Panel 1A: Applying Fanon

(Chair: Sonia Lamrani)

Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level

Panel 1B: Translations, prefaces, readings

(Chair: Clare Finburgh Deljani)

Room 261, 2^nd Floor

1

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 (University of St Andrews), ‘Témoignages d’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 1C: Psychiatry, trauma, healing (Chair: Dónal Hassett)

Room 264, 2^nd Floor

1

Fadila Yahou (Université Paris 1 Sorbonne), ‘Frantz Fanon, un psychiatre dans
 la Révolution algérienne’

2

Benjamin Dalton and Andrew Ainscough (Lancaster University),

‘Fanon, the hospital, and performance: imagining anti-racist clinical architecture across Fanon, theatre, and Caryl Churchill’s The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution (1990)’

3

Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University University-Newark), ‘Frantz Fanon and Diasporic Sociogeny: Theorizing Contemporary Narratives of Transgenerational Trauma’

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, 2^nd 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, 2^nd Floor

1

Keithley Woolward (Columbia University Paris Global Center),

‘Engaging Fanon’s biography from the Caribbean’

2

Phoebe Braithwaite (Harvard University),

‘The Half-Lives of Frantz Fanon: Fanon and Biography’

3

Patrick Crowley (University of Galway),

‘Memmi’s ‘La Vie Impossible de Fanon’ and the Constraints of the Biographical Portrait’

4

Jessica Breakey (University College London),

‘Unpacking Josie Fanon’s Library’

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

Panel 3B: Theatre, performance, speech

(Chair: Aedín Ni Loingsigh)

Room 261, 2^nd Floor

1

Don Joseph (University of Missouri),

‘Colonial Trauma and Fragmented Identities: Reading Nedjma Through Fanonian Psychiatry’

1

Felicity Bromley-Hall (University of Nottingham), ‘The Love That Makes You Live to the Power of Two: Frantz Fanon, the Playwright’

2

Katelyn E Knox (Louisiana State University), ‘History’s Static: Aural Insurgency, Tinnitus, and (Post)colonial Politics in Bessora’s Deux bébés et l’addition’

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

John Walsh (University of Pittsburgh),

‘Seeing Haiti Otherwise: The Documentary, Oppositional Gaze of Arnold Antonin’s Thus Spoke the Sea’

3

Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths),

‘Fanon’s Grinner-Tricksters in Postcolonial Performance’

4

Jennifer Boum Make (Georgetown University), ‘Reimagining Care and Relationship to the Medical: The Work of Projet Amazones Across France d’Outre-Mer’

Panel 3C: Violence, Counter-Violence, War (Chair: Patrick Crowley)

Room 264, 2^nd 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

Kylie Erfani (George Mason University),‘Demystifying Violence in Fanon’s
Wretched of the Earth’

4

David Murphy (University of Strathclyde), ‘Black Skin, White Hearts: Fanon and the tirailleurs sénégalais’ 

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, 2^nd 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

Doyle Calhoun (University of Cambridge), ‘Negritude in “Homosexual Terrain”: Fanon and Ouologuem read Senghor’

2

Jihad Azahrai (Columbia University), ‘Echoes of Fanon: Intergenerational Tensions and Colonial Memory in La Discrétion’

3

Marshall L. Smith (Swarthmore College), ‘Remapping Atmospheres of Uncertainty: Fanon and the Plantation Americas’

3

Ekua Agha (independent scholar), ‘In Praise of Popular Memory: Frantz Fanon’s influence on Francophone African Literature and Cinema’

4

Elisa Reato (Paris, Nanterre) ‘Fanon lecteur de Sartre : décoloniser le regard’

Panel 4C: Audio and Visual Fanon (Chair: Laura Kennedy)

Room 264, 2^nd 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’

 Panel 5A: Decolonial Fanon (Chair: Sinan Richards)

Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level.

Panel 5B: Fanon et Sartre en conversation

 (Chair: tbc)

Room 261, 2^nd 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), ‘Les Damnés 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

Mickaëlle Provost (Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne), ‘Oppression-liberté : penser les résistances politiques avec Frantz Fanon’

4

Luiza Duarte Caetano (University of Michigan), ‘Decolonization’s Futures through Revolutionary Pasts: Reading Fanon through Louise Michel’

  Panel 5C: The Nation/national culture (Chair: David Murphy)

 Room 264, 2^nd Floor

1

John Lancaster (University of Central Florida), ‘Marianne Unveiled: Negotiating Beur Identity in 1980s France within the MRAP’s Publication Différences’

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’

4

Suleikha Sutter (University of California), ‘Escaping the Zone of Non-Being: Recognition and Belonging in the Color-Blind state’

Panel 6A: Beyond the Human: Race, Landscapes and Animal Forms (Chair: Jane Hiddleston)

Chancellors Hall, Mezzanine Level

Panel 6B: Fanon sans frontières: music, history, and the future (Chair: Martin Munro)

Room 261, 2^nd 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, and

Daniel 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, 2^nd Floor

1

Boulou Ebanda de B’beri (University of Ottawa), ‘Fanonian Global Interventions before Globalisation: A Model of Transgeographical Practice of Identity’

2

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’

3

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’

4

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’