CFP: Fanon's Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100

In June 2025 Birkbeck College, University of London will host an international conference on Frantz Fanon, to mark the centenary year of Fanon’s birth.

The program committee is looking to include a further two papers for presentation at the conference. Many of the confirmed speakers have a primarily philosophical research background, and the expectation is that many of the papers will consequently be philosophical in the first instance. However as befits the nature of Fanon’s own work, interdisciplinarity is encouraged in submissions for the event.

It is the aim of the workshop to cover or at the very least subsidize all travel, accommodation and dining expenses for the two scholars accepted for presentation. We especially welcome submissions from individuals from underrepresented groups in academia, and from graduate students working on Fanon and related figures/topics.

Papers presented on the main program will presumptively be published in an edited monograph or guest edited special journal issue. 

Topics could include, but are not limited to:
-Fanon and health
-Fanon and psychiatry
-Fanon and phenomenology
-Affects and emotions
-Theories of recognition
-Pathologies, broadly construed
-Fanon and conceptions of the human
-Fanon and ethics/metaethics
-Racism and the unconscious
-Theories of action in Fanon

Submission of abstracts:

Full papers should be prepared for blind review and sent by January 31st 2025, 17:00 GMT

Send papers as a PDF file to: [email protected] 

In the body of your email, include your (i) paper title, (ii) name, (iii) institutional affiliation, and (iv) contact information. The pdf file for the paper itself should contain no identifying information, including in the file’s meta-data.

The workshop’s program committee will evaluate submissions. The initial review of papers will be blind, although at the final stage, the committee may take into consideration the overall diversity of the program and its presenters.

It is intended that program decisions on all submissions will be announced on or before February 28th 2025.

Program Committee:
Richard Elliott (Philosophy, Birkbeck); Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Law, Birkbeck); Noemi Magnani (Philosophy, Birkbeck/Hertfordshire)

Questions can be directed to the Chair of the Program Committee, Richard Elliott: [email protected]

This event, as part of the 'Fanon at 100' Project, is organized under the auspices of the Birkbeck Centre for Philosophical Research in the School of Historical Studies, and the Birkbeck Faculty of Business and Law. The event receives generous external funding from the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and from The Aristotelian Society. The event is supported by the Institute of Philosophy, as part of the School of Advanced Studies.