Reading Group

This group offers a meeting point for reading enthusiasts to share the experiences and knowledge that the reading brings. It also promotes its practice.

The meeting point is the Coffee & Books sessions. Colloquy sessions where an expert moderator is invited to the proposed book.

The same members of the group choose the book that will be discussed at the next meeting, always accompanied by a good coffee.

Campus Barcelona

Coordination:

  • It is coordinated by Mariona Giner,
    of the Garbí bookshop of UIC Barcelona

Calendar: 

  • October - June
  • Last wednesday of each month, monthly sessions (Coffee & Books)
  • 1 h per session

Hours:
De 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Location:
Each session has a specific classroom that
is previously communicated

Campus Sant Cugat

Coordination: 

  • To be confirmed

Calendar: 

  • October - June
  • Wednesday, monthly sessions (Coffe & Books)
  • 1 h per session

Hours:
2 p.m. to 3 p.m. 

Location:
Mobile Classroom 1

Next Coffee & Books Session of the Barcelona Campus

  • Pending confirmation 

More information

This group does not require a pre-registration. You can go to any coffee & books session whenever you want.

One month before each session, it is announced through the channels of the university, the book and the moderator.

For any inquiries, you can go through the Student Services offices on both campuses or send an email to estudiantes@uic.es

Recommended books

Books that have been commented on in Coffee & Books Sessions. There is also an expert in the book that moderated the session. 

  • Book title: The Pearl , by John Steinbeck
  • Modera​tor​: Magda Bosch, Professor at the Faculty of Humanities.
  • Book title: Anna Karenina, by León Tolstói
  • Modera​tor​: Pilar Lacorte, from the Institute of Advanced Family Studies
  • Book: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy
  • Moderator: Dr Bernat Torres, philosopher, professor of Anthropology and Philosophy
  • Book: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • Moderator: Isabel Morales, lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities
  • Book: The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
  • Moderator: Magda Bosch, lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities

  • Book: ​Transido de Distancia, by Xavier Escribano
  • Moderator:​ Dr. Xavier Escribano, lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities
  • Book​​: White nights, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Modera​t​or: Dr. Aurora Oliva, lecturer in the Faculty of Communication Sciences
  • Book​​: Lady Susan, by Jane Austen
  • Modera​t​or: Mariona Giner, from the Reading Group
  • Book​​: La perla, by John Steinbeck
  • Modera​t​or: Magda Bosch, ​lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities 
  • Book​​: La voz a ti debida, ​by Pedro Salinas​ (​Editorial Alianza​)​
  • Modera​t​or: Xavier Escribano, ​lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities 
  • Book: La sombra del tiempo, by Carlos Pujol
  • Moderator: Teresa Vallès, lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities
  • Book: Five Hours with Mario, by Miguel Delibes
  • Moderator: Dr Iris Crespo, psychologist
  • Book: Fragmentos del Libro de Job, by Carlos Pujol
  • Moderator: Dr Teresa Vallès, philologist, professor of Literature
  • Book: The Sister, by Sándor Márai.
  • Moderator: Dr Xavier Escribano, philosopher, professor of Anthropology

  • Book: The remains of the day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Moderator: Carlos Espaliú, lecturer in the Faculty of Law
  • Book: Of a Happy Life, Seneca
  • Moderator: Magdalena Bosch, lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities
  • Book: Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris, by Miguel Delibes 
  • Moderator: Edu Martí, lecturer in the Faculty of Communication
  • Book: El Nacimiento, by Alexéi Varlámov. 
  • Moderator: Marta Gámiz, lawyer in the Ecclesiastical Court of Barcelona and academic officer for the Doctoral School
  • Book: Fear, by Stefan Zweig
  • Moderator: Evaristo Aguado
  • Book title:  Flowers for Mrs. Harris by Paul Gallico
  • Moderator: Inés Jordán, 2nd-year Humanities student
  • Book title:  The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
  • Moderator: Patricia Messa, 4th-year Humanities student
  • Book title:   El último encuentro by Sándor Márai
  • Moderator:  Dorina Gutiérrez, Humanities Alumni student

  • Book Title: La novena hora, by Alice McDermott
  • Moderator: Evaristo Aguado, humanistic coach 
  • Book title: The river, by Rumer Godden
  • Moderator: María Marqués Vilallonga, literary 
  • Book title: Full of life, by John Fante
  • Moderator:  Marta Gámiz, lawyer in the Ecclesiastical Court of Barcelona and academic officer for the Doctoral School
  • Book title: Una odisea de amor y guerra, by Olga Brajnovic
  • Moderator: by the author of the novel
  • Book title: Sucederá la flor, by Jesús Montiel.
  • Moderator: reading group
  • Book title: Una letra femenina azul pálido, by Franz Werfel
  • Moderator: Carolina Hayes, doctoral teacher from Humanities Faculty
  • Book title: Viaje al país de los blancos, de Ousman Umar
  • Moderator: Ousman Umar, autor del libro y fundador de Nasco Feeding Minds

  • Book title: El joven audaz sobre el trapecio volante , by Wilian Saroyan
  • Moderator: Xavie Escribano, Professor at the Faculty of Humanities.
  • Book title: The uncommon reader, by Alan Bennett
  • Moderator: Montse Vilella
  • Book title: Ella, by Gloria Gil Doménech
  • Moderator: Gloria Gil Doménech, secondary school teacher
  • Book title: Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
  • Moderator: Evaristo Aguado, humanistic coach
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