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Organized in collaboration with the Frantz Fanon Foundation, this event is honoring the life and legacy of Frantz Fanon. Fanon is one of the most influential figures in 20th-century anticolonial thought. His powerful analysis of the dynamics of race, colonialism and imperialism has inspired activists around the world. His ideas have influenced political struggles as well as academic fields such as philosophy, psychology, and decolonial thought. Fanon embodied a combative vision of decolonization, combining theory and action. This centenary is an opportunity to pay tribute to his revolutionary thought. To mark this 100th anniversary, we will host a screening of excerpts of the film "Rediscovering Fanon" along with a discussion with the director Rico Speight, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France and Rabab Abdulhadi.
Organized by Corinna Mullin and Ujju Aggarwal
Presented by Global Studies at the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students at the Schools of Public Engagement.
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Mireille Fanon-Mendès France is the daughter of Frantz Fanon, an activist, scholar of international law and the chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation. She has served as a United Nations expert on the issues of institutional and structural racism, with particular reference to people of African descent and Africans. She established the Frantz Fanon Foundation with the late Aimé Césaire, as its honorary president, the Martinican poet, playwright, and politician who co-founded Negritude, an influential movement to restore the cultural identity of black Africans. Mireille Fanon Mendes France is currently working on the issue of reparations in a decolonial perspective while organizing the centenary of her revolutionary father, Frantz Fanon (20 July 1925-6 December 1961).
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi is the Director and Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies at San Francisco State Universities and the Initiator and Principal Investigator of Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice. She has been recognized by several academic, scholarly and community awards and published over 80 articles, chapters and co-authored books and anthologies in seven languages on resistance movements to settler colonialism, Zionism, imperialism, Islamophobia and Orientalism. She insists on speaking truth to power and refuses to be silenced in the face of New McCarthyism, genocide and war profiteering.
