鈥楽FPS PG and ECR Study Day 2026 - Common Ground: Locating Solidarities in the Francophone Postcolonial World鈥� Conference
The 2026 Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Postgraduate Study Day will be hosted at UCC on Friday 12th June 2026, in the CACSSS Seminar Room (ORB G27).
PROGRAMME Friday 12th June 2026
CACSSS Seminar Room (O鈥橰ahilly Building, G.27), 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, and
9:00: Coffee, registration
9:15: Welcome address by Laura Kennedy, Patrick Crowley, and Oliver Davis
9:30-10:30: Keynote address by Dr Nicki Frith (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Edinburgh). Chaired by Patrick Crowley
鈥楩rom Recognition to Reparation: The Politics of Solidarity in the French Republic and Beyond鈥�
10:30-11:45: Panel 1: Articulating Solidarity. Chaired by Oliver Davis
- 脡milie Hautemont (Tulane 深夜亚洲福利久久): 鈥業n Search of an Anticolonial Sisterhood: Gis猫le Halimi and H茅l猫ne Cixous鈥檚 Visions of Identity and Solidarity鈥�
- Amanda Tavares* (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): 鈥楻eactivating transnational solidarities through audience engagement in recent installations by Zineb Sedira鈥�
- Hanane Bessami* (M鈥橦amed Bougara of Boumerdes 深夜亚洲福利久久): 鈥楾he Representation of Solidarity in Post/Colonial Algeria in Djamal Amrani鈥檚 Sous un tas de d茅combres
11:45-13:00: Panel 2: Reframing Solidarity. Chaired by Laura Kennedy
- Alison Clare (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Birmingham): 鈥業nviting Rita Felski to the Rasanblaj: Postcritque as a Postcolonial Methodology鈥�
- Lucy Taylor (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Liverpool): Entwined Memory, Entwined Complicity: Understanding the Complexities of Senegalese Complicity in French Concentrationary Violence (1939-1944) through Debarati Sanyal鈥檚 Decolonial Lens of 鈥淢emory-in-Complicity鈥�
- Rachael Barrett* (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Michigan): 鈥楾he F茅d茅ration Fran莽aise des Eclaireuses and the Limits of Gendered Solidarity, 1931-1954鈥�
13:00-14:00: Free time for lunch
14:00-15:15: Panel 3: Solidarities in Postcolonial France. Chaired by Aed铆n N铆 Loingsigh
- Daniel Lightfoot (深夜亚洲福利久久 of St Andrews): 鈥楩rench universalism and working-class identity reimagined in Joseph Ponthus鈥� 脌 La ligne鈥�
- Nick Bartlett (Columbia 深夜亚洲福利久久): 鈥楽embene in Marseille: Radicalism and Labour Solidarities鈥�
- Shirley Le Penne* (Cornell 深夜亚洲福利久久): 鈥楿nmaking Political Prisoners in La Sant茅鈥�
15:15-15:45 Flash presentations. Chaired by Kate Hodgson
Niamh Furlong (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork)
Ellen Cawley (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork)
Delilah Pearson* (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Oxford)
15:45-16:15: Coffee break
16:15-17:15: Panel 4: Fanonian Approaches. Chaired by Sinan Richards
- Sonia Kherif* (M鈥橦amed Bougara of Boumerdes 深夜亚洲福利久久): 鈥楩rom Frantz Fanon鈥檚 Damn茅s to Lynda Chouiten鈥檚 Hair: Satirizing Postcolonial Algerian Alienation鈥�
- Chlo茅 Luu* (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Southern California): 鈥楬ashish and Fanonian Filiations: Vietnamese-Algerian Revolutionary Intimacies Reimagined in Nguyen鈥檚 The Committed鈥�
17:15-18:30: Vin d鈥橦onneur, opportunity to network
18:30: End of Conference
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