Hay Forum made its first foray into our neighborhood pre-panny, in September 2019.
The literary festival returns to The Wild Detectives for the first time next month with a top-notch line-up for fans of fiction, literary nonfiction and journalism.
A collaboration with Hay Festival, Hay Forum Dallas is Sept. 3-4, with book presentations and panels, followed by DJ sets each night.
A few highlights:
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- Centering Margins: Social Conflicts in Latin America will feature Mexican linguist rights activist and writer Yasnaya Elena, Peruvian journalist and activist Joseph Zarate (Wars of Interior, Granta 2021), and Argentina writer Dolores Reyes (Eartheater, HarperCollins 2021), exploring the complexities of language, cultural homogenization, environmental conflicts and gender violence within their respective homelands.
- Daring to Live in Democracy: Free Speech in Cuba presents Cuban journalist and writer Carlos Manuel Alvarez’s recent book The Tribe (Graywolf Press, 2022). “Blending reportage, narrative nonfiction, and novelistic techniques, this collection chronicles a vibrant portrait of Cuba during a particular turbulent period of history, including the author’s own account of the San Isidro Movement and his experience of being detained and uncommunicated during the 2021 Cuban protest.”
- Addressing the current climate crisis and potential for disaster capitalism, Spanish journalist and researcher Marta Peirano will join Dallas’ own Sarah Hepola, author of best-selling memoir Blackout, (Grand Central Publishing, 2016) in Dangers of the Internet: A Cautionary Anti- Apocalyptic Tale. Peirano will present her book Contra El Futuro (Debate, 2022). “Panelists will discuss the relationship between technology and power and what action strategies can be utilized to deal with the acceleration of climate feudalism and mass surveillance.”
The festival is free, with RSVP, and funded by the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Translation Studies, the University of Texas at Arlington Center for Mexican American Studies, the Southern Methodist University Department of World Languages and Literature, The University of North Texas Women’s and Gender Studies and Latina/o and Mexican Studies, and PEN America.
