We offer a preview of the cultural program planned for this summer, which will feature an extensive program of Readings and a Congress on the figure of Julián Sanz del Río and his connection with the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its founding.
Readings
The Readings are two-day participatory courses in which specific texts by prominent authors from our culture and universal culture are read attentively, interpreted, and discussed in small groups, and this year, under the guidance of a specialist. All Reading sessions will take place in the morning, between 9:30 AM and 2:00 PM.
Readings / 1 – Reading Lucretius
Thursday, July 16 and Friday, July 17
Director: Jorge Cano Cuenca (Complutense University)
Readings / 2 – Reading Flannery O’Connor
Monday, July 20 and Tuesday, July 21
Director: Guadalupe Arbona (Complutense University)
Readings / 3 – Reading Unamuno
Wednesday, July 22, and Thursday, July 23
Director: Jon Juaristi (philologist, essayist, poet)
Readings / 4 – Reading Félix de Azúa
Friday, July 24 and Saturday, July 25
Director: Andreu Jaume (Editor and critic)
Readings / 5 – Reading Spinoza
Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28
Director: Gabriel Albiac (Complutense University)
Readings / 6 – Reading Hemingway
Wednesday, July 29 and Thursday, July 30
Director: Gabriel Rodríguez Pazos (Villanueva University)
Readings / 7 – Reading Simone Weil
Friday, July 31, and Saturday, August 1
Director: Alejandro del Río Herrmann (philosopher, editor, and translator)
Readings / 8 – Reading Fray Luis de León
Monday, August 3 and Tuesday, August 4
Director: Lola Josa (University of Barcelona)
Readings / 9 – Reading Claudio Rodríguez
Wednesday, August 5 and Thursday, August 6
Director: Tomás Sánchez Santiago (writer)
Sanz del Río Congress, The Free Institution of Education and Regenerationism Yesterday and Today
Dates: July 14 and 15
Place: Palace of the Audience of Soria
In collaboration with the City Council of Soria
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, a Congress will be held that will last a day and a half and will be divided into three sessions, two in the morning and one in the afternoon. It will feature four main lectures, delivered by figures of recognised prestige at the national and international levels, and about ten shorter presentations by national and local specialists, grouped into sets of three or four speakers. Additionally, a session of communications will be proposed.
The night after the first session, a musical evening will take place.
The program will be published soon.
