues of plunder and belonging.

Event for university students

ITESM.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30.

[HJ8]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Journalism: the BBC Mundo model. With Lucía Blasco, Alberto Nájar and Juan Carlos Pérez

At this workshop, editors and journalists from the BBC’s Spanish-language service will talk about the experience of BBC Mundo: broadcasting, scope, new media, working models, etc. The BBC is a standard for news quality, journalistic rigour and diversification with several radio and television channels and a strong online presence.

Event for university students only 

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (campus San Juan del Río).

Time: 12:30 - 14:00.

[HJ9]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Lluvia. By Karina Pacheco

Karina Pacheco is Anthropologist of the Americas at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and an expert in inequality, development and cooperation. Her work includes six novels and four short story collections, the latest of which is Lluvia (2018), in which she explores the deepness of human experience in contrast with the magic of her childhood, war and violence; the lifestyle of indigenous communities versus the fast pace of modern life; and the conflict between identity, society, the past and death.

Event for university students

UNAM Juriquilla.

Time: 12:30 - 13:30.

[HJ10]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Orwell, Radiohead and the Hegemony of Multinational Corporations. With Eduardo Rabasa

After the triumph of Donald Trump, George Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984, skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists in the United States, because even though it was written 70 years ago, there probably isn’t a piece of work that better sets out the essential political mechanisms that explain the Trump phenomenon. On the other hand, the British rock band Radiohead has captured in its music the depressing hedonism and alienation that result from the hegemony of free market fanaticism. In this multimedia talk (video and music), Eduardo Rabasa, author of the dystopic novels A zero-sum game and Cinta negra, will link these two great contemporary references to societies produced by new authoritarianism and the hegemony of multinational corporations.

Event for university students

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Time: 12:30 - 13:30.

[HJ11]

Date

06

Sep
2019

We are all strangers. With Dylan Moore

The author Dylan Moore is the recipient of the 2018 Creative Wales Hay Festival International Fellowship/Cymrawd Rhungwladol Cymru Greadigol Hay Festival and has been visiting all our festivals around the world over the last year. With record-breaking figures for the number of displaced persons, in global terms, Dylan Moore reflects on the tension between the idea of “stranger” and the desire to “belong”, and about the way in which these concepts define our identity.

Event in English, for university students

With the support of the Arts Council of Wales

Universidad Anáhuac.

Time: 13:00 - 14:00.

[HJ12]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Funderelele. Laura García

How does the use of a word begin? How does a word acquire a meaning? Why is one word, and not another, used to construct a sentence? Lexicographer and communicator Laura García invites the reader to explore new linguistic terrain in her book Funderelele y más hallazgos de la lengua (2018), a compilation of essays about certain words selected by the author. The texts of Laura García reflect how, more than just expanding our vocabulary, words contribute to changing our way of seeing the world.

Event for university students

Universidad Tec Milenio.

Time: 16:30 - 17:30.

[HJ13]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Presentation of Elipsis. Elías Domínguez and Carla Durán in conversation with María García Holley

Elipsis is a project that supports an emerging generation of writers and publishers in Mexico. At the 2018 Hay Festival Queretaro, the first group of 12 young Mexican writers and publishers attended events and workshops in order to develop and put into practice their writing and editing skills. At the 2019 Hay Queretaro, the participants present their year’s work and the book that came out of the project. 

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro.

Time: 16:30 - 17:30.

[HJ14]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Orwell, Radiohead and the Hegemony of Multinational Corporations. With Eduardo Rabasa

After the triumph of Donald Trump, George Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984, skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists in the United States, because even though it was written 70 years ago, there probably isn’t a piece of work that better sets out the essential political mechanisms that explain the Trump phenomenon. On the other hand, the British rock band Radiohead has captured in its music the depressing hedonism and alienation that result from the hegemony of free market fanaticism. In this multimedia talk (video and music), Eduardo Rabasa, author of the dystopic novels A zero-sum game and Cinta negra, will link these two great contemporary references to societies produced by new authoritarianism and the hegemony of multinational corporations.

Event for university students

UNAM Juriquilla.

Time: 16:30 - 17:30.

[HJ15]

Date

06

Sep
2019

Roberto Emparan

The Spanish physicist Roberto Emparan has put into prose his research into quantum gravity in the fascinating book Iluminando el lado oscuro del universo: Agujeros negros, ondas gravitatorias and otras melodías de Einstein. One of the most brilliant scientific minds of our times, Emparan will talk about black holes, gravitational waves, superstring theory and general relativity, shining light on the secrets of the cosmos.

For university students

With the support of Acción Cultural Española

UNAM Juriquilla.

Time: 19:00 - 20:00.