Wednesday, November 5, 2025
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (GMT+01:00) Madrid
Location: Online Livestream
Increasingly spurned by America, Europe is seeking closer economic and political ties with the Global South, including China and Brazil. But rising xenophobia within Europe does not bode well for that outreach. Can we envision a new European cosmopolitanism more open to the cultures and philosophies of Latin America and Asia?
Participants
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.
Vladimir Safatle
Vladimir Safatle is professor and director of research in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Psychology at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. A wide-ranging scholar whose work explores issues at the intersection of psychology, culture, and politics, he is the author of Grand Hotel Abyss: Desire, Recognition and the Restoration of the Subject (2016), among many other books. Safatle is responsible for the translation of Theodor Adorno’s complete works into Portuguese and has taught extensively internationally, including as a visiting professor at the Université de Paris VII. He writes a regular column for El País.
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