Les mots et les choses and beyond (2015)
Conference
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 2015
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History and
History and Theory
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1:30-3:30 – Afternoon Session I
Introduction and Chair: Peter E. Gordon
Gary Gutting, The Politics of The Order of Things: Foucault, Sartre, and Deleuze
Nancy Partner, “The Reign of Leviathan and the Return of the Repressed Self”
Respondent: Samuel Moyn
3:30-4:00 – Coffee break
4:00-6:00 – History and Theory Keynote Lecture
Introduction and Chair: Ethan Kleinberg
Vincent Descombes, “The Order of Things: an archeology of what?”
Respondent: Warren Breckman
6:30 – Reception (for participants only)
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
9:00-9:30 – Coffee
9:45-11:45 – Morning session
Chair: Arthur Goldhammer
Jean-Claude Monod, “Les mots et les choses, history and diagnosis”
Béatrice Han-Pile, “Phenomenology and Anthropology in Foucault’s early work”
Respondent: Giuseppe Bianco
12:00-1:30 – Lunch break
1:30-3:30 – Afternoon Session I
Chair, Michèle Lamont
Laura Stark, “Human sciences, moral kinds, and the imposition of universal experience”
Ahmed Ragab, “Monsters, Fossils and Patients: An archeology of medieval medicine”
Respondent: Stefanos Geroulanos
3:30-4:00 – Coffee break
4:00-6:00 – Afternoon Session II
Chair: John Hamilton
Julian Bourg, “Nature and the Irruptive Violence of History in Foucault and Benjamin”
Frédéric Worms, “Unexpected (and vital) controversies: Foucault’s Les mots et les choses in its philosophical moment and today”
Respondent: Judith Surkis
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