Guatemala: FILGUA, Inauguration and Special Programs
Inauguration Program of FILGUA
Date: Friday 25 of July of 2008
Time: 11:00 am
Place: Parque de la Industria – Guatemalas´ Industrial Park, Salon Miguel Angel Asturias, (Salon Guatemala) 6 calle and 4th avenida Zona 9, Guatemala City
- Welcome
- National Anthem of Guatemala
- Anthem of Central America
- National Anthem of Argentina
- Participation of Juan Antonio Busto, Vice President of The Guatemalan Chamber of Industry
- Participation of Raúl Figuera Sartí, President of the Editors Chamber and the Organizing Committee of FILGUA 2008
- Participation of writer Ana María Rodas
- Participation of Rony Abiú Chali. Support Program of Centralamerican Integration
- Participation of Ernesto López, Ambassador of Argentina
- Inauguration of the event by his Excellency the President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colóm
Inauguration Conference
Lecture by Writer Carlos Monsiváis
Date: Friday 25 of July 2008
Time: 18:30 pm
Place: Guatemala´s Industry park
Salon Miguel Angel Asturias
Special Program FILGUA
Meeting of Central American Writers and International Conference of Central American Contemporary Literature
Meeting of Central American Writers
Monday 28 of July
- Inauguration
- Book Reading (1)
- Roundtable: Does feminine literature exist? (1)
- Roundtable: Is literature useful at all? (1)
- Roundtable: Literature, identity and Central American Integration
- Book Reading (2)
Tuesday 29 of July
- Book Reading (3)
- Roundtable: Challenges of the Central American literature in the international context
- Roundtable: Blogs and literature
- Book Reading (4)
- Roundtable: The cultural politics of the Nicaraguan conciliation government
Wednesday 30 of July
- Roundtable: Is literature useful at all? (2)
- Roundtable: Does feminine literature exist? (2)
- Book Reading (5)
- Roundtable: Writers, editorial industry and marketing
International Conference of Central American Contemporary Literature
Monday 28 of July
- Roundtable 1: The Modernity from Central America
- Roundtable 2: Short stories
- Roundtable 3: The writings of Manlio Argueta and Sergio Ramírez
- Roundtable 4: The feminine subject
- Roundtable 5: Memory, migration and the trans-regional in Central America: indigenous traditions and colonial practices
- Roundtable 6: Esthetics and Revolution
- Roundtable 7: Tree different moments in the feminine Guatemalan narrative
Tuesday 29 of July
- Roundtable 8: Contemporary narrative 1
- Roundtable 9: Contemporary Poetry
- Roundtable 10: Contemporary Narrative 2
- Roundtable 11: Institutional programs and projects
- Roundtable 12: The subject in the periphery
- Roundtable 13: The Politics of the memory
Other special programs of national and International projection: Training of public Library staff International Symposium of Children’s literature and promotion of reading
For more information please go to: Day to day program http://filgua.com/programa.html. Meeting of Central American Writers: http://filgua.com/FEscritoresCA.html
International Conference of Central American Contemporary Literature http://filgua.com/FLiteraturaCA.html
List of Exhibitors: http://filgua.com/expositores.html
List of participating writers: http://filgua.com/profesionales.html#escritores
And for anything else of interest and importance about FILGUA 2008 go to their website http://www.filgua.com
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