Wednesday, November 5, 2025
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (GMT+01:00) Madrid
Location: Online Livestream
The United States has exercised enormous global influence over public spheres and inner lives in recent decades. Its ideas, whether of politics and economy, or of art, literature and popular culture, have shaped consciousness everywhere. What might “de-Americanization”—a now inevitable process—look like? Is there a flourishing political and cultural life to be found beyond American notions of democracy and individualism?
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.
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.
Ben Ehrenreich
Ben Ehrenreich is an author and essayist. His most recent book, Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time (2020), was the winner of a 2021 American Book Award. His previous book of nonfiction, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death and Palestine (2016), was based on years of reporting from the West Bank. Ehrenreich is also the author of two novels, Ether (2011) and The Suitors (2006). His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books, among other outlets. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for feature writing (2011) and a PEN Center USA literary award (2012).
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