The Diplomat
The Instituto Cervantes will present in Cadiz, within the framework of the IX International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE), its most complete cultural program since 1997, when these pan-Hispanic events began to be held.
The cultural program of the Instituto Cervantes in Cadiz includes exhibitions, an opening concert with flamenco artists Carmen Linares, Marina Heredia and Arcángel; a closing concert with singers such as Drexler and Izaro; meetings with publishers and poetry evenings with poets María Baranda, Gioconda Belli, Federico Díaz Granados, Hugo Mujica, Ana Rosetti and Rolando Kattán,
There will also be book presentations (Miguel Hernández y César Vallejo: Versos en convergencia), a tribute to Spain’s linguistic diversity (presented by the Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, and the participation of institutions and representatives of the different co-official languages of the State) and three activities related to the media: a seminar on journalistic ethics and two activities on the iconic literary magazines Granta Perú (the country that was to host this IX Congress) and Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos (organized in this case together with AECID).
The Cervantes is also the institution that organizes the largest number of exhibitions, a total of eight, including bibliographic displays on the Viceroyalty of Peru (political and administrative entity born in 1542 and which was until 1842 the center of Spanish rule in the region), multidisciplinary exhibitions of photographs, illustrations and tributes to the grammarian Elio Antonio de Nebrija, considered the father of Spanish linguistics for his famous Gramática de la lengua castellana (1492), or to the poet Carlos Edmundo de Ory, from Cadiz, on the centenary of his birth in 1923.
The exhibition program is organized by Cervantes alone or in collaboration with entities such as the AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development), the City Council and the Provincial Council of Cadiz or the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center of Peru. The public will be able to visit them from the weekend prior to the Congress (from Friday 24) until June 25.
The IX edition of the International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE) will be held from March 27 to 30 in Cadiz and will be attended by some 300 participants from all over the Hispanic world, who will discuss the reality of Spanish, its past, present and future. The Congress was to have been held in 2022 in the Peruvian city of Arequipa, but the unstable situation in Peru since the removal of the country’s president, Pedro Castillo, led the Association of Spanish Language Academies to propose its transfer to Cadiz, which was immediately accepted by the Spanish government. The first International Congress of the Spanish Language was held in Zacatecas (Mexico) in 1997 and Valladolid hosted the second edition in 2001.
The event will be inaugurated by the King and Queen of Spain and will be attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares; the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero; and the director of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and president of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (Asale), Santiago Muñoz Machado. The participants will be personalities from both sides of the Atlantic, such as writers Sergio Ramírez, Cervantes Prize 2017, and Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua), Fernando Iwasaki, Jorge Eduardo Benavides and Santiago Roncagliolo (Peru), Carlos Franz (Chile) and Spaniards José Enrique Ruiz-Domenech, Enrique Vila-Matas, J.J. Armas Marcelo, Carmen Posadas and María Dueñas, among others.
