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Past events

May
20
2026
Virtual Book Talk, On the Semicivilized
School for Advanced Research (SAR), Santa Fe
Book Talk
Virtual Book Talk in Conversation with Aamer Ibraheem
Location: Online
Link
May
14
2026
Book Talk, "On the Semicivilized," at IMTFI, UC Irvine
IMTFI, UC Irvine
Book talk and conversation
Contact organizer for zoom link
Location: UCI Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway #1321
May
7
2026
Graduate Student Workshop with Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized"
Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California
Workshop
Location: USC, Department of Anthropology
May
2
2026
Book Talk, On the Semicivilized, at UCSB
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Book talk
Book talk about On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
Location: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UCSB
Apr
15
2026
Contours of Thought: The Humanities and The Possibilities of Anti-Discipline
Society of Fellows and Heyman Center, Columbia University
Symposium
Discussant and Moderator of symposium organized by Aamer Ibraheem (Columbia University), Adrien Zakar (University of Toronto), Iheb
Guermazi (Columbia University), and Esmat Elhalaby (University of Toronto).
Location: Columbia University
Apr
7
2026
Book Talk, Yale University, "On the Semicivilized"
Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Yale University
Book Talk
Julia Elyachar discusses her new book, On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo.
Location: Room 105, 10 Sachem, Yale University
Mar
31
2026
Book Talk: On the Semicivilized
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Book Talk
Book talk in conversation with Deborah Thomas.
Location: Robert S. Blank Forum, PCPSE, 2nd Floor, 133 South 36th Street
Mar
9
2026
"Anthropology of Proprioception" Seminar
School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe
Seminar
Seminar co-led with Danilyn Rutherford, School of Advanced Research, March 9 - 13, 2026
Location: School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe
Mar
3
2026
Book Talk at Columbia University, Julia Elyachar: "On the Semicivilized"
Department of Anthropology and MIddle East Institute, Columbia University
Book talk
Book talk by Julia Elyachar about her book On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Infrastructure in Cairo.
Location: Columbia University
Feb
12
2026
SOAS Public Talk about On the Semicivilized
University of London - SOAS
Public Talk
In the series: "Histories of Capitalism and Race in the Middle East and Beyond," School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Location: University of London
Link
Jan
5
2026
Podcast: Julia Elyachar on New Books Network in conversation with Armanc Yildiz
New Books Network
Podcast
Julia Elyachar in conversation with Armanc Yildiz about her new book, On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke 2025)
Location: Online
Link
Oct
3
2025
Mikey Muhanna in conversation with Julia Elyachar
Afikra Podcast
Interview
Julia Elyachar in conversation with Mikey Muhanna on the afikra Podcast. 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.
Location: Online
Link
Sep
19
2025
Fatima Seck interviews Julia Elyachar
Conversations in Atlantic Theory, Journal of French and Francophone philosophy
Interview
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.
Location: Online
Link
Sep
10
2025
Semicivilized Finance: Learning from the Ottoman Sarraf
Doll Lecture on Religion and Money, Center for Culture, Society, and Religion, Princeton University
Lecture
Using historical anthropology, Elyachar examines the sarraf ("money-changer" or "banker") as a node in dynamic financial relationships deemed "semicivilized".
Location: 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Link
Apr
24
2025
Book Talk: On the Semi-Civilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Book talk
Elyachar discusses her new book On the Semi-Civilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty.
Location: 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Link
Mar
18
2025
Financialized Counterinsurgency: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Remaking of Cairo after 2013
Centre for Gulf Studies, University of Exeter
Seminar
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.
Location: Online Centre for Gulf Studies | University of Exeter
Link
May
14
200
Book Talk
IMTFI, Dept of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Hybrid Book Talk
Youtube link for talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8toiyXzGdg
Location: Room 101, Example University / Online