Tuesday, June 10, 2025
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CEST
Location: Villa Malta (Rome) La Sala
Global networks for the publication and distribution of literature in recent decades have highlighted many non-Western literary traditions to Western readers. But has the otherness of peoples and cultures thus helped create a level field? Have social imbalances of economic and military power reproduced themselves in cultural and intellectual relations as well? Are different literary traditions evolving in isolation from one another, reinforcing what Pope Francis called a "globalization of indifference"?
Participants
Nesrine Malik
Nesrine Malik is an acclaimed British Sudanese author and journalist known for her wide-ranging commentary on race, identity, politics, and international affairs. Her book We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent (2019) critiques the narrative foundations of increasingly intolerant and authoritarian politics in Britain and the United States. Malik’s columns in outlets like the Guardian, New York Times, and Washington Post 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 2012 book Confluences: Forgotten Histories between East and West (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.
Safwan Masri
Safwan M. Masri is dean of Georgetown University in Qatar and distinguished professor of the practice at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to joining Georgetown in October 2022, Masri was executive vice president for global centers and global development at Columbia University, where he was also a senior research scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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