Royal Holloway University of London – David Cesarani Lecture – HMD 2025
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Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Royal Holloway University of London
Website: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/events/david-cesarani-holocaust-memorial-lecture-3/
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Royal Holloway University of London
Egham Hill
Egham
Surrey
TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
In this lecture, Professor Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading) will focus on Frantz Fanon’s influence and practice as a psychiatrist, his understanding of racism and antisemitism, and his anti-colonialism. Fanon refused to separate his revolutionary politics from his psychiatric practice, nor did he distinguish the various victims of fascism and colonialism. But there is always a tension between his embodied experience of racism and his more abstract understanding of contemporary antisemitism which Professor Cheyette will explore.
Professor Bryan Cheyette has published twelve books, most recently: Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History (Yale University Press, 2014), and The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020). A Series Editor for Bloomsbury (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing), he is currently completing a concise history of Testimony.
Admission is free, but booking is essential.
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