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29 March - 1 April 2016
1 Batten Lane, Mowbray, Cape Town

RSVP by 22 March 2016 to info@tshismani.org.za

The Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education is hosting two leading intellectuals, Dr Vashna
Jagernath and Dr Richard Pithouse from 29 March 01 April 2016, for a series of seminars
aimed at critically engaging the works of some of the leading intellectuals in African and Diasporic political thought.
This seminar series is organised around two main themes. The first aspect relates to the history
of Pan African thought in relation to contemporary debates and struggles facing people from
the African continent and their descendants, wherever they may live. Participants will explore
key themes in Pan African thought such as race, class, gender, feminism and intersectionality.
The works and legacies of Frederick Douglass, Phyllis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Ida B Wells,
Anna Julia Cooper, Thomas Sankara, CLR James amongst others, will form the key focus of this
segment.
The second aspect of the seminar series looks at Frantz Fanon as a thinker and revolutionary
and locates this within a global political context. It will explore Fanons critique of liberalism
and racist ideology and the relevance of his work for struggles waged in the present (cities and
urban areas).

Pan African Thought and Fanon - Contemporary Resonance

13:00 - 15:00

Day 1 - 29 March 2016

The Development of Pan Africanism

-Dr Vashna Jagarnath

Recommended Readings:

Video:

Pan- Africanism a History


http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-pan-africanism.html
A history of Pan African Revolt by C.L.R. James
(Read the Introduction til page 33)
Lecture by Prof Lewis Gordon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mHbWIj5r-Q

16:00 - 18:00

Liberalism as Colonial Ideology

-Dr Richard Pithouse

Recommended Readings:

Dominico Losurdo Sacred & Profane Space in the History of Liberalism (2011)
Chapter 9
Michel-Rolph Trouillot An Unthinkable History (1995)
Peter Hallward An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2007)

13:00 - 15:00

Day 2 - 30 March 2016

Enslavement of Body not the Mind

-Dr Vashna Jagarnath

Recommended Readings:

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass


http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/narrative/summary.html

(Read the Introduction til page 33)

16:00 - 18:00

Frantz Fanon Part One


Recommended Readings:


-Dr Richard Pithouse

Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks (1952)


Frantz Fanon The North African Syndrome (1952)
Lewis Gordon What Fanon Said (2015)

13:00 - 15:00

Day 3 - 31 March 2016

Pan Africanism & Feminism

-Dr Vashna Jagarnath

Recommended Readings:

A summary on Anna Julia Cooper by Lewis Gordon


http://www.lewisrgordon.com/sketches/a-thought-for-womens-histor.html
Feminism is for everybody: Pasionate Politics by bell hooks
Sojourner Truth Abolitionists & Suffragette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vr_vKsk_h8

16:00 - 18:00

Frantz Fanon Part Two

-Dr Richard Pithouse

Recommended Readings:


Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth (1961)


Frantz Fanon A Dying Colonialism (1959)
Ato Sekyi-Otu Fanons Dialectic of Experience (1996)

13:00 - 15:00

Pan Africanism, Colonialism (Anti/Post) & Nationalist


-Dr Vashna Jagarnath

Day 4 - 1 April 2016

Recommended Readings:

Nelson Mandela in his own Words by Nelson Mandela


Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch

16:00 - 18:00

The Urban Question


Recommended Readings:


-Dr Richard Pithouse

bell hooks Homeplace (A site of resistance) (1990)


Achille Mbembe Democracy as a Community Life (2011)
Ral Zibechi The Urban Peripheries: Counter-powers from below? (2012) Chapter 15

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