The Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development celebrates Black History Month with this special event!
APHD Celebrates Black History Month 2025
The Frantz Fanon 100th Year Anniversary Symposium
2025 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frantz Fanon (25th July 1925 in Martinique), a psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary activist. Frantz Fanon died from leukemia in Bethesda, Maryland on December 6th, 1961, at the age of 36.
Fanon's work has had a significant impact on Post Colonial Theory, Black studies, French Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, and liberation movements around the world.
Deadline to submit abstracts is January 15, 2025.
Registration will close on Monday, February 10, 2025.
EVENT AGENDA:
9:30am – 10:00am = Sign-in & Coffee (OISE Library)
10:00am – 10:15am = Welcome & Opening Remarks (Dr. Abby Goldstein, Dr. Deone Curling; Angela Xiang, Deanna Rudder)
10:15am – 10:30am = Picturing Frantz Fanon (video presentation by Heidi Parakh)
10:30am – 12:00pm = Keynote Speakers (Dr. Lisa Chinchamie, Dr. Alia Al-Saji (on-line), Dr. Abdollah Zahiri and Dr. Ahmed Ali Ilmi)
12:00pm – 1:00pm = Lunch (Caribbean flavours)
1:00pm – 2:15pm = Parallel Paper Session
2:15pm - 2:30pm = Break
2:30pm – 4:00pm = Keynote Speakers (Dr. Sujaya Dhanvantari, Anisha Sankar, Dr. Charles Simon)
4:00pm – 5:00pm = Round Table Experiential: “My Fanon” (Dr. Tanya Titchkosky; Dr. Anissa Talahite; Dr. Rod Michalko; Dr. Roy Moodley)
*Please note this is a tentative agenda and is subject to change closer to the event date.
About the Speakers
Dr. Lisa Chinchamie
Keynote speaker
Gender and Equity Consultant; Co-Director of Inclusive Communities Foundation
Dr. Sujaya Dhanvantari
Keynote speaker
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
College of Arts, University of Guelph
Dr. Charles Simon-Aaron
Keynote speaker
B.A.; M.A.; PhD
Dr. Abdollah Zahiri
Keynote speaker
MA, Indiana State, PHD Murdoch University, Australia; has taught at Ferdowsi University (IRAN), Murdoch University Australia and Seneca Polytechnic (Retired)
Anisha Sankar
Keynote speaker
Currently pursuing a PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University, in Toronto, Canada
Dr. Alia Al-Saji
Keynote speaker
James McGill Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Anissa Talahite-Moodley
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Women's and Gender Studies
Department of Historical and Cultural Studies
University of Toronto, UTSC
Dr. Ahmed Ali Ilmi
Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream)
Department of Global Development Studies
University of Toronto, UTSC
Dr. Tanya Titchkosky
Professor, Disability Studies
Department of Social Justice Education,
OISE, University of Toronto
Dr. Rod Michalko
University of Toronto
