About

The Afterlives of Fanon Research Collective

The Afterlives of Fanon Research Collective is a collaborative graduate student-led project housed across the Berkeley Black Geographies Project, Social Science Matrix, and Townsend Center for the Humanities. Our urgent interest in Fanon's work emerges from collective geographic concerns that converge on reckoning with colonialism's planetary residues in our present times.

Anti-colonial intellectual Frantz Fanon drew upon his experiences as Black Caribbean colonial subject, as psychiatrist, and as FLN member to produce some of the most profound anti-colonial thinking and writing of the twentieth century. Using analytical frameworks from interdisciplinary fields including Black geographies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology, the Collective grounds our thinking, writing, and practice in concrete historical and geographic contexts where Fanon’s work has been taken up and stretched in new directions.

The Decolonization and Afterlives of Fanon Conference will take place on May 10, 2024, at UC Berkeley’s Social Science Matrix, located on the 8th floor of the Social Sciences Building. Pre-registration is mandatory, and masks will be encouraged at all events. For additional information, please see our call for proposals, schedule of events, or contact us at afterlivesoffanon[at]proton.me.

Accessibility

The Social Science Matrix is wheelchair accessible via the entrance on South Hall Road, which can be accessed from Bancroft Way via Barrow Lane. The event will be live-streamed with closed captioning available. Masks will be encouraged and available to conference attendees. For more information or inquiries about accessibility, please contact our conference coordinating committee at afterlivesoffanon@proton.me.

Organizers

Adam Hasan (Dept. of Geography)

Andrea Lara-Garcia (Dept. of Geography)

Edward Martin (Geography)

Jasmine Martin (Geography)

Dion Nataraja (Music)