Thinking about Decolonialism

The event is organized in partnership with the Book World Prague, French Institute in Prague, Karolinum, and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Come meet writer, political scientist, and feminist activist Françoise Vergès at the Prague Book Fair. Together with Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, they will explore how colonial histories continue to shape contemporary politics, memories, and narratives. Together, they will reflect on the power of writing, literature, and activism to give voice to silenced pasts and imagine more just futures.

At 3 p.m., Françoise Vergès will be at the Francophone booth to sign copies of her book Decolonial feminism, published in French by La Fabrique in 2019, and in Czech in 2025 by Karolinum in a translation by Markéta Jakešová. Decolonial feminism is an invitation to reconnect with the utopian power of feminism, that is, with an imagination capable of bringing about a radical transformation of society.

Françoise Vergès is currently Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racialization at UCL, London, winner of the Bannister Fletcher Fellowship 2025, and a member of the scientific board of the Foundation for the remembrance of slavery. Her latest publications include Making the World Clean; Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism (Goldsmiths Press, 2024).

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