Engagement with Fanon next week
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Leigh-Ann
May 24, 2012, 6:01:55 AM5/24/12
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Hi All
For those interested in further engagements with Fanon please see
schedule for events next week.
A Lecture Series on Frantz Fanon
After a thousand years of world ascendency, the Euro-American archive
might finally be running dry. Meanwhile, not only is the world moving
South and East, but so is theory. The redrawing of the global
intellectual map which started during the era of decolonization is
proceeding unabated. The worldwide dissemination of thought is
buttressed by a worldwide circulation and translation of texts, a
highly productive invention and re-appropriation of concepts and the
de-nationalization of the great academic debates. Under what
conditions can the de-nationalization of the humanities bring a truly
global perspective to conventional theory and criticism and rekindle
our research imagination?
To address these issues, the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and
Criticism in collaboration with the Franklin Humanities Institute at
Duke University is launching a new initiative, Southern Theory |
Global Humanities. The first event under this rubric will consist of a
Lecture Series on Frantz Fanon by Achille Mbembe. The second event
consists of a series of roundtable discussions with Andile Mngxitama
and others.
The Lecture Series and roundtables will build on the ‘return’ of Fanon
in academic and activist circles in South Africa and the rest of the
world. It will explore his unique contribution to twentieth-century
critical thought and will read the latter against that of Benjamin,
Freud, Lacan and Foucault in particular.
Monday 28 May, 6-8.30pm, Fanon, Benjamin and Foucault by Achille
Mbembe
Tuesday 29 May, 6-8.30pm, Fanon, Freud and Lacan by Achille Mbembe
Thursday 31 May, 6-8.30pm, Fanon on Blackness - a roundtable
discussion with Andile Mngxitama, Achille Mbembe
Wednesday 8 August, 4-6.30pm, Fanon on Love and Community - roundtable
TBC.
The venue for the above public engagements will be the WISER Seminar
Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus, Wits.
For those interested in further engagements with Fanon please see
schedule for events next week.
A Lecture Series on Frantz Fanon
After a thousand years of world ascendency, the Euro-American archive
might finally be running dry. Meanwhile, not only is the world moving
South and East, but so is theory. The redrawing of the global
intellectual map which started during the era of decolonization is
proceeding unabated. The worldwide dissemination of thought is
buttressed by a worldwide circulation and translation of texts, a
highly productive invention and re-appropriation of concepts and the
de-nationalization of the great academic debates. Under what
conditions can the de-nationalization of the humanities bring a truly
global perspective to conventional theory and criticism and rekindle
our research imagination?
To address these issues, the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and
Criticism in collaboration with the Franklin Humanities Institute at
Duke University is launching a new initiative, Southern Theory |
Global Humanities. The first event under this rubric will consist of a
Lecture Series on Frantz Fanon by Achille Mbembe. The second event
consists of a series of roundtable discussions with Andile Mngxitama
and others.
The Lecture Series and roundtables will build on the ‘return’ of Fanon
in academic and activist circles in South Africa and the rest of the
world. It will explore his unique contribution to twentieth-century
critical thought and will read the latter against that of Benjamin,
Freud, Lacan and Foucault in particular.
Monday 28 May, 6-8.30pm, Fanon, Benjamin and Foucault by Achille
Mbembe
Tuesday 29 May, 6-8.30pm, Fanon, Freud and Lacan by Achille Mbembe
Thursday 31 May, 6-8.30pm, Fanon on Blackness - a roundtable
discussion with Andile Mngxitama, Achille Mbembe
Wednesday 8 August, 4-6.30pm, Fanon on Love and Community - roundtable
TBC.
The venue for the above public engagements will be the WISER Seminar
Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus, Wits.
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