L’historien français Marc Ferro est mort Par Philippe-Jean Catinchi, Le Monde, 22 avril 2021 Spécialiste du XXe siècle, de la Grande Guerre à Vichy et à la décolonisation, il a été pionnier dans l’utilisation des images comme source historique. Agé de 96 ans, il est décédé le 21 avril. Internationalement reconnu pour ses travaux sur …
The Bedroom by Michelle Perrot review – an intimate history by Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian, Tue 11 Dec 2018 Details for book The bedroom, says French superstar historian Michelle Perrot, is the place where everything important has already happened. From the days when early man first rolled a boulder in front of his cave and …
Foucault’s Confessions, May 4-June 3 2021 Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m., free and open to the public. For more information and to register, visit foucaultsconfessions.org. (See also this news item on the Rice University site) Over five weeks in the month of May and the beginning of June, an international group of scholars will …
Originally posted on CREALECTICS:
Call for Chapters for a collective book (including a symposium) Possibility, (Re)Generation, Care: Perspectives on Philosophical Health? Edited by Luis de Miranda[1]?and Elisabetta Basso This book is the first of its kind to explore the emerging concept of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care as distinct from, yet complementary to…
The Foucault Circle NL/BE invites you to join Professor Marcelo Hoffman for a talk on his latest book Date: April 26 2021 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Central European Time Location: Online (Zoom link shared upon registration) Registration via this form on Google forms Marcelo Hoffman, Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles …
Murphy, Brendon. “Against wellbeing: The problem of resources, metrics and care of the self.” Alternative Law Journal (2021). Published 8 April 2021 10.1177/1037969X211007580 Abstract This article critically engages with the concept and practice of ‘wellbeing’. Over the last decade, managerial practices have broadly introduced ‘wellbeing’ policies into the workplace, including the legal workplace. While these …
Byung-Chul Han, The Tiredness Virus. The Nation, April 12, 2021 Covid-19 has driven us into a collective fatigue. Covid-19 is a mirror that reflects back to us the crises in our society. It renders more visible the pathological symptoms that already existed before the pandemic. One of these symptoms is tiredness. We all somehow feel …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RboeauVZcg Michel Foucault and the Social Contract, Chris Watkin with Stuart Elden and Mark Kelly – video of Monash discussion, 13 April 2021. Youtube video above, also available as a podcast. My talk was entitled ‘The Yoke of Law and the Lustre of Glory’; Mark’s ‘Social Contract as Norm’. Internationally…
Falch, L.A. A career open to the talents—Nurses’ doing and focus during the history (2021) Nursing Philosophy, 22 (1). DOI: 10.1111/nup.12336 Abstract Based on a historical and a contemporary fieldwork at a Danish hospital, this article offers a genealogical and philosophical exploration of the development of nurses’ doing and focus within a hospital setting from …
D. Lemus-Delgado, China and the battle to win the scientific narrative about the origin of COVID-19 (2020) Journal of Science Communication, 19 (5), pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.22323/2.19050206 Abstract The emergence of COVID-19 represented a critical problem for the legitimacy and prestige of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese authorities had to fight not only to …
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