Felipe VI and Letizia, in Cádiz: the ‘Olympics’ of Language, artificial intelligence and flamenco by Carmen Linares

The Kings begin the work week in Cádiz. The city hosts the long-awaited IX Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE) as the start of a week full of linguistic, artistic and musical activities. Don Felipe y Mrs. Letizia attend the solemn ceremony, which will begin this Monday, March 27 at 12:00 at the Gran Teatro Falla. The director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis Garcia Montero; and the writers Elvira Lindo y Soledad Puertolas, among many others. This is the program of the Kings in Cádiz.

under the motto Spanish language, mestizaje and interculturality. History and futurethe capital of Cádiz hosts this congress, which brings together 300 experts in the Spanish language, including academics, writers, linguists, journalists, teachers and scientists.

In this pan-Hispanic summit, Felipe and Doña Letizia are expected to visit two exhibitions at Casa de Iberoamérica: Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru, a compilation of publications and manuscripts with the collaboration of the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center, of Peru; and Lies and wonders. Implausible representations of the other. Both samples are organized by the Instituto Cervantes and the AECID (Spanish Association for Cooperation and Development).

In the afternoon, the Kings will attend the session Unity and diversity of the Spanish language. The tradition and the challenge of artificial intelligence. A meeting that will take place at the Parador Nacional. To then close the day with a flamenco rhythm. It will be hand in hand Carmen Linares, Marina Heredia y Archangel. Three figures that will share the poster of the show light time on the tables of the Gran Teatro Falla. The head of state and his wife meet again with the flamenco singer Carmen Pacheco Rodríguez, better known as Carmen Linares (after her native Jaén), who was awarded the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts in Oviedo. A few days ago, the artist was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Seville.

With Tamames and without Vargas Llosa

Among the experts from the Spanish-speaking community, the professor and director of the Royal Academy of History will attend this congress Carmen Iglesias; the writers Maria Duenas, Hector Abad Faciolince, Carmen Posadas, Manuel Gutierrez Aragon; and the journalists Juan Luis Cebrian, Miguel Angel Aguilar, among others. One of the most surprising visits, that of Ramon Tamames, who came to the fore in Congress as a Vox candidate in the unsuccessful motion of no confidence. The economist and professor will participate in the colloquium The Andean space, native languages ​​and Spanish. The great absentee in Cádiz will be Mario Vargas Llosa.

More than 500 million people are connected by the same language, which embraces the enormous diversity and richness of accents. A meeting that comes after the enormous debate that the tilde of solo and in the midst of great challenges such as making Spanish visible in artificial intelligence and increasing its weight and presence in science and new technologies.