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@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social (past and present) reunion at #SFPS25 !!
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Saturday afternoon and #sfps25 is still going strong with a panel on “Beyond the Human: Race, Landscapes and Animal Forms”
A large conference room with two screens and one speaker at a podium
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Q&A from a brilliant panel on “The Nation/national culture” with @suleikhasutter.bsky.social, Valerie Orlando, and Yan Bylon #sfps25
Three people sitting at the front of a conference room, listening to audience members asking questions
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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A big thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social who not only sponsor our #sfps25 conference, but have also made sure academic work in Francophone Postcolonial Studies stays front and center : including at our conference venue, with commissioning editor @ibirks.bsky.social
Table with LUP books, journals, and flyers, with woman standing behind table
December 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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We’re back for day two of #sfps25! Another full day of panels celebrating 100 years of Frantz Fanon

Image from @cforsdick.bsky.social’s excellent presentation on “Fanon’s Graphic Afterlives”
Three pictures of BD featuring Fanon
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Dispatches from other parallel #SFPS25 panels! This one sounds great
donalh.bsky.social Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 2d
Jessica Breakey giving an absolutely fascinating paper on Josie Fanon through an analysis of her library. Wonderful that Josie is getting the attention she deserves as an activist, journalist, feminist, radical thinker and woman who made history rather than just witnessing it. @sfps.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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YES, and this panel was phenomenal! #sfps25
doctorjc.bsky.social Jacqueline Couti @doctorjc.bsky.social · 2d
@sfhs.bsky.social 🔥 SFPS Annual Conference 2025: Fanon at 100, Revolutionary Afterlives is on🔥
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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So many good #SFPS25 panels, if only I could be everywhere at once- currently in panel 2A hearing papers on "Philosophy, Theory, Ethics"
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’
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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For those looking to read more following our first #SFPS25 keynote!
maybenansi.bsky.social Maybe: Sinan @maybenansi.bsky.social · 4d
Really proud of my new free-to-access article on Fanon, Tosquelles and Lacan on madness and triggering the end of the colonial world !

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Screenshot of the first page of the paper (includes title and abstract)
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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And finally, to round off this excellent panel, Jacquline Couti on ‘Fanon, lecteur de l’entre-deux : entre lectures locale et globale’ #SFPS25
Screen with the title "Fanon, lecteur de l'entre-deux" and speaker seated to the right
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Felisa Vergara Reynolds on (re)reading Fanon, and what we retain from our readings, to a very receptive audience full of Fanon (re)readers #SFPS25
A full conference room listening to a seated speaker at the front of the audience
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Clare Finburgh Deljani introduces Nick Harrison for his talk "Tout le reste est littérature" for our panel on Fanon and "Translations, prefaces, readings" #SFPS25
Panel chair holding a laptop speaks in front of a screen, the conference presenter sits behind a desk to the right of the screen
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Thanks to @maybenansi.bsky.social for this excellent #SFPS25 keynote, getting us off to a great start
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Nice audience for the #SFPS25 keynote on a Friday morning:
a group of people seated and facing a stage, where a speaker stands behind a podium. On the screen behind the speaker are images, including a photo of Frantz Fanon
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Our amazing conference organizer for #SFPS25!
laurapkennedy.bsky.social Laura Kennedy @laurapkennedy.bsky.social · 2d
Ready to go for our annual SFPS conference, on Fanon at 100! Really looking forward to catching up with colleagues, meeting new ones, and hearing so many wonderful interventions, particularly keynote paper from my @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social colleague @maybenansi.bsky.social
#SFPS2025
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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First we have the first of three keynotes: The Kate Marsh Memorial Lecture by Sinan Richards (University College Cork), ‘”Une atmosphère de fin du monde”: Fanon on the trigger of disenclosure’. #SFPS25
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Senate House is all decked out, and it's time for #SFPS25!
Large staircase with christmas decorations, christmas tree at the top of the stairs
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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It's a glorious winter morning in London, and we're ready to kick off two days of panels at #SFPS25

(This is @erinktwohig.bsky.social - one of the SFPS publicity officers - and I'll be sharing a bit from our official account over the next couple days)
Picture of the Senate House in London, with blue skies behind
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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#SFPS25 already off to an excellent start, with this fantastic film. More info about it here: www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3...
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Just a few more days until our annual conference: Fanon at 100: revolutionary afterlives. December 4-6th 2025 at the ILCS Senate House, London.

Here's a link to the most recently-updated program:

sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-...

Let us know if you'll be there, and feel free to share using #SFPS25
Forthcoming Events – Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
sfps.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM