‘SFPS PG and ECR Study Day 2026 - Common Ground: Locating Solidarities in the Francophone Postcolonial World’ Conference
9 Jun 2026
Happening On
12/06/2026
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’Rahilly Building, G.27), University College Cork, and
online.
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 (University of Edinburgh). Chaired by Patrick Crowley
‘From Recognition to Reparation: The Politics of Solidarity in the French Republic and Beyond’
10:30-11:45: Panel 1: Articulating Solidarity. Chaired by Oliver Davis
- Émilie Hautemont (Tulane University): ‘In Search of an Anticolonial Sisterhood: Gisèle Halimi and Hélène Cixous’s Visions of Identity and Solidarity’
- Amanda Tavares* (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): ‘Reactivating transnational solidarities through audience engagement in recent installations by Zineb Sedira’
- Hanane Bessami* (M’Hamed Bougara of Boumerdes University): ‘The Representation of Solidarity in Post/Colonial Algeria in Djamal Amrani’s Sous un tas de décombres
11:45-13:00: Panel 2: Reframing Solidarity. Chaired by Laura Kennedy
- Alison Clare (University of Birmingham): ‘Inviting Rita Felski to the Rasanblaj: Postcritque as a Postcolonial Methodology’
- Lucy Taylor (University of Liverpool): Entwined Memory, Entwined Complicity: Understanding the Complexities of Senegalese Complicity in French Concentrationary Violence (1939-1944) through Debarati Sanyal’s Decolonial Lens of “Memory-in-Complicity”
- Rachael Barrett* (University of Michigan): ‘The Fédération Française des Eclaireuses and the Limits of Gendered Solidarity, 1931-1954’
13:00-14:00: Free time for lunch
14:00-15:15: Panel 3: Solidarities in Postcolonial France. Chaired by Aedín Ní Loingsigh
- Daniel Lightfoot (University of St Andrews): ‘French universalism and working-class identity reimagined in Joseph Ponthus’ À La ligne’
- Nick Bartlett (Columbia University): ‘Sembene in Marseille: Radicalism and Labour Solidarities’
- Shirley Le Penne* (Cornell University): ‘Unmaking Political Prisoners in La Santé’
15:15-15:45 Flash presentations. Chaired by Kate Hodgson
Niamh Furlong (University College Cork)
Ellen Cawley (University College Cork)
Delilah Pearson* (University of Oxford)
15:45-16:15: Coffee break
16:15-17:15: Panel 4: Fanonian Approaches. Chaired by Sinan Richards
- Sonia Kherif* (M’Hamed Bougara of Boumerdes University): ‘From Frantz Fanon’s Damnés to Lynda Chouiten’s Hair: Satirizing Postcolonial Algerian Alienation’
- Chloé Luu* (University of Southern California): ‘Hashish and Fanonian Filiations: Vietnamese-Algerian Revolutionary Intimacies Reimagined in Nguyen’s The Committed’
17:15-18:30: Vin d’Honneur, opportunity to network
18:30: End of Conference
*online presentation
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