Wednesday, November 5, 2025
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (GMT+01:00) Barcelona
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 a professor and director of research in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Psychology at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. His 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), with Alphabet of Collisions: Practical Philosophy for a Chronic Condition forthcoming with Columbia University Press. Safatle translated Theodor Adorno’s complete works into Portuguese, has taught internationally, including as a visiting professor at the Université de Paris VII, and writes a regular column for El País.
Yásnaya Elena A. Gil
Yásnaya Elena A. Gil is a writer, linguist, and researcher specializing in linguistic diversity and a leading voice in Indigenous thinking and the defense of language rights in Latin America. She is a founder of Colmix (Colectivo Mixe), devoted to the research, dissemination, and teaching of the Mixe language, thought, and history, and has been coordinator of the Juan de Córdova Research Library in Oaxaca. Her books include Ää. Manifiestos sobre la diversidad lingüística (2023) and Un nosaltres sense estat (2025/2018); she has contributed to publications such as Extractivismo, El árbol de la palabra (2023), Volver a contar (2021), Letras Libres, and Nexos. She writes regularly for El País.
Rafael Vilasanjuan
Rafael Vilasanjuan has directed ISGlobal’s Policy & Global Development area since March 2011. Previously deputy director of the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), he also worked for over 12 years with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), including as general secretary of MSF International. In that role, Vilasanjuan was a founding member of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). A journalist with a degree in information sciences, he contributes to El Periódico, Cadena SER, and TV3, and is the author of Las fronteras de Ulises. El viaje de los refugiados a Europa (The Borders of Ulysses: The Journey of Refugees to Europe, Debate).
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