Outreach

We are very excited to announce that we have officially launched the Language Center: Extracurricular Agenda!

Goretti González, professor at the IE Arts & Humanities Division, has given today an inmersive VR masterclass at this year’s edition of the Hay Festival Segovia.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division would like to congratulate the winners of the 2023 edition of the IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities.

The IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities are held each year to celebrate the best written and audio-visual works created by students, alumni, faculty, and staff that form part of the IE Community.

The article, that was published yesterday at La Razón, reflects upon Prigozhin’s recent mutiny, and gives interesting insight about Russia’s history of failed insurrections and riots.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division, alongside the IE Foundation and IE’s Talent Management Team, had the pleasure of hosting a guided visit for IE Staff & Faculty to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

IE University will launch 2 new Bachelor programs in September 2024:  the Bachelor in Humanities and the Dual Degree in Business Administration and Humanities.

Last night a few of our students & staff got to attend the Concert by Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, winner of the First Prize at the XX International Piano Contest of Santander. Izik-Dzurko played the works of Schubert, Medtner, Scriabin, Fábregas and Schumann. It took place in the wonderful Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.

During IE Arts & Humanities Week celebrated this April,  the Arts & Humanities Division hosted a discussion on responsible innovation and generative AI with IE Professor Ted Lechterman and Oliver Smith, Strategy Adviser and Applied Ethicist.

This week, the IE Arts & Humanities Division participated in IE Talent & Career´s shadowing program, created with the aim of giving students an opportunity to learn hands-on the operations of departments in  a large company and learn more about the processes behind their IE University experience.

Last month, IE students attended the dance show ¨Swan¨ by Mar Aguiló at Teatros del Canal in Madrid as part of the IE Arts & Humanities Division´s extensive extracurricular offer for the IE community.

Catalina Tejero, Vice Dean of the IE Arts & Humanities Division participated as a keynote speaker during the Ópera Latinoamérica Annual Conference held in the city of Manaus, Brazil between May 17th and 21st.

During IE University´s week dedicated to examining the intersection between arts, humanities and technology this April, Keely Eisele of the IE Arts & Humanities Division sat down with Laura Vázquez, Head of Piano at Yamaha Music Iberia and Jorge Castañeda, Pianist for Yamaha Music Iberia, to discuss the future of music from the perspective of a leading business in the music industry as well as a musician.

Last week, the IE Arts & Humanities Division and IE Language Center participated in the European Universities Initiative exchange program by hosting Giulia Rivieri of the Centre for Academic Literacies and Languages at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) at our IE campuses.

Thanks to the support of the IE Foundation, IE University is proud to form a part of the 4th edition of the MMMAD (Madrid´s Urban Digital Arts Festival), which transforms Madrid into the international capital of digital art and new media through the month of May.

On Tuesday of IE Arts & Humanities Week, the Arts & Humanities Division hosted a guided visit to the Fundación Ortega-Marañón in Madrid.

On Monday, April 26th, the IE Arts & Humanities Division, with the support of the IE Foundation and IE Campus Life, inaugurated the week with a panel at the IE Tower featuring Catalina Tejero, Vice Dean of the IE Arts & Humanities Division in conversation with Feileacan McCormick, artist and co-founder of Entangled Others Studio, Enrique Agudo, New Media Artist, as well as Diego Iglesias, co-founder of the MMMAD Madrid´s Urban Digital Arts Festival. 

On Thursday, April 20th, the IE Art & Humanities Division in collaboration with IE Editorial and the Center for Diversity in Global Management held a celebration in honor of World Book Day at the IE Tower. 

On April 14th, Pushkin House in London hosted the official launch of the book ¨Medieval Rus´ and Early Modern Russia. Texts and Contexts. Essays in Honour of Simon C. Franklin¨ published by Routledge and co-edited by Susana Torres Prieto of the IE University Arts & Humanities Division and Andrei Franklin.

Yesterday, the Arts & Humanities Division together with the IE Foundation hosted a guided visit to the exhibition ¨Metamorfosis del ser¨ at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

Today, the IE Arts & Humanities Division celebrated UNESCO World Art Day (April 16th) as well as the Year of Sorolla, 100 years since the renowned Spanish painter´s death, in good company with the IE Talent Management department at the Museo Sorolla in Madrid.

Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, Assistant Professor of History at the IE & Humanities Division, was recently published in Inside Higher Ed with his article ¨The Case for Luddism Against ChatGPT¨ in which he explores how the resistance of AI technology can help to retain autonomy as educators.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division along with the IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs recently hosted a guided tour in the Prado Museum with art historian and painting conservator Sirga de la Pisa.

This month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division in collaboration with IE Campus Life, IE Women & Allies, the student-led IE Photo Club, and the IE Creativity Center collaborated on a photography contest in celebration of International Women´s Day.

Last week, the IE Language Center collaborated with the Goethe Institut of Madrid on an escape room activity for German language students.

It is always a pleasure to see our IE alumni continuing their passion for the arts an humanities in their personal and professional lives beyond IE. 

Ana Barrenechea is an alumni of the Dual Degree in Business Administration and International Relations, who now pursues her passion for contemporary art by supporting the Aurora Vigil-Escalera Gallery in parallel to her work at the EU.

Meet Patrick de Oliveira, Assistant Professor of  History who joined our faculty earlier this year.

Last week, as a part of IE University´s 100 Days of Diversity:  The Beauty in the Blend initiative, the Arts & Humanities Division in collaboration with IE Editoriol and IE Women & Allies hosted a conversation on Feminism and Literature featuring renowned Egyptian author Reem Bassiouney and Celia de Anca, Deputy Dean for Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion.

