Conference by Jorge Volpi, "Inventando futuros. Los cruces de la imaginación científica y la imaginación artística"
Mestizajes
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Jorge Volpi
- When
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2025/10/15
19:00 - Place
- Kutxa Fundazioa Kluba (Tabakalera, 1st floor, Donostia / San Sebastián)
- Organizers
- DIPC, CFM, CSIC, Kutxa Fundazioa
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Writer and journalist Jorge Volpi will give a lecture entitled "Inventando futuros. Los cruces de la imaginación científica y la imaginación artística" (Inventing futures. The intersections of scientific imagination and artistic imagination) as part of the programme for the "5th International Meetings on Literature and Science" organised by the Mestizajes initiative.
The aim of this new Mestizajes encounter is to address, from multiple perspectives, issues related to genius, the possibility of mapping culture and the relevance of quantitative methods in the study of culture. The relationship between genius and madness, the relevance of context and the quantitative analysis of culture, among other topics, will be discussed. We will also take a transdisciplinary approach to questions such as: Is genius a product of nature or culture? How much of the emergence of revolutionary ideas is objective and how much is subjective? Can we predict the emergence of the next Mozart? Can science help us understand culture?
The conference will be held in Spanish.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
About the speaker
Jorge Volpi (Mexico, 1968). He is the author of fifteen novels, including A pesar del oscuro silencio (In despite of the Dark Silence, 1993), the 20th Century Trilogy consisting of En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor, Biblioteca Breve Prize, 1999), El fin de la locura (The End of Madness, 2003) and Tiempo de cenizas (Season of Ash, 2006); La tejedora de sombras (Planeta-América Prize, 2011), Oscuro bosque oscuro (2010), Memorial del engaño (2013), Las elegidas (2014) and Una novela criminal (Alfaguara Prize, 2018), which was adapted into the Netflix series of the same name, and Partes de guerra (2022). He has written the essays La imaginación y el poder (1998), La guerra y las palabras (2004), Mentiras contagiosas (Mazatlán Prize, 2008), El insomnio de Bolívar (Debate-Casa de América Prize, 2009), Leer la mente (2011) and Examen de mi padre (2016), and the book of short stories Enrabiados (2023). He is the author of the plays Las agujas dementes (2020), Mesa redonda (2024) and Los amores feroces (2025), and the librettos for the operas Cuatro corridos (2011) and Tristana (2025). In 2008, he received the José Donoso Prize for his entire body of work and the Medal of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain. He is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His books have been translated into thirty languages. His most recent book is La invención de todas las cosas. Una historia de la ficción (2024). He is currently the artistic director of the Condeduque Centre for Contemporary Culture in Madrid.