In the Carabobo Norte corridor, between Parque Explora and the Botanical Garden, there is the pavilion of university publishers. In its eighteenth edition, the literary, academic and cultural meeting features 20 publishers from higher education institutions.
The list includes 16 publishers from Antioquia, one from Valle del Cauca and another from Bogotá, in addition to the Association of University Publishers of Colombia and a publisher specializing in university publications: Redbooks.
The department is home to the publishing houses of the National University, the University of Antioquia, the University of Medellín, the University of EIA, the University of San Buenaventura, the University of EAFIT, the University of Uniminuto, the University of CES, the University of Luis Amigo, the University of UNAULA, the University of Antonio Nariño and the University of Remington; as well as the Polytechnic Institute of Gran Colombiano, the University of Envigado and the University of the Treasury.
The Universidad del Valle, based in Cali, and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional in Bogotá are also on this list. All the publishing houses of the participating higher education institutions have a series of specific publications on various areas of knowledge developed by writers, teaching staff or research groups from each academic institution.
In the case of the U. de A., its publishing house has 228 titles, including 14 that are new for this year. “We invite you to dedicate some time to the productions of universities that arise from the academic and creative work of professors, students and citizens from all over the world who trust in publishing with us,” said Patricia Nieto Nieto, director of the Universidad de Antioquia Publishing House.
As for UNAL Medellín, throughout this week it has been presenting the eleven publications available for this year that was declared as “The Whirlwind Year”. In this sense, the National University launched The Vortex (first edition 1924) and A rereading and rediscovery of José Eustasio Riverareedited by Carlos Guillermo Páramo, dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences of UNAL Bogotá.
“We deeply believe in other ways of experiencing culture beyond the arts and, of course, in its connection with science and experimentation,” said Henry Horacio Chaves Parra, coordinator of the UNAL Cultural Network, Medellín campus.
Regarding EAFIT, its publishing house has nine new publications and the Ibero-American University Book Fair; the VII Training Seminar for Editors and the presentation of the Master’s degree in Literature; the awarding of the Festival of Literary Creation for Children and Young People.
Among the nine new features are, for example, The thread that weaves lifewritten by former rector Juan Luis Mejía Arango. “It is a book that continues to fill auditoriums and bring people together because it finds a common point between two themes of Antioquian history that, on the surface, seem distant: the relationship between business growth in the region and the development of fine arts and cultural events,” said Esteban Duperly Posada, head of the EAFIT Publishing House.
Also in the 18th edition of the Medellín Book and Culture Festival, which will run until this Sunday, September 15, the TdeA Publishing House exhibits nearly 60 of its own publications in various areas of knowledge.
Two of the most requested titles are Plants and ethnobotany in Urabá, Antioquia: Dabeiba and Mutatáby Marcela Serna González, professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the TdeA, a work of the Editorial Seal of the institution; and the children’s story Rawr: The Brave Dinosaurby Professor Luis Fernando Herrera Ramírez, author and illustrator of the book.
“It is a very beautiful story that was created during hospital care practices with children living in conflict zones. It is a work not only for children but also for adults because it calls for reflection and solidarity,” said Laura Marcela Bedoya Pérez, a student of Early Childhood Education at TdeA.
The Book and Culture Festival, which has the motto “A common heartbeat”, takes place in the Botanical Garden of Medellín. In addition to the exhibition of publishing houses, the cultural event that will end this Sunday, offers other meeting spaces such as cinema, concerts, conferences, readings and discussions with writers and literary critics, among others.