Michael Keating to Speak on Frantz Fanon at DC Anniversary Lecture
February 07, 2012
Barbara Graceffa, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies
Micheal Keating, director of operations at the Center for Peace, Democracy and Development and a lecturer in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies will deliver a guest lecture on Thursday, February 9 at The George Washington University Libraries event honoring the 50th anniversary of the death of revolutionary Martiniquo-Algerian Frantz Fanon.
Sponsored by the Algerian-American Association of Greater Washington and the Global Resources Center at the Gelman Library, Keating will join five other experts to discuss how Frantz Fanon influenced the Algerian revolution, decolonization, Malcolm X, Edward Said and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Keating will focus his lecture on Fanon's view of how Western intellectuals should work or support liberation struggles in the developing world.
According to Keating, "During the Algerian war of liberation, Fanon became a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front and criticized French intellectuals for patronizing the leaders of the Algerian movement, Based upon Fanon's writings, I will speculate on how he might view the Western response to the Arab Spring or even how Western intellectuals have contributed to the 'development paradigm' which now rules the relationship between North and South."
Frantz Fanon was a Martiniquo revolutionary and radical existentialist writer whose work is well known in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism. Educated as a psychiatrist, his writings and lectures on decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than forty years.
Fanon died of leukemia in December 1961.
The anniversary lecture will take place at from 1-3 p.m. at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Labor History Research Center in room 702 of the Gelman Library located at 2130 H Street NW in Washington, DC. The lecture is open to the public.
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