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.

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

Q&A from a brilliant panel on “The Nation/national culture” with @suleikhasutter.bsky.social, Valerie Orlando, and Yan Bylon #sfps25

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

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

YES, and this panel was phenomenal! #sfps25

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!

Clare Finburgh Deljani introduces Nick Harrison for his talk "Tout le reste est littérature" for our panel on Fanon and "Translations, prefaces, readings" #SFPS25

Our amazing conference organizer for #SFPS25!

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)

#SFPS25 already off to an excellent start, with this fantastic film. More info about it here: www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3...

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

We’re delighted to support this year’s @sfps.bsky.social conference. Visit the conference website to browse the latest books in the Francophone Postcolonial Studies series—published in partnership with SFPS—and to read a selection of articles that are free to access for a limited time.

The conference marks the culmination of a year of events marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frantz Fanon, in Fort-de-France, Martinique. The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) Fanon at 100: revolutionary afterlives Dec 4-6th 2025 London

We at SFPS are pleased to acknowledge the continued generous support provided by @livunipress.bsky.social for this year's annual conference. LUP publish a range of cutting-edge research in Francophone studies that is likely to interest SFPS members. Read more 👇 sfps.org.uk/2025/11/14/l...

Finally drafting my paper for the @sfps.bsky.social conference on Fanon. I'll be talking about how the origins of the racist colonial psychiatry against which Fanon struggled in Algeria lay in the experience of mass mobilisaiton of colonial subjects during WWI.

This looks fantastic: great seminar series co-organised by @sfps.bsky.social book reviews editor Paola Sanges Ghetti. Wish Warwick campus wasn't so far away!

🎉 Contemporary French Civilization celebrates 50 years! Marking this milestone, the editorial team reflects in a special blog post—and explore the 50th Anniversary Virtual Issue, available free to read for a limited time. @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies

A new special issue of Contemporary French Civilization examines French & francophone documentary cinema in the new millennium. Essays explore aesthetic, ethical & political debates shaping the field. Browse the issue online at🔗 bit.ly/CFC-Vol-50-3 @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies

New issue of AJFS: “Corporeality: Critical Concerns in French & Francophone Studies” explores the body as vulnerability, creativity & resistance. The issue is dedicated to the memory of editor Professor Jarrod Hayes (1966–2025). 🔗 bit.ly/AJFS-62-3-4 @drchriswatkin.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that the Australian Society for French Studies are now accepting submissions for the Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize for 2025. 🏆 Find out more: bit.ly/JH-AJFS-Prize @sfhs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @profnatedwards.bsky.social

📖 Most read in Francosphères this week: 'Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce: Paradoxes of identity and visibility in the littérature-monde paradigm' by Lorenza Starace Read it #OpenAccess on the LUP website: bit.ly/Franc-Starace @sfps.bsky.social‬ @ilcs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies #intersectionality

Pleased to announce the publication with @livunipress.bsky.social of Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, co-edited with Nsah Mala @sfps.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

📢 New special issue of Contemporary French Civilization: Discourse & Society in the Global French-Speaking World. Explore research on language, identity & power across francophone contexts. Online at: bit.ly/Discourse-and-Society @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #DiscourseAnalysis #FrenchStudies

New pub: Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising How do the media market a fantasy vision of black women? @sfps.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social

Lectureship in the History of twentieth-century French Imperialism and Decolonisation at St Andrews @sfps.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN994/a...

📑 This week’s most read article from CFC Intersections: 'The limits of White hospitality in Marie Darrieussecq’s ‘La Mer à l’envers’', by Amanda Vredenburgh. Available to read online at: bit.ly/White-Hospitality @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies #intersectionality

Is there a better time to read and review books than summer? I don't think so - and I'm looking for reviewers for lots of titles for the Journal of Contemporary History. We now do review articles of up to 4,000 words, covering three books. These and many more are up for grabs:

The annual SFPS @sfps.bsky.social conference is also dedicated to Fanon. The programme looks excellent. More info here sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-...

Today is the last day to register for the SFPS Post-Graduate Study Day! All info, including the excellent program on the topic of “Colonial toxicity and ecologies of empire,” can be found here sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-...

The 2025 @sfps.bsky.social annual postgraduate study day at Cambridge provides an opportunity to learn more about research emerging at the intersection of Francophone postcolonial studies and the environmental humanities, v reduced fees for PG attendants: sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-...

There is still time to send your abstracts in for the @sfps.bsky.social postgraduate study day, on colonial toxicity and ecologies of empire, happening Friday 23rd May in University of Cambridge. Full CFP can be found here: sfps.org.uk/2025/03/18/c... Please share widely!

Volume 50.1 features the latest winner of the 12th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award, alongside articles on Marseille’s Prix de l’Évêché and “polars du Sud,” environmental discourses and Robert Bresson’s 1977 film 'Le diable probablement', and much more. Online at: bit.ly/CFC-50-1 @sfps.bsky.social

Excited to have just sent back the proofs for this volume co-edited with Nsah Mala. Publication in May 2025 with @livunipress.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Stirling is v cool and people should recommend this to their students or apply if they're interested 💚

Of potential interest: 6 funded PhDs (UK fees + stipend) at Stirling University's Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Deadline 18 April. All disciplinary backgrounds engaging with the Centre's research interests are welcome to apply. Further info available: placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

SFPS Essay Prize 2025 @sfps.bsky.social invites PhD students and early-career academics to submit a contribution for the annual SFPS Essay Prize. Submissions (5,000 words) must respond to the theme ‘The End(s) of Empire’ sfps.org.uk/sfps-essay-p...

Really honoured to have been invited to deliver the Kate Marsh keynote at @sfps.bsky.social in December this year. I’ll be talking about Fanon’s doomsday atmosphere… submit your abstracts and join us in London for what promises to be a wonderful conference!

Today's deadline day! Send in your abstracts, it's going to be a great conference.

The new Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, issue 14.2 edited by @saraharens.bsky.social is now live on our website! sfps.org.uk/bulletin-of-...

Please share: Happy to announce the 2025 @sfps.bsky.social Essay Prize! - open to PhD students and early-career academics/anyone who is not in tenure-track/permanent employment - deadline: 18 Apr 2025, 5pm GMT - winner (£100) and runner-up will be published All details: sfps.org.uk/sfps-essay-p...

Gentle reminder of the open CFP for the annual @sfps.bsky.social conference, on Fanon at 100, happening in the Senate House 5-6th December. It is particularly special to be welcoming my UCC colleague @maybenansi.bsky.social as one of our keynotes. We can’t wait to read your abstracts!