The Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award: Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
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The Caribbean Philosophical Association is awarding Professor Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as a scholar, builder of institutions, and an activist committed to human dignity. This award is to announce to the world the importance of her contributions as she continues fighting for so many causes—intellectual and political. In the words of President Jane Anna Gordon: “We are so fortunate that someone with a mind like Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun’s also has her unique political, personal, and pedagogical commitments. There is no exaggeration in saying that many of the current generation of scholars in France at the forefront of the work of shifting the geography of reason were either directly or indirectly nurtured and inspired by her and her efforts.”
A committed intellectual who is also a Shoa survivor, Professor Dayan-Herzbrun has devoted her life to ideas in the service of struggles for human dignity. A world-renown sociologist, philosopher, and activist, she was among a group of activist philosopher social scientists that included Pierre Bourdieu and Gilles Delueze. Now Professor Emerita at the University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot, she is also known for her mentorship of generations of young women and immigrant scholars in France and across the globe. In addition to her research and ethnographical work in North Africa and the Middle East, she also built institutions ranging from Le Centre de sociologie des pratiques et des représentations politiques (CSPRP) and the journal Tumultes. In 2007, she organized the UNESCO conference Penser aujourd’hui à partir de Frantz Fanon, which contributed to recent scholarship on Fanon in the French-speaking world.
(via Karim Émile Bitar)