Geopolitics, Settler Colonialism, and Eugenics

Wed Jun 10 2026 at 10:30 am to 06:00 pm UTC+01:00

G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre | London

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
Publisher/HostUCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
Geopolitics, Settler Colonialism, and Eugenics
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A colloquium hosted by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre
About this Event

Speakers include: Mona Bhan, Goldie Osuri, Toufic Haddad, Mehroosh Tak, Leon Sealey-Huggins, Lisa Tilley, Nivi Manchanda, Haris Zargar, Gargi Bhattacharyya

This event brings the key terms in this title into conversation during a time when the climate crisis and shifting geopolitical relations create a global landscape of extreme jeopardy for many. This time marks a continuation of colonial violence and renewed conversation around settler/colonialist land dispossession, racialised forms of elimination, the extractivist theft of the life-sustaining resources, alongside rapidly advancing technologies of mass M**der.

As we enter an escalated phase of technologised militarism and global conflict, the analytic repertoire arising from studies of settler colonialism suggests modes of understanding that can link the ecological and the geopolitical as part of the material practices of extractivism and eugenics. These practices are often narrated explicitly as a matter of capturing and enclosing access to resources for both established and would-be ‘great powers.’ This event brings together scholars and thinkers with expertise on geopolitics, ecology, extractivism, settler/colonialism and eugenics, across a number of contexts, in order to understand how these interconnected practices shape our global (dis)order.

The colloquium will be followed by a book conversation with Professor Mona Bhan (Syracuse University, US), Professor Gargi Bhattacharya (UCL) and author - Professor Goldie Osuri (University of Warwick) – on their book, Settler/Colonialism in Kashmir: sovereignty, catastrophe, indigeneity (MUP, 2026).

There will be a reception after the event.

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G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre, Ground floor of the Medawar Building Bloomsbury Campus, London, United Kingdom

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