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Isaiah Valdez – You who in scattered rhymes hear the sound

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Isaiah Valdez – Program Assistant – IE School of Science and Technology. IE University. Reading: You who in scattered rhymes hear the sound (Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono) by Petrarca (1304 – 1374). You who in scattered rhymes hear the sound of those sighs with which I nourished my heart in my […]

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Dagen Kipling – Floating in the cave of Hypnos

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Dagen Kipling – MBA Operations – Talent & Careers. IE University. Reading: Floating in the cave of Hypnos by Dagen Kipling. Possessed by covetousness haunting my dreams I awake to the whisper of my name upon your breath Baptizing me in gripping possession And yet I can only hear the faint echo of it […]

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Gema Molero – No Title

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Gema Molero – Academic Innovation AM & P. IE University. Reading: No Title (Sin título) by Sergio Sauce from the book Redención (2016). Fear has knocked on my door at three in the morning and it woke me up. I was dreaming of a better world. Amid tobacco mists. Lost. Consumed in my own […]

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Genevieve Galant – Alone

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Genevieve Galant – Program Assistant – IE School of Science and Technology – IE University. Reading: Alone (Si el hombre pudiera decir lo que ama) (Excerpt) by Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014). Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone […]

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Elisa Ruiz Martínez – Si el hombre pudiera decir lo que ama

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Elisa Ruiz Martínez – Associate Director – School of Science & Technology. IE University. Reading: If only one could declare his love (Si el hombre pudiera decir lo que ama) by Luis Cernuda (1902 – 1963). If only one could declare his love, If only he could hoist his love in the sky, Like […]

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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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