CARTAGENA HAY FESTIVAL 2025/ Txell Feixas
Thursday 30 January 2025
War, dictatorship and corruption: attacks on journalism
Txell Feixas, Catalina Gómez Ángel, Abraham Jiménez Enoa and Tatiana Velásquez in conversation with Juan Diego Quesada.
Juan Diego Quesada talked to Txell Feixas (Catalonia, Spain), a journalist and writer who has been a correspondent in Lebanon; Catalina Gómez Ángel (Colombia), who specialises in the Middle East and the Ukraine; Abraham Jiménez Enoa (Cuba), journalist and winner of the Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Grant 2023 with Aterrizar en el mundo; and Tatiana Velásquez (Colombia), founder of La Contratopedia Caribe, an outlet that investigates contracting and the management of public money in Bolívar and Atlántico.
ÉCOLE DE L’ANTHROPOCÈNE/ Marta Sagarra
March 29
HUMANIMALS: CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUMAN
This masterclass explored the fragile and shifting boundaries of humanity, the affects shared between humans and other animals, shared sexuality and labor, modes of communication, attempts at hybridization, as well as our shared vulnerability and finitude.
Marta Segarra, philosopher, research director at the Centre for Research on the Arts and Language – CRAL (CNRS/EHESS), and author of Humanimaux: Où placer les frontières de l’humain ? (Hermann, 2024).
March 30
BLACK DOG, BY GUAN HU
Screening followed by a conversation between Marta Segarra (philosopher) and Isabelle Michallet (legal scholar).
CINÉMA COMOEDIA
The screening was followed by a conversation with Marta Segarra, professor of gender studies at the University of Barcelona. Her current research focuses on biopolitics and posthumanism. Among her recent books: Humanimaux: Où placer les frontières de l’humain? (2024), Comunidades con acento (2021), El món que necessitem / The World We Need (with Donna Haraway, 2019), Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (2014).
PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL/ Pol Guasch
Fri. May 2, 2025 . 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM ET
Strand Book Store
After The Fall: Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Uruguayan author Fernanda Trias (Pink Slime), Catalan author Pol Guasch (Napalm in the Heart), and American author Jeff VanderMeer (Absolution) joined for a discussion of their new post-apocalyptic novels moderated by historian and journalist Ilia Veniavkin. This wide-ranging, international conversation will explore the ways post-apocalyptic landscapes lay bare societal hierarchies, raise climate concerns, and both reflect and respond to the miss this thought-provoking discussion of our future in the ruins.
FESTIVAL DU LIVRE DE PARIS/ Eva Baltasar
The Price of Freedom
Grand Palais – Eiffel Stage
Sunday, April 13,
The path to freedom is strewn with obstacles and doubt. With both sensitivity and strength, Eva Baltasar shows us how high the cost can be — and how invaluable it truly is.
In Mammoth (translated from Catalan by Annie Bats), Eva Baltasar delivers a powerful novel about the female body and desire, through the story of a young woman who wants to have a child and escapes to the mountains. She takes refuge in a simple, raw, and uncompromising life, in pursuit of a radical and epic freedom.
Moderated by: Sarah Polacci
FIL BOGOTÁ
One of the most important cultural events in the Spanish-speaking world. For the past 35 years, it has brought together all the players in the book industry (authors, publishers, editors, translators, distributors, agents, and booksellers), who, along with their readers, make up this book ecosystem that grows and strengthens each year.
More than a dozen writers writing in Catalan, journalists and artists were present at the International Book Fair FILBO Bogotá (April 25th-May 11th) where Spain was Guest of Honour.
Visutal artist Frederic Amat, journalist and essayist Jordi Amat, poets Mireia Calafell and Jaume Subirana, novelists Francesc Serés, Marta Carnicero, Andrea Genovart, Pol Guasch, writer Anna Pazos and Maite Carranza, philosopher Marina Garcés and illustrator Xavier Bonet.
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