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María Capdevielle – I know all the tales

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María Capdevielle – Assistant, IE School of Humanities. IE University . Reading: I know all the tales (Sé todos los cuentos) by León Felipe (1950). I don’t know many things, it’s true. I only say what I have seen. And I have seen: that the cradle of man is rocked with tales, that man’s […]

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Juan Daniel Acuña – Night Without a Homeland

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Juan Daniel Acuña – Juan Daniel Acuña – Project Manager – Just Transition Observatory. IE University . Reading: Night Without a Homeland (Nocturno Sin Patria) by Jorge Debravo (1938 – 1967). I don’t want a knife at the hands of the motherland. Neither a knife nor a rifle for anyone: the land is for […]

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Soledad Mirón Díaz – The impossibility of forgetting

2 weeks ago20614 0

Soledad Mirón Díaz – Business relations manager IT department. IE University . Reading: The impossibility of forgetting (El imposible olvido) by Andrés Mirón from the book Autumn Benalixa (1941 – 2004). You ask me to forget you and what I forget is to do just what you ask me. In the ice of my […]

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Alex Roche Del Fraile – Freedom (Excerpt)

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Alex Roche Del Fraile – Associate Director – Center for the Governance of Change. IE University . Reading: Freedom (La libertad) (Excerpt) by Andrés Calamaro from álbum El Cantante (2004). I think we’re all searching for the same thing We don’t really know what it is, or where it is We hear about the […]

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Isobel White Bidder – No title

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Isobel White Bidder – Associate Director, Master Programs, SPEGA. IE University . Reading: No title by Rupi Kaur from book Home Body (2020). Our souls will not be soothed by what we achieve how we look or all the hard work we do even if we managed to make all the money in the […]

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Gisela Martín Bravo – Necessary People

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Gisela Martín Bravo – Senior Associate Director • Talent & Careers Management. IE University . Reading: Necessary people (Gente necesaria) by Hamlet Lima Quintana (1923-2002). There are people who, just by saying a word, ignite hope and make the rose bushes bloom, who, just by smiling with their eyes, invite us to travel to […]

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Miriam Martín Martín-Blas – Island Beneath the Sea (Excerpt)

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Miriam Martín Martín-Blas – Programs & Operations Assistant – Talent & Careers. IE University . Reading: Island Beneath the Sea (La Isla Bajo el Mar) (Excerpt) by Isabel Allende (2009). Honoré seemed very old to me because his bones had frozen stiff, even though at the time he was no older than I am […]

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Julio López – In defence of joy

3 months ago3278 0

Julio López -Deputy Director – Associate Director, IE Language Center. IE University . Reading: In defence of joy (Defensa de la alegría) by Mario Benedetti (1920-2009). Defend joy as a trench defend it from scandal and routine from misery and miserable from temporary absences and from definitive ones. Defend joy as a principle defend […]

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Beatriz García-Bernalt De la Cruz – Ballad of the Sleepwalker (Excerpt)

4 months ago2714 0

Beatriz García-Bernalt De la Cruz -Deputy Director – Talent & Careers Management. IE University . Reading: Ballad of the Sleepwalker (El romance sonámbulo) (Excerpt) by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. With the shade […]

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Marcelino Lominchar – Francisco de Orellana and the Amazon (Excerpt)

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Marcelino Lominchar -Executive Education – Executive Director of Bootcamps. IE Business School . Reading: Francisco de Orellana and the Amazon (Francisco de Orellana y el Amazonas) (Excerpt) by Marcelino Lominchar. The thing was that you were appointed governor, but you had to take care of everything else yourself—financing, ships, men, weapons, etc. Just as […]

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