6 July: Public Lecture & Launch
17:00 Public Lecture by V.Y. Mudimbe (Duke University) (Eden Grove Blue)
- Chair: Leonhard Praeg (Thinking Africa steering committee)
- Introduction: Saleem Badat (Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University)
19:00 Launch of Thinking Africa (Dept of Political and International Studies)
- Siphokazi Magadla (Thinking Africa steering committee)
- Paul Bischoff (HoD, Department of Political and International Studies)
19:20 19:20 Launch of Nigel Gibson’s Fanonian Practices in South Africa (Dept of Political and International Studies)
- Discussant: David Ntseng (Church Land Programme)
- Response: Nigel Gibson (Emerson College)
19:40 Dinner (Dept of Political and International Studies)
7 July Fanon: 50 Years Later, Day 1, Venue: Post-Graduate Village
9:00 – 9:00 - 10:00 Locating Frantz Fanon in South Africa: Barney Pityana (Rector, College of Transfiguration)
- Chair: Siphokazi Magadla (Rhodes University)
10:00 – 10:30 Tea
10:30 – 12:00 Session One: Lewis Gordon (Temple University) Living Fanon
- Chair: Richard Pithouse (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Ato Sekyi-Otu (York University)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Session Two: Pumla Gqola (University of the Witwatersrand) Topic to be confirmed
- Chair: Leonhard Praeg (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Gillian Hart (University of California, Berkeley)
14:30 –15:00 Tea
15:00 - 16:30 Session Three: David Ntseng (Church Land Programme) Whose Victories? Thinking Fanon in Emancipatory Struggles Now
- Chair: Sally Matthews (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Mazibuko Jara (University of Cape Town)
17:30 Fanon Film Series: Frantz Fanon: His life, his struggle, his work (EG Blue)
8 July Fanon: 50 Years Later, Day 2, Venue: Post-Graduate Village
9:00 – 9:00 - 10:00 Locating Frantz Fanon in South Africa: Ayanda Kota (Unemployed People’s Movement) and Nosigqibo Soxujwa (Women’s Social Forum)
- Chair: Sally Matthews (Rhodes University)
10:00 – 10:30 Tea
10:30 – 12:00 Session One: Ato Sekyi-Otu (York University) Individualism After Fanon, Or Opening the African Geist for Business
- Chair: Richard Pithouse (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Gill Hart (University of California, Berkeley)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Session Two: Nomboniso Gasa (Independent Scholar) Frantz Fanon in our Times – A feminist re-reading
- Chair: Siphokazi Magadla (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Mabogo More (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
14:30 – 15:00 Tea
15:00 - 14:30 Session Three: Mandisi Majavu (Independent Scholar) Decolonisation and post-colonial subjectivities
- Chair: Leonhard Praeg (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Mazibuko Jara (University of Cape Town)
17:30 Fanon Film Series: Black Skin, White Masks (Eden Grove Blue)
9 July Fanon: 50 Years Later, Day 3, Venue: Post-Graduate Village
9: 9:00 – 10:00 Locating Frantz Fanon in South Africa: S’bu Zikode (Abahlali baseMjondolo)
Chair: Richard Pithouse (Rhodes University)
10:00 – 10:30 Tea
10:30 – 12:00 Session Two: Grant Farred (Cornell University) To Dwell For the Postcolonial
- Chair: Leonhard Praeg (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Pumla Gqola (University of the Witwatersrand)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Session Two: Nigel Gibson (Emerson College) Living inside of history: The spectres of Fanon and the rationality of revolt
- Chair: Sally Matthews (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Gillian Hart (University of California, Berkeley)
14:30 – 15:00 Tea
15:00 - 16:30 Session Three: Siphiwe Ndlovu (University of Venda) A Reflection on the Role of Intellectuals in the Political Thought of Frantz Fanon
- Chair: Siphokazi Magadla (Rhodes University)
- Discussant: Mazibuko Jara (University of Cape Town)
17:30 Fanon Film Series: The Battle of Algiers (Eden Grove Blue)
10 July Final Day of Fanon Film Festival
17:30 Fanon Film Series: Driving with Fanon (Eden Grove Blue)
Format for presentations: Each session lasts 90 minutes. Papers will have been circulated and read in advance and presenters can speak to their papers (i.e. not reading or repeating them) for 20 to 30 minutes. The discussants will then give a response of 10 to 15 minutes following which the discussion will be opened to the floor.
