

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: SOAS Book Discussion with Julia Elyachar: On the Semicivilized (2025)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us at SOAS for a discussion with author Julia Elyachar about her book "On the Semicivilized" (2025)About this EventOn the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo by Julia ElyacharOn the Semicivilized by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire. Drawing on thirty years of ethnographic research in Cairo, family archives from Palestine and Egypt, and research on Ottoman debt and finance to rethink catastrophe and potentiality in Cairo and the world today, Elyachar theorizes a global condition of the “semicivilized” marked by nonsovereign futures, crippling debts, and the constant specter of violence exercised by those who call themselves civilized. Originally used to describe the Ottoman Empire, whose perceived “civilizational differences” rendered it incompatible with a Western-dominated global order, semicivilized came to denote lands where unitary territorial sovereignty was stymied at the end of WWI. Elyachar’s theorizing offers a new analytic vocabulary for thinking beyond territoriality, postcolonialism, and the “civilized"/"primitive” divide. Looking at the world from the perspective of the semicivilized, Elyachar argues, allows us to shift attention to embodied infrastructures, collective lives, and practices of moving and acting in common that bypass lingering assumptions of territorialism and unitary sovereign rule.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/c4683b20-f9fe-11f0-953c-0b4fd2fcffda-rimg-w493-h740-dc2b2721-gmir.jpg
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## Event venue details

- **city**: London
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Room R201, SOAS, University of London (Main Building)
- **lat**: 51.52235
- **long**: -0.129259
- **full address**: Room R201, SOAS, University of London (Main Building), 10 Thornhaugh Street, London, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: SOAS Walter Rodney Collective for Historical Research (https://allevents.in/org/soas-walter-rodney-collective-for-historical-research/20345694)

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
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