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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
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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One Thousand Young People with Juan Luis Arsuaga
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One Thousand Young People with Juan Luis Arsuaga
About fifteen kilometers from the Spanish province of Burgos, there is a very special place whose incredible wealth of fossils has made it one of the main sources of information in paleoanthropology. It is here, in the deposits of the Sierra de Atapuerca, where Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras has spent most of his scientific career, unraveling and disseminating evidence of our ancestors who set foot on the Earth more than a million years ago.
Paleoanthropologist and writer, since childhood he was interested in the universe of prehistory, especially after reading the novel The Quest for Fire, by J.H. Rosny, and visit the excavations near Bilbao.
Today, Arsuaga Ferreras (Madrid, 1954) holds a PhD in biological sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where he is professor of paleontology, in addition to being director of the UCM-Carlos III Health Institute Mixed Center for Human Evolution and Behavior, and scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution of Burgos.
Author of hundreds of scientific texts, including eight articles in Science and ten in Nature, his popular books have been translated into multiple languages, including titles such as The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution, The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers, Los aborígenes, Green Fire: The Life Force, from the Atom to the Mind, El reloj de Mr. Darwin, El primer viaje de nuestra vida, Breve historia de la Tierra con nosotros dentro, TEl sello indeleble, Vida. La gran historia and Nuestro cuerpo.
Participant: Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
Presenter: Leonardo López Luján
Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras
Invitado de HonorArsuaga has a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where he teaches Paleontology. He is the director of the UCM-Carlos III Health Institute Mixed Center for Human Evolution and Behavior. Most of his scientific career has been dedicated to the sites of the Sierra de Atapuerca, which he co-directs. He is the scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos.
He has received numerous awards, including: Prince of Asturias for Scientific and Technical Research; Castile and León; Community of Madrid; Sent Soví; Sociedad Geográfica Española; Ciudad de Alcalá; COSCE a la Difusión de la Ciencia; Cruz del Mérito Medioambiental de España; Medalla de Plata de la Comunidad de Madrid; GHR von Koenigswald Lecture (Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt); “Drago de Oro” from the Ateneo de Cádiz; Zilarrerezko Luma from the Bilbao Book Fair.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the Board of Directors of the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in Paris, the Real Academia de Doctores de España, and the Reales Academias de Medicina de Zaragoza y de Andalucía Oriental.
He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Burgos, Polytechnic of Valencia and Zaragoza.
He has written hundreds of scientific publications, including eight papers in Science and ten in Nature. He has directed twenty-one doctoral theses.
His popular science books have been translated into multiple languages: Chosen species: the long march of human evolution, Neanderthal's necklace: in search of the first thinkers, Los aborígenes, Al otro lado de la niebla, Amalur. Green fire: the life force, from the atom to the mind, El reloj de Mr. Darwin, El primer viaje de nuestra vida, Breve historia de la Tierra con nosotros dentro, El sello indeleble, Vida. La gran historia, Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal, La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal and Nuestro cuerpo.
Other activities involving the participant:
If I were a Neanderthal
Leonardo López Luján
Es arqueólogo. Director del Proyecto Templo Mayor desde 1991, ha dedicado su vida al estudio de la política, la religión y el arte de las sociedades prehispánicas del centro de México, y a la historia de la arqueología en este país. Es miembro de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, la Academia Mexicana de la Historia y la British Academy, así como miembro honorario de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias. En 2015 recibió el Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award. Ingresó a El Colegio Nacional el 15 de marzo de 2019.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journey to the origins of Mexican archeology
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura de España y Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)