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Europe at a time of change and India and architecture: among the highlights of the 2016 Hay Festival Segovia

Among the guests announced today are Dileep Padgaonkar, Namita Gokhale, Peter Florence, Fernando Fernandez, Jorge Habsburg, Jean-Paul Viguier, Martha Thorne, Luis Cueto, Álvaro Gil-Robles, Anne Mc Elvoy, Carl Hahn and Santiago Íniguez.

The organizers of Hay Festival Segovia today announced more of the internationally acclaimed guests from the field of literature, visual arts, philosophy and journalism appearing at the ten venues to be used for the upcoming event, among them the campus of IE University in Segovia.

Segovia Hay Festival 2016 kicks off on Friday September 9 with the reading of the new novel from leading Spanish novelist Santiago Posteguillo, La legion perdida (The Lost Legion). The two opening events of the festival will be held on Saturday September 17 in Segovia at IE University and the city’s Alhóndiga. The core of the program takes place from Friday, September 23 to Sunday September 25 September, while a number of visual arts exhibitions will run until October 15.

IE University, one of the main contributors to this prestigious festival of art and ideas, will host the opening ceremony on Saturday 17 September in the Aula Magna of the Campus of Santa Cruz la Real, a discussion about the ongoing digital transformation and its influence on society, organized by the newspaper El Pais and with the cooperation of the City of Segovia, RENFE, Banco Sabadell Foundation, BMW and the British and Indian Embassies. This edition of the Hay Festival will feature more than eighty activities and will be opened by Simon Manley, the British Ambassador to Spain, and the President of IE University, Santiago Íñiguez.

Among the new authors who will be speaking at IE University are Indian journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, a member of the editorial board of The Times of India, who will talk with Susana Torres, a lecturer in International Relations at IE; Namita Gokhale, an Indian writer and director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, will speak with Miguel Larrañaga, IE University’s Vice Chancellor of Students, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and Spain; also in attendance will be Peter Florence, the founder and director of Hay Festival, who will discuss the consequences of Brexit with the renowned economist Fernando Fernandez of IE Business School.

During Hay Festival Segovia, the classrooms of IE University will also host guests who will discuss the current situation in Europe and more specifically, the legacy of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, which will be the topic of a conversation between Archduke George of Habsburg, grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor and Hungarian ambassador extraordinary, Spanish journalist Ramón Pérez Maura, deputy editor of leading Spanish daily ABC, and Arpad von Lazar, professor emeritus at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and a member of the advisory board of IE University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Another of the big names IE University will be welcoming this year is Jean-Paul Viguier, one of the most influential French architects working today, who will discuss his work with Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Prizes and Dean of IE School of Architecture & Design.

The new politics that have emerged in Spain and Europe will be discussed at a meeting in IE University between Luis Cueto, General Coordinator of the Mayor in the City of Madrid and lawyer Alvaro Gil-Robles, first Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe.

Another fascinating conversation to be held on the campus of IE University during the Hay Festival Segovia will be between Carl Hahn, President Emeritus of the Volkswagen Group and the driving force behind the Museum of Fine Arts in Wolfsburg, and Santiago Iniguez, President of IE University and Dean of IE Business School under the title of From Business Leader to Patron of the Arts.

"Big ideas are influencing a world in constant change," said Maria Sheila Cremaschi, Director of Hay Festival Segovia, today, adding: "As a festival with British roots, it is our duty, at a time of uncertainty in Europe, to speak out and unite everyone around this debate. "

As previously announced, IE University will also host the closing session of the 2016 edition of the Hay Festival: Juan Jose Millas will talk with author and journalist Juan Cruz on contemporary literature and his latest novel, Desde la sombra (From the shadow) in the Aula Magna of IE University. IE University will also host many Spanish and international authors: young British writer Adam Foulds, US playwright and novelist Deborah Levy, sports commentator Michael Robinson, SER reporter Javier del Pino and Inigo Dominguez of El País, Hungarian film director Péter Gárdos, renowned historical novelist, Santiago Posteguillo, philosopher Fernando Savater, economist and businessman Guillermo de la Dehesa, authors Andrew Trapiello and Antonio Muñoz Molina, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville, former Spanish culture ministers Ángeles González-Sinde, César Antonio Molina and Luis Alberto de Cuenca; paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, along with writers Lorenzo Silva and Duncan Campbell, among others.

As happens every year, on Fridays, communication students and professors from IE University’s Medialab will stream via ABC.es the "ABC-IE Workshop" on cultural journalism, this year under the heading: Talking points: The New Voices in Spanish Narrative featuring journalists Jesús Calero, Agnes Martin and Rodrigo Marta del Riego who will meet in the Sala Capitular of the former convent of Santa Cruz la Real, with three emerging talents in Spanish literature, Ruben Martin Giráldez, Marina Sanmartin and Matias Candeira.

Particularly noteworthy is the Workshop of Dreams, led by the Dean of IE School of Architecture & Design, Martha Thorne. This initiative, promoted by Hay Festival Segovia, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) and IE School of Architecture & Design, has attracted leading figures from literature, gastronomy, architecture and science to come together to create a series of sculptures made from timber felled in US forests. Four teams led by creators have interacted with Spanish architects and designers of international renown to give shape to four sculptures (four dreams). This project involved, among others, Izaskun Chinchilla, an architect and lecturer at IE University, chefs Juan Mari and Elena Arzak, Spanish writer Javier Cercas, Martha Thorne, the Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design and executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue, Jacob Benbunan, the co-Founder and CEO of Saffron Brand, and Juan Luis Arzuaga, Spanish paleontologist and scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos.

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