
Spanish culture, read aloud and argued through.
The gist
Celee Cultural treats Spanish as a living cultural field, moving from poetry and novels to rock, cinema, horror, and Colombian memory. Its episodes sound like seminar, radio hour, and informal arts table at once.
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About Celee Cultural
Celee Cultural is a Spanish-language cultural program rooted in the Universidad del Rosario and shaped by conversation, reading, and reflection. Its range is broad. Literature sits beside rock, cinema, painting, political memory, horror, and the changing textures of spoken and written Spanish. The show is most alive when it lets subjects cross borders. A conversation with Ana Gabriela turns a book into a discussion of poetry, theatre, genre mixing, emotional memory, and the slow work of shaping scattered paragraphs into a novel. An episode on body horror begins with gothic fiction and follows bodies turning strange through Mary Shelley, Machen, Kafka, and cinema. The style is learned without becoming sterile. Speakers cite books, dates, films, and musical traditions, then drift into the larger cultural pressure behind them. Rock is treated not as imported noise but as an urban folklore, a city sound that changes in Colombia, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, Sweden, and elsewhere. Cinema becomes more than entertainment. In the film episode, shark movies and piranha films open a discussion about media power, public fear, vacation culture, and the way stories can distort how people understand animals. Colombian history also has weight here. The episode on Gaitán and the Bogotazo mixes commemoration, music, poetry, contested origins, political coalitions, and the need to look at famous figures critically. The tone is steady and spacious. It prefers a long table to a hot take. Listeners hear guests and speakers thinking in real time, sometimes with formal references and sometimes with the relaxed rhythm of campus radio. The result is a show for people who like culture as an argument, a memory practice, and a way of tasting Spanish from many angles.
Made for: Celee Cultural suits listeners who enjoy Spanish-language arts criticism, literary conversation, university radio, and reflective cultural history. It is especially strong for people who like high and popular culture discussed in the same breath.
What sets it apart: The show connects academic reading habits with everyday cultural forms: gothic horror, rock scenes, shark movies, poetry, Colombian politics, and Spanish itself. Its conversations feel exploratory, patient, and locally grounded rather than packaged as quick commentary.
In their own words
Las letras, la música, el cine y las diferentes líneas de pensamiento se reúnen en Celee cultural. Programa liderado por el Centro de Lectura y Escritura en Español de la Universidad del Rosario. Una hora con temas culturales, artísticos y académicos. Celee cultural busca rescatar y reivindicar el idioma español. No somos puristas ni correctores de las formas orales o escritas. Somos argonautas del español dispuestos a navegar y explorar nuestro idioma sin importar su forma ni las criaturas que en él habiten. Los invitamos a escuchar sin afán, a pensar las palabras y, de paso, a divertirse.
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Bogota history arrives with violins; stay if your cultural curiosity refuses to pick a department.
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- your history with room to reconsider Gaitan, the Bogotazo, and the city they reshaped
- your horror trail running from Gothic fiction and Kafka to body transformation on film
Episodes
- 1
Lenguas indígenas de Colombia con María Emilia Montes
·1h - 2
La investigación lingüística en el marco del Celee
·1h - 3
Ante las puertas del inframundo
·1h - 4
De pelea con el diablo, mitos y leyendas
·1h 1m - 5
El mal menor, el bien mayor
·1h 1m - 6
Historia de las cosas
·1h 1m - 7
Amores infinitos
·1h 1m - 8
Amigos mortales
·1h - 9
celee prueba
·0m - 10
El viaje infinito de la tristeza
·1h 1m - 11
Poesía, violencia y documenta
·1h 1m - 12
El viento
·1h - 13
Entonemos un himno a tu cielo
·1h 1m - 14
Libros y más libros
·1h - 15
CELEE CULTURAL - EN VIVO
·1h - 16
CELEE CULTURAL - EN VIVO
·1h - 17
CELEE CULTURAL - EN VIVO
·1h 1m - 18
CELEE CULTURAL - EN VIVO
·1h 1m - 19
Genio Creativo
·1h - 20
Jürgen Habermas: La razón y el diálogo.
·1h - 21
La mujeres y el arte
·1h - 22
Desaparecidos
·1h - 23
Las caras del duelo
·1h - 24
Separatismo, independencia cultural
·1h 1m - 25
El Super Bowl y la resistencia
·1h 1m - 26
El Hospital
·1h - 27
¿Mucho asco? Esta del asco, dele sin asco.