Last week, Carlos Urroz, former director of ARCOmadrid and TBA21 and founding director of Urroz Proyectos, visited IE University for a talk on careers and entrepreneurship in the art world.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division was glad to organize a guided visit for the IE community with Professor Iciar Sánchez-Mangas to the ARCOmadrid contemporary art fair last month.

Last month, students of the course Essentials of Classical Music attended the ¨Sinfónico VII¨ concert by ORCAM at the National Auditorium in Madrid.

Recently, the IE Arts & Humanities Division supported the IE Arts & Business Club and IE Photo Club with a guided visit to the photography exhibition EXPANDED VISIONS. PHOTOGRAPHY AND EXPERIMENTATION at CaixaForum in Madrid.

Earlier this month, several lucky IE community members experienced the Madrid premiere of the dance show ¨La Leona¨ by Olga Pericet

Yesterday, the IE Arts & Humanities Division welcomed María Beguiristain Barrientos, Director of Art & Exhibitions at Fundación Banco Santander and Elisa Hernando Calero, Founder and CEO of Arte Global and Redcollectors.com to the IE Tower.

Last week, the IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted a visit to the Banco de España Collection. 

With a range of categories for submission in Poetry, Short Story, and Short Essay (in English & Spanish), Photography, Video, and a newly launched category for this 2023 edition:  Digital Art, there is a space for everyone to express themselves creatively.

Earlier this month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division and IE Business School had the pleasure of receiving renowned pianist Juan Peréz Floristán to the IE Tower for a performance.

Professor Goretti Gonzalez recently welcomed guest speaker Ana Garriga to the IE Tower.

Last weekend, thanks to the support of the IE Arts & Humanities Division, several lucky IE community members attended a concert by celloist Iagoba Fanlo in a historic setting at the Iglesia de San Nicolás in Segovia.

Yesterday, the IE Arts & Humanities Division was delighted to welcome Alexandra Schader, Senior Director of Modern & Contemporary Art at Sotheby´s Spain, and art collector Edwin Safa, to the IE Tower for a panel discussion on the Contemporary Art market with Professor Sofia Urbina.  

The IE Arts & Humanities Division recently partnered with the IE Honours Program, a specialized program offered to bachelor students ranking in the top 5% of their class.

This week, the IE Arts & Humanities Division, in collaboration with the IE Law School, hosted a thematic visit on Strategy and the Prado Museum as a part of the PPLE Philosophy Series.

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted another Music Wednesday event, featuring a commented concert by pianist Dario Meta.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division and the IE Sustainability Office had the pleasure to visit the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza last month for a guided tour of the exhibition ¨The Third Pole¨ presented by the TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division, in collaboration with the student-led IE Arts & Business Club, organized a walking tour of several contemporary art galleries in Madrid led by professor Claudia Rodríguez-Ponga.

With the support of the IE Arts & Humanities Division and IE Campus Life, IE University community members were able to enjoy the SegoJazz 2022 festival.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division offered IE community members the opportunity to see the Ballet Nacional de España perform in the ballet ¨El Loco¨ by artistic director Rubén Olmo at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid last month.  

The IE Foundation and IE Arts & Humanities Division would like to wish our IE community a happy holiday season ahead and encourage you to use this winter break ahead as a time of reflection and creativity to produce and submit works.  

This month, IE community members had the opportunity to attend a holiday benefit concert in support of the Fundación Padre Arrupe at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid as part of the Arts & Humanities Division´s extracurricular agenda. 

The IE Arts & Humanities Division seeks to fill two tenure track faculty member positions at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in the Fall of 2023.

Last month, IE community members attended the performance ¨Dans la mesure de l´impossible¨ by Portuguese director and playwright Tiago Rodrigues at Teatros del Canal in Madrid.

Meet Ted Lechterman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the IE Arts & Humanities Division.  

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division organized a visit to the exhibition “Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the dematerialization of sculpture” at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid.

Yesterday, the IE Arts & Humanities Division closed the conference cycle ¨Discursos alternativos.  Rock, punk y teatro en México y España¨ held at the Casa de México with the support of the IE Foundation.  

Last month, the student-led IE Intellectual Property Club hosted the event ¨ARTificial Intelligence:  The Future of Human Creativity¨ with the support of the IE Arts & Humanities Division and IE Campus Life.  

Throughout this semester, IE community members took part in a Creative Writing Workshop series with writers Jacobo Bergareche and Santiago Isla.  

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division offered guided tours of the Picasso-Chanel exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.

Last month, the IE Editorial department, with the collaboration of the IE Arts & Humanities Division, celebrated the launch of Javier Fernández Aguado´s book, ¨El encuentro de cuatro imperios: el management de españoles, aztecas, incas y mayas¨ at the IE Tower.

Ángel Saenz de Cenzano, professor of the Critical Thinking course in the TechMBA program and LinkedIn Country Manager for Spain & Portugal and Javier García Pagán, General Director of Área News at Unidad Editorial and former Country Manager of Twitter Spain sat down with students this past November 17th to discuss how they envision the future of business in the generations to come.

This month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted Pleneros del Exilio, an Afro-Carribean music group based in Spain, for a special edition of Music Wednesday at the IE Tower.  

Representatives of the Segovia City Council´s Department of Culture visited the Campus of Santa Cruz la Real today for a coordination meeting regarding the cultural agenda of the city of Segovia.

The Botín Foundation, IE University and Yale University today explored the importance of humanities, art and emotions to boost creativity at a conference in the northern port city of Santander, where they presented “Arts, Emotions and Creativity” a report by the Botín Foundation and Yale University.

