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Event 10
Jona Lendering in conversation with Jan W. Bok
Fake News and Soft Persuasion
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IE University. Aula Magna
Everybody seems to like the ancient world, and everybody seems to know things better than archaeologists, philologists, and historians. Ever since the early 1970s, there’s been an avalanche of insufficiently professional publications, and the rise of the internet has enabled the reintroduction of already refuted ideas. Measured by its ability to inform the general public of new insights, the study of the ancient world is a disappointment. Fortunately, there are lessons to be learned about proactive forms of science communication.
Jona Lendering (1964) read history in Leiden and has been writing about archaeology, history, and ancient languages ever since. He published several books and built Livius.org, which was, in the days before the Wikipedia, the largest website on Rome, Greece, Persia, and other civilizations from the distant past. Today, he maintains a daily blog on ancient history, MainzerBeobachter.com.
Jan W. Bok (1970) is a faculty member of the Global College, IE University, Madrid. Before that, he taught Political Philosophy at the Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and World Language and Literature at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy. He is a proud graduate from different academic institutions, including the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (History and Arts, Philosophy) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Political Science) in Paris, France.
Presented by Hannah Schmidt, Cultural Attaché at the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands.
Event in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish
Paul Preston in conversation with María José Ferrari
Challenges of History
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IE University. Aula Magna
Paul Preston is a prominent British historian whose primary work focuses on contemporary Spanish history, particularly the Second Republic and the Civil War. He has written numerous books on this subject, which have achieved high sales, although many of them have been controversial and criticized by other authors. A strong advocate for Europe, he has always lamented the limited support the Spanish Republic received from Western democracies during the Civil War. His last work is The Perfidious Albion: The Contradictory Role of Britain in the Spanish Civil War.
He will discuss his work, as well as the past and present of Europe and Spain, with María José Ferrari, Professor and Director of the Chair of Hispanic Cultures at IE University.
At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of his books
Event in Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and in collaboration with IE School of Humanities and the UK Embassy in Spain
Andrea Marcolongo in conversation with Irene Hernández Velasco
The Europe that remains
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IE University. Sala Capitular
The Paris-based Italian writer Andrea Marcolongo is one of the leading figures in European thought today. A profound connoisseur of ancient Greece and Rome, her works have been characterised by the recovery of classical teachings and knowledge that, even today, can illuminate our present. As a staunch advocate of drawing threads between that period and the present day, there is no one better than her to reflect on Europe today and how it is not only intimately related to these two classical civilisations, but also how it should not forget to return to them to find the answers to its present. Because, as Marcolongo herself states, "everything that is happening now in Europe has already happened".
She will be in conversation with journalist Irene Hernández Velasco. She worked for El Mundo as a correspondent in New York, Rome, London and Paris until 2023, when she joined El Confidencial, where she is head of Culture.
At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of her books
Event in Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and in collaboration with El Confidencial
