Date
9-25-2024
Description
The 2024 Ambedkar Law Lectures focus on the writings of Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary theorist whose works were seminal to African anticolonialism. Born in 1925 in Martinique, Fanon fought in World War II, then practiced psychiatry in a hospital in French-controlled Algeria while supporting the country’s war for independence.
Fanon is one of the twentieth century’s most important theorists of colonialism, revolution, and freedom and the lectures explore Fanon’s theorizing of the relationship between violence and freedom through a study of his two major works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.
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Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Law | Law and Philosophy | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Glover, Kaiama L.; and Moody-Adams, Michele, "Reading Fanon" (2024). Ambedkar Law Lectures. 4.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/ambedkar_law_lectures/4
Poster - 2024 Ambedkar Law Lectures
Details
Location: Jerome Green Hall, Room 106
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Length: 1:30:56
About the Lecturer:
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU School of Law
Professor K. Anthony Appiah was educated at the University Primary School at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi; at Ullenwood Manor, in Gloucestershire, and Port Regis and Bryanston Schools, in Dorset; and, finally, at Clare College, Cambridge University, in England, where he took both B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the philosophy department.
His Cambridge dissertation explored the foundations of probabilistic semantics, bringing together issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind; once revised, these arguments were published by Cambridge University Press as Assertion and Conditionals. Out of that first monograph grew a second book, For Truth in Semantics, which dealt with Michael Dummett’s defenses of semantic anti-realism. Since Cambridge, he has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, and Harvard universities and lectured at many other institutions in the United States, Germany, Ghana and South Africa, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; and from 2002 to 2013 he was a member of the Princeton University faculty, where he had appointments in the Philosophy Department and the University Center for Human Values, as well as being associated with the Center for African American Studies, the Programs in African Studies and Translation Studies, and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Politics. In January 2014 he took up an appointment as Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he teaches both in New York and in Abu Dhabi and at other NYU global centers.
About the Commentators:
Kaiama L. Glover
Professor of African American Studies, Yale University
Professor Glover’s research, writing, and teaching are situated at the intersection of French, francophone, Caribbean, and Haitian literary studies. Her work explores phenomena of border-crossing, marginality, gender, and canon-formation, querying – through rigorous textual study – the shifting categories of ‘center’ and ‘margins’ as they are constituted across the postcolonial Afro-Americas. Her work has been supported by fellowships at the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation.
Michele Moody-Adams
Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory, Columbia University
Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University, where she served as Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education from 2009-2011. Before Columbia, she taught at Cornell University, where she was Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Director of the Program on Ethics and Public Life. She has also taught at Wellesley College, the University of Rochester, and Indiana University, where she served as an Associate Dean.