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division, with the collaboration of the IE Photo Club and the support of the IE Foundation, hosted a series of photography workshops at the Segovia campus and the IE Tower.  

Since October, the IE Arts & Humanities Division offers IE community members the opportunity to experience live Jazz on Friday evenings as part of the ´Jazz Círculo´ agenda at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, an emblematic institution in the center of Madrid.

IE University students will discover artistic gems from the Museo del Prado collection thanks to the lecture series ‘Beyond the Museo del Prado: creativity, innovation and hidden treasures in the collection’ organized by the Friends of the Museo del Prado Foundation, the IE Foundation and IE University’s Arts and Humanities Division. 

Last month, a group of IE University undergraduate students participated in the program La universidad a escena at the Teatro Real in Madrid.  Students experienced firsthand how one of the most prestigious theatres in Europe is managed and also attend the preview of Aida, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.  

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division provided IE community members with the opportunity to see the Spanish theater production ¨El Misántropo de Menandro¨ at Teatro Fernán Gómez in Madrid.

The digital transformation has seen museums showcasing their collections online, but can 2D screens replace 3D spaces?

Last month, IE University students from 140 countries took part in IE Sustainability Week.  The protection of the planet, the promotion of projects that promote the circular economy and social volunteering were the focus on IE University campuses through October 29.

Last week, Sophie Neuendorf, Vice President at artnet visited IE University to give a masterclass on data-driven decision-making, the online art market, NFTs, and contemporary issues in art.

María F. Macías Rubio, Director and Founder of ARTIZENSE, a communication consultancy specializing in art and culture, visited the IE Tower in Madrid recently to give a masterclass on marketing and communication in the art and culture industry. 

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division with the support of the IE Foundation launched the conference cycle ¨Discursos alternativos.  Rock, punk y teatro en México y España¨ with the Fundación Casa de México en España.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division has launched the IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities Workshop Series, which encourages the IE community to unlock their creativity and submit work to the IE Foundation Prizes in Humanities.

Last weekend, the IE Arts & Humanities Division offered the IE community tickets to the contemporary dance show ¨Pharsalia¨ by Antonio Ruz at Teatros del Canal in Madrid.  

Last week, the IE Arts & Humanities Division, in partnership with the IE Law School launched the 2022-2023 PPLE Philosophy Series.

IE University professors were acknowledged with a piece of music written by the composer Uge Pañeda, OKKRE.

The IE community had the opportunity to visit another edition of Estampa Contemporary Art Fair.

The latest episode of the Blue Talks is out, the fourth installation in the joint initiative organized by IE University and LinkedIn. This episode is an inspirational conversation about connection with Kate Daudy, Visual Artist, Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov, Physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and Diego del Alcázar Benjumea, CEO at IE University.

Elisa Hernando, Founder and CEO of art advisory companies Arte Global and RedCollectors, visited the IE Tower as a guest of the IE Arts & Humanities Division.

Last week, the IE community enjoyed a screening of the opera ¨Così fan tutte¨, a production by the Teatro Real in Madrid.  Catalina Tejero, Vice Dean of the Arts & Humanities Division, introduced this third edition of IE´s opera screening series, held in collaboration with the Fundación Amigos del Teatro Real. 

Gregorio Cámara Castellanos, Artistic Director at Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid, visited IE University yesterday to speak in the IE Arts & Humanities Division elective course ¨Art:  A Business and Social Perspective¨ taught by Vice Dean of the Arts & Humanities Division, Catalina Tejero. 

Today, the IE Arts & Humanities Division launched the IE French Film Festival in collaboration with the Alliance Française of Madrid.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division awarded prizes during yesterday´s IE Day festivities organized by Campus Life.  

Yesterday, a group of IE students and alumni toured the Palacio de Liria in Madrid.  

Yesterday, new media artist Enrique Agudo paid a visit to the IE Arts & Humanities Division elective course Contemporary Issues through Art taught by Claudia Rodríguez-Ponga for a discussion on queer theory.  

Last week, IE University students experienced a guided tour by filmmaker and speculative architect Liam Young through his exhibition Liam Young.  Worldbuilding at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid.  

IE University has once again shown its commitment to the arts and humanities at the award ceremony today for the IE Foundation’s 2022 Prizes in the Humanities. The seventh edition of the event took place at IE Tower, the institution’s technological and sustainable campus in Madrid, where students from 140 countries attend classes.

Today, IE community members visited the Galería Orfila in Madrid for a guided tour with artist Juan Pita through his exhibition ¨Digiart.¨

Last week, back-to-school reunions between IE University students, faculty and staff took place in the IE Tower lobby with musical accompaniment from the new Yamaha grand piano that will be permanently located in the IE Tower Piano Lounge.

Yesterday evening, Hay Festival Segovia 2022, filmmaker and speculative architect Liam Young gave a performative talk using Artificial Intelligence in conversation with researcher Piera Riccio.

Last week, IE community members were able to experience an incredible dance show Generaciones by the National Ballet of Spain at Teatros del Canal in Madrid.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division is pleased to share an article regarding the reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England, published in The Conversation by Julián Montaño, Vice Dean of Academic Innovation & adjunct professor.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division would like to congratulate New Media Artist Enrique Agudo on his recent feature in Forbes Spain´s 100 Most Creative People in Business list. 

Manuel Muñiz, Provost of IE University, has announced the appointments of Mª José Ferrari and Catalina Tejero as new Vice Deans at IE University Arts & Humanities Division, the cross-cutting platform that reinforces the humanistic component in the curriculum of the academic institution’s programs and enriches the student experience.

