Foucault Circle 2012 conference
Canisius College
Buffalo, NY
All sessions will be held on the main floor of the Montante Cultural Center, located at Main and
Eastwood Streets on the Canisius College campus.
Friday evening, March 30th
Reception – Time and location TBA
Saturday, March 31st
9-10:45 – Power and Resistance
Moderator: Pär Widén, Malmő University
“Where There is Resistance, There is Power: A Revision of the Concept of Co-originality”
Marco Checchi, Radboud University
‘Between Foucault and Ekeh: Governmentality and the “Two Publics” in Africa’
Wale Adebanwi, U.C. Davis
“Beyond the Neo-liberal Paradigm: Foucault on the Multiplicity of Power-relations and the Critical Force of the Care of the Self”
Edward McGushin, Stonehill College
11- 12:10 – The Organic and the Inorganic
Moderator: Jonas Qvarsebo, Malmő University
“Abnormal Appetites: Foucault and the Politics of Food”
Chloё Taylor, University of Alberta
“Plasticization as Necrophilia: Death, Decomposition, and the Inorganic in Foucault”
Kelsey Borrowman, Stony Brook University
12:10-1:30 – Lunch
1:30-3:15 – Prisons and Imprisonment
Moderator: Thom Axelsson, Malmő University
“The New Asylums: Madness and Mass Incarceration in the Neoliberal Era”
Michael Rembis, SUNY Buffalo
“Isolate and Manage: The Birth of the Supermax”
Kristin Li, McGill University
“Imprisonment Begins in the Mind”
Anwar Harper, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
3:30-4:45 –Discussion of GIP Documents
Facilitators: Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, DePaul University
5:00 – Business Meeting
Dinner – Time and location TBA
Sunday, April 1st
9-10:45 – Ethics and Politics
Moderator: Sam Talcott, University of the Sciences
“Stoicism’s Hermeneutic of Interpretation and its Political Implications”
Robin Weiss, DePaul University
“Integrity, Misanthropy, Democracy”
Robert Nichols, University of Alberta
“Real Bodies in Real Spaces? Rethinking Anatomo-politics for the Twenty-first Century”
Sophie Fuggle, King’s College London
11-12:10 – Madness
Moderator: Sam Binkley, Emerson College
“Indeterminacies: Of Madness, Animality, and Theatricality in Foucault’s History of Madness and J.M. Coetzee’s Lives of Animals”
Corey McCall, Elmira College
“Foucault’s Madness: Re-reading the Foucault-Derrida Debate Through the 1961 Preface”
Eric Jonas, Northwestern University
The Program Committee wishes to thank Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn for their work in translating the GIP documents used in Saturday’s discussion.
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