Literature, the environment, indigenous worldviews and the challenges of Panama are among the topics that will be discussed next week There is a Forum writers, scientists, musicians and activists from America and Spain, who appreciated the aspects that make this Central American country the best place for this intersection of ideas.
The vision of The first edition of the Hay Forum Panama City is that of a “urban festival” in which more than 35 domestic and international experts will present and talk with their colleagues and the audience on the 23rd and 24th of this month in three cultural spaces in the Old Town of the capital.
Among the participants are American writer and journalist Jon Lee Anderson, British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, Colombian novelists Héctor Abad Faciolince and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Spaniard Javier Moro, the German-Argentine historian Andrea Wulf and “photographer of writers”, Argentinean Daniel Mordzinski.
They will also attend Colombian historian Alfonso Múnera, Colombian writer and cultural manager Velia VidalMexican sociologist and researcher Josefa Sánchez ilto the international director of the Hay Festival, the Spaniard Cristina Fuentes La Roche.
It will be for Panama writer Juan David Morgan, historian Marixa Lasso, director Duiren Wagua and short story writer and editor Carlos Wynter Melo, among others.
Marixa LassoPanamanian historian and researcher, will talk with Colombian colleague Alfonso Múner about the Caribbean history shared by Colombia and Panama, while Mexican researcher and essayist Josefa Sánchez will talk with Panamanian filmmaker and documentarian Duiren Wagua about creative creation. experiences of Panamanian indigenous peoples related to their “territorial defense processes”.
“Share analysis, reflection and writing with indigenous and non-indigenous populations to imagine possible worlds without racism, without colonialism, without dispossession or violence, in which we can live with dignity,” Sánchez told EFE.
Panama, the center of the problem
The Director of Development of the Hay Festival, Constanza Escobar, told EFE that “aspects as relevant as nature, sustainability, equality, literature, journalism, cultural management and history, to name but a few, stand out among the themes that will be reflected in the two-day event .
Ideas will also be exchanged “new practices of social change through participation, inclusion, art, activism and education, adding to the discussion my personal concerns about the state of intergenerational relations and history,” Panamanian plastic artist and lawyer Humberto Vélez, who will lead this round table entitled ‘How to imagine yourself as a society’, told EFE.
The invited authors will also discuss the most relevant challenges for Panama and the Latin American region, and will do so with enthusiasm, as expressed by the experienced American chronicler Jon Lee Anderson, who told EFE that Panama is “a charming country and a new stage for Hay”.
Author of the monumental biography ‘Che Guevara. Revolutionary Life’ (Anagrama, 2010), Anderson highlighted Panama as a “geographical axis between two seas and two continents”, in addition to being “a haven of humid tropical forest, it is a unique country that therefore has a very clear role to fulfill convincingly as a potential a leader in research in search of possible solutions to climate change.
He Spaniard Javier Moro, author of the novel about Venezuela ‘They want us dead’ As for Venezuelan oppositionist Leopoldo López, he told EFE that participating in this Hay Forum is “a return to Panama, a city where I have always been very well received”, but that for him, he pointed out, “it is particularly interesting to return from a new a book whose subject is Latin American”.
At the same time, Panamanian writer and lawyer Juan David Morgan does not hide that “the most effective way for Panama to improve the perception of its image in the world is by holding cultural, academic and scientific activities”, such as those of the Hay Forum. .. which “offers Panamanians the opportunity to show that we are a country that welcomes and loves culture.”
Source: Panama America
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