In the next conversation of our ongoing series on Colonial Histories Vijay Prashad and Françoise Vergès, will join us to discuss how a new global order is being formed.

What kind of future is emerging as one imperial order declines? Where are today’s struggles really taking place — over resources, borders, debt, migration, technology, labour, political imagination, or entirely new forms of sovereignty? And how are former colonies reshaping the world order rather than simply reacting to it?

Vijay Prashad has just returned from travels across East and West Africa, where he was able to witness firsthand the political shifts unfolding across the continent. Françoise Vergès has spent years examining the unfinished business of colonialism — how imperial power survives inside institutions, labour systems, borders, museums, care work, and everyday life. Her recent talks and interventions have focused on decolonial feminism, racial capitalism, the afterlives of empire, and the political relationship between former colonies and imperial centres. Recent lectures include There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present at the Stuart Hall Foundation in London and public conversations on decolonial feminism and the colonial present in Europe.

Françoise Vergès is a political theorist, historian, curator, and one of the leading voices in decolonial thought. Born on Réunion Island and shaped by anti-colonial struggles, her work focuses on colonial afterlives, racial capitalism, feminism, migration, labour, and the unfinished relationship between colonies and imperial centres. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, The Wombs of Women, and the recent A Program of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum. In recent lectures and public conversations, she has explored how colonialism survives inside contemporary institutions — from borders and museums to care work and labour systems — arguing that empire did not disappear but changed form.

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, and one of the best-known public intellectuals writing about imperialism, the Global South, and postcolonial politics. He is the executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief correspondent at Globetrotter, and editor of LeftWord Books in New Delhi. He has written more than forty books, including The Darker Nations, The Poorer Nations, Washington Bullets, and The Withdrawal, co-written with Noam Chomsky. His work explores anti-colonial struggles, shifting global power, and the decline of Western hegemony through the perspective of the Global Majority.

The conversation will be streamed live at this link on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0ss4nCR7g