The University of Guadalajara, through a project created by the Environmental Sciences Museum as part of the University’s Cultural Center, and with the support of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, has established the José Emilio Pacheco City and Nature Award. The prize, which will be given for the first time this year, will be dedicated to poetry. The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will be given a purse of US $10,000. The award is dedicated to poet José Emilio Pacheco, whose work explores the duality between cities and nature.
Created by the University of Guadalajara, and with the collaboration of the National Institute for Indigenous Languages, the Culture Ministry, the National Commission for the Development of the Indigenous Cultures and Jalisco’s Department of Education, the American Indigenous Literature Award is granted to enrich, protect and promote the legacy and richness of Mexico’s indigenous peoples through literature in all its forms, and to and acknowledge and further develop the careers and works of indigenous authors. The award, which carries a purse of US $25,000, will be given for the fourth time at the 2016 FIL Guadalajara.
The SM Ibero-American Award for Literature for Children and Young People was implemented in 2005, the year of Ibero-American literature, with the goal of promoting literature for children and young people throughout Ibero-America. The award is given out each year during the Guadalajara International Book Fair to recognize writers of literature for children and young people and carries a purse of US $30,000.
Juan Carlos Quezadas
Karime Cardona Cury
With the goal of creating a network that helps to encourage the work of illustrators of books for children and young people in Ibero-America, the SM Foundation and the FIL Guadalajara invites illustrators to submit their work to be included in the Annual Ibero-American Illustration Catalog. The 45 works selected will be displayed in an exposition at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In addition, illustrators will have the opportunity to work on an illustrated book with Ediciones SM and the winner will be given US $5,000. You can find more information at: www.iberoamericailustra.com
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Plants are also sapiens
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Plants are also sapiens
Participant: Paco Calvo
Presenter: José Luis Navarrete
Paco Calvo
Invitado de HonorProfessor of Philosophy of Science and the principal investigator at the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory (MINT Lab) at the Universidad de Murcia (Spain). He specialized in the philosophy of cognitive science through a Fulbright scholarship in the late 90s (University of California, San Diego) and earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 2000.
His research interests broadly encompass cognitive sciences, with a special focus on plant intelligence, ecological psychology, and embodied cognitive science. His papers have appeared in Annals of Botany, Biology & Philosophy; The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Cognitive Science; Journal of the Royal Society, Plant, Cell & Environment; Plant Signaling & Behavior, and Trends in Plant Science, among other journals. He also co-edited the Handbook of Cognitive Science:An Embodied Approach (2008, Elsevier), the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology (2009, Routledge) and The Architecture of Cognition (2014, MIT Press).
At MINT Lab, his research relies on time-lapse photography to observe plants’ navigational abilities and explore the theoretical foundations of various interpretations of adaptive plant behavior. Currently, Paco Calvo is funded by the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation to investigate how to mitigate plant jet lag in common beans with phytomelatonin and to gather behavioral evidence of plant sentience. His research has also been funded by the Office of Naval Research-Global.
In 2016, he received funding from Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports for a sabbatical stay at the EIDYN Research Centre and the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he began work on his book Planta Sapiens with Natalie Lawrence (2023, Seix Barral).
Other activities involving the participant:
Panel 4: The Communication of Science
José Luis Navarrete
Es profesor de taxonomía y artrópodos e investigador del Centro de Estudios en Zoología (CZUG) de la Universidad de Guadalajara (México). Su doctorado lo realizó en sistemática y ecología de insectos por parte de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Su investigación se centra en la taxonomía y ecología de coleópteros asociados a materia orgánica en descomposición, particularmente de las Staphylinidae (coleópteras) y Scarabaeoidea. Cuenta con más de 160 publicaciones en revistas especializadas como Journal of Natural History, Zootaxa, The Coleopterists Bulletin, Canadian Entomologists, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Ecology, Nature Communications, Science, entre otras. Es editor de la revista especializada de entomología, Dugesiana, que edita la Universidad de Guadalajara desde hace 31 años. Cuenta con una veintena de libros, además de publicaciones de divulgación científica, con énfasis en los insectos.
Como parte de su trabajo de investigación ha publicado libros especializados que son referentes a escalas nacional e internacional, entre ellos: Guía Ilustrada para los Géneros de Staphylinidae (coleóptera) de México, obra publicada en colaboración con sus colegas: Alfred F. Newton, Margaret K. Thayer, James S. Ashe y Donald S. Chandler. Su libro de divulgación Historias de artrópodos recibió el apoyo por parte del Sindicato de Trabajadores Académicos de la Universidad de Guadalajara.
Actualmente es el director del Centro de Estudios en Zoología y el coordinador del Cantinero Científico, programa de divulgación de la Librería Carlos Fuentes de la Universidad de Guadalajara.
Other activities involving the participant:
Arthropod stories: the importance of insects
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Ministerio de Cultura de España and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)