LITERAL PRO 2025 - BARCELONA
MAY 22 AND 23, 2024
The Programme
Literal PRO 2025
LITERAL PRO is a professional political and radical book fair held during the month of May in Barcelona, within the framework of the LITERAL fair. The fair has become one of the key events in the literary, intellectual and political landscape of the city, attracting thousands of people each year and a large number of professionals who exhibit their books and where conferences, debates and concerts are scheduled.
LITERAL PRO aims to become an essential date in the calendar for professionals in the sector from all over Europe and the world. The organization is also working to establish a professional network at the European level in order to make authors from other countries known throughout Europe and thus establish culturally and economically profitable dynamics.
Thursday, May 22
9am ACCREDITATIONS AND WELCOME
10am – 6pm MEETING SPACE
Reserved for editors and publishers
12pm – 1pm WORKSHOP
Eco-edition: the book sector’s commitment to technology advances
The work to minimize the environmental impact of the book industry in Catalonia continues. Commitment to ecology is awareness, but also resources, methodology and specific tools that help the book sector in its day-to-day life. In recent years, publishers, printers and the Department of Culture (ICEC) have worked together to make these resources and tools available to the book ecosystem.
Are you interested in knowing how we got here? Would you like to learn about some of these resources and tools?
- Alex Pi, director of the Business Development Area of the ICEC, will explain the environmental sustainability grants that are given specifically for the book sector.
- Marta Fonolleda, director of the Eco-Editing Institute of Catalonia, will explain the development of the bookDAPer tool.
4pm – 5pm BOOK PITCHINGS
Five-minute presentations of the main ideas of a book in front of other publishers and other professionals in the sector.
- 4.00pm – “Campos Inteligencia artificial y estupidez natural Reflexiones sobre el capitalismo tecnológico” Jorge Millones (Gato Viejo Editorial)
- 4.08pm – “Mama desobedient. Una mirada feminista a la maternitat.” Esther Vivas
- 4.16pm – “Violences sexuelles: quand la justice maltraite. Les leçons du procès Pelicot” Carine Durrieu Diebolt (Syllepse)
- 4.24pm – “Veneno blanco” Paola Bigozzi (Tomolo Edigio’ Edizioni)
- 4.32pm – “Capitalismo libidinal” Amador Fernández-Savater (Ned Ediciones)
- 4.40pm – “Ultraderechas. Notas sobre la nueva deriva neoliberal” Jorge Alemán (Ned Ediciones)
- 4.48pm – “No podem més” Lurdes Quintero (Tigre de paper)
- 4.56pm – “Škrbine (Trozos de una vida)” Gasper kralj
Reserved for editors and publishers
18.30pm AFTERWORK
Relaxed meeting space with music and drinks to continue conversations beyond the workshop and meetings.
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May 2025
Friday, May 23
10am – 6pm MEETING SPACE
Reserved for editors and publishers
11am – 12pm ROUND TABLE
The role of the publishing sector in the struggle for Palestinian liberation
This panel will explore the role that the publishing sector has historically played in the resistance to Israeli imperialism and colonialism and how it is currently organizing through Publishers for Palestine. Publishers from different parts of the world will discuss how to stop complicity, creating spaces for critical voices and counter-narratives.
Participants:
- Róisín Davis (Publishers for Palestine)
- Hazem Jamjoum (Safarjal Press)
- Faye Cura (Gantala Press, International Alliance of Independent Publishers)
- Khalil Pierre, (Palästina Bibliothek Frankfurt)
2pm – 2.30pm COFFEE MATCH MEETINGS
A close and direct meeting with professionals from the publishing world who have outstanding careers, sharing a table and coffee. An exchange meeting to talk, listen and learn. With a maximum of 5 participants per person.
- Guido Indij (Marea Editorial, Argentina)
- Manuel Carballa (Alter Editions, Uruguay)
- Ane Eslava (Txalaparta, Euskal Herria)
- Marc Garcés (Paper Tiger, Catalonia)
4pm – 5pm BOOK PITCHINGS
Five-minute presentations of the main ideas of a book in front of other publishers and other professionals in the sector.
- 4.00pm – “Filantrocapitalisme” Emília Olivé (Tigre de paper)
- 4.08pm – “Alimentar la bèstia” Elena Crespi Asensio (Tigre de paper)
- 4.16pm – “La Terre confisquée : critique de l’aménagement du territoire” Jean-Marc Ghitti (La Lenteur)
- 4.24pm – “Margenes” Annarita da Bellonio, Roberta Brioschi (Tomolo Edigio’ Edizioni)
- 4.32pm – “Comment devenir lesbienne en dix étapes” Louise MOrelHors D’atteinte
- 4.40pm – “Projecte de Esquerra Diari – Editorial IPS” Santiago Lupe (Esquerra Diari – Editorial IPS)
- 4.48pm – “Between Reality and Documentary: A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film” Shahd Abusalama
Reserved for editors and publishers
5pm – 6pm ROUND TABLE
How to confront authoritarianism and anti-rights movements from the publishing sector?
This roundtable brings together publishers from different parts of the world where there are growing anti-rights movements that question freedom of expression, liberties and human rights. There will be a discussion on what publishers can do to offer and support resistance to censorship and authoritarian threats in these contexts.
Participants:
- Sulaiman Adebowale (Amalion, Senegal)
- Constanza Brunet (Marea Editorial, Argentina)
- José Manuel Montero (Gato Viejo, Peru).
- Diana Rahmouni (Jande Editorial, Catalunya).
18.30pm MEETING OF PUBLISHERS AND FINAL TOASTS
23
May 2025
