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Course Catalogue WS 2024/25

Frantz Fanon, Then and Now

Type:
Theory seminar
Semester:
WS 25/26
Target group
Main course / Diploma 2
Requirement
Seminar language will be English.

Dates - place & time

TypStartEndDayTurnusfrom-toLocation
28.10.2527.01.26TuesdayWöchentlich10:00 - 12:00Filzengraben 2, Aula
Typ
Start28.10.25
End27.01.26
DayTuesday
TurnusWöchentlich
from-to10:00 - 12:00
LocationFilzengraben 2, Aula

Seminar description

The author of the Les Damnés de la Terre and Peau Noire, Masques Blancs has remained immensely influential in anti-colonial and decolonial studies, and movements, since his death in 1961. What is the enduring power of his work? How has his work resisted becoming merely academic history? In what ways have his two books (and others collected after his death) been received, and received differently, and by whom? What lessons can we draw from Fanon at this conjuncture? This seminar will read his classic texts and screen documentaries that have proliferated in recent years. Guarding against any hagiography of a single figure, we will also try to place Fanon in his revolutionary context within the Algerian revolution. Students will be required to keep a weekly journal.

Student office

Student Office

Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14, 50667 Köln

+49 221 20189 - 194 /119 / 187 / 249
studoffice@khm.de


Opening hours:   Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. + Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.


Summer semester 2025

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Apr. 14, 2025 until Jul. 25, 2025


Winter semester 2025/26

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Oct. 20, 2025 until Feb. 13, 2026

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