Cleansing the World. A Counter-Revolution Agenda

HUM:Global Semester Lecture with Françoise Vergès.

What are basic, vital, elemental needs? Why are they denied, and why do they constitute a terrain of decolonial antiracist politics? These are the questions Françoise Vergès explored in her 2025 book Making the World Clean. Wasted Lives, Wasted Environnement and Racial Environnement. At this spring’s HUM:Global Semester Lecture, Françoise Vergès will discuss these questions in the light of increased far-right policies, climate disaster, anti-migrant politics, genocides, and the renewed intensity of the long and global counter-revolution.

Space is limited; therefore, registration is required. Register here.

Bio

Françoise Vergès (Réunion Island/France) is a writer, decolonial antiracist feminist activist and independent curator. Recent publications: A Program of Absolute Disorder. Decolonizing the Museum (2024) and Making the World Clean. Wasted Lives, Wasted Environnement and Racial Capitalism (2025). She is currently working on a film on anti-colonial struggles in the southwest of the Indian Ocean based on the personal archives of her activist parents.