¿Palabras sin Tierra? (y el ser humano creó las palabras del polvo de la Tierra)

The second keynote speech of the VIII International Congress on historical links between Spain and North America will offer a humanist and literary vision to the main themes of this edition. 

 Carmen Boullosa, has published a dozen books of poems (La salvaja, FCE, 1989, Harmatia o el axa, Hiperión, 2019), ten and nine novels (La otra mano de Lepanto, Siruela, 2005), several books of essays (Azúcar negra, FCE, 2013, Cuando México se repropiade de Texas, Arte Público Press, 2015) and has written theater. She collaborates continuously with plastic artists ("Bajo la misma falda", MUNAL, 2021-2022) and created artist's books. He received the Villaurrutia, LiBeraturpreis, Anna Seghers, Novela Café Gijón, Rosalía de Castro, Poetry awards from Casa de América in Madrid, the Jorge Ibargüengoitia, the José Emilio Pacheco Excellence in Letters, and seven New York EMMYs, among others. 

 Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Center and DAAD; Distinguished Professor at Georgetown, Columbia, SDSU, Andrés Bello Chair at NYU, Reyes Chair at the Sorbonne, Blaise Pascal University of Clermont Ferrand, was Distinguished Lecturer at City College CUNY, and is a professor at Macaulay Honors College CUNY. His most recent publications are the poems La aguja en el pajar (Visor, 2019), La impropia (Taller Martín Pescador, 2018) and the novel El libro de Eva (Siruela, 2021; Alfaguara, 2020), and Lealtad alterado, with Magali Lara (UNAM and UANL, 2022).