Events

Mikey Muhanna interviews Julia Elyachar

Afikra Podcast

Interview

Online

The afikra Podcast features experts from academia, art, media, urban planning, and beyond, who are helping document and shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through work.

Fatima Seck interviews Julia Elyachar

Conversations in Atlantic Theory, Journal of French and Francophone philosophy,

Interview

Online

Conversations in Atlantic Theory explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counternarrative.

Semicivilized Finance: Learning from the Ottoman Sarraf

Doll Lecture on Religion and Money, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion, Princeton University

Lecture

219 Aaron Burr Hall

Using historical anthropology, Elyachar examines the sarraf ("money-changer" or "banker") as a node in dynamic financial relationships deemed "semicivilized".

Book Talk: On the Semi-Civilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo

Department of Anthropology, Princeton University

Book talk

219 Aaron Burr Hall

Elyachar discusses her new book On the Semi-Civilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty.

Financialized Counterinsurgency: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Remaking of Cairo after 2013

Centre for Gulf Studies, University of Exeter

Seminar

Online Centre for Gulf Studies | University of Exeter

Elyachar draws on her new book On the Semi-Civilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty, to discuss the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire.