Françoise Vergès discusses her book Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism at SOAS, 20 November 2025. Discussants Helen Malhotra and Lisa Tilley join her to respond to her book.

This is the sixth event for 2025 as part of the Histories of Capitalism and Race seminar series. The theme for the autumn semester of 2025 is Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic.