• 20/05/2026

Nicky Falkof, "Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa"

Nicky Falkof discusses her book Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa at SOAS, 30 October 2025. Discussant Sharri Plonski joins her to respond to her book.

This is the fourth 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.

Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal"

Omar Cheta, "How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt"

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