Foucault News

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

CFP: *50 Years of The History of Sexuality* Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference, 2026 Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster Organizers: Toby Anne Finlay, York University (tfinlay@yorku.ca); Chris Tatham, University of Guelph. Dates Call for Abstracts: December 3, 2025 – January 26, 2026 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Michel Foucault’s The …

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Call for papers XIV MICHEL FOUCAULT INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: 50 YEARS OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY May 26 to 29, 2026 Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil. Instagram contact: foucaultnabahia@gmail.com _______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION OF APPLICANTS: ORAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THEMATIC SYMPOSIUMS AND PANELS 1. OVERVIEW The XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium: 50 Years …

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Call for Presentations Addressing Interior Violences International Conference. The Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève explores the role of interior spaces in shaping contemporaneity. To that extent, it organizes a series of reflections and interventions that aim to learn, question and visibilize how interiors play a key role in the construction of violence …

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PDF of CFP in English PDF of CFP in Spanish Círculo de Estudios Foucaultianos Call for Papers II INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON MICHEL FOUCAULT 50 YEARS OF ‘SURVEILLANCE AND PUNISHMENT’ November 25 and 26, 2025 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos [National University of San Marcos], Lima, Peru Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison …

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Call for papers: Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026-03-05 to 2026-03-08 Gannon University Erie, Pennsylvania. USA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana April 3-5, 2026 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. This conference also celebrates the centennial of Foucault’s birth, so we also welcome …

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Call for Papers La volontà di sapere | The Will to Knowledge Vesper No. 14, Università Iuav di Venezia Call for abstracts by September 5, 2025 See PDF of call for complete details […] Michel Foucault, in La volonté de savoir (1976), described how the mechanisms of the examination of conscience belonging to the pastoral …

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Call For Papers After The Death Of The Human Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference University of Lisbon, Portugal | June 18–19, 2026 Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2025 Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2025 PDF flyer The centenary of Michel Foucault’s birth offers a timely opportunity to reassess the profound contribution of his philosophy …

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Call for Papers Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVI, 2, 2026: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy, ed. by Elisabetta Basso and Andrea Cavazzini In Michel Foucault’s published and unpublished writings, between Naissance de la Clinique (1963) and L’archeologie du savoir (1969), the recurrence of the term “archaeology” marks the centrality of this notion in the period when …

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