On March 30 it will be known if Cádiz is the venue for the X Congress of the Language

The city of Arequipa (Peru) has submitted the IX International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE), which the Peruvian city will celebrate from March 27 to 30, 2023, under the motto ‘Spanish language, miscegenation and interculturality. History and future’. The Arequipa Congress will bring together more than 250 international speakers and speakers, recognized names from the world of the Spanish language and culture in Spanish. In this meeting it will be where the next headquarters will be announced, on the 30th, being Cádiz one of the applicants to host the congress.

The act, according to the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), has had the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, Cesar Landa Arroyo; the director of the Royal Spanish Academy and president of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE), Santiago Munoz Machado; the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis Garcia Montero; the president of the Peruvian Academy of Language, Eduardo Francisco Hopkins Rodriguez; the mayor of Arequipa, Omar Candía Aguilarand the rector of the National University of San Agustín (Arequipa), Hugo Rojas Flores.

As reported by the website of the Cervantes InstituteIn the presentation of the congress, the Peruvian Foreign Minister, César Landa, reiterated the commitment of the Government of his country to this event, emphasizing that it has been declared an event of “national cultural interest” and recalling the coexistence of Spanish with more than 40 native languages ​​of the Peru as Quechua or Aymara. Along the same lines, the mayor of the Arequipa city, Omar Cancia, declared that he was “proud to host one of the most important congresses in the world.”

The University of San Agustín (UNSA) will be the headquarters of the academic program. The institution will host debates and presentations by more than 200 specialists within its eighteenth-century walls. The other venue will be the Municipal Theater of the city where the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature was born, the Spanish-Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

Between the authors who will be present are Héctor Abad Faciolince, Sergio Ramírez, Gioconda Belli, Santiago Roncagliolo, Jorge Volpi or Martín Caparrós. Also the recent winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, the neurobiologist Rafael Yuste or the economist José Luis García Delgado.

After the solemn opening, continues the note from the Royal Academy that the Cádiz City Council includes in a press release, the introductory plenary session will be held entitled ‘Spanish, common language. Miscegenation and interculturality in the Spanish-speaking community’ and which will include a first dialogue table. This will be the central theme of this ninth congress.

The congress will close on March 30 with a solemn closing session in which the conclusions of these days of debate and reflection will be summarized, and the place that will host the next conclave on Spanish will be formally announced. Cádiz is one of the cities that has formally submitted its candidacy to host the event in 2025 or 2026 (if the deadlines for holding it every three years are respected).