Friday, April 11, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. EDT
Location: Online Zoom Webinar
April 11, 2025
Has the Nation Stunted Our Moral Imagination?
Pankaj Mishra in Conversation with Nesrine Malik and Ranjit Hoskote
Event Series: Global Dialogues Webinars
This is the first of three webinars in advance of the Georgetown Global Dialogues (GGD) in Rome, Italy.
The resurgence of nationalism worldwide is having a catastrophic impact, abetting xenophobia, trade conflict, and war. Has the nation-state, a decaying nineteenth century form which increasingly asserts itself through desperate lunges for territory and resources, prevented the growth of our moral imagination? Pankaj Mishra will explore these questions in conversation with Nesrine Malik and Ranjit Hoskote
Participants
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, New York Times, and 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.
Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote is an Indian poet, theorist, and curator whose influential work centers on the complex history and presence of cultural pluralism from the local to the global. He has authored eight books of poetry—including Icelight (2022), Jonahwhale (2018), and a translation of a fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic-poet, I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd (2011)—and the acclaimed book Confluences: Forgotten Histories between East and West (2012, with Ilija Trojanow). Hoskote has curated more than 50 showcases of Indian and global art over the past three decades, including India’s first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra (moderator) is a renowned Indian author, essayist, and literary critic with a global readership. Two of his prize-winning books, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals who Remade Asia (2012) and Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017), explore the history of colonialism and its enduring legacies in our contemporary global era. Mishra is also the author of two critically acclaimed novels: The Romantics (1999) and Run and Hide (2022). His columns and essays have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, among other outlets. Mishra is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.