The Virtual Academic. Random Sentence Generator Editor: Update 18 March 2021. It appears this site is now defunct. I have linked to a December 2018 version on the Wayback machine – which is still working. Update August 2025: Sadly this device is no longer an amusing joke as we have now been overtaken by the …
Santos, Filipe D. (2011). “Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject – Edited by A. Fejes & K. Nicoll Book Reviews”. Educational philosophy and theory, 43 (8), pp. 898-900. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00699.x Review of A. Fejes & K. Nicoll (eds) Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject, Routledge, 2008. Extract This book is the first dedicated solely …
“Rethinking the Self: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Bioethical and Biopolitical Concerns” Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, April 10-12, 2012. Keynote speakers include Prof. Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and Dr. Jenny Slatman, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. This international and interdisciplinary symposium addresses how cultural, medical and political understandings of the self …
Taylor, Chloe, Disciplinary Relations/Sexual Relations: Feminist and Foucauldian Reflections on Professor–Student Sex. Hypatia, 26: 187–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01143.x Abstract Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings as well as the writings of feminist scholars bell hooks and Jane Gallop, this paper examines faculty–student sexual relations and the discourses and policies that surround them. It argues that the dominant discourses …
127th Modern langauge Association (MLA) Annual Convention The convention will begin on Thursday, 5 January, and end on Sunday, 8 January 2012. This session may be of interest 40. Using Foucault Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Presiding: Lynne Huffer, …
Histoire de la folie – Institut suédois 26 Novembre 2011 16h Institut suédois 11 rue Payenne F-75003 Paris + 33 1 44 78 80 20 Conférence, débat, projection et lectures. A l’occasion de la parution d’Un succès philosophique. L’histoire de la folie de Michel Foucault (PUC/IMEC) et de Le Beau danger (éditions de l’EHESS), l’Institut …
Play reading: Softcops Sunday 30 October, 11.30am Royal Shakespeare Theatre, £10 A script-in-hand reading of Caryl Churchill’s rarely performed masterpiece about the criminal justice system. The cast includes Arthur Darvill, who plays Rory in Doctor Who, Geoffrey Streatfeild, known to RSC audiences for his performances as Prince Hal and Henry V in the 2006-2008 Histories …
Foucault Across the Disciplines Guest editor: Colin Koopman History of the Human Sciences , October 2011; 24 (4) Link to abstracts and pdfs Table of Contents Colin Koopman Foucault across the disciplines: introductory notes on contingency in critical inquiry Ian Hacking Déraison Arnold I. Davidson In praise of counter-conduct Amy Allen Foucault and the politics …
Darragh O’Donoghue, Retour en Normandie, Senses of Cinema, Issue 60, October 2011. Full article online […]It is no coincidence that with Retour en Normandie (Return to Normandy) Philibert should abandon his seemingly “objective” direct cinema approach to produce his most formally complex and self-reflexive film to date. Moi, Pierre Rivière is a docudrama based on …
French Theory in Translation: The Question of the Archive An international conference Sponsored by The Alliance Française of Chicago, the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago, DePaul University, the France-Chicago Center, and the University of Chicago, 3-5 November 2011 The University of Chicago will host the 3rd Day, on Saturday, November …
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