The Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop of the University of Chicago, sponsored by Arnold I. Davidson, Ryan Coyne and Jocelyn Benoist, will host this Term some “Foucaultian” presentations: Monday 31st October 2011 Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris-Est Créteil & La Sapienza, Rome) “Aesthetics of Existence, Eternal Stoicism or Moral Perfectionism? Foucault, Hadot and Cavell between Ethics and …
The Same and the Other: 50 years of History of Madness (1961-2011) VII International Michel Foucault Colloquy (at PUC-SP) O Mesmo e o Outro. 50 anos de História da Loucura (1961-2011). 24 a 27 de outubro de 2011. Monday October 24th – Thursday October 27th Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Sao Paulo, Brazil. There will be an …
The Foucault Society, NYC 2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies We are delighted to announce our first colloquium of this academic year. Please join us for an evening of critical dialogue and light refreshment. Devonya N. Havis, Ph.D. “Arts of Resistance: Locating Black Women’s Philosophies” Friday, October 21, 2011 7:00-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center …
Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 12 A Special Issue on Foucault and Race Guest Edited by Ladelle McWhorter Issue 12 also includes: A translated interview with Denys Foucault An interview with Cressida J. Heyes Three original articles related to Foucault’s writings on neoliberalism and eight book reviews Foucault Studies is …
Histoire de la folie : 50 ans Le Centre Michel Foucault, en co-édition avec l’IMEC et les Presses Universitaires de Caen proposent deux ouvrages: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1961-2011. Textes choisis et présentés par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Luca Paltrinieri, Judith Revel, Mathieu …
Governing Human Beings in the Age of the Brain: A Symposium with Nikolas Rose Presented by the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia Wednesday, November 16 2011 1.30pm to 5.30pm Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room, Level 1 Duhig Building (Bldg 2), St Lucia …
From the Verso blog via Stuart Elden See also The Guardian obituary Kishani Widyaratna, Dr David Macey 1949—2011, Verso blog, 11 October 2011 It is our sad duty to announce the loss of Dr David Macey, translator and writer. A much respected and admired Verso author and champion of Francophone thought in the English speaking …
Sanna Karkulehto, The ‘Greatest Finn’ meets the ‘Gay Marshal’: Foucault’s cycle, national narratives and The Butterfly of the Urals, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 1, no.2, June 2011 https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.1.2.177_1 Abstract The article examines the case of the ‘Gay Marshal’, the late C.G.E. Mannerheim, president of Finland, supreme commander of Finnish military forces during World War …
Le Seuil and Gallimard, publishers of the official French editions of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, are looking for copies of audio tape recordings of Foucault’s lecture series on La société punitive at the Collège de France in Winter and Spring 1973. These lectures were delivered from January to March 1973. If …
Bob Robinson, Michel Foucault: Ethics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984) does not understand ethics as moral philosophy, the metaphysical and epistemological investigation of ethical concepts (metaethics) and the investigation of the criteria for evaluating actions (normative ethics), as Anglo-American philosophers do. Instead, he defines ethics as a relation …
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