Join the IE Foundation, together with the IE Arts & Humanities Division, for an exciting program at the Hay Festival Segovia. Events will take place on the IE University campus & beyond from September 14th-18th. The four day Festival will promote dialogues and exchange of ideas to rethink the world, with the participation of authors and artists among others.

Theodore “Ted” Lechterman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, having just joined IE from the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. His research addresses questions in applied ethics through the lens of political philosophy.

Following the METAMYTHS panel earlier this month, New Media Artist Enrique Agudo and Brendan Cormier, Senior Design Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, discussed the importance of storytelling and worldbuilding through art. 

The IE University Archaeology Unit presents the 18th volume of the scientific journal Oppidum.

New media artist and IE alumni Enrique Agudo´s digital artwork has been featured in an article by Alexandra Muñoz in Architectural Digest.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division would like to extend our congratulations to the winners of the 2022 edition of the IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities.

This month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division, in collaboration with IE Campus Life and thanks to the support of the IE Foundation, launched a student-led photography exhibition in the IE Tower.  Award-winning student photos featuring the IE campuses are now on display on the 25th floor.  

Last week, Miguel Larrañaga Zulueta, Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Head of the IE Antiquity & Middle Ages Research Centre, sat down with Trinidad Nogales, Director of the National Museum of Roman Art (Mérida) for a conversation on museums and digitalization. 

Last night, a few lucky IE community members had the opportunity to experience the ballet in a beautiful setting at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. 

Last month, the IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted a panel ¨The present and future of cryptoart¨ with the Fundación Casa de México in Spain and the IE Foundation.  

The IE Arts & Humanities is proud to present METAMYTHS, a discussion on the future of Arts, Fashion and Technology. Three international leading personalities debate on how the main cultural trends are transforming 21st-century society.

On Wednesday, the IE Arts & Humanities Division offered tickets to María Pagés ¨De Sheherazade¨ at Teatros del Canal in Madrid.

This week, the IE Arts & Humanities Division teamed up with the IE Gender Equality Office for a special guided visit at the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division is pleased to present an article by Pepa Hernández, Stage Manager at the Teatro Real, published today by IE Insights.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division, IE Editorial, IE Sustainability Office, IE Center for Health, Well-being and Happiness, and IE Campus Life held the 1st IE Forest Bathing and Creative Writing Workshop.

The IE Arts and Humanities Division, the IE Foundation and IE Talent Department hosted an exclusive guided visit to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum last week. 

The IE Arts & Humanities Division is proud to announce the recent appointment of professor Manuel Lucena Giraldo as Director of the Cátedra del Español y la Hispanidad de las Universidades de Madrid.

Yesterday, the IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted a very special edition of Music Wednesday and an end-of-term gathering.

Laura Vázquez, pianist and Head of Piano at Yamaha Music Iberia gave a demonstration of the Bösendorfer Disklavier grand piano located in the IE Tower Piano Lounge.

Yesterday, the IE Arts & Humanities Division and the IE Foundation travelled to the city of Arévalo for a visit to Collegium.

IE students had the opportunity to visit contemporary art exhibition A Bridge to Stay On featuring artist Guillermo Mora´s colorful sculptures and installations.

At this week´s Music Wednesday, we inaugurated the new ¨Piano Lounge¨ space in the IE Tower, located on level -4.  This space is supported by the IE Foundation, IE Talent, IE Campus Life and the IE Arts & Humanities Division.  

Oppidum is an annual journal published by IE University (Archaeology Unit) which includes the scientific studies on the subjects included in its own syllabus (Heritage Science and Humanities).

As the 21-22 academic year comes to a close, Visiting Professor Goretti González reflects on how students benefit from the arts & humanities at IE.

Yesterday, a few IE University students attended the contemporary dance show “Asylum” by Rami Be’er/Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company at Teatros del Canal

In an article published in IE Insights on May 3rd, 2022, Miguel Larrañaga explores if we can use ideas of emotional control put forward by Stoicism to help achieve happiness in our lives.  

Happy International Dance Day from the IE Arts & Humanities Division!  

The IE Arts & Humanities Division was happy to collaborate on unique cultural activities during the APSIA Annual Deans Meeting hosted by the IE School of Global and Public Affairs last week.

ast week, IE Archaeology professors Olivia Reyes and Pablo Arribas offered students a conference and workshop on Prehistoric and Ancient mural painting at the Segovia campus.

This month, the Arts & Humanities Division provided an upcycling workshop series with contemporary textile artist Irene Infantes in collaboration with the IE Fashion Club and IE Campus Life.  

This week, the IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary, La Flota de Indias (The West Indies Fleet).

We are proud to present the winners of the Unveil IE Photography Contest, organized by the student-led IE Photo Club, IE Campus Life and the IE Arts & Humanities Division!

IE University students participated in a Smartphone Photography workshop with renowned photographer Lisbeth Salas.

Yesterday, the Humanities transversal elective course Understanding Latin America enjoyed a performance by Brazilian musicians.

Last week, IE community members had the opportunity to attend the spectacular contemporary dance show OCD Love by L-E-V Dance Company  at the Centro de cultura contemporánea Conde Duque in Madrid.

Last week, the IE University Arts & Humanities Division and IE Law School held a seminar as part of the PPLE (Philosophy, Politics, Law and Economics) Philosophy Series.

The Convent of Santa Cruz la Real was built in 1218 and has been home to a monastery, a prison, an orphanage, a hospice, and most recently, the IE University Segovia Campus. Learn more about the rich history behind this campus which is based in the city of Segovia, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

IE Day is an event celebrated annually with IE Campus Life to take pride in being part of the IE community and enjoy the IE spirit and values, including the arts and humanities.

