Naples : International conference on Frantz Fanon.
Reading The Wretched 50 years later
(19-20/May 2011,Naples, Sala Conferenze Palazzo
Du Mesnil, Via Chiatamone 61)
Thursday 19 May
9.00 Welcome
Giorgio
Amitrano (President Faculty of Political Sciences)
Rosario Sommella (Director of the Department of Social Sciences)
9.40
Conference Presentation : Miguel Mellino (University of Naples L’’Orientale)
10.00 : Fanon between memory and politics
Chair : Maria
Cristina Ercolessi (University of Naples L’Orientale)
Nigel Gibson (Emerson College, Boston)
Pietro Clemente (University of Firenze)
11.00 Coffee Break
Renate Siebert (Zahar) (University of Calabria)
Patricia Tuitt (School of Law, Birkbeck College)
Jesus Izquierdo Martin (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
13.30 Lunch
15.00 The Anthropology of The Damned
Chair : Pietro Angelini (University of Naples L’Orientale)
Denise Ferreira da Silva (Queen Mary College)
Roberto Beneduce (University of Torino- Dir Frantz Fanon Centre-Torino)
16.30
Coffee Break
Nahum Chandler (University of California)
Carla Pasquinelli (Univeristà di Napoli L’Orientale)
Matthieu Renault (Paris VII Diderot)
19.Dinner
20.Friday 20 May
10.00 The Damned as a postcolonial subject
Chair : Carla Pasquinelli (University of Naples L’Orientale”).
Paul Gilroy (LSE)
Iain Chambers (University of Naples L’Orientale)
11.00 Coffee Break
Miguel Mellino (University of Naples l’Orientale)
Fred Moten (Duke University)
13.30 Lunch
15.00
Interrogating Fanon’s discourse on violence and radical politics
Chair : Miguel Mellino (University of Naples L’Orientale)
Achille Mbembe (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna)
16.30 Coffee Break
Fabio Dei (University of Pisa)
Stefano Harney (Queen Mary)
19.00 Dinner
