The American writer will converse with sociologist Helen Torres on Thursday, September 24 at 19:00 in the auditorium of the centre. The public has sold out all tickets, and the talk will be available the following day on YouTube.
The Centro Cultural Condeduque in Madrid will host the upcoming Thursday, September 24 event “Our Vulnerable Side, a Conversation with Siri Hustvedt”, as reported by the space under the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Madrid City Council. The event, part of the Thought and Literature programme of Contemporánea Condeduque, will start at 19:00 in the auditorium.
The novelist, essayist, and poet will engage in dialogue with sociologist, translator, and professor Helen Torres. Tickets are sold out, as noted by madrid-destino.com, and those who miss out can follow the talk from the next day on the YouTube channel of Contemporánea Condeduque.
The focus of the meeting is on human vulnerability and fragility as forms of knowledge and the basis of affection. The conversation will connect literature, art, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and feminism, starting from interdependence as a key to understanding how we think and feel, according to the organisation.
We think from uncertainty and feel from shared stories,” asserts the author, whose work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Siri Hustvedt, of Norwegian descent, studied History at St. Olaf College and earned her PhD in English Literature at Columbia University. She published her first novel in 1992 and gained international recognition with What I Loved (2003). Among her essays is Living, Thinking, Looking, and her most recent titles in Spanish are The Spell of Lily Dahl (2025) and Ghost Stories (2026). In 2019, she received the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature and in 2012 the Gabarron International Award for Thought and Humanities. She holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Oslo, Stendhal-Grenoble, Gutenberg-Mainz, and the International Menéndez Pelayo University of Santander.
On her part, Helen Torres works on the relationships between language, arts, and politics from feminist and anti-colonial perspectives. She has translated most of Donna Haraway's work and is a professor of critical thinking, queer theory, and feminist theories. She is pursuing a PhD in the Department of Art History at the University of Barcelona with a thesis on bioart.
The event will take place in the auditorium of the Centro Cultural Condeduque in Madrid. Those interested in attending future activities in the series can check the programme on the centre's website, condeduquemadrid.es.
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