Yayo Herrero

Invitado de Honor

(1965) Herrero has a PhD in Social and Political Science, a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and a degree in Social Education and Agricultural Technical Engineering. She is a member-worker at Garúa Sociedad Cooperativa, as well as a consultant, researcher, teacher and writer in the fields of political ecology, eco-feminism, eco-social transitions and education for the sustainability of life. For decades, she has been combining her work with active participation in social movements, especially the environmental movement.

Her latest publications are Toma de Tierra (2023, Caniche), Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la vida (Icaria, 2023), Educar para la sostenibilidad de la vida. Una mirada ecofeminista a la educación (2022, Octaedro), Derechos Humanos (2022, Litera), Ausencias y extravíos (2021, Ediciones Contextatarias y Libros en Acción) and Ecofeminismos para tiempos de crisis (2020, Pabellón 6).

She has coordinated and written in works such as Tiempo para la vida (Charo Morán, Helena Pariente and Yayo Herrero; 2022, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona), Cambio climático (Yayo Herrero, María González Reyes and Berta Páramo; 2019, Ediciones Litera), La vida en el centro. Voces y relatos ecofeministas (Yayo Herrero, María González, Marta Pascual, illustrated by Emma Gascó; 2018, Libros en Acción), La gran encrucijada. Sobre la crisis ecosocial y el cambio de ciclo histórico (Fernando Prats, Yayo Herrero, Alicia Torrego; 2016, Libros en Acción), Cambiar las gafas de ver el mundo. Una nueva cultura de sostenibilidad (Yayo Herrero, Fernando Cembranos and Marta Pascual (coords.); 2011, Libros en Acción), Educación y Ecología. El currículum oculto antiecológico de los libros de texto (Fernando Cembranos, Yayo Herrero y Marta Pascual (coords.); 2007, Editorial Popular).

She has published dozens of articles in anthologies. Part of her work has been translated into Catalan, Basque, Italian, French, English, German and Korean.

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Written with ink and chlorophyll

Marta Peirano

Invitado de Honor

Peirano is a columnist for El País and a contributor on Radio Nacional de España (RNE). She has been the Culture Director at ADN and deputy director at eldiario.es. She has curated the Barcelona Thought Biennial and created “(re) programming - Strategies for Self-Renewal,” a program of interviews on technology and climate change at the Institute of Contemporary Art of Ljubljana, and “In-depth Journalism,” a seminar on new journalism at Medialab-Matadero.

She has published El rival de Prometeo, a manual of famous automatons (2011, Impedimenta); El pequeño libro rojo del activista en la Red (2015, Rocaeditorial), a cryptography manual with a foreword by Edward Snowden, and El enemigo conoce el sistema (2019, Debate), an instant hit on the capitalism of surveillance. Her latest books are Contra el futuro (2022, Debate), a critical analysis of climatic technologies and apocalyptic stories, and (re) programming, a book of discussions with thinkers and visionaries about alternatives to the end of the world (2022, Aksioma).

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Crossroads. Mathematics, technology and literature

Giselle Etcheverry Walker

Invitado de Honor

Giselle Etcheverry Walker is a curator of literary and thinking projects, as well as a freelance editor. She holds a degree in Philosophy and an MBA in Business Management and Cultural Institutions. From 2004 until its closure in 2009 she worked at the literary agency of the Prisa Group, “La Oficina del Autor”. From 2009 to 2019 she was deputy director of the Culture Area of the Santillana Foundation, where she participated in the development and consolidation of projects such as the Formentor Literary Conversations and the Formentor Prize for Literature, the Cultural Journalism Congress, the Cultural Industries Forum and the Philosophy Festival, among others. As an editor, she has edited and coordinated the publication of essays and correspondence for various publishing houses. For more than ten years she was co-editor of the literary portal El Boomeran(g). She has curated the programme of literary activities for Madrid Book Night (2022-2024), the Madrid-Dublin Bloomsday around James Joyce's Ulysses (2023 and 2024), and the first Book Friday. A storehouse of stories of the material world in literature (2023). Since 2020 she has been curator of The sin of reading, a cycle of meetings celebrating Alianza Publishing House catalogue, and curator of the programme of the Contemporary Culture Centre Condeduque’s (Madrid) Thinking and Debate Area, among other projects related to public exhibition activities. Just as in 2022 she contributed to the preparation of the literary programme for Spain's guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in 2024 she is working on the design of the content of the literary and pavilion programmes for Spain's presence as guest of honour at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. She is a member of Policrits, Network of Contemporary Iberoamerican Critical Thinking.