This week, Professor Miguel Larrañaga brought students of the Humanities course in Archaeology to the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid, extending their education beyond the classroom.

The Arts & Humanities Division participated in IE Creativity Day: Mind the Balance last week at the IE Creativity Center in Segovia.

IE students approach their studies and careers with a humanistic mindset, prepared to take on this fast-changing and uncertain age of technology, globalization, and misinformation.

On Sunday, IE University students had the opportunity to attend the preview of The Fiery Angel by Prokofiev at the Teatro Real in Madrid. 

Thanks to the support of the IE Foundation, the Arts & Humanities Division organized a custom tour on ¨Law & Justice in Art¨ at the Museo Nacional del Prado for the Law Schools Global League Conference hosted by the IE Law School last week.

Last night, IE community members attended the play El método Grönholm at the Teatro Cofidis Alcázar as a part of the From the Page to the Stage workshop series led by the play´s director, Tamzin Townsend.

Yesterday, the Arts & Humanities Division offered a thematic tour called ¨Life´s Pleasures¨ at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza as a part of IE Happiness Week with the IE Center for Health, Well-Being & Happiness.

Today, Professor David Mejía gave a seminar on ¨Woke Capitalism¨ for the second installment of the Economics-Humanities Talks hosted with IE School of Global and Public Affairs.

Last night, students of the Humanities elective course Essentials of Classical Music and a few lucky IE community members enjoyed another IX Ciclo Sinfónico series concert with Fundación ORCAM at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.

The Arts & Humanities Division was proud to present the awards during the IE Women in Business Conference earlier this week.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division and the IE School of Global and Public Affairs launched the new Economics-Humanities Talks series.  

The Arts & Humanities Division held the second installment of our masterclass & opera screening series with the Fundación Amigos del Teatro Real. 

Today, March 8th, we celebrate International Women´s Day.  At IE University, we believe the arts & humanities are important and necessary to celebrate women´s achievements and to reflect upon challenges that exist in search of gender equality.  

The IE Arts & Humanities Division and IE Law School held the second session of the PPLE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) Philosophy Series.  

The Arts & Humanities Division was happy to support the IE Fashion Club´s outing to CaixaForum in Madrid yesterday.  

How will the arts & humanities at IE enhance your degree of studies and influence your personal & professional life? We´ll let Covadonga Romero, 4th year Bachelor in International Relations student and President of the IE Arts & Business Club tell you herself.

Guest speaker Yang-May Ooi virtually visited the IE University Humanities elective course Feminism, Business and Literature.

IE community members had the opportunity to visit contemporary art fairs:  ARCO, UVNT Art Fair, and JUSTMAD 2022.

Last week, the Humanities course in Archaeology stepped outside the classroom for a fun morning of hands-on learning. 

The IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted a webinar in collaboration with ARCOmadrid, Arte Global & Fundación Banco Santander. 

Join us for a concert organized by Fundación Don Juan de Borbón, who in 1996 created the “Escolanía de Segovia”, a group open to all children of the city of Segovia and focused on training in the field of choral music. The concert will be held in the Segovia Cathedral. 

Visit to Juan Ferrete’s exhibition Entre luces y sombras which will be guided by the artist himself and Sara Zaldivar of the Huntress of Art.

Inauguration of ¨Art in the Corridors¨ project at María de Molina campus

Join the inauguration of an exhibition of winning IE photography in the corridors of the Maria de Molina Campus.  

Bogdan Roščić, Director of the Vienna State Opera will join us virtually for a conversation with Catalina Tejero, Associate Head of the IE Arts & Humanities Division.

Following this conversation, we will begin the screening of La Traviata, directly in the IE Tower Auditorium!

IE Arts & Humanities Division, in collaboration with the IE Dance Club, had the opportunity to see this unique contemporary dance show, «OPENING NIGHT» by the prestigious La Veronal Dance Company at Conde Duque Teatro.

A discussion led by Professor Miguel Larrañaga on Lessons in Stoicism: What ancient philosophers teach us about how to live, an open debate on a book by John Sellars.

The director of “El Método Grönholm” will kick of her four-session workshop From the Page to the Stage for the IE Community.

Arts & Humanities Week kicked off with the inauguration of IExhibition Gallery Space and a discussion led by the IE Arts & Business Club on collectionism with Pia Rubio (Art Advisor) and Inés Sagardoy (Founders of the Young Investors Club of Madrid). Maribel Lopez, Director of ARCO, also joined us to introduce the week and speak about the importance of the arts.

The institution organizes concerts, masterclasses, exhibitions and workshops this week to reinforce the presence of art, music, dance, literature and other humanities disciplines to enrich the experience of students from 140 countries.

A joint initiative brought to you by the Arts & Humanities Division, Campus Life, IE Foundation and IE’s Talent Department!

Last week the IEU 2021-2022 Course of Archaeology and some members of the IEU Archaeology Club visited the archaeological site of Tiermes (Soria) as part of the “Humanities-Archaeology” class.

During the day, we were able to verify on-site the way of living in a Roman city, how Romans organized their urban spaces or their adaption to the territory.

The visit was completed with the attendance to its archaeological Museum, to know more about the material culture of Termestinean society.

The IE Community visits Kidlat Tahimik’s solo, site-specific show at Palacio de Cristal: “Magellan, Marilyn, Mickey & Fr. Dámaso. 500 Years of Conquistador RockStars”

Yesterday, students of the course ¨Women Leaders in Art and History: From Cleopatra to Today¨ listened to guest speaker David Mejía discuss Masculinities and the Alpha Male discourse.

