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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThe course \u201cIberian Dialogues. Jos\u00e9 Saramago: A minute, a Century\u201d, which has been organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Office for Cross-Border Initiatives, opened today with a speech given by the Director General of External Action of the Regional Government of Extremadura and President of the Executive Committee of Yuste Foundation, Rosa Balas. <\/strong>(27\/06\/2022)<\/p>\n She pointed out that in the present year – when a hundred years since the Portuguese writer\u2019s birth have passed – \u201cExtremadura could not miss the deserved tribute\u201d, and the best way to remember him is by \u201cexpanding and delving into knowledge about his figure, about his work and about the enormous influence that his personality has left in the culture and thought of Portugal, Spain and the countries where Portuguese and Spanish are spoken\u201d.<\/p>\n Yuste Foundation and Jos\u00e9 Saramago have \u201cthe Iberian, European, Ibero-American and universal spirit\u201d in common, said Balas, adding that \u201cwe must approach the south because it is a way of feeling and understanding the world\u201d, and in this sense, \u201cfrom Extremadura, from Yuste, we are committed to strengthening that role as a bridge between continents so that, through Portugal and Spain, it becomes possible for Europe to increasingly turn its gaze towards the countries of America and Africa which we are linked to by historical, cultural and linguistic ties\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n In turn, the director of Yuste Foundation, Juan Carlos Moreno, recalled that Jos\u00e9 Saramago was appointed a member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste on 25 June 1998 and since then, \u201chis participation was very committed – as he himself used to be – and he attended in person in different activities, as in the case of Yuste Academy\u2019s meetings\u201d, he said. In this sense, he added that Saramago \u201cwill be present among us these days because if Pilar del R\u00edo is here, so is Saramago\u201d.<\/p>\n Then the professor of the University of \u00c9vora and co-director of the course, Antonio S\u00e1ez Delgado, took the floor. During his speech, he explained that the objective of this course is \u201cto read, to think and to reflect on Jos\u00e9 Saramago again; it is to return to his literary and social legacy in order to place him in this global world and to know what part of his essence we can recover and update in 2022\u201d. During these three days, he said, \u201cwe will reflect on the peninsula and its relationship with America and on that South that to many of us is our goal\u201d.<\/p>\n S\u00e1ez explained that the design of the course programme is based on two fundamental principles. One of them is to encourage dialogue between Spain, Portugal and America. \u201cA trans-Iberist idea, as Saramago said, of a thought that articulates the coexistence of peoples and the peninsula with those on the other side of the Atlantic and Africa where Spanish and Portuguese is also spoken\u201d. The co-director of the course explained that they were very interested in having a multidisciplinary perspective that \u201ccould enlighten us on how to read Saramago and where to find him today in the different points of the current scenario\u201d. The second axis of the course \u201cis to find and rediscover Saramago from different viewpoints, hence we have included teachers, writers, journalists, specialists in the work of Saramago, editors, translators\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n The professor of the University of Extremadura and also co-director of the course, Miguel \u00c1ngel Lama, alluded to the period in which the Portuguese writer, already a Nobel Prize winner, was linked to Extremadura not only through the Academy of Yuste, \u201cbut also with the university and cultural sphere accepting the proposal to be president of the Extremadura Creation Awards and supporting the candidacy proposal since 2000 of Eug\u00e9nio Andrade, Juan Mars\u00e9 and Juan Goytisolo\u201d, among others.<\/p>\n The president of the Jos\u00e9 Saramago Foundation, journalist and translator Pilar del R\u00edo, who described the Monastery of Yuste as a place of emperors but also one that is \u201cSaramaginian\u201d, also participated in the opening of the course. During her speech, she claimed that although Saramago was Portuguese, he was also Iberian, \u201cand as a consequence, he had a foot set in Extremadura\u201d. In addition, she explained that at the meetings held by the Academy of Yuste where Saramago attended, \u201cthe academics reflected on what was ephemeral and permanent; on the physical and poetic journeys; on Europe, America and the colonial empires; on the autochthonous, on the continents; on the value of culture, of religion; on civility, on democracy\u201d, she explained.<\/p>\n The mayor of Cuacos de Yuste, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez, in turn, claimed that more talk about Ibero-America is needed to empower that part of the world.<\/p>\n The opening of the course continued with a speech given by the rector of the University of \u00c9vora, Herm\u00ednia Vilar, who recalled that in her time as a student it was not mandatory to read Saramago; a writer who she later discovered and who contributed in some way to developing her critical and thoughtful spirit. At the same time, she welcomed the fact that the work of the Portuguese writer is currently being read, which allows us to discover what unites Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n The rector of the University of Extremadura, Antonio Hidalgo Garc\u00eda, closed the opening session of the course explaining that this course is one of the results of the Chair of Iberian Studies of the University of Extremadura. Hidalgo expressed his desire to join the social commitment that Jos\u00e9 Saramago always showed. \u201cHe understood that his position as a writer and as an intellectual forced him to manifest those things which he saw as incorrect and unjust, not necessarily from the perspective of the possession of truth, and that personal and literary honesty is a good example for everyone and I think that it should be more widely spread\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n The course \u201cIberian Dialogues. Jos\u00e9 Saramago: A minute, a Century\u201d is part of the official programme of commemorations that celebrate the centenary of the birth of Nobel Prize Jos\u00e9 Saramago, and has counted with the collaboration of the University of Extremadura, the University of \u00c9vora, National Heritage and the Councils of C\u00e1ceres and Badajoz, as well as support from the European Regional Development Fund Interreg Spain-Portugal.<\/p>\n Until Wednesday, the Nicaraguan writer and recipient of the 2017 Cervantes Prize, Sergio Ram\u00edrez; the Colombian writer Laura Restrepo; the journalist Javier Rodr\u00edguez Marcos; the professors of the University of Extremadura and the University of Huelva, Luisa Leal and Diego Mesa, respectively, and the writer Manuel Vilas, will attend the course at the Monastery of Yuste, among others. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_nav in_same_term=”on” prev_text=”VER NOTICIA ANTERIOR” next_text=”VER NOTICIA SIGUIENTE” admin_label=”\u2190 NAVEGACION POR NOTICIAS \u2192” _builder_version=”4.14.8″ custom_margin=”||3%|” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The course \u201cIberian Dialogues. 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