Saturday, October 17, 2026
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (GMT+07:00) Yogyakarta
Location: Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta
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The persistence of socialism as a political force is one of the striking trends of the last decade. The rise of China has illustrated the staying power of state socialism, which many considered moribund after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And the appeal of democratic socialism, even in the United States, has taken many by surprise. Does socialism have a promising future in the Global South—and even in the West? Kohei Saito, Ranjit Hoskote, and Verónica Gago will address these questions in conversation with José Casanova.
Participants
Kohei Saito
Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo and a leading contemporary Marxist thinker. His most recent book, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020), has sold more than half a million copies in Japan and was published in English as Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto in January 2024. Saito’s previous book, Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2017), which creatively explored the ecological dimension of Marx’s thought and its contemporary relevance, won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.
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.
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.
José Casanova
José Casanova (moderator) is a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He is also professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he previously taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies.
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