Last night, a group of IE students attended the VI Ciclo Sinfónico classical music concert at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division would like to congratulate newly appointed Visiting Professor, Dr. Goretti González! Discover her background

Six students from IE University have been awarded grants from the IE University Arts and Humanities Division to participate in an Art History course offered by Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado. This course, entitled ‘Renacimiento y Barroco’ offers an extensive study, from The School of Fontainebleau to Johannes Vermeer, to revisit the richness and diversity of the Renaissance and Baroque styles.

(Photo Credit: Anika Robinson, Winner of the 2021 Call for Photos)

Co-hosted with the IE Gender Equality Office and sponsored by Casa del Libro.

The topic of this third call for photos will explore the role of women in preserving and developing the environment in urban areas.

The exhibition Cotton Under My Feet is the result of three years of creative travels by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad, culminating in a series of performances which reveal the complex art-historical hypotheses that articulate this project.

IE Insights, in collaboration with the IE Arts & Humanities Division, published the article, ¨NFT:  The Wrong Questions¨ by Héctor San José.

“Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else” is the first retrospective of Ad Reinhardt (b. 1913, Buffalo, New York; d. 1967, New York) in Spain, and one of the most comprehensive presentations in Europe. Regarded as a precursor of Minimalism and Conceptual Art, his works and writings were a key influence on some of the major figures associated with these movements.

The MORBORIA Theatre Company represents this master piece by French playwright Jean Batiste Poquelin, famously known as Molière. This year 2022 is the fourth centenary of the author’s birth (1622). The representation took place at the Fernán Gomez Theatre and we had the privilege of making the opening night, which turned into a commemorative occasion for the company.

Marta Garcia Aller, Associate Teacher of the IE School of Human Sciences and Technology, visited the Humanities Module to speak about journalism and freedom in the context of the course “Free Speech and Dangerous Ideas”, imparted by Professor María José Ferrari.

IE University’s Arts and Humanities Division seeks a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor.

Successful candidates will hold a PhD in History, Art History, Philosophy, Literature, Anthropology, or a related field with a comparative and transnational approach. We welcome applicants with a promising record of publication, teaching, and service, and expertise in one or more of the following areas:
1) Technology and/or digital cultures
2) Environmental humanities
3) East/West comparative approaches

IE University’s Arts and Humanities Division seeks to fill one tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Philosophy starting September 1, 2022.

Successful candidates will hold a PhD in Philosophy with a specialization in Ethics, Political Philosophy or Epistemology, a promising record of publication, teaching and service, and expertise on issues at the intersection of philosophy with science, technology and/or digital cultures.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted the second installment of our 21-22 Research Seminar Series in December 2021.

Haris Papoulias, PhD in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy & Doctor Europaeus led the seminar, “Iconophilia, Iconophobia and other Philos-optical Perversions,” exploring the history of iconoclasm from Byzantium to Hollywood and beyond.

At IE University, we bring the Arts & Humanities experience to our IE community, both inside and outside the classroom.

IE community members enjoyed the contemporary dance show, ¨Suave¨ by Alice Ripoll / Compañía Suave at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque.

The Arts & Humanities Division promotes and fosters an understanding of the humanities in order to confront issues that have become relevant in this fast-changing and uncertain age of technology, globalization, and misinformation. In collaboration with the student-led Big Data & AI Club, we offered our IE community an opportunity to attend the theater production, ¨PRIVACIDAD¨ at the Teatro Marquina in Madrid.

IE University and Madrid’s Teatro Real bring the opera to students from 140 countries.

Madrid, November 2021. This month, IE University students will be able to take part in La Universidad a Escena (The University to the Stage) at the Teatro Real opera house in Madrid. Students will be introduced to the process of creating and staging Partenope, by Georg Frideric Handel, by experts from the Teatro Real, winner of the International Opera Awards 2021 for opera company of the year.

Last week, a group of IE community members attended the spectacular contemporary dance show, ¨Made of Space¨ by Guy Nadar & Maria Campos at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque.

Students enjoyed the Madrid walking tour, ¨Madrid´s Industrial Heritage¨ with Professor Cristina Nualart.

A conversation with IE Arts & Humanities Division’s Catalina Tejero and Evelio Acevedo, Managing Director of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Angel Sáenz de Cenzano, CEO of Linkedin Spain, paid a visit to our Critical Thinking course in the Tech MBA. He spoke about the impact of tech companies on society and matters such as platform moderation, distribution of opportunities, and algorithmic bias.

A group of students from our Segovia campus explored Madrid during a walking tour of the Malasaña neighborhood. Students enjoyed learning about the neighborhood´s rich history and visited key locations of the underground counterculture of ¨La Movida Madrileña¨ of the 1980´s guided by David Alvarez, the Director of the Medialab at IE UNIVERSITY.

Members of our IE community enjoyed the theatre production, ¨Tu mano en la mía¨ at Teatro Fernán Gómez, a play suggested by the love letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division launches a digital award for the 2021 Awards in Teaching Excellence. Renowned dancers appear in a video in recognition of recipients and performed live for the IE University faculty awards ceremony.

A group of IE students, faculty and staff enjoyed a weekend at the 29th edition of Estampa contemporary art fair.

The IE Arts & Humanities Division, in collaboration with the student-led IE Arts & Business Club, offered a Gallery Walk series during the month of October 2021.

IE University CEO Diego del Alcázar Benjumea speaks on the importance of the humanities.

This year, the video-diploma features dancers from renowned institutions, Ballet Nacional de España, Compañía Nacional de Danza, and the Ballet Opera de Paris, performing between the #IETower and the Segovia campus.

