Visit the 10 Great Books website for this year's program and speaker information. Now in its seventh year, 10 Great Books has traversed the broad history of the written word, exploring great novels, non-fiction, plays, poetry, pamphlets and more. In 1953 he was appointed head of the psychiatric department of a government hospital in Algeria, then a French territory. He volunteered for the French army during World War II, and then, after being released from military service, he went to France, where he studied medicine and psychiatry from 1945 to 1950. The ten diverse texts will become our window into politics, art, love, death, and everything in between. Frantz Fanon was born in the French colony of Martinique. We ask the big questions about how our selected books captured the zeitgeist and shifted the culture. National Culture and the Fight for Freedom, 1959 The Pitfalls of National Consciousness, 1961 The Wretched of the Earth. Like many Martinicans, Fanon was of mixed heritage, and his father descended from African slaves. Frantz Fanon representing the FNL at the Pan African conference 1960, Wikimedia Commons Frantz Omar Fanon was born in 1925 into a middle-class family in Martinique, a French Caribbean island. Each month, hear leading academics and experts give their take on a text that has shaped the way we see the world. Frantz Fanon’s early biography and political career.
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The Faculty of Arts proudly presents the book club to end all book clubs: 10 Great Books, a Melbourne Masterclass. Karen was educated at Harvard University (MA, PhD) and the University of California, Berkeley (BA). She is author of numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and. Karen is co-author of three books including Qualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age (2016) and co-editor of three collections, most recently Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging (2018) and Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness (2019). Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925, Fort-de-France, Martinique 6 December 1961, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.) was a Martinique-born Afro-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. Her research is focused on the sociology of ‘race’ and racism, ethnicity, and diversity, mainly in the contexts of media and sport.
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Professor Karen Farquharson is Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Melbourne. Karen Farquharson About Professor Karen Farquharson