“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”
— Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
The Afterlives of Fanon Research Collective is the institutional home for graduate scholarship on decolonization, anti-colonialism, and liberation at UC Berkeley, providing a space to think with Fanon’s work and its afterlives through an interdisciplinary geographic lens.
The initiative is housed between the Berkeley Black Geographies Project, Social Science Matrix, and Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Friday May 10, 2024
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UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix
Dr. Sophia Azeb, Keynote Speaker
Sophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sophia’s current book project, “Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab,” explores the currents of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American, Afro-Caribbean, African, and Afro-Arab peoples across 20th century North Africa and Europe. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2022, Sophia was a member of the faculty collective that founded the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago.
We are honored to welcome Prof. Azeb as the keynote speaker for the Decolonization and Afterlives of Fanon Conference.
