Rootedness and Exile
Theodor Kallifatides fled his homeland Greece, then under the military dictatorship of the Junta. He found freedom of speech but also the strangeness of being divided between the memories of his past and a dogged search for identity in a foreign country. He joins fellow writer Monika Zgustova ...
Justice, Impunity, Literature
Like few others, the careers of Philippe Sands and Juan Gabriel Vásquez combine literary narration with a reflection on injustice, violence and historical memory. In this conversation moderated by journalist and author Guillermo Altares, two of the greatest authors of our present talk ...
We’re celebrating the opening of the exhibition "Chris Ware. Drawing is Thinking" with a conversation between comic-book artist Chris Ware, talking about his career and his artistic language, and writer Laura Fernández.
Editing Humanity
World expert in gene therapy Katherine A. High and physician and writer Salvador Macip speak about the ways in which genome editing will affect the future of our species in a session that will open with CRISPR, a performance by the group of digital artists Bromo.
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