Book clubs & reading nights · Madrid
8 upcoming book clubs, readings, poetry nights and author talks in Madrid at 4 venues — all easy to walk into on your own.
Venue by venue
Museo de San Isidro (5) · CSIC — Calle Serrano 117 (1) · Centro Cultural Sanchinarro (1) · Museo de Historia de Madrid (1)
Was the Earth round? Was the ocean one? Where did one continent end and the next begin? Irene Pajón walks through the questions ancient geographers asked and how they tried to answer them from travel stories, experience and theory. Part of the free autumn lecture cycle.
Engineer Julio Cortés Martín looks at the water engineering of ancient Rome — aqueducts, sewers and dams — through the writings of Vitruvius and Frontinus, and weighs what worked and what didn't. Part of the free autumn lecture cycle.
Cristian Tolsa (University of Barcelona) traces the roots of Greek astronomy — Babylonian traditions, calendars and early cosmologies. Part of the free autumn lecture cycle.
Where do words like 'atom' or 'planet' come from? A free talk on how Greek science created a new vocabulary that passed to Rome and into every modern language. Part of the autumn lecture cycle.
How did ideas about the body and health travel from Pliny the Elder to women writers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? A free university talk on old medical knowledge, the body, the soul and the passions. Part of the autumn lecture cycle.
A two-hour reading and discussion workshop around Clara Janés's book on the humanist, poetic side of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger and his link to Galileo. Science and literature at the table — a good place to talk with curious people.
The best-selling novelist Marcos Chicot talks about his historical thriller set in ancient Greece, part of a free autumn lecture cycle. Bring your questions — and maybe meet fellow readers.
Artist and fine-arts lecturer Antonio Vigo talks about the value of working directly with materials in a post-digital world — part of the art critics' free autumn cycle on art, nature and AI.
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Phrases in the local language for your evening: Phrases for tonight · Library events in Madrid
This page lists 8 upcoming book clubs, readings, poetry nights and author talks in Madrid at 4 venues, from city open data. Public libraries and bookshops run most of them, and most are free.
Yes. Most people at public book clubs and readings come alone; the host opens the conversation, and having finished the book is often optional. Arrive early and say it is your first time.
If none is listed, host one: create a free invite on party.comealone.app, pick a café, read silently for 60 minutes, talk for 15, phones away, any book.
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