About Us
The Academy is born under the sign of the pomegranate, a symbol
of renovation, multiplicity, fecundity and universality, but mainly of
diversity. Its purpose is that of constituting an independent moral authority,
strengthening solidarity among countries and peoples of Latin culture,
and reinforcing the legitimate presence of Latinity’s contributions
– past, present, and future – in all domains of civilization.
It undertakes and develops cultural and scientific actions to meet this
aim, and supports the interchange between all cultures of the world.
Notwithstanding their extreme diversity, Latin peoples can be proud of
a common unita multiplex: the Latinity, which flares
resplendently under multicolor angles and in networks of cultural and
linguistic affinities.
The Academy is also born from the awareness, in several Latin countries,
that it is nowadays essential to communicate to the world the message
of Latin cultural and linguistic diversity. For, from Buenos Ayres to
Bucharest, passing by Bogotá, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris and Rome, we
are surprised by the mutual lack of knowledge about artists, scientists,
scholars, writers and intellectuals nourished in the Latin source: that
of man in his dignity as person and his inalienable freedom as human being.
This is the reason why the Academy, among its main actions, promotes seminars,
publications, scholarships, and expositions.
Thus, the Academy opposes the damages that could arise from the imbalances
introduced by the globalization of the means of communication and interchange,
to the detriment of Latin countries languages, cultures and values.
The Academy supports:
- the necessity of facing the risks of cultural uniformization;
- the valorization of creative capacity, wealth and cultural diversity of Latin peoples within human society;
- the importance of Latin civilization’s contributions to democracy;
- the eminent role of Latinity as memory, source of innovation and anticipation.
From the Far Occident to Buenos Ayres, from the Far Orient to Bucharest,
Goa or Macau, a question remains suspended for all the Latin countries:
what will be the role of Latinity in the globalization era? For
Latinity is a repository of entire memory panels of humanity’s
cultural diversity, which still can bring us something capable of guiding
us in the realm of thought and in everyday life, above all the responsibility
for a GlobaLatinization of respect for human dignity as the basis
of freedom and democracy. Therefore, Latinity is the federative
idea through which all the Latin peoples can associate their projects
of identity and return to their source of culture and civilization.
Given its mission, the Academy of Latinity cannot remain
indifferent to such search for sense and new humanities, in an era that
is already planetary.
Nota bene: Since the sinister September 11, 2001, the Academy
of Latinity has been working, by all intellectual means, in a logic
of trustfulness such as the friendship that grows out from the life of
the spirit and the search for truth, on the dialogue between Latinity
and the Islamic heritage.