AVReQ in collaboration with the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, presents the Theory 101 lecture series. This series seeks to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and welcomes postgraduate students from various academic disciplines to contribute their expertise and insights. By bringing together diverse voices, the Theory 101 lecture series aims to cultivate generative conversations and support the development of a rich intellectual community where different theoretical frameworks can be explored and critically analysed.

Demystifying Fanon: The Fact of Blackness in the Contemporary

In this instalment of The Theory 101 Lecture Series, Professor Homi Bhabha leads a discussion on the contemporary echoes of Franz Fanon’s theoretical contributions. Drawing on Fanon’s seminal work, Black Skin, White Masks, the session grapples with “The Fact of Blackness” in 21st-century African context. Through fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue among postgraduate students, the conversation intends to stimulate critical and intellectual engagement by providing a platform for an in-depth analysis of Fanon’s theoretical contributions.

Professor Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University. He was founding director of Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Centre and director of the Harvard Humanities Centre. He has received numerous awards and distinguished honorary professorships, including Extraordinary Professor affiliated with AVReQ, as reported in the Harvard Crimson here. Professor Bhabha is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism. His book Location of Culture has recently been reprinted as a Routledge Classic and has been translated into seven languages. He has written an introduction to a new translation of Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.

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