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Laura López Paniagua – Loving the Alien

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Laura López Paniagua – Associate Director of Exhibitions, Publications and Events. IE School of Architecture & Design. Reading: Loving the Alien by Laura López Paniagua (2024). The song “Loving the Alien” has a sociological slant, alluding to conflicts between members of different faiths and creeds. The present exhibition takes its title from Bowie, who […]

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Lucia Bonilla – 500 miles

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Lucia Bonilla – Admission Advisor. IE University. Reading: 500 Miles composed by Hedy West (1961). If you miss the train I’m on You will know that I am gone You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles! A hundred miles A hundred miles A hundred miles A hundred miles You can hear the […]

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Suzan Awinat – Humanity

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Suzan Awinat – Robotics & AI lab manager & Physics lab manager IE School of Science and Technology. IE University. Reading: Humanity (الإنسانية) by Suzan Awinat (generated by AI). In the depths of hearts, humanity grows. Like a pure flower blooming in the morning glow. It fills the air with the fragrance of kindness […]

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Almudena Veganzones Vera – The strange days

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Almudena Veganzones Vera – Coordinator at the Provost’s Office for Strategy & Development. IE University. Reading: The strange days (Los días raros) (Excerpt) by Vetusta Morla (2011). Open it, open it slowly. Say what you see. Tell me what you see if there is anything. A spring, brief and fleeting, between your hands. It’s time […]

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Katie Mo Moore – Son of Mine

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Katie Mo Moore – Bachelor in Communication and Digital Media University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. IE University. Reading: Son of Mine by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993). My son, your troubled eyes search mine, puzzled and hurt by colour line. Your black skin soft as velvet shine; What can I tell you, son of mine? […]

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Joaquín Pilorget – A Patio

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Joaquín Pilorget – IE Business School BBA. IE University. Reading: A Patio (Un Patio) by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). At evening they grow weary, the patio’s two or three colours. Tonight, the moon, bright circle, fails to dominate space. Patio, channel of sky. The patio is the slope down which sky flows into the […]

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María José Ferrari – Don Quixote of La Mancha (Excerpt)

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María José Ferrari – PhD Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Humanities Professor IE School of Humanities. Reading: Don Quixote of La Mancha – First part, chapter II – Excerpt (Don Quijote de la Mancha) by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). These preliminaries settled, he did not care to put off any longer the execution of his […]

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Mary O´Brien – Quarantine

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Mary O´Brien – IE Business School Dual Degree in Business Administration & Laws IE. Reading: Quarantine by Eavan Boland (1944 –2020). In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a man set out from the workhouse with his wife. He was walking—they were both walking—north. She was […]

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Spring Ijeoma Odigbo – Answer

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Spring Ijeoma Odigbo – Bachelor in Economics (BIE). School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. IE University. Reading: Answer by Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). I broke at last the terror-fringed fascination that bound my ancient gaze to those crowding faces of plunder and seized my remnant life in a miracle of decision between whitecollar hands and […]

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Virginia Ortega – The Cinema (Excerpt)

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Virginia Ortega – Associate Director – IE Business School | Visual Arts. Reading: The Cinema (Excerpt) by Virginia Woolf (1926). The eye is in difficulties. The eye wants help. The eye says to the brain, ‘Something is happening which I do not in the least understand. You are needed.’ Together they look at the […]

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