Conference by Rosa Montero, "La magnífica familia de los nerviosos"
Mestizajes
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Rosa Montero
- When
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2025/10/14
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 Rosa Montero will give a lecture entitled "La magnífica familia de los nerviosos" (The Magnificent Family of the Nervous) 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
Rosa Montero (Madrid, 1951) is a writer and journalist. She has published successful novels and is one of the leading columnists for the newspaper El País. In 1978, she won the Mundo Interview Award, in 1980 the National Journalism Award for reports and literary articles, and in 2005 the Madrid Press Association Award for her entire professional career. She has also received the National Prize for Literature (2017), the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (2022), and is an Officer of Arts and Letters of the French Republic (2024). She has published, among others, the novels El peso del corazón (Weight of the Heart, 2015), La buena suerte (2020), El peligro de estar cuerda (The Danger to be Sane, 2022) and Animales difíciles (2025). Her work has been translated into nearly thirty languages. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico and won the 2014 International Columnists of the World Award.