Cartagena will become from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 December at the venue of a meeting that promotes reflection on collective rights, the development of peoples, the preservation of nature and truthful information about what happens in an environment changing
The "Forum of Sitiated Cities: The wars of the 21st century" will take place at the El Batel Congress and Auditorium Palace and will open on Friday, December 14 at 7:00 p.m.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and the director of the Being in the Region of Murcia, Domingo Camacho, have offered all the details of the programming of this forum of ideas and debate this Tuesday, December 11.
Castejón has stressed the importance of a Forum of these characteristics and national and international reach held in the port city, "is a good showcase to show the world the most archaeological Cartagena but also the defensive."
The mayor has also emphasized the high quality of the speakers who will come to Cartagena to talk and discuss, but also to know this city and its greatest historical and patrimonial treasures through a special schedule of visits by the municipality.
For his part, the director of the Being in the Region of Murcia, Domingo Camacho, explained that this forum aims to give international exposure to Cartagena, both by the speakers and by the attendees who will attend the presentations and tables.
PAPERS
The first session, Friday 14 at 7:00 p.m., will address "The new information wars:" Fake News and electoral manipulation. "
Jesús Manuel Pérez Triana, Nicolás de Pedro and María Antonia Huertas will speak, in dialogue with the journalist and university professor Teodoro León Gross, collaborator of El País and SER.
During this same day, at 9:00 pm, Sami Nair, immigration writer, philosopher Adela Cortina and María Kodama, Argentine writer and specialist in the work of Jorge Luis Borges, will address "The infinite war: Inequalities and refugees" in dialogue with the writer and columnist of El País and SER Juan Cruz.
On Saturday morning the congressmen will dedicate it to discover the rich cultural and historical heritage of Cartagena, with excursions organized by "Cartagena, Puerto de Culturas".
On Saturday at 5:00 p.m. they will enjoy a guided tour of the Arsenal of the Navy, shipyard and base where warships and submarines of the Spanish army are located.
At 6:00 p.m., Susana Malcorra, former Foreign Minister of Argentina, José Manuel García-Margallo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain and Bernardino León Gross, Spanish diplomat and politician who lived on the front line of the Arab Spring as UN representative in Libya will talk about "War and Peace.
Keys to heal the wounds of war conflicts. "
At 8:00 pm on Saturday, SER journalist Pablo Morán will talk with Alba Sotorra, a filmmaker who portrayed the horror of the war in Syria, the former JEMAD Julio Rodríguez and Boban Minic, a journalist who experienced the siege of Sarajevo in the first person , on "The wars of the XXI Century".
On Sunday, December 16, at 12:30 a.m., to close the forum, a list of front-line writers arrives at the El Batel Auditorium.
The Planeta Santiago Posteguillo Award, María Dueñas (one of the best selling and translated Spanish writers in the world) and Antonio Soler (author of "El Camino de los ingleses") will converse with the Planeta finalist, Ayanta Barilli.
The inscriptions for this Forum organized by the Cadena SER, sponsored by Cartagena, Puerto de Culturas and the City of Cartagena, can be made in this link.
LIVE RETRANSMISSION OF THE PROGRAM TIME 25 IN CARTAGENA
The program "Hora 25", absolute leader in the afternoon and evening news on Spanish radio, with more than one million listeners a day, directed and presented by Àngels Barceló, arrives on Friday December 14 in Cartagena with all its equipment.
The live broadcast will take place at the Faculty of Business Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), at the old CIM from 21 a.m. to 11.30 p.m.
Throughout the program the reality of Cartagena will be approached from a historical point of view, linking with the theme of the Forum "Besieged Cities: The Wars of the 21st Century".
Free admission with invitation
The invitations to attend the broadcast of Hora 25, live from Cartagena, on Friday, December 14, are now available at Radio Cartagena-Cadena SER, on Calle Real, 70 and can also be downloaded for free at this link.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena