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Mzeona Kakhniashvili – Sun of haying-month

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Mzeona Kakhniashvili – Master in Management & Strategy – Program Assistant. IE Business School. Reading: Sun of haying-month (mzeo tibatvisa) by Galakt’ion T’abidze (1892 – 1959). Sun of haying-month, sun of haying-month, I kneel deep in prayer, like a grail knight here. That one whom I loved deeply, with great love, Shelter in your […]

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Lydia Arteta – You and me

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Lydia Arteta – Associate Director, Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: You and me (Tí e máis eu) by Celso Emilio Ferreiro (1912-1979). Let’s talk about you and me since we live. You and I in the winds and in the solstices. You and I in the forests and in the rivers. You and […]

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Lee Newman – Tao Te Ching (passage 2)

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Lee Newman – Dean. IE Business School. Reading: Tao Te Ching (passage 2) by Lao Tse (6th century BC – 5th century BC). #2 When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy […]

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Stefano Ugarelli – The little prince (Excertp)

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Stefano Ugarelli – Associate Director at Talent & Careers. IE University. Reading: The little prince – Le petit prince (Excertp) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943). Such power was a thing for the little prince to marvel at. If he had been master of such complete authority, he would have been able to watch the sunset, […]

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Darío García de Viedma Ferreras – Poem with no titlle

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Darío García de Viedma Ferreras – Associate Director Center for the Governance of Change. IE University. Reading: Poem with no title by Audrey Tang . When we see “internet of things,” let’s make it an internet of beings. When we see “virtual reality,” let’s make it a shared reality. When we see “machine learning,” let’s […]

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Cristina Elena Gil – Follow your heart (Excerpt)

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Cristina Elena Gil – Program Coordinator-Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: Follow your heart (Dove ti porta il cuore) – (Excerpt) by Susanna Tamaro (1994). Childhood and old age are similar. In both cases, for different reasons, one is rather helpless, one is not yet — or no longer — a participant in […]

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Catarina Pais – Death at intervals (Excerpt)

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Catarina Pais – Assistant, Dean’s Office. IE School of Architecture & Design. Reading: Death at intervals (As intermitências da morte) – (Excerpt) by José Saramago (2005). She wrote and wrote, the hours passed, and she kept writing, there were letters, there were envelopes, and there was the folding, and the sealing, you might wonder […]

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Julia López García – Socrates and Alcibiades

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Julia López García – Master’s student in philosophy – Graduate in Global Studies & Humanities. Pompeu Fabra University. Reading: Socrates and Alcibiades (Sokrates und Alcibiades) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843). Why,holy Socrates, do you always pay homage To this young man? Are not greater things known to you? Why do you look upon him with […]

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Irene Yagüe Sancho – A Walk Through the Life of Simone de Beauvoir

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Irene Yagüe Sancho – Associate Director – IE Center for Health & Well-being. IE Business School. Reading: A Walk Through the Life of Simone de Beauvoir (Un paseo por la vida de Simone de Beauvoir) – Excerpt by Carmen G. de la Cueva (2018). She had an abominable kind of presumptuous independence, a rural people’s […]

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Rubén Montoya – Pompeii. A Roman city in 100 objects (Excerpt)

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Rubén Montoya – Adjunct Professor in Humanities. IE University. Reading: Pompeii. A Roman city in 100 objects (Excerpt) by Rubén Montoya (2024). Over the course of the night, my passion for archaeology, forged over the years between ruins and books, had awakened in me a thousand questions that hoped to find answers in Pompeii. […]

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