Frantz Fanon at the centenary: global capitalism, colonial warfare, and practices of liberation

14:30 Introduction

Introduction - Damiano PALANO, Polidemos Director

Keynote Lecture - Frantz Fanon at the Centenary

Azzedine HADDOUR, University College London

16:00 - Coffee break

16:30 1st PANEL: Universalism and Racial Epistemologies

Chair:

Sandro MEZZADRA, University of Bologna

Marginal Thinking and Epistemic Decentralization: Fanon's Relevance

Sandro LUCE, University of Salerno

Law as a mask: Fanon, Mills and the racial structure of universalism

Ndack MBAYE, University of Bologna

(Re)reading Frantz Fanon through the lens of a jurist: intersections between law and religious phenomenon in post-colonial normative production

Nico TONTI, University of Bologna

9:00 2nd PANEL: Decolonising the Works of the Mind

Chair:

Ludovica D'ALESSANDRO, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Decolonial Praxis and the Production of Knowledge: Rethinking Border Regimes through Fanon

Wael GARNAOUI, University of Sousse

Fanon and the Political Economy of the Mind: The 'Disalienation of the Total Fact of Madness' and Beyond

Bernardo PACI, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

10:30 - coffee break

11:00 3rd PANEL: Politics of Emancipation and Collective Praxis Chair

Arianna MAINARDI, University of Bergamo

Locating a compass in Fanon's work for navigating decolonial practices of emancipation: from an individual situated reading to the everyday collective ethics of political action

Leaticia OUEDRAOGO, Université Rennes 2 (online)

Colonial extraction, political violence and revolution: the work of Frantz Fanon as part of a black political philosophy

Miguel MELLINO, L'Orientale University, Naples

From language to violence and back again. A journey through Frantz Fanon's work

Stefano VISENTIN, University of Urbino

13:00 Final Remarks - ANTONIO TUCCI, University of Salerno

Free attendabnce, in person and online, upon registration

Organization: Damiano PALANO, Ludovica D'ALESSANDRO, Sandro LUCE

International seminar organized as part of the project D.3.2. 2024 DEM. IN. W.PEACE - Democracy: An Investment in Welfare and Peace.