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SUMMARY:Frantz Omar Fanon & Stand Up to Racism : Philosophies of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Metropolitan University Human Sciences Seminar Series is an invited speaker and research seminar organised by the Philosophy section of MMU’s Department of History\, Politics and Philosophy \n\n\n\nTickets £5 full / £3 concessions \n\n\n\nFree tickets for Manchester Met staff and students – email ahead@mmu.ac.uk for more details \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2026 series\, Philosophies of Resistance\, will explore the philosophical thought that has resisted colonial\, racial and carceral oppression. \n\n\n\nThe series aims is to question the role that philosophical ideas have played – and continue to play – in collective struggles for social justice\, and human emancipation more broadly. \n\n\n\nThe three seminars in the series are: \n\n\n\n\nFrantz Fanon & Stand Up to Racism\n\n\n\nPhilosophy in Prisons\n\n\n\nHuman Rights & Resistance\n\n\n\n\nEach seminar includes an academic talk followed by an ‘in-conversation’ discussion between the speaker(s) and a local political activist\, and questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nA 15-minute refreshment break is included.Suitable for 18+ \n\n\n\nWednesday 25 March\, 2.00pm – 4.00pm\n\n\n\nFrantz Omar Fanon (1925-1961) is one of the most important anti-colonial thinkers of the twentieth century. Fanon says colonialism is not simply a physical system of inequality and oppression\, it also involves a framework for categorising people\, and relating them to each other in social space. He argues that under colonialism the central system for categorising people is race. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, philosopher Komarine Romdenh-Romluc will speak about the life and work of Fanon. This will be followed by an in-conversation discussion between Romdenh-Romluc and Stand up to Racism activist Nahella Ashraf\, exploring the significance of Fanon’s ideas in contemporary anti-racist struggles. \n\n\n\nContributor biogs \n\n\n\nDr Komarine Romdenh-Romluc is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her fundamental interest is in who we are. She works within the phenomenological tradition in philosophy\, and uses its resources to understand our bodily existence\, and the ways we are shaped by the surrounding world. She is particularly interested in questions of diaspora identity and what it is to belong. \n\n\n\nNahella Ashraf is an anti-racism activist affiliated to Stand Up To Racism\, where she is engaged in grassroots organising and public education aimed at challenging structural and institutional forms of racism. Her activism focuses on opposing Islamophobia\, racial discrimination\, and the normalisation of far right and exclusionary ideologies within public discourse and policy.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/philosophies-of-resistance-stand-up-to-racism/
LOCATION:People’s History Museum\, Left Bank Spinningfields\, Manchester\, M3 3ER
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