19th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA, USA
April 5-7, 2019
Friday, April 5th
3:00pm-5:00pm
Session 1: Confessions of the Flesh & A Preface to Transgression
Wencheng Zhu, Southeast University
Confession or Sign of Subjectivation?: Libido in Foucault’s Les Aveux de la Chair
Daniel Schultz, Oberlin College
Sex as the Seismograph of Subjectivity: Foucault’s Christian Archive
Charles Clements, Tufts University
Where There’s a Will There’s No Gay: Futurity and Nonknowledge in Foucault’s Reading of Bataille
Saturday, April 6th
9:00am-10:20am
Session 2: Archeology, History, and the Rational
Alex J. Feldman, Penn State University
The Real and the Rational in Foucault’s 1978 Debate with the Historians
Robert Leib, Florida Atlantic University
From a Priori History to Paradigmatic Ontology: Reconsidering Philosophical Archaeology from Kant to Agamben
10:40am-12:40am
Session 3: Genealogy and Subjugated Knowledges
Rebecca Longtin, SUNY, New Paltz
Formations and Transformations of the Sensible in Foucault, Rancière, and Wynter
Taryn Jordan, Emory University & Haylee Harrell, Emory University
“Black Foucault”: A Discussion of Genealogy as a Real Problem and a Real Possibility in Black Studies
Rosa Acevedo, University of Oregon
Limits and Paradoxes of Foucault’s Genealogy of Marginalized Lives
12:45-2pm: Lunch
2:00pm-4:00pm
Session 4: Abolition and Incarceration
Joy James, Williams College
The Architects of Contemporary Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and Michel Foucault
Selin Islekel, Loyola Marymount University
Life Without Parole, Death By Incarceration: Biopolitical Aesthetics of the Penitentiary
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ontological Incarceration: Toward a Genealogy of the Human Genome Project
4:15-5:30pm
Round-table Discussion: Foucault and Christianity
James Bernauer, Boston College | Jared Highlen, Boston College| Steven Ogden, Charles Sturt University
5:45-6:30: Business Meeting
7pm: Dinner
Sunday, April 7th
9:00-11:00am
Session 5: Animality, Religiosity, and Spectral Dreams
Dayne Alexander, Emory University
Animality, Logic and Murmur: Spiraling with the Animal in Michel Foucault’s History of Madness.
Adrian Switzer, Colby College
Aestheticized Transcendence, Archaeological Unreason: The Religiosity of History of Madness
Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Spectral Dreams, Fugitive Pleasures: Art as an Ethical Event of Thought
11:15am-12:35pm
Session 6: Illegalisms and Dispositifs
Delio Vasquez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Foucault on Political Crime: Towards a Unified Theory of Illegalisms
Ricky Crano, Tufts University
Can There Be a Digital Dispositif?: Visuality and Discourse in the Age of Telematic Culture
Travel to Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts
Here is a link to the Stonehill College web-page with a campus map and directions to the College:
https://www.stonehill.edu/visitors/directions-campus-map/
Stonehill College is approximately 20 miles south of Boston, MA and 25 miles north of Providence, RI. Book flights into Boston Logan International Airport or TF Green Airport outside Providence.
Unfortunately, there is no public transit from either airport or either city to Stonehill College. From the airport use Uber or Lyft ($40-50 each way) or rent a car. We suggest coordinating travel with other conference attendees in order to share rides and costs.
Lodging
The Marriott Residence Inn in Brockton/Easton (508-583-3600, https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bosbc-residence-inn-boston-brockton-easton/ ) has held a block of rooms at rate of $129 plus taxes for a studio and $139 for a suite. This rate will be held until March 5th. Call the hotel directly and let them know that you are traveling for the Stonehill Meeting of the Foucault Circle to get the special rate. The hotel about a 2 mile walk to the campus location of the conference in Alumni Auditorium. We are working to see if we can arrange a ride to and from the hotel (more information about that coming). I will update this information with other local lodging options.
Some may wish to stay in Boston during the conference. Depending on traffic conditions and starting point in the city it can take between 35 and 60 minutes to drive to Stonehill.
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