Friday, October 16, 2026
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (GMT+07:00) Yogyakarta
Location: Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta
October 15, 2026
Religious Pluralism, Literature, and Society
Event Series: Yogyakarta, October 2026
Religious pluralism, often seen as a problem in the West, is pervasive in the Global South and particularly in Asia, where multiple religious belonging is commonplace. How have diverse and overlapping religious and spiritual identities shaped culture and society in Asia? How does literature illustrate and amplify the varied possibilities of multiple belonging? Ranjit Hoskote and Rev. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., will address these questions in conversation with Mohsin Hamid.
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.
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.
Rev. Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
Rev. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., is the undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education. Before that he served as the editor in chief of the Jesuits’ biweekly review, La Civiltà Cattolica, a post he assumed in 2011. Since entering the Society of Jesus in 1988, he has worked in a variety of capacities, including joining the review’s community in 1998. Fr. Spadaro considers his work to be part of the new cybertheology–“thinking faith in the Internet age.” He has also served on the Georgetown University Board of Directors.
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