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Event 45
David Lindo in conversation with Irene Hernández Velasco
Beauty in Flight
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IE University. Refectorio
British national David Lindo (known as The Urban Birder) is one of the world’s leading experts in ornithology, as well as a writer, television host, guide, and nature educator followed by tens of thousands of people. His great passion is connecting city dwellers with the birds that inhabit the countryside—a fascinating journey characterized by the beauty of the surroundings and a reconnection with nature. This cathartic experience will be discussed in a conversation with the journalist Irene Hernández Velasco.
At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of his books
Event in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
In collaboration with the British Embassy in Spain and El Confidencial
Jacobo García and Sani Ladan in conversation with Erna von der Walde
Regions in Their Own Words
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Biblioteca Municipal Casa de la Lectura
Africa roars, dances, rebels, breathes life; within it beat all the Africas that make up the continent. The same is true of Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, and Haiti. These are places rich in stories, yet too often their histories have been told through outside voices that reduce them to stereotypes and relegate them to the margins. International relations expert Sani Ladan and journalist Jacobo García challenge that narrow perspective through their latest books. El latir de un continente explores ancient civilizations, anti-colonial resistance movements, and ancestral knowledge, placing Africa at the center of its own story. Años luz, winner of the Anagrama Chronicle Prize/Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, revisits some of the defining episodes of recent Latin American history through more than two decades of reporting across the region.
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with Open Society Foundations and in collaboration with Anagrama
José María de Areilza and Fidel Sendagorta in conversation
Europe in the labyrinth of geopolitics
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Torreón de Lozoya (entrada por la calle Grabador Espinoza)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s second term in office have brought an end to a long era in international relations. Europeans need to wake up and adapt to a different, far more adverse reality. The goal of global prosperity, central during the 30 years following the fall of the Berlin Wall, has given way to the imperative of security, understood in national terms and as an expansive concept.
Two leading analysts with first-hand experience of the international relations landscape, José María de Areilza and Fidel Sendagorta, will discuss Europe’s place in a world of rivalries for which it is unprepared, and the steps it must take to achieve strategic autonomy, strengthen alliances and defend its interests and values.
At the end of the event, the author will be signing copies of their books
Event in Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with Fundación Banco Sabadell and in collaboration with the Torreón de Lozoya Foundation of the Caja Segovia Foundation
Manuel Jabois in conversation with Miguel Barreiro
Family as a Crossroads
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IE University. Aula Magna
If human relationships are complex in themselves, those within the family can become labyrinths that are difficult to navigate due to the enormous weight of emotions, joys, pain, beauty and confusion they contain. Manuel Jabois, a leading voice in Spanish literature and opinion journalism, explores in La vìspera the first social institution: the family. And just as from the deepest love, red lines are sometimes crossed under a naive pretence: if things happened sometimes, they were sorted out, as in all families. Jabois is able to raise doubts through the harsh reality of things.
After 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
Rodrigo Cortés in conversation with Jesús García Calero
'Daughter of Heaven', a beauty on the edge of the untamed
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IE University. Refectorio
The acclaimed writer and filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés has just published ‘Hija del cielo’ (Daughter of Heaven) (Literatura Random House), a dazzling novel featuring a girl who may be possessed, since the Handsome Man dwells within her. In conversation with journalist Jesús García Calero, they will discuss the origin of the book’s two voices — that of the narrator, and the girl’s dislocated, wild, tumultuous tongue, capable of recounting horror with an almost comic naturalness. The blend of tradition and popular culture that come together in the ever-unsettling beauty language grants us. And the mystical literature and sacred-terror wit with which Cortés establishes himself, with this book, as one of the freest and most genuine writers on the current Spanish scene. The author of ‘Los años extraordinarios’ (The Extraordinary Years) and ‘Cuentos telúricos’ (Telluric Tales) this time brings to life Gabaón, the village where the girl lives locked in a room, rising on a cliff facing the sea, functioning as school, orphanage, and monastery, home to sixty-one busy, purposeful nuns, along with three indolent priests led by the gaunt Father Alén, with his voice like a cheese grater.
At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of his books
A small town which went on to become the capital of the greatest empire of Antiquity, and the cradle of one of the most influential civilisations in history: Rome, the Eternal City. From its mythical foundation to the empire’s twilight years, through the era of the great Caesars, amidst glory, intrigue, assassinations, battles… and a few legendary scandals. The passion comes from the professor, writer and Latin scholar Emilio del Río, who speaks of classical Rome —where beauty is central rather than merely decorative— as if he were living there. His latest book, A Brief History of Ancient Rome, is a fine example of this, as will be seen in the conversation with the writer and journalist Carlos Aganzo.
At the end of the event, the author will be signing copies of his books
Pablo d’Ors in conversation with Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente
Inner Beauty
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IE University. Aula Magna
The priest, philosopher and theologian Pablo d’Ors believes that spirituality and meditation are spaces that fulfil us, allowing us to grasp the meaning of things, so that our gaze can escape the pressures of daily life and everything takes on a new beauty. This process is not a matter of conscious reflection; one simply has to let oneself be drawn into one’s inner self. D’Ors, founder of the Friends of the Desert meditation network, combines his pastoral work as a priest with a prolific literary output of spiritual content, with titles such as Biografía del silencio, that have had a huge international impact. In conversation with Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente.
The event will be presented by Sonia Mulero Monroy, General director of Fundación Banco Sabadell.
At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of his books
Event in Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with the Fundación Amigos del Desierto
