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Julio López – In defence of joy

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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)

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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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Ángel Ripa – Homeland (Excerpt)

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Ángel Ripa – Cloud service manager. IE University. Reading: Homeland (Patria) (Excerpt) by Fernando Aramburu (1941). He was gone, and he would never be there again. Yet, his presence lingered: his scent on the clothes, his handwriting in the notes he had left around the house, his favorite cup in the kitchen. Death had […]

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José Vela Castillo – The Library of Babel (Excerpt)

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José Vela Castillo – Associate Professor – IE School of Architecture & Design. IE University. Reading: The Library of Babel (La biblioteca de Babel) (Excerpt) by Jorge Luis Borges (1941). The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery […]

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Luisa Eusebio Cartagena – Bread

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Luisa Eusebio Cartagena – Program Assistant – IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. GPA Management and Development. IE University. Reading: Bread (Pan) by Gabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957). Vice of habituation. Wonder of childhood, magical feeling of raw materials and elements: flour, salt, oil, water, fire. Moments of pure vision, pure hearing, pure […]

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Andrés Porras Chaves – This that you see, this brightly-hued pretense

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Andrés Porras Chaves – Adjunct Professor of Humanities. IE University. Reading: This that you see, this brightly-hued pretense (Este que ves, engaño colorido) by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695). A refutation of flatteries perceived as blind error; inscribed by the truth on a portrait of the poet. This that you see, this brightly-hued […]

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Facundo Vázquez – The righteous

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Facundo Vázquez – Associate Finance & Control Manager. IE University. Reading: The righteous (Los Justos) by Jorge Luis Borges (1981). A man who cultivates a garden as Voltaire wanted. The one that is grateful that there is music on earth The one that discovers the pleasure of an etymology Two coffee shop employees in […]

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Ted Lechterman – A Theory of Justice (Excerpt)

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Ted Lechterman – Assistant professor of philosophy. IE University. Reading: A Theory of Justice (Excerpt) by John Rawls (Harvard University Press, 1971). Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws […]

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Irene Blázquez Navarro – Only

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Irene Blázquez Navarro – Director of the Center for the Governance of Change. IE University. Reading: Only (Solamente) by Alejandra Pizarnik from book La última inocencia, 1956. now I understand the truth— it shatters in my desires, in my misfortunes, in my dissonance, in my unrest, in my delirium. now I understand the truth— […]

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