The 16th annual meetings of the Foucault Circle
June 29-July 2, 2016
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
All sessions in Lecture Room G02 in the Law School Building.
Registration is on-site only. On the first morning, registration will be open in the foyer of the Ground Floor of the Law Building, adjacent to Room G02.
Registration Fee: $30.00 AUD (cash only), payable on the morning of the first day.
This schedule allows 40 minutes total per paper, inclusive of reading and discussion.
It is expected that roundtable participants’ opening remarks will be brief (5-8 min.)
Program Overview
Wednesday, June 29
10:00-10:40 Morning Tea and Registration
10:40-12:00 SESSION #1 (2 papers)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 SESSION #2 (3 papers)
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00-17:20 SESSION #3 (2 papers)
17:30- Drinks reception
Thursday, June 30
08:30-09:50 SESSION #4 (2 papers)
09:50-10:20 Morning Tea
10:20-12:00 ROUNDTABLE #1
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 SESSION #5 (3 papers)
15:30-15:45 Afternoon Tea
15:45-17:05 SESSION #6 (2 papers)
17:15-18:00 BUSINESS MEETING
Evening Local dinner
Friday, July 1
08:30-09:50 SESSION #7 (2 papers)
9:50-10.20: Morning Tea
10:20-12:00 ROUNDTABLE #2
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 SESSION #8 (3 papers)
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00-18:00 WORKSHOP/SEMINAR
Evening Local dinner
Saturday, July 2
09:00-10:20 SESSION #9 (2 papers)
10:30-12:30 SESSION #10 (3 papers)
Program Detail
Wednesday, June 29
10:00-10:40 Registration and Morning Tea
10:40-12:00 SESSION #1: ANATOMICAL ABNORMALITIES
Moderated by Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Benjamin Kunkler (University of Melbourne, Australia)
The Archaeology of Anatomical Knowledge
Matthew Chrulew (Curtin University, Australia)
Abnormal Animals: The Problematisation of Captivity in Hediger and Meyer-Holzapfel
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 SESSION #2: CYNICAL GOVERNMENTALITY
Moderated by Daniel McLoughlin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Miguel Vatter (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Foucault and Strauss on Socratic Natural Right
Özge Yalta Yandaş, (Independent Researcher, Turkey)
Constructing a Neoliberal Art of Government: Urban Regeneration Processes of Istanbul in 2000s
Terry Flew (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Weberian Themes in Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics lectures
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00-17:20 SESSION #3: DIALOGUES WITH AGAMBEN
Moderated by Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Vanessa Lemm (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Agamben as a Reader of Foucault
Daniel McLoughlin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Killing in the Name of Life: Foucault and Agamben on Nazism and Biopolitical Sovereignty
17:30- Drinks Reception
Thursday, June 30
08:30-09:50 SESSION #4: FOUCAULDIAN APPROACHES TO SOCIAL WORK
Moderated by Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Sharon Alexander (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
What does Theorising with Foucault Contribute to Social Worker’s Understanding of Perinatal Mental Health?
Uschi Bay (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
Working with Foucault’s theorising to elaborate on reflexivity in social work practice
10:20-12:00 ROUNDTABLE #1: FOUCAULT’S CRITIQUE OF NEOLIBERALISM?
Moderated by Mark G E Kelly (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Organized by Paul Patton
Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Miguel Vatter (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Terry Flew (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 SESSION #5: ANCIENT ENGAGEMENTS
Moderated by Miguel Vatter (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Michael Ure (Monash University, Australia)
Foucault and Nietzsche: Two Philosophical Physicians?
Federico Testa (Monash University, Australia)
Is There a Politics of the Care of the Self in Michel Foucault?
Charles Barbour (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Dismantling the City State: Foucault, Classicism, and Politics in the Ancient World
15:45-17:05 SESSION #6: UNFOLDING EVENTUALITIES
Moderated by Lynne Huffer (Emory, USA)
Farzaneh Haghighi (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Eventualisation: Multiplying the faces of a polyhedron
Elliot Patsoura (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Buggering the Fold: Deleuze reads The Order of Things
17:15-18:00 BUSINESS MEETING
Friday, July 1
08:30-09:50 SESSION #7: EPISTEMOLOGICAL AUTONOMY
Moderated by Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Chari Larsson (University of Queensland, Australia)
The Archaeological Art Historian: Didi-Huberman’s Epistemological Debt
Katherine Filbert (Villanova University, USA)
De-Spatializing Critical Agency: Freedom without Autonomy in Foucault and Benjamin
10:20-12:00 ROUNDTABLE #2: FOUCAULT AS A CRITICAL THEORIST: THE ‘CARE OF THE SELF’ AND THE POLITICISATION OF LIFE
Moderated by Charles Barbour (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Organized by Michael Ure (Monash University, Australia)
Michael Ure (Monash University, Australia)
Irene Dal Poz (Monash University, Australia)
Sam O’Brien (Monash University, Australia)
Federico Testa (Monash University, Australia)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 SESSION #8: INJUSTICE IN THE STREETS
Moderated by Michael Cowen (Alliance Manchester Business School, UAE)
Sylvain Lafleur (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
Foucault’s justice fonctionnelle and its relationship to legislators and popular illegalism
Joanna Crosby (Morgan State University, USA)
The 2015 Baltimore Protests: A Neoliberal Love Child
Falguni A. Sheth (Emory University, USA)
State Racism, Biopower, and the Mass Migration Problem
16:00-18:00 WORKSHOP ON FOUCAULT AND THE ANTHROPOCENE: reading a new translation of “The Situation of Cuvier in the History of Biology” (DE#077, 1970)
Group discussion facilitated by Lynne Huffer (Emory University, USA)
An English translation of this text will be distributed by PDF in early June.
Saturday, July 2
09:00-10:20 SESSION #9: HETEROTOPIAS
Moderated by Steven Ogden (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
Margaret A. McLaren (Rollins College, USA)
Harems (Brothels) and Hammams as Heterotopias
Charles Villet (Monash South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Oscar Pistorius and the white heterotopia: The suburban laager in post-Apartheid South Africa
10:30-12:30 SESSION #10: POLITICS OF THE NORMATIVE
Moderated by Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Erik Zimmerman (The New School for Social Research, USA)
Resistance and Rupture: Foucault and the Cynicism of Otherness
Mark G E Kelly (Western Sydney University, Australia)
A Sketch for a Genealogy of Normativity
Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University, USA)
The Self-relation, Anti-normalization, and Prospects for Enduring Peace: The Case of Northern Ireland
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