HAY FESTIVAL SEGOVIA 2021 - IMAGINE THE WORLD

Well known for the bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (David Fickling Books, 2006) –a novel that won two Irish Book Awards, was shortlisted for a British Book Award, has been translated into over forty books, has sold over five million copies, and was made into a film in 2008–, John Boyne has also written several other works of fiction. These include Mutiny on the Bounty, The Date, The Thief of Time, Noah Barleywater Runs Away, This House is Haunted and A History of Loneliness. His latest novel to be published in Spanish, Las furias invisibles del corazón, (The Heart’s Invisible Furies), which Salamandra published in May this year, is an ambitious journey into the turbulent world of love and desire in search of the instinctive human need for affection and happiness. This fine portrait of Ireland’s recent past shows the talent of Boyne, but also a personal side, since this is one of the most autobiographical of his works.

John Boyne will talk to the journalist and writer Inés Martín Rodrigo, author of the novel Azules son las horas.

Event with simultaneous translation from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English

#Literature #Books #IrishBookAward #Fiction #Editorial #Stories #Autobiography #Dialogue

A year ago, the Hay Festival Segovia staged a debate among journalists from Spain, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands regarding European management of the pandemic. The European Union ended up reaching a historical agreement to mobilise 750 billion Euros, but the negotiation process created strong tensions between North and South. Now Europe is facing the post-covid era with elections in Germany and France, and internal tensions in southern countries. This is the time to continue the debate, but with different actors. On this occasion we present Sandrine Morel, Spain correspondent for Le Monde; Reinhard Spiegelhauer, Chief Correspondent in Spain and Portugal of ARD (the German public radio and television corporation); and Enric Juliana, Assistant Editor of La Vanguardia in Madrid.

Moderated by Miquel Molina, also Assistant Editor of La Vanguardia, a newspaper that is celebrating its 140th year in 2021.

Event in Spanish

#Europe #Cvoid19 #EU #Committment #Negotiation #InternationalRelations #NorthSouthTensions #Elections #Journalism #Politics

The current circumstances have meant that many of us have had to reconsider our future and seek new goals. Lucy Kellaway, however, did so years ago: aged 57, she decided to leave her successful career as a Financial Times columnist and start a new life teaching at a London secondary school. Kellaway has recently published a new book: Re-educated, in which she tells the story of how she changed her life. This writer and educator, co-founder of the educational charity Now Teach, which offers new strategies to teachers, returns to the Hay Festival to talk about her experiences with Santiago Íñiguez, President of the IE University, author of books such as Global Leaders and The Learning Curve and world expert on education.

With simultaneous translation from English to Spanish

#PersonalGrowth #teaching #Committment #Literature #Education #Leadership #LearningCurve

How has the continent been affected by the trauma of Covid-19 in political, economic, cultural and social terms? What does this mean for the future? Five experts in international politics will talk about Europe after the pandemic, bearing in mind the German and French elections, the polarization of Spain, European funds and the consequences of Brexit. The guests at this event will be Arancha González Laya, Spanish Foreign Minister from January 2020 to July 2021 in Pedro Sánchez’s second government; Lucía Méndez Prada, political commentator, journalist and founder of El Mundo newspaper; Simon Kuper, Financial Times journalist and author of Barça: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club; Ana Carbajosa, journalist and author of Angela Merkel: Crónica de una era and Daniel Dombey, the Financial Times’ Spain correspondent.

They will talk to Frederick Studemann, the literary editor of the Financial Times

The event will be introduced by Manuel Muñiz, expert in international relations and former Secretary of State of España Global.

With simultaneous translation from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English

#Europe #Covid19 #Politics #Economy #Future #InternationalRelations #Brexit #Journalism

Garazi Sánchez first tried surfing aged 7, and at 14 was travelling the world to surf. At 25 he was Spanish champion and number two in Europe. A back injury almost ended his surfing, but with the recovery of his mobility he also became aware of the need to protect the marine environment; although it was a place he felt at home, it was something that had previously been unknown to him, having only been the place where he sought the perfect wave. From this experience came his involvement in the documentary, Vergüenza, which he has produced and co-directed with Iker Elorrieta, in order to draw attention to the dangers to our oceans and what will happen if we do not stop our destructive behaviour.

He will talk about his desire to go to the Olympic Games and his fight for a living ocean with Félix Jordán de Urríes, General Manager of the Deporte Joven Foundation.

Event in Spanish

#Sports #Surf #Champion #Enviornment #Oceans #Youth #Committment #Empowerment

In a year of recovery, new horizons and the need to look at the long-term future, the questions of the economy and political leadership play a crucial role. The Hay Festival has invited four international experts to debate these matters: Javier Maroto, Spanish politician, economist and Popular Party senator; Elcin Poyrazlar, Turkish writer and columnist whose reporting from London, Brussels, Istanbul and Washington has been published by media outlets including the BBC and HuffPost; Gonzalo Garland, Peruvian economist and lecturer and Executive Vice-president of the IE Foundation; and Pallavi Aiyar, Indian journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the digital newspaper The Globalist and author of numerous books.

They will talk to the historian and Guardian journalist, Giles Tremlett.

#Economy #PoliticalLeadership #Journalism #InternationaRelations #Impact #SocialChallenges

Bernardine Evaristo’s best known book, and the only one translated into Spanish so far, is Girl, Woman, Other, which won the 2019 Booker Prize, shared with Margaret Atwood. This is a novel of many voices, in which twelve black women from different places and generations, all living in the UK, talk about their desires, their struggle for freedom and independence and the search for their own identity. One of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2019. Evaristo, a Nigerian-British woman, has won many awards for her work as a writer, journalist and publisher, including the Booker, one of the most prestigious awards in the English-speaking world. Her work promoting Afro literature and art has also been recognized. In 2012 Evaristo founded the Brunel University African Poetry Prize, and until recently was the Vice-Chair of the Royal Society of Literature.

Evaristo will talk about her career with Ludovic Assémat, a Politics graduate and Head of the British Council’s Arts Department. This event will be introduced by María José Ferrari, Academic Director of the IE University’s Arts and Humanities Department.

Bernardine Evaristo will contribute digitally. Event with simultaneous translation from English to Spanish

#BookerPrize #Feminism #POC #Freedom #Identity #Literature #Afroliterature #Art

Rethinking the role of investment as one of the main foundations for achieving sustainable development goals, and moving away from a model of industrial location based only on cost reduction, with its resulting damage to equality and the environment, are two of the main goals of impact investment. Heba Salama is an expert on productive investment and brings her knowledge to the management of the Regional Investment Agency of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). She has been working on African projects for 20 years, and in 2017 was selected as one of Egypt’s 50 Most Influential Women for her role in developing the country’s human and economic resources.

Heba Salama will talk to William Mut Tracy, a consultant who specializes in the politics and promotion of productive investment, who has worked with numerous international institutions including the World Bank, the United Nations, COMESA, the EU and others. This event will be introduced by Borja Santos, the Executive Director of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs.

Event with simultaneous translation from English to Spanish

#Investment #SDGs #Equality #Environment #COMESA #InfluentialWomen #HumanResources #GlobalAffairs #UN #WorldBank

With only a few days to the Climate Summit co-organized by the United Kingdom and Italy this year, the Hay Festival Segovia is hosting a round table to address the issues of the climate emergency, with a special focus on the role of civil society as the engine of the green revolution. How to increase citizen participation in these debates and how to accompany the changes promoted by the Paris agreement will be among the topics discussed by Nick Bridge, Special Representative of the British Government for Climate Change, Eva Saldaña, Executive Director of Greenpeace Spain, Eduardo Brunet, Founder and CEO at Greenward Partners, and Rubeena Singh, Master in International Development young graduate and former President of the IE Net Impact Club.

An insightful debate moderated by Daniel Dombey, Madrid Correspondent at Financial Times, and introduced by Isabela del Alcázar, Head of Sustainability at IE University.

#Sustainability #Youth #PositiveImpact #CivilSociety #Commitment #Greenrevolution

The vitality and energy of the world of books and literature in India come to the Hay Festival with one of its major figures: Sanjoy Roy runs the world’s largest literary event, the Jaipur Literature Festival, and has created the parallel event, Jaipur Book Mark, in support of the publishing sector in Asia. With his company, Teamwork Arts, he also runs more than 25 acclaimed theatre, visual arts and literary festivals. He is the founder of the Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT), which works to offer services supporting street children and workers in central Delhi. In 2011, the White House granted SBT a President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities award.

The Indian journalist and writer Pallavi Aiyar has a long career as a press correspondent and she has worked in Indonesia, China, Japan and other countries. Her first book, Smoke and Mirrors, deals with the political and social difference between the Chinese and Indian systems. Her subsequent work on the European crisis, Punjabi Parmesan, was chosen by Foreign Affairs magazine as one of the best books of 2016. She has published in many prestigious outlets, including The New York Times, Granta and Los Angeles Review of Books.

Roy and Aiyar will talk to Raphael Minder, Spain and Portugal correspondent for The New York Times. The event will be introduced by Catalina Tejero, the Head of the IE University’s Arts and Humanities Department.

Event with simultaneous translation from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English

#Literature #JaipurLiteratureFestival #JaipurBookMark #Humanities #Asia #SocialSystems #Journalism #Arts&Humanities

Eleven years after his first participation in the Hay Festival Segovia, in which he advocated for social responsibility in architecture, renowned Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner, Shigeru Ban, returns to Segovia to converse with Martha Thorne, Dean of the IE School of Architecture and Design, and David Goodman, architect, professor and associate dean of the school. This time they will talk about how sustainability must be at the core of any design process and about the importance of new generations of architects.

