Fanon
A commemoration of the
50th anniversary of the
passing of Frantz Fanon and
of the publication of
Wretched of the Earth
With Keynote Addresses by
Mireille Fanon-Mendés France
and Ranjanna Khanna
Remembering the
Life and Work of
Frantz Fanon
October 4 and October 6-7
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for
Black Culture and History
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC at Chapel Hill Program Sponsors: SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
The Institue for the Arts and Humanities
The Latina/o Studies Curriculum
The African Studies Center Remembering the Life and Work of Frantz Fanon
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black
Culture and History
150 South Road, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
27599-5250
The film and all program sessions are free and
open to the public, but pre-registration is
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Film Screening, Tuesday, October 4 at 7 pm
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Stone Center
Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work
Dir: Cheikh Djemai/Martinique/France/Algeria/Tunisia
2001/ 52 minutes/French with English Subtitles
Opening Program - Keynote Address
The Contribution of Frantz Fanon to Peoples’ Liberation
Mireille Fanon-Mendés France, President, Frantz Fanon Foundation, Paris
Respondent: Linda Carty, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Syracuse University
Thursday, October 6 at 7 pm
Theater/Auditorium, Stone Center
Friday Sessions
Friday, October 7 - 9:00-4:00 pm
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Stone Center
8:30-9:00 am
Coffee
9:00 am
Opening Remarks
Session I: Fanon and the Pathway to African Revolution(s) 9:15- 11:00 am
“Following the Path of Revolution: The African Legacy of Frantz Fanon”
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Prof., African/African American Studies; Acting Director
African Studies Ctr., UNC-CH
The Stone Center’s mission is to
“encourage and support the critical
examination of all dimensions of
African-American, African and African
diaspora cultures through sustained and open
discussion, dialogue and debate...”
“Geographies of Violence and Displacement in Kenya: Territory, Citizenship and Power”
Eunice Sahle, Assoc. Prof., African/African American Studies; Global Studies, UNC-CH
“ Fanon: In the Context of Negritude”
Bereket Habte Selassie, Leuchtenburg Prof. of African Studies; Prof. of Law at UNC-CH
Session II: Fanonism In Transnational Contexts 11:15 am -12:30 pm
“ Language, Power and Resistance: Reading Frantz Fanon in a Trans-Caribbean Setting”
Daynalí Flores-Rodríguez, Adj. Prof. of Spanish, the Inter-American Univ. of Puerto Rico
“Franz Fanon and Islam: The Relevance of the Theory of Violence in a post-
September 11 World”
Fouzi Slisli, Adj. Asst. Prof., History, U. of Minn.; Ethnic Studies, St. Cloud State Univ.
*Lunch: (Provided) 12:30-1:30 pm
Afternoon Keynote: 1:30-2:30 pm
“The Lumpenproletariat, The Subaltern, The Mental Asylum”
Ranjanna Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s
Studies and Professor, English, Literature and Women’s Studies, Duke University
Session III: Fanon and the African American Radical Tradition 2:30- 4:00 pm
“The Wretched of the U.S.: Frantz Fanon and the Rise of Radical Ethnic Nationalism,
1966-1975”
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar ,Prof. of History,Assoc. Dean, U, of Connecticut
“Oh Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth Again.”
Alvaro Reyes, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Geography, UNC at Chapel Hill
Program Participants
Mireille Fanon-Mendés France, Pres., Frantz Fanon Foundation
“The Contribution of Frantz Fanon to Peoples’ Liberation”
Linda Carty, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Syracuse U.
