Gary S. Becker, Nobel-winning scholar of economics and sociology, 1930-2014 Obituary by William Harms, UChicago News, May 4 2014 Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, AM’53, PhD’55, made historic changes to the study of economics and the social sciences, combining disciplines to understand decisions in everyday life, while spawning rich new questions for scholars in diverse …
Xavier Riondet ECS Forum 13/12/2013 À côté de Freinet : une enquête philosophico-historique d’allure foucaldienne Education, Culture and Society Research Group Forum KU Leuven
Henrik Bang, Rethinking Michel Foucault: The Political Circle of Parrhesia and Democracy, 2014 Video of seminar As part of Sydney Democracy Network‘s seminar series, Professor Henrik Bang (University of Canberra) indicates perspectives on Michel Foucault that can inform our understanding of democracy. Michel Foucault has become an exemplar in the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, history, linguistics …
Anthony Merino, Foucault for Dummies, Arts & Opinion. Arts, Culture, Analysis, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2014 Michel Foucault wrote anti-historical histories. He is most noted for his histories of four social domains: mental illness, crime and punishment, health systems, and sexuality. With a few exceptions, he does not talk much about art. He wrote a …
Governmentality in the Age of Neoliberalism Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Video of Professor Wendy Brown’s talk in March 2014 at the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the University of Victoria in Canada on governmentality in the age of neoliberalism.
The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age 1-2 August 2014 Staff Common Room, Level 2, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales Building F8. See map Daniel McLoughlin and Ben Golder are organising a symposium in the Law School on 1-2 August 2014, under the umbrella of the ‘Public Law and Legal Theory …
Call for papers Workshop Historicising Foucault: What does this mean? 6-8 November 2014 University of Zurich, Switzerland Further info Michel Foucault figures among the icons of today’s cultural and social sciences. The French philosopher and historian is productively read, quoted, discussed, refuted, and recycled in virtually every cultural and social scientific discipline. Voiced in 1975, …
Zevnik, Luka, Critical Perspectives in Happiness Research: The Birth of Modern Happiness, Springer, 2014 Publisher’s page Explores the concept of modernization as the collective pursuit of happiness Places the concept of happiness into a historical and cultural context Analyses the relationship of modern consumer culture with happiness in contemporary western societies This book presents an …
Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation Conference 1: ‘Hellenistic Ethics in Nietzsche and Foucault’ Date: 25-27 September, 2014 Location: The University of Warwick, UK PDF of call for papers 1st Call for Abstracts: Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as philosophers have sought alternatives to …
Marcella Milana and John Holford (Eds), Adult Education Policy and the European Union: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers, 2014 PDF flyer website The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers …
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