Frantz Fanon at the Centenary: Global Capitalism, Colonial Warfare, and Practices of Liberation

April 27th and 28th, 2026

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Seminar co-organized by ASERI and POLIDEMOS

April 27th, 2026

First Session

Venue: ASERI (Via San Vittore 18, Milan)

14:30 Introductions and Keynote Lecture by Azzedine Haddour

16:00 - Coffee break

16:30 1st PANEL: Universalism and Racial Epistemologies

Speakers:

- Sandro Luce "Thought of the margin and epistemic decentralization: Fanon's actuality" (ita)

- Ndack Mbaye "Law as a mask: Fanon, Mills and the racial structure of universalism" (eng)

- Nico Tonti "(Re)reading Frantz Fanon through the lens of the jurist: intersections between law and religious phenomenon in post-colonial normative production" (ita)

Chair: Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna

18:30 end of first session

April 28th, 2026

Second Session

Venue: ASERI (Via San Vittore 18, Milan)

9:00 2nd PANEL: Decolonising the Works of the Mind

Speakers:

- Wael Garnaoui "Decolonial Praxis and the Production of Knowledge: Rethinking Border Regimes through Fanon"

- Bernardo Paci "Fanon and the Political Economy of the Mind: The 'Disalienation of the Total Fact of Madness' and Beyond"

Chair: Ludovica D'Alessandro, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

10:30 coffee break

11:00 3rd PANEL: Politics of Emancipation and Collective Praxis

Speakers:

- Leaticia Ouedraogo "Locating a compass in Fanon's work for navigating decolonial practices of emancipation: from an individual situated reading to the everyday collective ethics of political action" (online)

- Miguel Mellino "Colonial extraction, political violence and revolution: the work of Frantz Fanon as part of a black political philosophy" (ita)

- Stefano Visentin "From language to violence and back again. A journey through Frantz Fanon's work"

Chair: Arianna Mainardi, University of Bergamo

The work will be concluded by some considerations by Professor Antonio Tucci, of the University of Salerno.

13:00 – end of second session

Organization: Damiano Palano, Ludovica D'Alessandro, Sandro Luce