The Legacy of Fanon:  Contemporary Challenges to Racism and Oppression “What matters is not to know the world but to change it.” Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

 Liverpool Hope University Conference, Wednesday 5th September 2018 Registration 9-9:30am, Conference Close 5pm A conference exploring the ideas of Frantz Fanon. It will  provide a forum to critically interrogate the discourse, theories and experiences of racism, discrimination, oppression and readings of Fanon in the context of marginalised and oppressed groups, professionalism and daily life/experience. 

We invite interest to explore themes including (but not limited to): Social & community activism; Contemporary racism, Challenges to the notion of post-racism; Alienation; Mental/psychiatric health; Neo- and post-colonialism; and Gender/sexuality. 

We welcome contributions in the form of posters and conference papers from practitioners,  academics, students and those involved in service delivery. 

Deadline for submission is July 5 2018. 

Keynote speakers to include:  Prof. Erica Burman, author of Fanon, education, action: child as method (2018)

Prof. Lewis Gordon, author of What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life And Thought (2015) 

Dr. Leo Zeilig, author of Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher (2016)

Conference to be opened by Liverpool Hope Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Gerald Pillay 

Delegate costs Individual delegate £30 Students & unemployed/unwaged £20 Refreshments and lunch included  

Registration/payment accepted through Liverpool Hope Online Store  https://store.hope.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities 

For further information contact: Philomena Harrison [log in to unmask]; Alistair Jewell [log in to unmask]; Beverley Burke [log in to unmask]; Ismail Karolia 

Thanks.  Philomena Harrison