The Unconscious in the Wake of Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant is organized by members of Newcastle University’s School X with the support of the Leverhulme Trust.
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Lead Organizers
David Ventura (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy, Newcastle University)
David Ventura is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University currently working on a post-doctoral project titled Thinking the Racialisation of Time with Édouard Glissant. Drawing on Glissant’s theoretical and literary corpus alongside other thinkers who explicitly think temporality in relation to the history of transatlantic slavery, David’s current research seeks to diagnose and challenge the temporal configurations that sustain and effectuate systems of racism in today’s world. Alongside this project, David has an abiding interest in Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric practice, and his most recent publication in this area is ‘Refusing Pathology: Black Redaction in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth’ (Philosophy & Social Criticism, OnlineFirst).
Holden M. Rasmussen (PhD candidate in Philosophy, Newcastle University)
Holden M. Rasmussen is an early career researcher based at Newcastle University. He is currently writing a PhD thesis on the distinct yet compatible accounts of the ontological category of the limit offered by Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan. This project, funded by the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Programme, is under the supervision of Lorenzo Chiesa and Adam Potts. Broadly, his research interests and specialities cover psychoanalysis, comparative literature, speculative philosophy of science and psychiatry, and queer theory. He has an emerging research profile containing recent and upcoming publications in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Problemi, and Filozofski vestnik.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to issue a special note of thanks to the following individuals and groups, who all variously assisted with the planning and running of the colloqium: Prof. Tina Chanter (Newcastle University), Lo Moran (Artist), the Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group, Prof. Jonathan Pugh (Newcastle University), and Am Ubhi (DJ, writer and researcher).
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Sponsors
The event is generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust as part of project ECF-2022-415.
