Susana Torres speaks at the Jaipur Literary Festival, the greatest literary show in the world
The second edition of the JLF in Spain will be held from 13th to 16th of June in Valladolid, with an opening ceremony at IE University.
Susana Torres, PhD, Associate Professor of the IE School of Humanities at IE University, participated in the latest edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, which is described as the greatest literary show on Earth and a sumptuous feast of ideas.
The Jaipur Literature Festival was created by well-known authors William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale, who is also a jury in the IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities. Together they started this modern agora where writers could talk and discuss with readers and engage in mutually enriching dialogue.
16 years after its foundation, it has turned into a global literary phenomenon, and Jaipur has become the host of the biggest literary festival in the world in terms of attendance, welcoming over a million readers from across India and the globe.
"The Jaipur Literary Festival is a refuge for the soul, the capital of the Resistance against that incessant buzz of apocalyptic tones that every morning claims that we are being taken over by artificial intelligence."
Susana Torres, PhD, Associate Professor of the IE School of Humanities at IE University
International editions of the Jaipur Literature Festival now travel to the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the Maldives, and now Spain. The second edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival in Spain will be held from 13th to 16th June 2024 in Valladolid, with an opening ceremony at IE Tower, the sustainable and tech-based urban campus of IE University in Madrid.
Susana Torres is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Her research focuses on medieval Slavic studies, particularly those centered around literary and manuscript issues. She has published extensively on literary transmission and the creation of ideologies of power.