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21 July 2025: Convention/Conference : Fanon Today – Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives

International Symposium

Key facts

Event location

FMP1
Franz-Mehring-Platz 1
10243 Berlin

Date
21.07.2025, 20:00 - 23.07.2025, 16:00 Hr
Themes
German / European History, Social Theory, North Africa

Description

Fanon Today – Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
Frantz Fanon bei einer Pressekonferenz während eines Schriftstellerkongresses in Tunis, 1959 / Frantz Fanon at a press conference during a writers' conference in Tunis, 1959 Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

No registration is required.

With:

  • Lauan Al-Khazail
  • Hourya Bentouhami
  • Robin Celikates
  • Nigel Gibson
  • Peter Hudis
  • Aisha P.L. Kadiri
  • Kevin Ochieng Okoth
  • Annie Onaloku-Teriba
  • Vanessa E. Thompson
  • Felix Valdés García
  • Raul Zelik

Organized by Robin Celikates (FU Berlin), Vanessa E. Thompson (Queen's University Kingston) and newspaper nd, supported by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

The symposium will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into German.

Program:

July 22nd

9.30: INTRODUCTION

10 - 12: FANON, MARXISM AND ANTI-COLONIALISM
Peter Hudis and Annie Olaloku-Teriba

13 - 15: TRAVELING OF FANON'S THEORY AND PRACTICE
Felix Valdes García and Lauan Al-Khazai

15.30 - 17.30: FANON, BORDERS AND STRUGGLES OF MIGRATION
Hourya Bentouhami and Robin Celikates

July 23rd

9.30 - 12: FANON, NEO-COLONIALISM AND (COUNTER-) VIOLENCE
Aisha P. Kadiri, Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Raul Zelik

13 - 15: FANON AND ANTI-FASCIST FUTURES
Nigel Gibson and Vanessa E. Thompson

Location

Contact

Lucas Reinehr

Project Manager for Head of International Department, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Phone: +49 30 44310 286

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