Foucault News

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

On Hacking’s ‘Style(s) of thinking’ A two day workshop University of Capetown 26th – 28th March 2011 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Hacking Call for abstracts Deadline for abstract submission (500-1000 words): 1st December 2010 Focus This workshop, which coincides with Professor Hacking’s 75th birthday, aims to explore aspects of his extended body of work. Although …

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History and Contemporary Literature, Synthesis ejournal Vol. 5 (2012) Special issue: Call for papers Deadlines: 1 December 2010 submission of abstracts 1 February 2011 notification of acceptance 1 October 2011 submission of articles History and Contemporary Literature Christine Harrison and Angeliki Spiropoulou (issue editors) The ‘turn to history’, witnessed in both literary studies and literature …

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Seminar: Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-09-30 Conference Date: April 7-10, 2011 Conference Venue: Hyatt New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Deadline for Abstract Submission: Sept. 30, 2010 (300-500 words) Notification of acceptance of papers by 5th of October, 2010. Deadline for Final Paper Submission: March …

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Conscripted Subjects: Disciplined Society, Critique, and the Humanities. Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA, USA February 23-25, 2011 Submission deadline: October 15, 2010. In light of our current moment marked by economic collapse, heightened political paranoia, racial profiling, and ubiquitous surveillance, this conference wishes to highlight the connection between states of crisis and …

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Call for Papers: Cinema and the State-Tortured Body Call for Abstracts Due Date: 2010-10-01 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore the Sovereign’s power and control over the body through the cinema’s arguable co-option of the state’s political-military-corporate aims and …

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Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 9 including a “state of the disciplines“ review on Foucault and postcolonial studies. Included * 5 original articles about money, heterotopias, alimentary identities, animal ethics and the emotional content of governmentality processes * a review essay of Ladelle McWorter’s Racisism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America …

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Introduction to Post-structuralism – Essay Collection Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-10-01 This is a call for papers for an essay collection to be entitled “Introduction to Post-structuralism.” The essay collection will consist of pedagogical, explanatory descriptions of post-structuralism to be used as references or classroom textbooks. The goal of this collection is to provide clear(er) …

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Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture , Volume 16 Issue 5 2010 Special issue: Foucault 25 years on Contents For cutting: an introduction to Foucault, 25 years on Ian Goodwin-Smith Resisting Foucault: the necessity of appropriation Ian Goodwin-Smith Post-structuralism’s colonial roots: Michel Foucault Pal Ahluwalia The huntsman’s funeral: targeting the …

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‘The History Of Sexuality Volume One By Michel Foucault: An Opera’, 2010, Premiere Gregg Bordowitz (USA) / Paul Chan (J/USA) 01./ 02.10.10 Fri 1 Oct / Sat 2 Oct., 8.30 pm in TQW / Halle G Tickets: € 18,- (Reductions and Online-Ticketing on http://www.tqw.at) Gregg Bordowitz talks about his opera version of The History of …

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