Foucault News

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

Roberto Nigro Maître de conférences invité à l’EHESS donnera cinq conférences sur les Démonstrations de pouvoir Le jeudi 9 juin 2011 15h00-17h00 105, bd. Raspail, Salle 11 “Violence, domination, résistance : trois concepts clés dans l’œuvre de Michel Foucault” Le mardi 14 juin 2011 18h30-20h30 Salle 1, Centre Parisien d’Études Critiques, 37 bis rue du …

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The Centre for Studies in Otherness invites papers for the e-journal issue Otherness: Essays and Studies 2.2. Otherness: Essays and Studies, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary e-journal, publishes research articles from and across different academic disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study. We …

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Epistemologies of the Political, the Global and the International A workshop to reflect collectively on the ways we know the ‘factual’ world we research. For further info see this site Organised by the Emerging Securities Research Unit, Keele University and co-sponsored by the BISA Poststructuralist Politics Working Group Keynote speaker: Prof Michael Shapiro, University of …

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International Conference on Autobiography “Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription” University College Cork, 2-3 September 2011 Confirmed Key-Note Speaker: Professor Patricia Clough (CUNY) There are contesting versions of autobiography. We’ve travelled far since Georges Gusdorf traced the origins of autobiography back to the origins of language itself, saying “the very first man who …

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MANCHESTER Workshops in Political Theory 2011 31 August – 2 September 2011 Call for Papers – Ontology and Politics Workshop Convenors: Paul Rekret (Queen Mary), Simon Choat (Kingston), Clayton Chin (Queen Mary) Description Despite its pervasiveness, the question of the relation between ontology and politics continues to be a crucial one for Continental philosophy. While …

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Call for papers for a special issue “Mise-en-Scene: Crime” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 38 No. 1 (March 2012) Submissions due August 15, 2011 ******** In the beginning was murder. Then came drama: the hair-tearing (or eye-gouging) discovery of one’s own overweening hubris, the inconsolable grieving over the loss of the most basic sense …

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David Galston, Archives and the Event of God: The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology (Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2011). Review Description The philosophical works of Michel Foucault have profoundly influenced many disciplines, but his influence on theology has seldom been considered. Archives and the Event of God unravels the effects that Foucault’s Archaeology …

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First two-day workshop of the CIBB Project (‘Contemporary Issues in Bioethics and Biopolitics’) ‘The Normal and the Pathological’ 27th and 28th September 2011 MS.05 (second floor) Zeeman Building, The University of Warwick. Please note that all the papers will be delivered in English. All welcome. Free registration at normalpathological@gmail.com Confirmed speakers: Jean-Claude Dumoncel, Robert Bernasconi, …

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