THE GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR FORUM ON NEW PARADIGMS
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MONTERREY INTERNATIONAL
BOOK FAIR AND THE
TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF MONTERREY
FOCUSING IN 2020 ON THE NEW POST VIRAL (DIS)ORDER
From Wall to Wall is a yearly forum presented by Guadalajara’s International Book Fair –and with previous sessions in Monterrey’s International Book Fair from this year on– as an avenue for debating the main questions arising from the global historic moment we live in from a vantage point that goes beyond scholarly disciplines.
The forum’s name alludes to the long-term vision from which its reflections arise: one that postulates the fall of the Berlin Wall and the notion of culminating the erection of a wall between the United States and Mexico as its chronological milestones.
Organized from this year on in a partnership between the University of Guadalajara and another of our country’s must prestigious higher learning institutions –¬the Technological Institute of Monterrey–, From Wall to Wall will devote its 2020 edition to the new viral (dis)order in view of the pandemic and the resulting economic, social and cultural crisis, a set of experiences thar have upset all our forms of being and doing.
In the course of four sessions, we shall explore four lines of thought:
1) the logic of virality as a tool to better understand the interconnections, interdependencies and unhinging of contemporary societies;
2) the balance arising from confinement, remote work, the necessary rethinking of the economic model and a renewal of both solidarity and selfishness;
3) the new globality spurred by an erosion of American primacy, a heightening of Chinese power, an unescapable regionalization and a crisis facing both liberal democracy and populisms;
4) the need for a transformation of economic systems in order to generate growth, inclusion and sustainability and prevent the next decade becoming a lost one.
Due to the emergency currently challenging the planet, this year From Wall to Wall shall be held remotely. The sessions will be available to view on this website, on the FIL Guadalajara and FIL Monterrey websites and social media, and on the platform of the media partner we are honoured to be working with this year, LatinUs.
DATE November 28 thru 29, 2020
LOCATION FIL Guadalajara, FIL Monterrey and LatinUs websites and social media
SPEAKERS 16 speakers
The logic of virality as a tool to better understand the interconnections, interdependencies and unhinging of contemporary societies
The balance arising from confinement, remote work, the necessary rethinking of the economic model and a renewal of both solidarity and selfishness
The new globality spurred by an erosion of American primacy, a heightening of Chinese power, an unescapable regionalization and a crisis facing both liberal democracy and populisms
The need for a transformation of economic systems in order to generate growth, inclusion and sustainability and prevent the next decade becoming a lost one
The logic of virality as a tool to better understand the interconnections, interdependencies and unhinging of contemporary societies
The balance arising from confinement, remote work, the necessary rethinking of the economic model and a renewal of both solidarity and selfishness
The new globality spurred by an erosion of American primacy, a heightening of Chinese power, an unescapable regionalization and a crisis facing both liberal democracy and populisms
The need for a transformation of economic systems in order to generate growth, inclusion and sustainability and prevent the next decade becoming a lost one
For its third edition, organized on the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall from which its name arises, From Wall to Wall devoted its attention to the forms of civic mobilization derived from that same historic horizon, that is to the new avenues for creating and occupying public space that have kept on arising since November 9th, 1989, when German youth took to the streets of Berlin brandishing mallets and picks
in order to reach Brandenburg Gate, tear down a wall and reoccupy a square
For its second edition, presented in partnership with the Center for Economic Research and Development, From Wall to Wall tackled the crisis facing liberal democracies, manifesting itself in the proliferation and growing radicalization of authoritarian and/or populist régimes arising from democratic elections in European as well as American and Asian nations.
In its first edition, presented in partnership with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), From Wall to Wall delved upon the risks that the growth of political movements that promote segregation and exclusion represent for the civilizing process.