The Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) will hold its 2025 conference “Fanon at 100” from July 15 to July 20, at École Hanétha Vété-Congolo, in Dumaine, François, Martinique. Although this is an in-person conference, the organizers will be using Zoom for the CPA Award Ceremony and Plenaries. Here is the information needed for you to join us via Zoom for these events. (See description below.)
Description: At the conclusion of Les Damnés de la terre, Frantz Fanon calls for his contemporaries and subsequent generations to build new concepts and set afoot new ways of being human. His plea resonates powerfully today in epic struggles against attempts to drag us all into a romanticized past and/or onto paths, infused with misanthropy, that would destroy any possibility of a human future. Fanon’s name is evoked in many directions. At the 100th anniversary of his birth, it behooves us all to engage Fanon’s ideas as a call to think Fanon beyond Fanon. The Caribbean Philosophical Association and the Foundation Frantz Fanon will therefore meet in July 2025 both to celebrate the life and thought of this great son of Martinique and, in the spirit of his thought and the association’s mission, to explore concepts and challenges posed in this third decade of the twenty-first century in our continued task of shifting the geography of reason and setting afoot a world of dignity, freedom, and livable life.
Participation in the conference is contingent on formal membership in the Caribbean Philosophical Association. To become a member of the association, please register here.
For more information, see https://caribbeanphilosophy.org/conference-2025