The Rafael del Pino Foundation, Lopez-li Films and the Asociación Unidos por la Historia are organising, on 20 April 2025 at 7 p.m., the dialogue "Estados Unidos, nación hispanoamericana" with the participation of Manuel Lucena, Gonzalo Quintero and Maite Rico.
Manuel Lucena Giraldo is a researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), director of the Chair of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at the universities of the Community of Madrid and adjunct professor at the University Instituto de Empresa and ESCP Business School Europe. He has been visiting professor at Harvard University, Tufts University (Boston), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Universidad de los Andes (Chile and Colombia) and St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He has been education attaché at the Spanish Embassy in Colombia and has held higher education management positions. He is an external contributor to National Geographic-Historia and a member of the advisory board of Revista de Occidente. He is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History, the Colombian Academy of History and the section committee of the European Academy. He is a member of the board of directors of Hispania Nostra. His publications have dealt with travellers, scientific expeditions, cities, national images, empires and globalisation. He teaches non-fiction, negotiation and business at Cursiva, the Penguin Random House writing school.
Gonzalo M. Quintero SaraviaD. in History from the Complutense University of Madrid and in Public Law from the UNED, is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History and the Colombian Academy of History. He has been a fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His book Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution was awarded the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award for the best biography published in 2018 (published by Alianza Editorial with the title Bernardo de Gálvez: A Spanish Hero in the American War of Independence). Recent publications include: with Professor Gabriel Paquette Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2019 and Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2022); "The Participation of France and Spain", in Wim Klooster ed. The Age of Atlantic Revolutions. Vol. 1. The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023: 269-295) and with Professor Kathleen DuVal, "Bernardo de Gálvez: Friend of the American Revolution, Friend of Empire", in Andrew N. O'Shaughnessy, John A. Ragosta and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol eds. European Friends of the American Revolution (Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2023, 147-174).
Maite RicoColumnist for EL MUNDO, she has been deputy editor and founder of LA LECTURA, the newspaper's cultural magazine. She is also an analyst at Onda Cero and EsRadio. Until 2018 she was at EL PAÍS, where she was deputy editor after developing her career in the International and Opinion sections. She was a war reporter in Bosnia, Somalia and Libya, Latin America correspondent and editorialist. He then directed El País Weekly and launched the supplement Ideas. She is co-author, with Bertrand de la Grange, of the books Marcos, the brilliant imposture (Aguilar, Mexico and Madrid, 1998; and Plon, Paris, 1998), on the Zapatista uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and Who killed the bishop? Autopsy of a political crime (Planeta, Mexico, 2003, and Martínez Roca, Madrid, 2005), on the assassination of the Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi.