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Dénia celebrates the spring edition of the Festival de les Humanitats with "La maleta de Portbou"

28 March 2023 - 12: 11

Denia Festival of the Humanities has carried out the spring edition with the presentation of number 57 of 'The Suitcase of Portbou', a monograph dedicated to the first edition of the Festival held from October 27 to 29, 2022.

Vicent Grimalt, mayor of Dénia, took advantage of his presentation speech to announce that the Torrecremada house will become the headquarters of the City of Thought and Creativity that will organize the implementation of activities, seminars, meetings and debates "that will make ideas flow in our city", in collaboration with all the actors who are already participating in the project and whom he thanked for their involvement: Fundació Dénia Ciutat Creativa, Generalitat Valenciana, Baleària, “la Caixa” Foundation, La maleta de Portbou (academic direction of the festival), AEHTMA, CEDMA, the Valencian public universities, the UNED, cultural associations of the Marina Alta and business associations of the Valencian Community.

To give an idea of ​​the dynamism of the festival, Grimalt advanced the agenda for the coming months: a seminar at Espai Lluís Vives. Humanitats i Empresa in June; two UNED summer courses in June and July and other activities that are being worked on with the Universitat d'Alacant, the Universitat de València and the Universitat Politècnica de València.

He even advanced the theme of the next Festival, scheduled from October 26 to 28 of this year, which will revolve around the approach of "Looking back to know where we are going."

Dénia is advancing on the path of becoming a "Mediterranean benchmark of thought" because, says Grimalt, "if our city is cultured, universal, creative, reflective and modern, it will be good for those of us who live here and for those who are lucky enough to visit us ».

The director of La Maleta de Portbou and academic director of the Dénia Humanities Festival, Joseph Ramoneda, and Joan Romero, professor of Human Geography at the University of Valencia and member of the Interuniversity Institute for Local Development, took charge of the presentation of the monograph of La Maleta de Portbou dedicated to the Dénia 2022 Humanities Festival.

Both talked about the festival, whose objective is none other than to disseminate the ideas and debates of the moment, summoning representative figures of thought, science, the economy and the arts and to become a reflection event aimed at citizens, individual and that allows us to understand the keys to the world in which we live.

Joan Romero highlighted interdisciplinarity "as one of the festival's successes", based on the conviction that "the worst thing that can happen to the humanities is fragmentation, what should be done is the opposite". Abandon the inertia of explaining what happens separately, in his words.

For this reason, the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats proposes "a holistic look" to reflect on the processes that we are experiencing in the current era of change. A look into which the natural, social, health and communication sciences should be incorporated, "because what happens cannot be explained in isolation".

Romero and Ramoneda spoke about the mutations, the common thread of the first edition of the DFH and the special issue of La maleta de Portbou, which are taking place in a change of era "for which we still do not have a consistent and coherent story", indicates the Professor of Human Geography. A change in trends and perceptions intensified by an "unexpected" pandemic that, however, "did not mean a before and after" and a war, "not so unexpected, that it could change everything."

To reflect on all these issues and seek answers to uncertainty, the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats was born and continues, «an invitation to think together, to talk from different disciplines, without fear of being wrong. An invitation to enter that strange country that is the future».

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