Hybrid seminar: 'Francophone Landscapes' @livunihss.bsky.social 29 April 2026 | 3-4.30pm UK time | directions and MS Teams link upon registration here: www.ticketsource.com/lcf-departme...

The new issue of the @sfps.bsky.social Bulletin has just been published! Featuring the joint winners and the runner-up to the 2025 SFPS Essay Prize, as well as the usual range of reviews of new books in the field. Bonne lecture! 1/ sfps.org.uk/bulletin-of-...

The programme for our Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Study Day is now up on the SFPS website, and it's looking like a really impressive set of talks! Registration form linked on the site:
sfps.org.uk/2026/04/02/s...

the @sfps.bsky.social 2026 CFP is out!

It's that time of year again! We've published the CFP for our annual conference, this year on the theme of "Postcolonial Temporalities," from Nov 20-21st 2026!

Please share and circulate widely within your networks! Abstracts due May 4

sfps.org.uk/2026/03/16/s...

The latest issue of Francospheres journal on a blue and pink gradient fade background with the LUP logo in white on the bottom right and the LUP and WKI logos at the bottom right of the page.

We are pleased to share that 2026 marks the beginning of the Winthrop-King Institute's sponsorship of Francosphères, where we welcome Martin Munro alongside Rebekah Vince as co-editor 🎉
Find out more: bit.ly/FRANK-WKI
@sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social @khalidlym.bsky.social

Please check out the below: this CFP will definitely be of interest to our followers!

Dear colleagues,   Please find below a CFP for the online conference I am organising with Nicki Hitchcott and Alice Karekezi on 'Belgium's Colonial Métis: Histories and Legacies' taking pl... Dear colleagues,   Please find below a CFP for the online conference I am organising with Nicki Hitchcott and Alice Karekezi on 'Belgium's Colonial Métis: Histories and Legacies' taking place on Frida...

Please click below for a LinkedIn post with the Call for Papers for the online conference I am organising with @nickihitchcott.bsky.social and Alice Karekezi on 'Belgium's Colonial Métis: Histories and Legacies'. It will take place on Friday 15 May 2026.
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The @sfps.bsky.social invites PhD and early-career academics (= anyone w/o a tenure-track position) to submit to the annual Essay Prize on ‘Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives’. This doesn’t have to be based on Fanon’s writings if you explain how his work shapes yours: sfps.org.uk/sfps-essay-p...

There is still plenty of time to send in your abstracts for the @sfps.bsky.social PG and ECR study day, happening Friday 12th June at UCC! Deadline for proposals is 2nd March!

Check out the CFP for our PG and ECR study day! Friday 12th June 2026, University College Cork. In-person and online- and the deadline for abstracts is March 2nd!

sfps.org.uk/2026/01/13/s...

Delighted to share the CFP for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate and ECR Study Day, happening on Friday 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social. This year we are also opening the call up to final-year UG students and MA students. Please share widely!

We look forward to welcoming early career scholars of francophone postcolonial studies to our campus in June! Make sure to send in your abstracts!

@sfps.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @afcork.bsky.social @adeffi.bsky.social

Image with the conference title “Fanon at 100: revolutionary afterlives - SFPS Conference 2025” with the label “this is a past event” at the top

Another successful conference in the books! Thanks to organisers @laurapkennedy.bsky.social and Sonia Lamrani, to @ilcs.bsky.social for hosting us in style, to @livunipress.bsky.social for their sponsorship, and especially to all the panelists for two days of thoughtful engagement w Fanon’s legacy

Former, longstanding and new colleagues of UCC French Department reunited at @sfps.bsky.social. happy times.

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Saturday afternoon and #sfps25 is still going strong with a panel on “Beyond the Human: Race, Landscapes and Animal Forms”

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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

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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

🪭 My panel was on fire🪭 I should not be allowed to present in French. I cracked so many jokes. Academia is serious business but we all have a good laugh 😂 Oh well! . #SFPS Annual Conference 2025. @sfhs.bsky.social

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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”

Given @erinktwohig.bsky.social would be too modest to share her own paper on the @sfps.bsky.social account, I'll do it for her. Great paper on Fanon and football through the FLN organised Algerian team.

Wrapping up a brilliant first day at SFPS. Such inspiring conversations, panels and research. It has been wonderful catching up with everyone and hearing about new projects. I will be back again tomorrow, so if you’re around, please do come and say hello! @livunipress.bsky.social #SFPS2025

Brilliant keynote by
Kathryn Batchelor @sfps.bsky.social #SFPS2025

Great panel on Violence, Counter-Violence, War at @sfps.bsky.social conference #sfps2025

Dispatches from other parallel #SFPS25 panels! This one sounds great

1 of 4 pictures of SFPS Panel 2A: each photo shows a speaker, from afar, standing behind a podium, speaking to a seated audience

1 of 4 pictures of SFPS Panel 2A: each photo shows a speaker, from afar, standing behind a podium, speaking to a seated audience

1 of 4 pictures of SFPS Panel 2A: each photo shows a speaker, from afar, standing behind a podium, speaking to a seated audience

1 of 4 pictures of SFPS Panel 2A: each photo shows a speaker, from afar, standing behind a podium, speaking to a seated audience

Our panelists, bring a diversity of approaches to the shared theme

YES, and this panel was phenomenal! #sfps25

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’

So many good #SFPS25 panels, if only I could be everywhere at once- currently in panel 2A hearing papers on "Philosophy, Theory, Ethics"

For those looking to read more following our first #SFPS25 keynote!

Screen with the title "Fanon, lecteur de l'entre-deux" and speaker seated to the right

And finally, to round off this excellent panel, Jacquline Couti on ‘Fanon, lecteur de l’entre-deux : entre lectures locale et globale’ #SFPS25