The power of a book
On the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Second Sex, Kate Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Duval, Meri Torras, Alín Salom, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Marta Marín-Dòmine discuss, in a shared re-reading, the continuing relevance of this key work by Simone de Beauvoir.
Re-Membered Imaginaries: The Moving- Image Screen as a Decolonial Site
Tsitsi Dangarembga, one of Africa’s leading thinkers today, opens the 12th Iberian Congress of African Studies with a lecture on African women’s contribution to expanding decolonial imagination, and its potential for confronting global right-wing discourse. This conversation takes places within the framework of Resident CCCB, an international residency program of the CCCB in collaboration with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and supported by Fundació Privada MIR-PUIG. ...
Performing the city
In his conversation with theatre director Xavier Albertí, Richard Sennett starts from his experience as a professional cellist to probe the cultural and political history of human interactions and analyse the complex, ambiguous nature of the art of performance. Staged expressions can ...
The habit of freedom
On the occasion of the publication of his latest book On Freedom (2024 – in Spanish, Sobre la Libertad, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024), the renowned thinker and historian Timothy Snyder analyses the evolution of threats to individual and collective freedom in a situation marked by the rise of authoritarianisms.
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