C as Colonialism

Monday, October 10, 2016, 7pm

C as Colonialism

Research Practice with Samia Henni

HEAD – Genève, Boulevard Helvétique 9, 1205 Geneva, seminar room CCC, salle 27, 2nd floor

A camp built by the French army in Tiaret (Algeria) in the 1960s, whose aim was to monitor the daily life of civilians and contain the revolution. Image: Service Historique de l’Armée de Terre, 1H 1119.
A camp built by the French army in Tiaret (Algeria) in the 1960s, whose aim was to monitor the daily life of civilians and contain the revolution. Image: Service Historique de l’Armée de Terre, 1H 1119.

On 23 February 2005, the French Fifth Republic, under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, decreed law no. 2005-128 on the Recognition of the Nation and the National Contributions of Repatriated French. Article 4 mandated that teachers must teach students about the “positive role” of French colonialism, particularly in North Africa. In her lecture, C As Colonialism, Samia Henni will discuss, deconstruct, and scrutinize what Frantz Fanon called the “psychology of colonialism” in his rejected doctoral dissertation. Based on factual instances, she will disclose how a research-based practice can (and should) provide political forms of discourses.