Sunday, March 29, 2026
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (GMT+03:00) Doha
The experience of imperialism divides humanity—into those in the former empires who think of it as largely beneficial, and the great majority who denounce it as racist and exploitative. Politicians exploit these divisions to mobilize against their adversaries, vowing to revive past greatness and punish old oppressors. How might this great chasm of experience and memory be overcome in the face of shared global challenges? The overhaul of national memory cultures? New forms of dialogue? Reparations?
Participants
Verónica Gago
Verónica Gago, a professor of social sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of San Martín, is a prominent political theorist and activist working on issues of feminism and the global political economy. Her most recent books include A Feminist Reading of Debt (2021, with Luci Cavallero), Feminist International (2020), and Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (2017). She is also a leader in Argentina’s #NiUnaMenos (Not One Women Less) movement as both a theorist and an activist.
Ayman Shabana
Ayman Shabana is associate professor of theology and Chair of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University in Qatar and director of the Islamic Bioethics Project. His interests include Islamic legal and intellectual history; Islamic law and ethics; religious studies and moral philosophy; and applied ethics, human rights, and bioethics. He is the author of Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory (2010), in addition to several book chapters and academic journal articles. In 2012, he received the Research Excellence Award at the Qatar Annual Research Forum, and during the academic year 2013-2014 he was a visiting research fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.
Máriam Bascuñán
Máriam Bascuñán is a professor of political science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a columnist and contributor to the newspaper El Pais. She specializes in political theory and feminist thought. She is the author of the book Género, emancipación y diferencias (2012) and co-author with Fernando Vallespín of Populismos (2017). She has written academic articles in research journals such as Journal World Political Science, REIS, ISEGORÍA, and RECP, among others. Máriam Bascuñán completed her studies in political science and law at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and was a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago and Columbia University in New York.
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