Conference | To think today starting from Frantz Fanon

Friday November 30 and Saturday December 1
Universities Paris 1 - Paris 7 - Paris 8 - UNESCO - Frantz Fanon Foundation
Place: UNESCO, 7 place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, Room 12


To reach room XII, please provide itself with this program and an identity paper.
Please confirm your arrival at Valerie Lowit: valerie.lowit (At) univ-bets-diderot.fr

First day: Friday November 30, 9:00 - 19:00

    * 9:00. Reception of the participants
    * 9:30 - 9h45. Short speech of opening, by Mr. Pierre Sané, general Sub-manager for Social sciences and human (UNESCO)
    * 9:45 - 10h00. Opening of the conference by Mireille Pennon-Mendes-France

10h-13h. To act and think the revolutions. President: Etienne Tassin (CSPRP, University Paris 7)
 
    * 10:00 - 10h20. Pathé Diagne: Meetings with Pennon
    * 10:20 - 10h40. Benjamin Stora (Inalco): Pennon and a reading of the war of Algerian independence
    * 10:40 - 11h00. Mohammed Harbi: Country question and country movements in Algeria
    * 11:00 - 11h30. Discussion
    * 11:30 - 11h45. Pauses
    * 11:45 - 12h05. Ranabir Samaddar (Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group): To see Pennon in a country at one time colonized. To think the political subject
    * 12:05 - 12h25. Joan Cocks (Mount Holyoke College, Boston): Indignation and violence, prelude to the policy
    * 12:25 - 13h00. Discussion

14h30-17h30. Psychiatry and policy. President: Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (CSPRP, Paris7 University)
 
    * 14:30 - 14h50. Numa Murard (University Denis Diderot - Paris 7): An institutional psychotherapy with Blida
    * 14:50 - 15h10. Ruchama Marton (President de Physicians for Human Rights, Tel Aviv): Fights against institutional psychiatry in Israel
    * 15:10 - 15h40. Discussion
    * 15:40 - 15h55. Pauses
    * 15:55 - 16h15. Edris Makward (University off Wisconsin): Treatment by Pennon of the “interiorization of the complex of inferiority”
    * 16:15 - 16h35. Michel Bunch: Fifty years after Frantz Fanon. Analyzes its clinical practice and comparison with the victims of the contemporary wars
    * 16:35 - 16h55. Helene Jaffé (Founder of Association for the victims of Repression in Exile and member of the Parliament of delegated of the Worldwide organization Against Torture): Torture in the current world
    * 16:55 - 17h25. Discussion

18h00-19h00. Projection of the film Report of asylum of Abdenour Zahzah

Second day: Saturday December 1, 9:30 - 17:30

9:30 - 12h30: Figures of racism. President: Elsa Dorlin (University Paris 1)

    * 9:30 - 9h50. Edson Lopes Cardoso (Editor of the monthly newspaper Irohìn): Frantz Fanon and the current fight against racism: how to overcome the racial inequalities in Brazil
    * 9:50 - 10h10. Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimarães (University of São Paulo): Pennon and black identity in Brazil
    * 10:10 - 10h30. Fatma Oussedik (University of Algiers): Topicality of an indigenous thought
    * 10:30 - 1100. Discussion
    * 11:00 - 11h15. Pauses
    * 11:15 - 11h35. Luc Ngowet (University Denis Diderot - Paris 7): W.E.B. Wood, Frantz Fanon and the political ontology of the black question
    * 11:35 - 11h55. Jacques Coursil (University of the Antilles, Fort-de-France): Black skin white masks and vice versa. Race and racism in Frantz Fanon
    * 11:55 - 12h30. Discussion

14h30-17h15. Dialectiser identities. President: Eleni Varikas (University Paris 8)

    * 14:30 - 14h50. Achilles Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the University of California, Irvine): Capacity and life in Frantz Fanon
    * 14:50 - 15h10. Lewis R. Gordon (University Temple, Philadelphia): Pennon in the recent African political thought
    * 15:10 - 15h40. Discussion
    * 15:40 - 15h55. Pauses
    * 15:55 - 16h15. Malek Bouyahia (University Paris 8): “Poachers” in intimate territories: Pennon and Sénac or critical memberships
    * 16:15 - 16h35. Jean-Paul Rocchi (University Denis Diderot - Paris 7): Frantz Fanon and the theory queer
    * 16:35 - 16h55. Eileen Julien (Indiana University, Bloomington): Frantz Fanon like poet
    * 16:55 - 17h15. Discussion

17h15-17h30. Enclose conference by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (CSPRP, Université Paris7)

Steering Committee: Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Pathé Diagne, Elsa Dorlin, Mohammed Harbi, Valerie Lowit, Mireille Pennon-Mendes-France, Benjamin Stora, Etienne Tassin, Eleni Varikas
Organization and contact: Valerie LOWIT: valerie.lowit [At] paris7.jussieu.fr