15.00-16.30: Research Excellence Framework 2029 information session
Jane Stuart-Smith & Susan Harrow (Chair + Deputy Chair, UoA 26, Modern Languages and Linguistics)
17.00: Film Screening, Les Chroniques de Blida (Dir. Abdenour Zahzah, 2024)
DAY 1 – Friday 5 December 2025
8.45: Registration, Coffee/Tea
9.15-10.15: Keynote 1 – The Kate Marsh Memorial Lecture: Sinan Richards (University College Cork), ‘”Une atmosphère de fin du monde”: Fanon on the trigger of disenclosure’. Chair: Laura Kennedy. Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level.
Helen McKelvey (University of Glasgow),‘Black skin, white habits: Whitewashing Marie Kaïsale’
1
Nick Harrison (Kings College London),‘Tout le reste est littérature’
2
Weibing Ni (University of Cambridge),‘A Fanonian Reading of Counter-Violence: Violent Resistance by Racialised Others in the Works of Albert Camus and William Faulkner’
2
Felisa Vergara Reynolds (University of Illinois),‘On the Politics of Introduction: Paratexts, Praxis, and the Debris of Empire’
3
Kate Mackenzie (independent scholar), ‘Témoignagesd’enfants: Fanon in and through the child’s gaze’
3
Jacqueline Couti (Rice University), ‘Fanon, lecteur de l’entre-deux : entre lectures locale et globale’
Panel 2A: Philosophy, theory, ethics(Chair: Mary Gallagher)Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level
Panel 2B: Fanon, Decoloniality, and the Resistance Frameworks of Visual Culture (Chair: Adlai Murdoch)Room 261, 2nd Floor
1
Philippe Le Goff (University of Warwick),‘Fanon, humanism and the ‘zone de non-être’’
1
Kris F. Sealey (Penn State),‘Making Memory Anew: Caribbean Poetics and Symbolic Visuality in Brand and Walcott’
2
David Ventura (Newcastle University),‘Refiguring the Ambivalence of Refusal with Fanon and Glissant’
2
Adlai Murdoch (Penn State),‘Antillean Antinomies of Opposition and Decoloniality: Combatting Napoleon and Decolonial Resistance avant la lettre’
3
Godesulloh Joshua Bawa (Cornell University),‘An Anti-Theorist Reading of Frantz Fanon: Agency, Dignity and A Challenge to How We Think About Ethics’
3
Anjali Prabhu (UCLA),‘Frantz Fanon, Decolonization, and Cinema: “I Wait for Me” or Mati Diop’s Aesthetics of Movement’
4
Maya Boutaghou (University of Virginia),‘Frantz Fanon et la philosophie du langage’
4
Diaa Alsersawi (UCLA),‘Rethinking Fanon’s Legacy in Third Cinema: A Study of Elia Suleiman’s Film Work’
Panel 2C: Biographies; the personal (Chair: Nick Harrison)Room 264, 2nd Floor
1
Keithley Woolward (Columbia University Paris Global Center),‘Engaging Fanon’s biography from the Caribbean’
2
Patrick Crowley (University of Galway),‘Memmi’s ‘La Vie Impossible de Fanon’ and the Constraints of the Biographical Portrait’
3
Jessica Breakey (University College London),‘Unpacking Josie Fanon’s Library’
15.15-15.45: Coffee break
15.45- 17.30: Parallel Sessions (3)
Panel 3A:Diagnostician of the Colonial Condition: the Legacy of Fanon in Repairing and Reimagining Fractured Lives, Voices, and Environments(Chair: Jennifer Boum Make)Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level
Don Joseph (University of Missouri),‘Colonial Trauma and Fragmented Identities: Reading Nedjma Through Fanonian Psychiatry’
1
Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths),‘Fanon’s Grinner-Tricksters in Postcolonial Performance’
2
John Walsh (University of Pittsburgh),‘Seeing Haiti Otherwise: The Documentary, Oppositional Gaze of Arnold Antonin’s Thus Spoke the Sea’
2
Nicola Lamri (Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France/Università di Bologna), ‘Sur la voie des Damnés : le discours inédit de Fanon devant le Conseil de l’Assemblée mondiale de la jeunesse, Accra 1960’
3
Jennifer Boum Make (Georgetown University), ‘Reimagining Care and Relationship to the Medical: The Work of Projet Amazones Across France d’Outre-Mer’
3
Felicity Bromley-Hall (University of Nottingham), ‘The Love That Makes You Live to the Power of Two: Frantz Fanon, the Playwright’
Panel 3C: Violence, Counter-Violence, War (Chair: Patrick Crowley)Room 264, 2nd Floor
1
Dónal Hassett (Maynooth University), ‘‘The Muslim, in general, was not too troubled by the emotions of the war’: The Influence of the First World War on the Rise of Colonial Psychiatry’
2
Lou Khalfaoui (University of Leeds), ‘“Modernity by breaking and entering”: the categorization of colonial violence in French Algerian official discourses (1999-2012)’
3
David Murphy (University of Strathclyde), ‘Black Skin, White Hearts: Fanon and the tirailleurssénégalais’
17.30-18.30: Keynote 2 – The Dorothy Blair Memorial Lecture: Professor Kathryn Batchelor (University College London), ‘Decoloniality and/versus Postcolonialism: Fanon’s Place’. Chair: Maeve McCusker. Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level.
18.30-19.30: Vin d’honneur, generously sponsored by Liverpool University Press. Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level.