Respondent to Keynote Address/Mireille Fanon-Mendes France
Work includes: Not a Nanny: A Gendered, Transnational Analysis of
Caribbean Domestic Workers in New York City (in) Decolonizing the
Academy: Diaspora Theory and African New-World Studies, 2003;
The Discourse of Empire and the Social Construction of Gender,
(in) Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought,
2000; We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in
African Canadian Women’s History, co-author, 1994; and, And Still
We Rise: Feminist Mobilization in Contemporary Canada, ed 1993
Daynalí Flores-Rodríguez, Adj. Prof. of Spanish, the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico:“ Language, Power and Resistance:
Reading Frantz Fanon in a Trans-Caribbean Setting”
Her work includes: “Addressing the Fukú in US: Junot Díaz and the
New Novel of Dictatorship” in Antipodas: Journal of Hispanic Studies (Trujillo, Trauma, Testimony: Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia Alvarez,
Edwidge Danticat and Other Writers in Hispaniola); “Contar la
dictadura: La nueva poética caribeña en la narrativa corta de
Edwidge Danticat” Cua.dri.vi.um 6.10 (Spring 2009); Cortejo De
Sombras by Julian Ríos, Reader’s Review.” Review of
Contemporary Fiction. Winter 2008; and Solórzano, Fernanda.
“Interview with Arturo Ripsten: No Contest.” Trans. Daynalí
Flores-Rodríguez. Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in
Media and Culture. Vol. 26, 2004. 46-57.
Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Dir. of Women’s Studies
and Prof., English, Literature and Women’s Studies, Duke University.
“The Lumpenproletariat, The Subaltern, The Mental Asylum”
She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and
Colonialism (Duke, 2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and
Representation 1830 to the present (Stanford, 2008). Her current
book project is entitled “Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.”
Other work includes: “The Ambiguity of Ethics: Specters of
Colonialism.” Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century.
Ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka. Columbia UP, 2001 and
with R. Khanna, Barbara Burton, Nouray Ibryamova, Dyan Ellen
Mazurana, and S. Lily Mendoza. “Cartographies of Scholarship:
The Ends of Nation-States, International Studies, and the Cold
War.” in Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies
and Women’s Studies. Ed. M. Lay, J. Monk, D. Rosenfelt. Feminist
Press, 2002.
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar ,Prof. of History,Assoc. Dean, U, of Conn.
“The Wretched of the U.S.: Frantz Fanon and the Rise of Radical
Ethnic Nationalism, 1966-1975”
He is the author of Black Power: Radical Politics and African
American Identity (The Johns Hopkins,, 2004), and editor of Civil
Rights: Problems in American Civilization (Houghton Mifflin 2003);
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap (U. of Kansas
2007). His most recent work, as editor, is The Harlem Renaissance
Revisited: Politics, Arts and Letters, Johns Hopkins, 2010. His other
work includes: “Puerto Rico en mi Corazón: The Young Lords, Black
Power and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972,”
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Spring
2006; and “Brown Power to Brown People: The Black Panther Party
and Latino Radicalism, 1967-1973,” in Between Culture and
Politics: Toward a New History of the Black Panther Party, eds.
Jama Lazarow and Yoruhu Williams, Duke U. , 2006.
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Prof., Afri./Afr. Amer..Stud. UNC-CH
“Following the Path of Revolution: The African Legacy of Frantz
Fanon”
Nzongola is a specialist in African politics, development policy and
administration, and political theory who focuses on the political history of Africa since the struggle for independence. His work includes
The Congo From Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History, Zed Books,
2002; Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Africa, Nation-Building
and State Building in Africa, and Le Mouvement Démocratique au
Zaïre, 1956-1996. He edited The Crisis in Zaire: Myths and Realities and of Conflict in the Horn of Africa; co-edited the State and
Democracy in Africa and The Oxford Companion to Politics of the
World. He is the Interim Director of the Africa Governance Institute
(AGI), a pan-African think tank on democratic and developmental
governance in Dakar, Senegal. In 1999, he served as an expert in
conflict mediation and legal drafting to the negotiations between
the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front
(RUF) rebels in Lomé, Togo. He is past President of the African
Studies Association (ASA) and the African Association of Political
Science (AAPS).
Alvaro Reyes, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Geography, UNC at Chapel Hill
“Oh Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth Again.”
Prof. Reyes works at the intersection of Urban and Political
Geography, Comparative Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory and
twentieth century Black Radical theorists. In his dissertation, entitled, Can’t go home again: Sovereign entanglements and the Black
Radical tradition in the twentieth century, Duke University, 2009, he
explores the relation between the formation of “Blackness” and the
Western tradition of sovereignty through the works of Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka, Frantz Fanon, and Huey P. Newton. He sees
the work of Frantz Fanon, whom he asserts, prepares the way for
the idea of “Blackness” as a practical ontology beyond, not only the
territorial imperative, but also the logic of sovereignty more generally.
