Bonet, Santos, Avelluto and Villanueva./ Photo: @revistaferias
The Diplomat. 04/10/2017
The 8th International Conference of the Spanish Language, which will take place in Córdoba (Argentina) from 27 to 30 March 2019, will fundamentally focus on the analysis of the Spanish as a “living” language, perfectly adapted to challenges such as the 21st-century education, the digital revolution and innovation and entrepreneurship.
This was recently announced in Buenos Aires by the director of the Cervantes Institute, Juan Manuel Bonet; the director of the Spanish Royal Academy and president of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASELE in its Spanish acronym), Darío Villanueva; the president of the Argentinian Academy of the Letters, José Luis Moure; and the ministers of Tourism and Culture of Argentina, Gustavo Santos and Pablo Avelluto, respectively.
The Conference, whose slogan will be America and the future of the Spanish language: education and culture, technology and entrepreneurship, will be inaugurated by the Spanish Monarchs and the Argentinian president, who hold the Honorary Presidency.
“It is going to be a very good Conference. Córdoba has a long tradition, a good infrastructure and a present spirit”, Juan José Bonet declared during the event’s presentation, which took place at the National Museum of Decorative Art of the Argentinian capital.
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The event will take place in March 2019 and it will be inaugurated by the Monarchs and the Argentinian president
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The sessions will focus on five themes: The Spanish, universal language, Language and interculturality, Challenges of the Spanish in the 21st-century education, The Spanish and the digital revolution and The competitiveness of the Spanish as a language for innovation and entrepreneurship. The programme will be complemented with numerous cultural and social activities.
Among those participating, there will be writers, members of Spanish Language Academies and specialists in the most diverse arts, editors and other experts connected to the Spanish language, all of them from the Spanish-speaking circle and from other countries.
The former International Conferences of the Spanish Language took place in Zacatecas (Mexico, 1997), Valladolid (Spain, 2001), Rosario (Argentina, 2004), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 2007), Valparaíso (Chile, 2010), Panama City (2013) and San Juan (Puerto Rico, 2016).
These Conferences are promoted and organized by the Cervantes Institute ‒which holds the Secretariat General, as well as the Permanent Secretariat between conferences‒, the Spanish Royal Academy ‒responsible along with ASALE of the scientific programme‒, and the host country, in this case Argentina.