The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC at Chapel Hill) will host a special commemoration marking the 50th year anniversary of the passing of cultural and political icon Frantz Fanon, and of the publication of Wretched of the Earth. The project is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Curriculum in Latina/o Studies, and the African Studies Center all of UNC at Chapel Hill

The commemoration begins with a screening and discussion of Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work (Cheikh Djemai, Dir., 2001). The Symposium continues on October 6 at 7 pm and features a keynote by Mireille Fanon Mendés-France, President of the Frantz Fanon Foundation in Paris. The final sessions of the Symposium take place on October 7 from 9:30 am- 5pm, and features panels and a keynote with scholars and activists from UNC and other institutions.

The film and all program sessions are free and open to the public, but pre-registration is recommended by way of the Stone Center’s Facebook page link

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=246053518772045 or call (919) 962-9001. Those registering by September 30 will be provided with a free lunch during the Friday, October 7 sessions. Limited visitor parking.

For information on parking visit the Stone Center website

http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu/. For general information on the symposium please visit the website or call (919) 962-9001.

Remembering the Life and Work of Frantz Fanon Symposium Program

Film Screening, Tuesday, October 4 at 7 pm Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Stone Center Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work Dir: Cheikh Djemai/Martinique/France/Algeria/Tunisia 2001/ 52 minutes/French with English Subtitles

Opening Program - Keynote Address Thursday, October 6 at 7 pm, Theater/Auditorium, Stone Center “The Contribution of Frantz Fanon to Peoples’ Liberation” Mireille Fanon-Mendés France, President, Frantz Fanon Foundation, Paris

Respondent: Linda Carty, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Syracuse University

Friday Sessions:
Friday, October 7 - 9:00-4:00 pm
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Stone Center
8:30-9:00 am Coffee
9:00 am Opening Remarks

Session I: Fanon and the Pathway to African Revolution(s)
9:15 am- 11:00 am

(1) Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Prof., African/Afro-American Studies, Acting Dir. (2011-12) African Studies Center, UNC at Chapel Hill. “Following the Path of Revolution: The African Legacy of Frantz Fanon”

(2) Eunice Sahle, Assoc. Prof., joint appointment in African/Afro-American Studies and Global Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill. “Geographies of Violence and Displacement in Kenya: Territory, Citizenship and Power”

(3) Bereket Habte Selassie, William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African Studies, Professor of Law at UNC at Chapel Hill.“Fanon: In the Context of Negritude”

(1) Daynali Flores-Rodriguez , Adjunct Professor of Spanish, the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico. “ Language, Power and Resistance: Reading Frantz Fanon in a Trans-Caribbean Setting” Her work includes: "Addressing the Fukú in US: Junot Díaz and the New Novel of Dictatorship" in Antipodas: Journal of Hispanic Studies (Trujillo, Trauma, Testimony: Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat and Other Writers in Hispaniola); "Contar la dictadura: La nueva poética caribeña en la narrativa corta de Edwidge Danticat" Cua.dri.vi.um 6.10 (Spring 2009); Cortejo De Sombras by Julian Ríos, Reader's Review.” Review of Contemporary Fiction. Winter 2008.

Session II: Fanonism In Transnational Contexts - 11:15 am -12:30 pm
(1) Daynali Flores-Rodriguez , Adjunct Professor of Spanish, the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico.“Language, Power and Resistance: Reading Frantz Fanon in a Trans-Caribbean Setting”

(2) Fouzi Slisli , Adjunct Assistant Professor , Department of History, U. of Minnesota, and Department of Ethnic Studies , St. Cloud State U. “Franz Fanon and Islam: The Relevance of the Theory of Violence in a Post-September 11 World”

*Lunch: (Provided) 12:30-1:30 pm

Afternoon Keynote: 1:30-2:30 pm

Ranjana Khanna * (Friday, 7 October Keynote) Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor, English, Literature and Women's Studies, Duke University. “The Lumpenproletariat, The Subaltern, The Mental Asylum."

Session III: Fanon and the African American Radical Tradition
2:30- 4:00 pm

(1) Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar ,Professor of History and an Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. “The Wretched of the U.S.: Frantz Fanon and the Rise of Radical Ethnic Nationalism, 1966-1975”

(2) Alvaro Reyes, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Geography. UNC-Chapel Hill "Oh Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth Again."