His other work includes Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista
Autonomy and the New Practices of Decolonization, South Atlantic
Quarterly; Spring 2011, Vol. 110 Issue 2.
Eunice Sahle, Assoc. Prof., African/African American Studies;
Global Studies at the UNC at Chapel Hil: “Geographies of Violence
and Displacement in Kenya: Territory, Citizenship and Power”
She teaches courses on: international political economy; human
rights and social movements; ethics and global issues. Her work
includes World Orders, Development and Transformation, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010; The legacies of Julius Nyerere: Influences on Development Discourse and Practice in Africa, ed. with David A. McDonald, Africa World, 2002. Her current research focuses on spaces
of violence in Kenya and South Africa; globalization, immigration,
urban governance and citizenship; and the political economy of
land and food security.
Bereket Habte Selassie, Leuchtenburg Prof. of African Studies;
Prof. of Law at UNC-CH
“ Fanon: In the Context of Negritude”
Selassie’s work includes The Making of the Eritrean Constitution:
The Dialectic of Process and Substance, Red Sea, 2003, Conflict
and intervention in the Horn of Africa, Monthly Review, 1980; and
The executive in African governments, Heinemann, 1974;
Constitution making in Eritrea : a process-driven approach, in
Framing the state in times of transition : case studies in constitution
making, L.. E. Miller, ed.; with Louis Aucoin, U.S. Institute of Peace,
2010, and Constitution making in Eritrea : democratic transition
through popular participation, in Constitutionalism in Africa : creating
opportunities, facing challenges editor J. Oloka-Onyango, Fountain,
2001. Selassie, was high ranking official in the Ethiopian government in the early 1960’s, but eventually left and joined the guerilla
army of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, and became their
representative at the United Nations. After independence, he served
as the constitutional commission chair and was the principal author
of Eritrea’s constitution.
Sarah Shields, Bowman and Gordon Gray Dist. Term Prof.
Dept. of History, UNC-CH (moderator, Friday, keynote presentation)
Most recent work is Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and
European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II
(Oxford 2011), is a social and diplomatic history of the
contest between France and Turkey over the Sanjak of Alexandretta
(1936–1940), an important coastal province. Other works include
Mosul before Iraq: Like Bees Making Five-Sided Cells (SUNY, 2000),
analyzes the economy and society of nineteenth-century Mosul and
the region surrounding it. She currently has a grant from the
American Council of Learned Societies to continue her studies of
the League of Nations and the Middle East, and a comparison of
four interwar episodes and their long-term impact on the region.
Fouzi Slisli, Adj. Asst. Prof., History, U. of Minn.,; Ethnic Studies,
St. Cloud State University: “Frantz Fanon and Islam: The Relevance of the Theory of Violence in a post-September 11 World”
Fouzi’s work focuses on the ability of secular literature and its systems of representation to produce dogma or “closure.” In the Islamic
tradition, his work focuses on the relationship of Islam to politics.
He has studied, lectured and written extensively on contemporary
Islamic movements in North Africa and the Middle East, and is currently finishing a book entitled Faith in the Act: Islamic Tawhid in the
Politics of the Contemporary Muslim World. Fouzi’s work includes
“Islam: The Elephant in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth” Critique
(Volume 17, Issue 1 March 2008).
Joshua Nadel, Assit. Prof., Latin American and Caribbean
History and Assoc. Dir. of the Global Studies Program, North
Carolina Central University (moderator) His research focuses on
transnational phenomenon that lead to cultural adaptation. He
is under contract with the University Press of Florida for a book,
tentatively entitled Fútbol!: the Place of Soccer in Latin America. He
has worked in a variety of capacities with the International Rescue
Committee and as a research associate with the National Coalition
for Haitian Rights in Port-au-Prince. Other work includes Importing Modernity: Commerce and Consumer Culture in Rural Cuba.
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