Foucault News

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

From the Portail Michel Foucault PROGRAMME DU COLLOQUE « USAGES DE FOUCAULT » 1ère Journée (jeudi 3 mars 2011) Usages (Ouverture) 8h30-9h Accueil des participants 9h-9h45 Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE (Lycée J. Jaurès, Montreuil) : « De l’usage à l’usager » I/ L’archipel carcéral 9h45-10h30 Karine BOCQUET (Lille 3) : « Foucault et la question carcérale : …

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TOMÁS IBAÑEZ : “Réflexions à propos de l’anarchisme…” 28 janvier 2011 – de 15h à 18h, au CEDRATS (Centre de Ressources sur les Alternatives Sociales), 27 Montée Saint-Sébastien – 69001 Lyon, Métro C – Station Croix Paquet, ou Métro A – Station Hôtel de Ville Présentation de l’intervention “ Après quelques considérations préliminaires sur les …

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CFP: Foucault und Organisation 19-20 May 2011 at Technische Universität Chemnitz. You can find a link to the pdf of the call for papers here Das Forum ‘Kritische Organisationsforschung’, eine transdisziplinäre Forschungsinitiative der Chemnitzer Juniorprofessur Europäisches Management, veranstaltet vom 19.-20. Mai 2011 einen Workshop zum Schwerpunkt ‘Foucault und Organisation’. Neben dem Schwerpunktthema sollen “in programmatischer …

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Foucault and St Paul. Special Issue of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 11.1 Winter 2010 The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship of a cutting-edge nature that deals broadly with the phenomenon of religious and cultural theory. Visit the journal’s website for …

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CALL FOR PAPERS Radical Foucault: A One Day Conference Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London. The publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-84 in English will be complete in April 2011 and his first Collège de France lecture course, La Volonté de Savoir will be published for the …

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Performance in New York by Annie Dorsen based on the television debate between Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. Jan 6-22 See this interview with author Annie Dorsen New York director Annie Dorsen takes the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration …

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Inhabiting Institutions in Britain, 1700-1950 A two-day conference of the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London, in London on 14 and 15 September 2010 This conference has been recorded and is available as a series of podcasts This two-year research project examines the impact of the design, decoration and furnishing of nineteenth-century residential …

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McKinlay, Alan; Carter, Chris; Pezet, Eric; Clegg, Stewart, ‘Using Foucault to make strategy’, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 23, Number 8, 2010 , pp. 1012-1031(20) https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/09513571011092538/full/html Abstract Purpose The premise of the paper is that Foucault’s concept of governmentality has important but unacknowledged implications for understanding strategy. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the …

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