As in previous years, the Tenique Cultural association, in collaboration with UNED Lanzarote, will offer a series of conferences by great professionals of culture and research as a preamble to the activities of the next Lanzarote Film Festival. On this occasion, the presentations will be on the common theme of Islands, chosen as the discursive axis of this edition.
The talks will be given on October 29 and 30 and November 5, 6 and 7 from 7:00 p.m., in the Aula Magna of the UNED.
The program will begin on October 29 with the conference The Age of Islands, by the renowned professor of Social Geography at the University of Newcastle (UK), Alastair Bonnett, who will speak about the construction and permanent destruction of island geographies around the planet. Traveler, professor and prolific writer, his books Off the Map, Beyond the Map, The Age of Islands or 40 Maps That Will Change the Way You See the World have been translated into 19 languages.
A day later, on October 30, the prestigious professor of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, Francisco Jarauta, will propose in The Imaginary of the Islands an approach to those magical spaces that have been fundamental in the field of philosophy. Philosopher, editor and doctor in Philosophy, Anthropology and Art History from the University of Valencia, his research works are especially oriented to the history of ideas, the philosophy of culture, aesthetics and the theory of art.
On Tuesday, November 5, the presentation by the filmmaker and programmer of the Festival international du film insulaire de Groix (FIFIG), Jeanne Hardy, is scheduled, who will talk about the role that the islands have had in the history of cinema. Hardy has studied cinema in Paris, Montreal and Rome and, together with the artistic co-direction of the FIFIG, she is developing her own cinematographic project, a documentary about Lampedusa.
The professor of Crystallography and Mineralogy of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, José Mangas Viñuela, will be in charge of analyzing the genesis and geological creation of the Canary archipelago. It will be on Wednesday, November 6 at 7:00 p.m. Mangas Viñuela is attached to the Institute of Oceanography and Global Change, and belongs to the Research Group of Applied and Regional Geology of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has a hundred scientific publications.
The conference cycle will end on November 7 with the activity guided by the writer and graduate in Drawing from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Juli Mesa, who will propose a joint writing game, in Dog or shadow, lavender or sun. Poetics of an island within the island. Juli Mesa's work is part of the Canarias en Letras 2023-Fundación Mapfre Canarias collection with the book Lucio Blanca, and her first book of poems, "Soo" was published by La Bella Varsovia thanks to the 1st Ana Santos Payán Prize for Poetry Book Projects.
The Lanzarote Film Festival has the collaboration of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers, the Society for the Promotion of Lanzarote Abroad through its product brand Lanzarote Film Commission, and the sponsorship of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Canarian Institute of Cultural Development (ICDC), the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts of Spain (ICAA), the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, the Government of the Canary Islands, Islas Canarias Latitud de Vida and the European Union, through the Next Generation EU initiative and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.