·1h - 28
La Academia Colombiana de la Lengua y los diccionarios
·1h - 29
Religión, brujería y eventos paranormales
·1h - 30
Unos premios caprichosos
·1h - 31
La cancelación en redes
·1h - 32
El poeta y la gran muralla.
·1h 1m - 33
Centros de Español
·1h - 34
Nihilismo pasivo
·1h - 35
Una Tarde con Ayran Riascos
·1h 1m - 36
Apática indiferencia
·1h 1m - 37
Ansiedad
·1h - 38
Soberbia
·1h - 39
La vergüenza
·1h - 40
Narrativas que inspiran: profesores del CELEE entre la poesía y la palabra
·1h 2m - 41
Una Tarde Con Diego Rodriguez y Diego Alarcon
·1h - 42
Fabio Wasserman: Ecos de soledad y sociedad
·1h - 43
Lectura y cuidado con Laura Castro
·1h - 44
Una tarde con Carmen Alicia Pérez
·1h 1m - 45
Una tarde con Diana Carolina Daza Astudillo
·1h - 46
Michel Foucault
·1h - 47
Una tarde con Jorge Valbuena
·1h 3m - 48
Genios incomprendidos, olvidados y desconocidos
·1h - 49
La mente detrás de David Lynch
·1h 1m - 50
La escritura
·1h - 51
Utopías y distopías
·1h - 52
Desplazamiento Forzado
·1h - 53
Lectura y ocio
·1h - 54
Navidad Colombiana
·1h - 55
Los recuerdos del porvenir
·1h 1m - 56
¡Animales!
·1h 1m - 57
CELEE CULTURAL - EN VIVO
·1h - 58
Día de las Brujas
·1h 1m - 59
Espiritismo
·1h 1m - 60
Lo fantástico y maravilloso
·1h - 61
Día del Maestro
·1h - 62
La Corrupción
·58m - 63
Los Secretos del Agua
·1h - 64
La culpa
·1h - 65
Una tarde con Santiago Erazo y Diego Armando Peña
·1h 1m - 66
Una tarde con Natalia Montejo
·1h 1m - 67
La mujer y la literatura
·1h - 68
Finlandia, cine, letras y música
·1h - 69
Una tarde con Zualy Pinto
·1h - 70
Rarezas
·1h - 71
Creencias y otras fantasías
·1h 2m - 72
Lecturas de Vacaciones
·1h 1m - 73
Celee Cultural
·59m - 74
Ideologías Extremas
·1h - 75
Lo Finito
·1h - 76
El terror
·1h - 77
Política y literatura
·58m - 78
Conciertos
·1h - 79
El destino
·1h - 80
El azar
·1h - 81
El tedio
·1h - 82
Amores difíciles
·59m - 83
El placer
·1h - 84
El tiempo
·1h - 85
CELEE CULTURAL - EN VIVO
·1h - 86
Los cementerios
·1h - 87
Lecturas y lugares
·1h - 88
Lecturas de vacaciones
·1h - 89
Filosofía, literatura y música
·1h - 90
La búsqueda de la verdad
·1h - 91
Perfectos asesinos
·1h - 92
La mano invisible
·59m - 93
Las malas madres
·58m - 94
Vida de perro
·1h - 95
Body Horror, el cuerpo como agente de terror
Hidden gemCoralie Fargeat's 2024 film "The Substance" centers on "fear of aging" and "the use of medical technology".
·1h·2 clips - 96
Cine
Hidden gemCelee Cultural closes the semester with a film list built around soundtracks and classic titles like Requiem for a Dream, The Exorcist, Jaws, Psychosis, Blade Runner, and Rocky III.
·1h·2 clips - 97
Protesta Social
·1h - 98
Rotores: Conversaciones con Ana Gabriela
Hidden gemAna Gabriela explica por qué "rototores" es una metáfora del movimiento y por qué las "cápsulas" están medidas en sílabas y letras.
·1h·2 clips - 99
La muerte de caudillo
Hidden gemLuz Helena links Jorge Eliezer Gaitán to peasant organizations in Sumapaz, Fusagasugá, and Usme.
·1h 1m·2 clips - 100
Rock y letras
Hidden gemSe Lee Cultural, from the Centro de Lectura y Escritura en Español de la Universidad del Rosario, focuses on Alejandro Cortés and Henry's reading of rock, literature, and Colombian cultural history.
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