Dénia 2023 Humanitats Festival Program: all schedules and participants

In October, the capital of the Marina Alta It also becomes the capital of critical thinking with Dénia Festival of the Humanities. This is an event that brings together renowned thinkers to debate different topics of great interest.

Poster for the Dénia Festival of the Humanities

The programming of the new edition is as follows:

Thursday October 26

Inaugural session | Literature against democracy-racism

Time: 18:00 | Location: Sala l'Androna

• Opening session with the participation of Zulfü Livaneli, composer and writer, author of Serenade for Nadia.

Joan Subirats, Minister of Universities, during the opening ceremony of 2022

Past and future of ideologies

Time: 19:30 | Location: Sala l'Androna

• Joseph Ramoneda, writer and journalist, content director of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats.
• Chiara Bottici, philosopher and writer, director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School, author of Anarchfemminism (Bloomsbury, 2021).
• Christina Manzano, journalist, director of External Relations at the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB).

Concert in the street during the Festival de les Humanitats

musical recital

Time: 17:00 to 20:00 | Location: Marqués de Campo

• Recital by the students of the Tenor Cortis Conservatory of Dénia and the Artistic Musical grouping of Dénia.

Friday October 27

Health and technology in a global world

Time: 10:00 | Location: Social Center

• Rafael Villasanjuan, journalist, graduate in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
• Christina O'Callaghan, co-director of the interuniversity master's degree in Planetary Health at the UOC-UPF-ISGlobal.
• Gonzalo fanjul, director of the Policy Analysis area of ​​the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

The decline of Europe and the changes in world hegemony

Time: 10:00 | Location: Sala l'Androna

• Pankaj Mishra, writer and essayist, author of Bland fanatics.
• Nuria Oliver, co-founder and vice president of ELLIS, chief scientific advisor at the Vodafone Institute and chief data scientist at DataPop Alliance.
• Carme Colomina, principal researcher at CIDOB, specialized in the European Union, disinformation and global politics.

Post-democratic authoritarianism

Time: 12:00 | Location: Social Center

• Manuel Alias, journalist, National Prize for Journalism and Media 2022.
• Soledad Gallego-Diaz, journalist, director of El País (2018/2020).
• Zira Box, professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the University of Valencia, co-author of Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century: Against Democracy.

War and wars

Time: 12:00 | Location: Sala l'Androna

• Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London, author of Thirst for blood.
• Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, author of Wolf's lairs. Memories of authoritarian Europe y Back to Stalingrad.
• Aurora Bosch, professor in the department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Valencia.

Contemporary dance show by David Vento Dance Theater at the opening of the first Dénia Festival de les Humanitats

Utopia, dystopia and power

Time: 16:30 | Location: Social Center

• Maria Noise, visual artist, researcher and cultural producer.
• Clara Serra, philosopher, researcher at the University of Barcelona, ​​author of Lionesses and foxes.
• Antonio Monegal, professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Pompeu Fabra University.

A possible ecological future

Time: 16:30 | Location: Sala l'Androna

• Christina Monge, political scientist, president of the Más Democracia association.
• Antxon Olabe, environmental economist and essayist, author of Need for an Earth Policy.
• Andreu Escriva, member of the Group of Experts for the Climate Emergency of Barcelona, ​​author of Against sustainability.

What can literature teach us about the future?

Time: 18:30 | Location: Social Center

• Edurne portela, writer, author of maddi and the borders.
• Martha Sanz, writer, author of Metal shutters snap down.
• Jordy Amat, philologist and writer, author of The chauffeur's son.
• Enric Balaguer, professor of literature at the University of Alicante and writer.

Lluís Vives Space | The socioeconomic roots of growing unrest

Time: 18:30 | Location: Sala l'Androna

• Sophie Baby, historian, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Burgundy and junior member of the University Institute of France.
• Anton Costas, economist, professor of Economic Policy at the University of Barcelona and president of the Economic and Social Council.
• Jordi Alberich, economist, content director of the Dénia Festival de les Humanitats.

Lluís Vives Space | The role of the company

Lluís Vives Space Conference of 2022

Time: 19:30 | Location: Sala l'Androna

• Jordi Mercader, president of Miquel y Costas & Miquel, and president of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.
• Maite Anton, president of the Alicante Family Business Association.
• Patrici Calvo, professor of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the Universitat Jaume I, author of The Cordial Economy. Ethics, Recognition and Reciprocity.

dance exhibition

Time: 19:00 p.m. to 21:00 p.m. | Location: Plaça del Consell

• Dance workshop and exhibition by the Swing School Marina Lindy Hop.

Saturday October 28

Possible futures: humans beyond the Anthropocene

Time: 10:00 | Location: Social center

• marti dominguez, essayist and writer, professor of Journalism at the University of Valencia, director of method and author of Mater.
• Núria Montserrat, ICREA researcher and leader of the Pluripotency for Organ Regeneration group at the Bioengineering Institute of Catalonia (IBEC).
• Ricard Solé, physicist, ICREA research professor, director of the Complex Systems Laboratory of the PRBB, UPF.

Can we constitute ourselves as humanity

Time: 11:30 | Location: Social Center

• Victor Gomez Pin, philosopher, professor emeritus at the UAB and researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
• Tomàs Marquès i Bonet, evolutionary biologist, director of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona.
• Marcela Jabbaz, doctor in Sociology and professor at the University of Valencia, vice dean of Equality, Culture and Participation of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UV.

Closing of the Dénia Humanitats Festival 2022

Closing session | Humanities, science and artificial intelligence

Time: 13:00 | Location: Social Center

• Arcadi Navarro, professor of Genetics and ICREA research professor at UPF, director of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation.
• Francesc Colomer, doctor in Philosophy and expert in Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, Secretary of Tourism of the Generalitat Valenciana (2015/2023).

Previous Programs

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