Shigeru Ban was recently appointed Ambassador to the EU New European Bauhaus, an initiative to promote a cultural and sustainable movement in the European Union at the highest level and to help Europe to move to a circular economy. At the Hay Festival, he will also present some of his latest projects that range from university buildings, to museums, an airport and disaster relief projects. Additionally, he will also talk about his paper tube structures and a next initiative to be developed on the IE campus in Segovia.

Event with simultaneous translation from English to Spanish

#Architecture #SocialResponsibility # PritzkerPrize #Sustainability #Design #Culture #Europe #Building #PaperStructures #Development

For years, the political scientist and human rights defender Ingrid Betancourt was constantly in the international news. In February 2002, as a candidate for the presidency of her country, Colombia, she was abducted by FARC and was not subsequently freed until 2008. The former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Juan Manuel Santos, was one of the main figures behind the peace agreement with this guerrilla group. Both have a long career working in favour of human rights and have also worked in ecology and sustainable development. During her time as a representative in the Colombian parliament, Betancourt, who was later a senator, created the country’s first ecological party. During his time in government, Santos, the author of a number of books, promoted sustainable development goals, and through the Compaz Foundation has worked to empower victims, consolidate peace and defend the environment.

They will talk about the events in which they have been centrally involved, and whose importance goes beyond the borders of Colombia. A figure who has become a global spokesperson against abduction and the man who was key to the peace agreement have spoken through the pages of the book Una conversación pendiente, and at this festival event will talk live about matters of urgency that affect our globalized world.

Betancourt and Santos will talk to the journalist Jesús Vigorra, the producer and presenter of Canal Sur Radio’s La mañana de Andalucia

The event will be introduced by Diego del Alcázar Benjumea, the Executive Vice-president of IE University.

#HumanRights #Politics #Colombia #NobelPrize #Activism #SustainableDevelopment #SDGs #Peace #Globalization

The name of the ground-breaking and daring Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada has become an internationally renowned shorthand for bright, positive fashion, one that sets its own rules. Her creations are present on the most important catwalks around the world, and her characteristic colour and optimism are present in her designs not only of clothes, but also of household articles and accessories. She appears regularly on television, and her various awards and distinctions are features of a career that is now being continued by her children, Cósima and Tristán.

Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada will talk about her ideas about fashion and its major practitioners with Eloy Martínez de la Pera Celada, an acclaimed curator of successful exhibitions that bring together art and fashion, including Balenciaga and Spanish Painting, which in 2019 brought iconic works by the designer together with paintings by Goya, Velázquez and Zurbarán at the Thyssen Museum; and Sorolla and Fashion, which was shown at the Thyssen and the Sorolla Museum.

Event in Spanish

#Fashion #Groundbreaking #Bright #Positivity #Design #ArtCuration #Paintings #Museums #Ideas

This event is presented as a space for dialogue between creativity and the digital revolution, with the leading role of creators and their relationship with technology. We will attend to the encounter of the transmedia fiction, the music in digital platforms, the Big Data and the urban design and the ability of digital art to excite and to make us think about relevant subjects such as the environment and the sustainability.

Manuel Bartual has written and published stories for over twenty years. He has published comic strips (El Jueves), directed short and full movies (Todos tus secretos, Premio CANAL+ a Mejor Película en el Festival de Cine de Málaga). World trending topic on Twitter for one of his stories and Planeta Prize in 2018 with El otro Manuel, he has created the series in podcast format Biotopía, story of a scientific community where time, matter and space, shaping a transmedia universe which combines science fiction and comedy (Podium Podcast, 2020) and Santuario, together with Carmen Pacheco (Audible, 2021). Bely Basarte is singer-songwriter. She has worked for Disney performing songs from The Beauty and The Beast and has published two albums with Universal Music: Desde mi otro cuarto and El camino que no me llevó a Roma. But these achievements came after her beginnings uploading own works and covers online and posting them on Youtube, where she has reached hundreds of thousands of followers. Olga Subirós, architect, will participate in the digital art and sustainability section. Subirós is the author, along with the studio 300.000 Km/s and the singer María Arnal, from the immersive installation ‘Aire’, which was presented by Instituto Ramón Llul in the Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia and proposes tools against the climate crisis. Subiros’ intervention will be preceeded by the screening of a video where the French artist Joanie Lemercier explains his work, specialized in exploring and amplying the posibilities of the projected light in the space. He is also a pioneer of videomapping. He is the author of the installation ‘Montagne, cent qutorze mille polygones’ which opening, prior to this debate, open the events of Hay Festival.

Through the testimonies of the creators themselves, chaired by the Journalist Marta Fernández, some of the most breaking subjects of the use of digital technology in the context of the artistic creation and the cultural communication will be discussed.