Friday, October 16, 2026
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (GMT+07:00) Yogyakarta
Location: Fort Vredeburg Museum Yogyakarta
China began its existence as a sovereign nation-state in 1949 with moral and political commitments to other constituent members of the Third World. After a world-historical transformation, it is now a major power and the unchallenged leader among non-Western countries. How has China reconfigured its relationship with the Global South? What are the wider implications for world politics in an era of multiple global crises? Mohsin Hamid, Kaiser Kuo, and Nesrine Malik will address these questions in conversation with Thomas Banchoff.
Participants
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid is an acclaimed British Pakistani author known for creative fiction and commentary that address contemporary global issues. His recent novels include The Last White Man (2022) and Exit West (2017), which received the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. His book The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and later adapted into a successful film. Hamid’s engagement with themes of political turmoil, cultural displacement, and shifting individual and collective identities informs his influential essays on contemporary affairs in leading outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.
Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuo is a musician, writer, and the host and co-founder of the Sinica podcast, the leading English-language podcast on current affairs in China. Since April 2010, Sinica has published over 500 episodes featuring prominent diplomats, academics, journalists, and others with expertise on China. Previously, Kuo served as director of international communications for China’s leading search engine, Baidu. Kuo graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 with a degree in political science and received a master’s degree in East Asian studies from the University of Arizona. He was lead guitarist and co-founder of Tang Dynasty, a Chinese heavy metal band founded in 1989.
Nesrine Malik
Nesrine Malik is an acclaimed British Sudanese author and journalist known for her wide-ranging commentary on issues of race, identity, politics, and international affairs. She is the author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent (2019) and has columns in leading outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post that address topics ranging from Islamophobia and feminism to African politics, with deep insights into the ways colonial and postcolonial legacies shape our contemporary world. Malik received the 2021 Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism.
Thomas Banchoff
Thomas Banchoff (moderator) is vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he also serves as professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service and director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, which he founded in 2006. His books include The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges (2016, with Jose Casanova); Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies (2011); Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (2008); and Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (2007). His essays have appeared in Commonweal, The Tablet, The Washington Post, and other outlets.
Accessibility
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