The dialogue was chaired by the Director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, and moderated by the Secretariat’s Undersecretary for Cultural Development, Marina Núñez, a member of the Chapultepec Conferences.
Mondiacult 2022, convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) and organized with Mexico as the host of this edition, will take place in Mexico City from September 28th to 30th.
García Montero is also Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada and a distinguished poet, storyteller and essayist who has received numerous international awards for his literary work.
The professor advocated poetry as something related to the salvation of the world and the universal commitment to a historical alliance with the mother tongues, and in this sense commits everyone to the deepest realities.
He acknowledged that while poetry can hardly solve societal problems, there are others in which it invites reflection, citing, for example, the loss of a sense of belonging, the seriousness of the advancement of technology, detached from humanity, among others. .
Claiming poetry, he said, means claiming the need for this dialogue between reason and emotion.
In the case of Mexico Heading to Mondiacult 2022, it is developing an extensive program of international forums and meetings under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and related institutions, with the aim of integrating different voices that encourage discussion, like this one on «Save poetry, save the world» , the second in this cycle, explained Núñez.
Mondiacult 2022 will take place as part of the 40th anniversary of the first world conference of this kind, held in Mexico in 1982, and will have the general aim of reflecting on cultural policy in the current context, he said.
It includes the adaptation of the cultural sector to digital change, the contribution of culture to social and economic development and climate protection, and the cross-sectional function of culture as a promoter of resilience, well-being and prosperity.
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