Faculty members also enjoyed a live performance at the awards ceremony recently held in the IE Tower auditorium.

The Arts & Humanities Division, along with the IE Foundation welcomed Evelio Acevedo, Managing Director of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza to inaugurate a new art installation of 5 large-scale, sustainable replicas from the museum, now on display in the #IETower. As a part of #SustainabilityWeek, the aim of this installation is to encourage reflection and conversation regarding our relationship with the environment and our commitment to sustainable development models.

The Arts & Humanities Division along with IE Law School are proud to present the first seminar of the 21-22 PPLE Philosophy Series.

David Mejía will discuss ¨The Trouble with Gender,¨ with a focus on the origins, influences and consequences -both theoretical and social- of contemporary gender theory.

This week, a group of students, faculty and staff attended the theater production, ¨Los Pazos de Ulloa,¨ based on the renowned novel by Emilia Pardo Bazán (The House of Ulloa), at the Teatro Fernán Gómez.

It’s been a great pleasure to share the first Autumn Archaeology Camp with our IEU students last October (23-25th).

On this occasion, the IEU Archaeology Club, the IEU Antiquity & Middle Ages Research Center, IE Campus Life and the IE Arts & Humanities Division hosted this activity in Herrera de Pisuerga (Palencia).

Last Sunday, a group of IE community members enjoyed the contemporary dance show, ¨Stella¨ by Mar Aguiló at Teatros del Canal.

Last Friday, a group of Segovia-based students travelled to Madrid for the first installment of the Arts & Humanities Division tour series: ¨Madrid Through the Ages¨ led by Professor Goretti González, PhD.

The Arts & Humanities Division closed out an eventful September last night with a viewing of the contemporary dance performance, “ИГРА //IGRA” by KOR´SIA collective at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque.

A group of IE community members enjoyed the contemporary dance show, ¨The Rite of Spring/common ground[s]¨ at Teatro del Canal.

A standing ovation was in order following this energetic performance, a co-production by the Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany), Sadler´s Wells (UK), and the École des Sables (Senegal).

As part of an eventful orientation week held by IE Campus Life and the IEU Student Government, the IE Arts & Humanities Division collaborated on a tour of the Museo Reina Sofía for first year students.

Last weekend, the IE Arts & Humanities Division, in collaboration with IE Campus Life and IEU Student Government, organized a tour of the Museo Nacional del Prado for first year students.

What a wonderful welcome to Madrid and introduction to the rich history & culture the city has to offer!

Last week, the art collector, philanthropist and founder of CIFO https://www.cifo.org/index.php/, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and her family, visited the #IEtower.

This project falls within the framework of the collaboration agreement between IE University and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Yesterday, some lucky members of the IE community enjoyed “La Bella Otero” by the Ballet Nacional de España in the beautiful Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.

This month, a group of lucky IE students and a few young members of IE staff, attended the rehearsal of the opera Tosca, by Puccini, in Madrid´s Teatro Real.

Last week, the IE community visited the contemporary Art Fair JUSTMAD in Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid.

Thank you to the director of the fair, Semiramis González, for hosting us!

Yesterday, our Arts & Humanities Division organized a guided tour for our community, to the contemporary art fair ARCO Madrid in IFEMA.

Thank you students, faculty, staff and alumni for joining us!

Yesterday, the Arts and Humanities Division organized a guided visit to the temporary exhibition of Ida Applebroog in Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, conducted by its curator, Soledad Riaño.

Yesterday, the IE community enjoyed a wonderful concert by the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in the National Auditorium in Madrid.

Last week, the IE Archaeology Unit, the Antiquity and Middle Ages Research Center and the Arts and Humanities Division organized an Archaeology Summer Camp for our students in the Celtiberian-Roman city of Tiermes (Soria, Spain).

The Arts and Humanities Division at IE has organised a 3-session webinar on “Introduction to Contemporary Art” given by the art critic, writer and curator Joaquín Jesús Sánchez.

These webinars offer some essential …

The PPLE Philosophy Series presented by IE Arts & Humanities Division and IE Law School, is a series of talks with 4 distinguished professors all relating to their view of the future and the overall theme of this year’s series: HOPE.

The perception of Eastern Europe is, for many of us, widely distorted from reality. In this article for IE Insights, our #humanities Professor Susana Torres analyses how the nations that make up this area have been

As part of the Arts and Humanities Module at IE, students studying the topic ‘Cultural Diversity Today’ with the professor, Lourdes Fernandez Bencosme, got the chance to pay a visit to the Banksy exhibition at the

The Arts and Humanities Division at IE is proud to co-host a visit to the surrealist, design and art-focused exhibition “Objects of Desire” at CaixaForum in Madrid. This visit is part of the Arts and Business Clubs’ weeklong collaboration with Prologue Magazine.
Part of the event will be streamed on the Arts and Business Club Instagram @ieartsbusiness for those who cannot attend physically!

When: Saturday, March 13 12pm (CET)
Where: CaixaForum Madrid (Paseo del Prado, 36, Madrid, Spain)
Entrance ticket: Complimentary

The Arts and Humanities Division, the Global and Public Affairs School and IE Women teamed up with GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion to present the “Intergenerational Dialogues”. A series of inspiring talks between outstanding women leaders and our IE students.
For the first session, we had the honor to welcome the Dean of the GPA School and Head of the Arts and Humanities Division, Susana Malcorra.  The event was moderated by the Master in International Relations student, Morgane Coquille.

When: March 10th 4pm (CET)
Where: VHUB (Velazquez 130 -2, Madrid)
Format: hybrid. You can attend Face-to-Face or online via Zoom.

