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Débora Barrientos Ortega – The black swallows will return

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Débora Barrientos Ortega – Senior Associate Director – Talent & Careers. IE University. Reading: The black swallows will return (Volverán las oscuras golondrinas) by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 – 1870). The black swallows will return to hang their nests on your balcony, and once again will knock in play against your window panes; but […]

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Enrico Letta – The Betrothed Lovers (excerpt)

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Enrico Letta – Dean – IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. IE University. Reading: The Betrothed Lovers (I Promessi Sposi) (Excerpt) by Alessandro Manzoni (1860 – 1873). In popular tumults there is always a certain number of men who, whether through an overheating of passion, or a fanatical persuasion, or a wicked […]

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Giaccomo Ugarelli – Governing in Times of Crisis (Excerpt)

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Giaccomo Ugarelli – Center for the Governance of Change. IE University . Reading: Governing in Times of Crisis (Gobernar en Tiempos de Crisis) (Excerpt) by Francisco Sagasti, Lucía Málaga y Giaccomo Ugarelli. (2023). During the government I was in charge of leading, we sought to correct this situation, to restore citizens’ Trust and Hope. […]

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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

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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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