20.00: Conference Dinner: Tas Restaurant, 22 Bloomsbury Street WC1B 3QJ (pre-booked with registration)
DAY 2 – Saturday 6th December 2025
9.00-10.45 Parallel Sessions (4)
Panel 4A: Queer and Trans Approaches to Fanon(Chair: Keithley Woolward)Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level
Panel 4B: Fanon in dialogue (Chair: Helen McKelvey)Room 261, 2nd Floor
1
Beshouy Botros (Yale University), ‘Frantz Fanon, Algerian Medical Encounters, and the Colonial History of the Gender Clinic’
1
Hanna Bechiche (University of Cambridge), ’For a Return to “the Dark Night”: Tahar Djaout and the Violence of Heliocentrism’
2
Marshall L. Smith (Swarthmore College), ‘Remapping Atmospheres of Uncertainty: Fanon and the Plantation Americas’
2
Jihad Azahrai (Columbia University), ‘Echoes of Fanon: Intergenerational Tensions and Colonial Memory in La Discrétion’
3
Ekua Agha (independent scholar), ‘In Praise of Popular Memory: Frantz Fanon’s influence on Francophone African Literature and Cinema’
4
Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), ‘Fanon and Diasporic “Sociogeny” through the lens of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (2001)’
Panel 4C: Audio and Visual Fanon (Chair: Laura Kennedy)Room 264, 2nd Floor
1
Roxanna Curto (University of Iowa), ‘Fanon’s Thoughts on the Radio in Algeria’
2
Erin K. Twohig (Georgetown University), ‘Sport, Liberation, and Violence: a Fanonian reading of Un maillot pour l’Algérie’
3
Charles Forsdick (University of Cambridge), ‘Fanon and the graphic novel’
4
John Drabinski (University of Maryland), ‘Fanon, Music, and Racial Time’
10.45-11.15: Coffee Break
11.15-13.00: Parallel Sessions (5)
Panel 5A: Decolonial Fanon (Chair: Sinan Richards)Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level.
Panel 5B: Fanon et Sartre en conversation(Chair: Louise Mai)Room 261, 2nd Floor
1
Fraser McQueen (University of Bristol), ‘Fanon, Decolonial Thought, and the French Far Right: Historical Continuities’
1
Maririta Guerbo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), ‘LesDamnés de la terre entre sociétés froides et sociétés chaudes : Fanon lecteur de Sartre et de Lévi-Strauss’
2
Sonia Lamrani (University of Boumerdes), ‘Diverging Approaches to Decoloniality in the Writings of Fanon, Memmi, and Bennabi’
2
Louise Mai (Sorbonne Université), ‘Situation et sociogenèse : penser et écrire le trouble psychique avec Fanon et Sartre’
3
Rehnuma Sazzad (School of Advanced Study),‘Frantz Fanon: Revolution, Resistance, and Radical Humanism’
3
Elisa Reato (Paris, Nanterre) ‘Fanon lecteur de Sartre : décoloniser le regard’
4
Fadila Yahou (Université Paris 1 Sorbonne), ‘Frantz Fanon, un psychiatre dans la Révolution algérienne’
Panel 5C: The Nation/national culture (Chair: David Murphy) Room 264, 2nd Floor
1
Suleikha Sutter (University of California), ‘Escaping the Zone of Non-Being: Recognition and Belonging in the Color-Blind state’
2
Valerie K. Orlando (University of Maryland), ‘The New Man and the Poetics of a Nation, 1950-1979: Fanon’s Legacy Written into the Algerian New Novel’
3
Yan Bylon (Université de Poitiers), ‘L’écriture de l’intellectuel colonisé, son scandale et le rapport à la culture nationale’
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.45: Parallel Sessions (6)
Panel 6A: Beyond the Human: Race, Landscapes and Animal Forms (Chair: Jane Hiddleston)Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level
Panel 6B: Fanon beyond frontiers: music, history, and the future (Chair: Martin Munro)Room 261, 2nd Floor
1
Cécile Bishop (University of Oxford), ‘The Becoming-Insect of Frantz Fanon: Blackness, Form, and Lived Experience’
1
Mehdi Chalmers (Florida State University), ‘Calling Fanon, Response Coursil: Jacques Coursil’s Jazz Oratorio, Homage and dialogue with Frantz Fanon’
2
Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford), ‘Mask or Camouflage? Frantz Fanon, Suzanne Césaire, andDaniel Maximin on Decolonial Ecology’
2
Martin Munro (Florida State University), ‘MacFanon’
3
Abigail E. Celis (Université de Montréal), ‘Decolonial Forgetting in Abdessamad El Montassir’s Trab’ssahl’
3
Beya Behi (Florida State University), ‘The New Hu(man): politics of Indigenous Futurism’
4
Jackqueline Frost (University of London Institute in Paris), ‘La désintégration atomique: Fanon and Nuclear Imperialism’
Panel 6C: International Fanon? (Chair: Kathryn Batchelor)Room 264, 2nd Floor
1
Christ-Levy Leboba (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia), ‘Les “Damnés Noirs” au sein de la République argentine : Racisme institutionnel durant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle’
2
Cid V. Brunet and Ariane Hanemaayer (University of British Columbia/Brandon University), ‘Barnardo’s “littlest pilgrims” build a nation: Critical and effective history meets creative historical nonfiction’
3
Mary Gallagher (University College Dublin), ‘Retroactive Illumination: Fanon’s Damnés de la terre and the self-positioning of an Irish writer’s 1909 novel on Belgian Congo atrocities’
15.45-16.15: Coffee Break
16.15-17.15: Author meets critics: Azzedine Haddour meets Muriam Davis, Patrick Crowley, Jane Hiddleston, Sinan Richards, to mark the publication of Frantz Fanon, Gender, Torture and the Biopolitics of Colonialism (Pluto, 2025).
Chair: Charles Forsdick. Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level.
17.30-18.30: Keynote 3: Muriam Davis (UC Santa Cruz), ‘Fanon between Decolonization and Decoloniality: An Algerian Analysis’. Chair: Patrick Crowley. Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level.
