Next Monday, April 15th at 6pm, the Simón Bolívar Hall of Casa América will host the conference The Panama Canal. History and current affairs, by Orlando Acosta, Panama Canal official. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
The event, organised together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Panama, will begin with welcoming remarks by Luis Prados, Casa de América’s Director of Programming, and Ithzel Patiño de Villarreal, Panama’s Ambassador to Spain.
Orlando Acosta is a humanist with technical training in industrial engineering from the Technological University of Panama, a master’s degree in Urban Development from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and a postgraduate degree in higher education from UDELAS. Co-author of the inaugural script of the Museum of the Interoceanic Canal, the Route, the Water and the People. He has worked at the Panama Canal for 23 years and is currently Museum Advisor at the Canal’s Historical Memory Office.
Acosta develops studies in the field of urban development, focusing his interest on heritage issues. He publishes articles in specialised magazines on environmental, urban planning, tourism and heritage issues. He declares himself a permanent defender and critic of the relationship between heritage, identity and territory. His journalistic work is compiled in opinion columns in La Estrella de Panamá and La Prensa, two of Panama City’s main newspapers, and in other local print media. He is currently producing audiovisual products and is the host of the Canal Podcast, Así Paso, a communication space that relates the history of the Canal with national affairs.
