Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Call for papers Hofstra University LGBT Studies Program and the Hofstra Cultural Center in New York present Hofstra’s Sixth Annual LGBT Studies Conference Michel Foucault 2014: Beyond Sexuality Thursday and Friday, March 27 and 28, 2014 PDF of Call for Papers Keynote Speakers: Dr. Roderick Ferguson, Professor of American Studies; Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; and …

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CFP – Journal materiali foucaultiani Butler/Foucault: undoing norms, reworking subjects PDF of call for papers Foucault’s analyses on sexuality have had a huge influence on Judith Butler’s theories on gender and sexual identities. Both Foucault and Butler’s work have played an eminent role within the feminist debate of the last decade, especially in the Anglo-Saxon …

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Join Tate Liverpool and world-renowned literary theorist Leo Bersani for the second in a year-long series of FREE Keywords lectures in Liverpool.  Thursday 9 May 2013, 19.00 – 20.00. LEAF on Water Street, 25 Water Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 0RG. Keywords is a dynamic exhibition and lecture programme that looks at how changes in the meaning of words …

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Aggarwal, N.K. Mental discipline, punishment and recidivism: Reading Foucault against de-radicalisation programmes in the War on Terror (2013) Critical Studies on Terrorism. Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2012.749059 Abstract This article uses Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish to examine how de-radicalisation programmes in the War on Terror transform power-knowledge relations, mental discipline and punishment by attempting to …

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Philippe Chevallier, « Étudier l’Église comme « gouvernementalité » », Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre | BUCEMA [En ligne], Hors-série n°7 | 2013, mis en ligne le 29 mars 2013, consulté le 24 avril 2013. https://doi.org/10.4000/cem.12874 Extrait C’est en 1978 au Collège de France, dans le cours Sécurité, territoire, population, que Michel Foucault croise les notions de « christianisme » et de …

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Michel Senellart, « Michel Foucault : une autre histoire du christianisme ? », Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre | BUCEMA [En ligne], Hors-série n°7 | 2013, mis en ligne le 29 mars 2013, consulté le 24 avril 2013. https://doi.org/10.4000/cem.12872 Extrait La question du christianisme, à partir du milieu des années 70, occupe une place croissante …

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Colloque international  Foucault / Wittgenstein : subjectivité et politique vendredi 7 & samedi 8 juin 2013 9h30 – 18h  Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris salle Cavaillès (1er étage, esc. C) Programme pdf Argumentaire À partir de deux traditions philosophiques distinctes, Michel Foucault et Ludwig Wittgenstein ont chacun proposé une …

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Workshop on ethics and norms in recent European philosophy Monday, May 6, 2-5p.m. Research Unit in European Philosophy Caulfield Campus: Room A 1.34 (the Clayfield Room). Faculty of Arts – Monash University PO BOX 197, Melbourne, VIC 3145 Australia Dr Sean Bowden (Deakin U): “Normativity and Expressive Agency in Hegel, Nietzsche and Deleuze” Associate Professor …

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Max Weber and Michel Foucault: possible convergences International Conference Universidade de São Paulo (USP) – São Paulo, Brazil 20th to 24th May 2013 Weber and Foucault 2013_Final Programme Pdf May, 20th, Monday 10h-12h a.m. Opening Session: Colin Gordon, “’Plato in Weimar: public philosophy in the last lectures of Weber and Foucault”. Coord.: Maria Helena Oliva …

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