![Studio portrait of Gautam Basu Thakur.](https://www.boisestate.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/164/2015/11/Basu-Thakur_Gautam.jpg)
Gautam Basu Thakur, associate professor of English, attended LACK, a conference “devoted to the promotion and development of thought in the tradition of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and German Idealism,” at Clark University in Massachusetts May 9-11.
Basu Thakur presented a paper titled “Dangerous Freedom: Fanon, Racial Antagonism and the Death Drive,” and chaired a panel on “Method.”