The ARTS & HUMANITIES DIVISION and the IE Arts & Business Club announce a hybrid-format exhibition visit to Fundación PONS, an innovative space for art.
The visit will be guided by Sara Zaldivar, founder of the Huntress of Art art advisory and curatorial collective, and the artist himself, Guillermo Fornes – in an intimate viewing of his solo exhibition at the Foundation.

When: Wednesday, February 10th at 5pm (Madrid local time)
Where: Fundación PONS (Calle de Serrano, 138, Madrid 28006, Spain)

The ARTS & HUMANITIES DIVISION is proud to host the first session of the “Humanities in Conversation” Series in the framework of the IE-Humanities Module.

In a hybrid event aimed at IE 1st year, undergradute students, the first roundtable will explore the gender gap in leadership, the arts and the role of the law and the social movements.

When: Tuesday, Feb 16th at 6pm (Madrid local time)
Where: Velazquez 130 (-2), V-Hub (Madrid) or Online via Zoom

Whether you want to brush up your Latin or learn the basic rudiments of this Classical language, we offer you the possibility of learning the basics of this ancient and useful language in an interactive and applied form.

When: Starting Tuesday, Feb 16th – every Tuesday from 6pm to 7:30pm (Madrid local time)
Where: Segovia Campus or Online via Zoom

This webinar will start by describing the key role played by 18th-19th century mathematics on the foundations of many of the modern disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities, as well as the advantages and some of the disadvantages brought on by that influence.

Join us on Wednesday, February 10th at 5PM (CET)

IE Students took part in a vivid debate about environmentally displaced people, coinciding with the Climate Summit in Madrid (COP25). The panel discussion was organized by IE School of Global and Public Affairs and IE Arts & Humanities Division.

Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, the internationally renowned art collector, curator and film producer, took part in a debate at IE University on ‘Art as an agent of change for sustainability’, together with artist John Gerrard and Markus Reymann, director of TBA21 Academy and The Ocean Project.

In collaboration with the IE Arts & Business Club, the IE Arts & Humanities Division sponsored a lecture from Judith Grimbergen who considered the famous self-portraiture of Rembrandt in light of how the modern practice of taking selfies has shaped our thinking and approach to the idea of how we see ourselves.

As part of IE University’s efforts to bring together students, activists, and policy-makers under the larger rubric of the COP-25 event, held in Madrid in December, the Arts and Humanities Division sponsored a talk between Paul Lubbers, promoter of The Earth Charter and Elena Herrero-Beaumont, Partner and Director of the Vinces Institute for Public Affairs.

Held at the Spanish Pavilion of the COP-25 conference on Climate Change, this event was co-sponsored by the IE Arts and Humanities Division of IE University, along with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. The panelists included Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Markus Reymann and Jose Luis de Vicente.

Professor Javier de la Cueva, an expert in issues related to cybersecurity, explored this question, drawing on his recent testimony provided to the Commission on National Security of the Spanish Congress. He considered the ethical, juridical, and technological dimensions of cybersecurity.

Members of the IE community had the opportunity to visit the studio of experimental artistic innovator Okuda San Miguel, who creates installations using a multimedia, multi-disciplinary approach. In addition to an appreciation for the varied “street aesthetic” that makes Okuda’s work startlingly and sometimes unexpectedly original, the innovative aspect of his creative efforts was underlined, with the intersection between the innovation of the marketplace and that of the studio keenly observed by many in attendance.

The importance of collecting art as a social exercise was highlighted in this animated and insightful engagement, which brought Catalina Tejero, Associate Head of IE Arts & Humanities Division, into conversation with noted figure Maribel López.

The highly-influential French philosopher of consumerism Gilles Lipovetsky was an honoured guest at the IE campus where he offered a review of his philosophical approach to the ways that a modern consumer society, as a result of the Neo-liberal expansion of the global economy, has resulted in a hypermodernisation of the self.

The IE Arts and Humanities Division teamed up with the Fundación Telefonica to offer the wider public a chance to engage with noted French philosopher and professor Gilles Lipovetsky, who offered a full house his provocative and insightful reading of modern society in the context of an ever-expanding consumer culture and its impact on the psychology of the what he terms the post-modern self.

Paseos Artísticos, the first of the Arts and Business Club’s new series in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Division and IE Africa Club, took place in and around Dr. Fourquet Street yesterday evening. Students visited a total of five well-known galleries, and got to know more about their current exhibitions, as well as the business models behind each establishment.

On Friday 21st of February, IE hosted the opening talk of the IE Humanities China Lecture Series, which is an initiative of professor Regina Llamas and IE Arts & Humanities Division. This first lecture was called “Chinese Buddhism in Three Objects: The Memory Palace Approach” and it was conducted by John Kieschnick, H.N. Ho Family Foundation Chair in Buddhist Studies in the Religious Studies Department at Stanford University.

This talk was presented in conjunction with the Borders of Freedom exhibition curated by Patricio Majano as part of the Y.ES Contemporary Art Loan Program. Borders of Freedom addresses the concept of freedom from different perspectives, and considers what the artists identify as constraints of freedom.

IE University Professor and Associate Head of Academic Affairs, Maria-José Ferrari reviewed the life and legacy of the Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós on the occasion of the centenary of his death. Situating her remarks in the context of a wider Spanish debate about the ongoing relevance of Galdós for Spanish literature.

As part of Women’s Week at IE University, noted art collector Ella Fontanels-Cisneros sat down with Catalina Tejero, Associate Director of IE Arts & Humanities Division, to discuss her experience of collecting art across the world, and especially from Latin American artists.