Fanon at 95
A Twenty-Day Online Celebration
July 1-20, 2020
Gratitude
Presentations
Roberto Beneduce
“Leggere l’archivo di Fanon oggi: Razzismo, violenza e follia”, University of Turin, Italy
Time: July 1, 2020 10:45 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Seloua Luste Boulbina
“Colonie: comment (s’) en sortir?”, Université Diderot, Paris 7, France
Time: July 1, 2020 6:00 PM EST (US and Canada)
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Rosemere Ferreira da Silva
“Relevâcia das ideias de Frantz Fanon para o pensamento intelectual brasileiro” // “Relevance of Frantz Fanon’s ideas to Brazilian Intellectual Thought”, State University of Bahia (Universidade do Estado da Bahia / UNEB), Brazil
Time: July 3, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Sonia Sayan-Herzbrun
“L’islam dans la pensée anthropologuique et politique de Frantz Fanon”, Université de Paris, France
Justin Daniel
“L’œuvre de Frantz Fanon à la Martinique: une réception problématique”, Université des Antilles, Martinique
Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo
“Relire Fanon à l’heure de la pandémie du covid 19”, Université de Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo (Rescheduled)
Time: July 6, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Summaries: Link (English)
Michael J. Monahan
“‘Why not simply try to touch the other?’: Fanonian Phenomenology and Hope in the time of Pandemic”, University of Memphis, USA
Nigel Gibson
“Fanon and the Rationality of Revolt”, Emerson College, USA
Douglas Ficek
“Fanonian Neo-Humanism and Racial Transvaluation”, University of New Haven, USA
Time: July 7, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Summaries: Link (Spanish)
Miraj Desai
“Of Signs, Symptoms, and Stereotypes: Fanon and the Collective Intentionalities of the Clinic”, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Sayan Dey
“Frantz Fanon and Border Intellectuality in Contemporary India”, Yonphula Centenary College, Bhutan, India
Time: July 8, 2020 10:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Julia Suárez-Krabbe
“Sociogénesis y pluriverso”, Roskilde University, Denmark
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
“El pensamiento de Fanon como guía en la búsqueda por la madurez decolonial”, Rutgers University, USA and Frantz Fanon Foundation, France
Time: July 9, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Chandramohan Sathyanathan
“Towards a Third World Negritude: Where Fanon Meets Ambedkar”, Dalit poet, India
Time: July 10, 2020 9:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Darien Pollock
“Dismantling White-minded Resistance: Hidden Scripts, Subversive Action, and the Street Disposition”, Harvard University
Jeong Eun Annabel We
“Racialized Disablement and The Logic of Colonial War”, DePaul University, USA
Time: July 10, 2020 4:00 PM EST (US and Canada)
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Summary: Link (Multiple Languages)
Lewis Gordon
“What to Do in Our Struggle to Breathe: Fanon’s Relevance in Our Time of Multiple Pandemics”, University of Connecticut-Storrs, USA
Time: July 13, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Jane Anna Gordon
“‘The Magic Hands are Finally Only the Hands of the People’: Continuing to Learn with Fanon at 95”, University of Connecticut-Storrs, USA
John E. Drabinski
“Periodizing Fanon”, University of Maryland, USA
Time: July 14, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Hady Ba
“Colonialism, violence, and Dignity. Fanon through the lenses of the Haitian Revolution and Ubuntu Philosophy”, Cheikh Anta Diop, University Dakar, Sénégal
Oumar Dia
“‘Le Négre et Hegel’ de Fanon ou comment s’appropier les ‘armes miraculeuses’ trouvées chez l’oppresseur?”, Université Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar, Sénégal
Jean-Godefroy Bidima
“Maladies, politiques et aliénations: la question de l’historicité chez Fanon”, Tulane University, USA
Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo
“Relire Fanon à l’heure de la pandémie du covid 19”, Université de Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo
Time: July 15, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Anuja Bose
“Fanon on Democracy, Violence, and Solidarity”, University of Minnesota, USA
Dana Francisco Miranda
“The Order of Terror and the Things to Come”, University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA
Thomas Meagher
“Sociogenesis and Generations: Fanonian Notes for a Relational Metaphysics”, University of Memphis, USA
Time: July 15, 2020 4:00 PM EST (US and Canada)
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Rafael Vizcaíno
“A New Generation and the Urgency of Decolonization”, DePaul University, USA
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz
“Re-constructing Locality through Marronage, Red Teorizando el Giro Decolonial”, Puerto Rico
Andrew Domzal
“Defying Colonial Logics: Fanon and Capitalism”, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Time: July 16, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Alejandro de Oto
“Frantz Fanon. Una genealogía poscolonial”, Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), Argentina
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
“Fanon and the Law / Justicia y Derecho en Frantz Fanon”, Birkbeck College, University of London, England
Time: July 17, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France
Foundation Frantz Fanon, France
Isaac Paul
Antiracist militant and coordinator of the La Question Noire project in France
Time: July 20, 2020 11:00 AM EST (US and Canada)
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