Dr. Nadia Marzouki, CRNS research fellow at Sciences Po and former Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre, will sit down with acclaimed author Adam Shatz to discuss his latest book, The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. EUI PhD researchers will also take active part in the conversation. Professor Patrizia Nanz, President of the EUI, and Professor Nicolas Guilhot, Professor of Intellectual History at the EUI’s Department of History, will open the event.
Frantz Fanon, a pivotal figure in era of decolonisation, has left an indelible mark on contemporary social and racial justice movements. From his early years in Martinique to his role in the Algerian independence struggle, Fanon’s life was marked by a relentless fight against oppression. In The Rebel's Clinic, Shatz provides a compelling biography of Fanon, uncovering the twists and turns of his journey, including his groundbreaking work in psychiatry and his influential writings, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.
Join us as we explore Fanon’s legacy and its critical relevance to the current political moment.
Programme:
16:00 – 17:30
A reception will follow.
Opening:
Professor Patrizia Nanz, President, EUI
Professor Nicolas Guilhot, Professor of Intellectual History, Department of History, EUI
Moderator: Dr. Nadia Marzouki, CRNS research fellow, Sciences Po
Guest: Adam Shatz, US Editor, The London Review of Books
About Adam Shatz
Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is also a visiting professor at Bard College, and the host of the podcast 'Myself with Others,' produced by the pianist Richard Sears. Raised in Massachusetts, he studied history at Columbia University and has lived in New York City since 1990. He is the author of three books: Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel (Nation Books); Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso); and The Rebel’s Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (FSG).
About Nadia Marzouki
Nadia Marzouki is a tenured CNRS chargée de recherche at Sciences Po, Paris. She holds a PhD from Sciences Po. Her field of expertise is religion, law, and democracy in the United States, and the Euro-Mediterranean. At the EUI, she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre (2010-2012) and a member of the core research team of the ERC project ReligioWest led by Olivier Roy (2012-2016). She held visiting positions at the Yale Law School, and Harvard Kennedy School, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2023-2024). She is the author of Islam, an American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2017) and has co-edited with Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell Saving the People, How Populists Hijack Religion (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently working on a book manuscript on divine disobedience and the re-imagination of morality that examines how faith-based moral activism in Italy, Tunisia, and the U.S. crafts alternative ideals of political community and solidarity.
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