Foucault News

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

Foucault – 40 Years After Rethinking Foucault’s Historical Ontology of Ourselves: Subjects, Subjectivation, Self-Practices University of Innsbruck, Austria June 21-22, 2024 (June 21: online) Abstracts: April 1, 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS Foucault’s 1984 discussion of Kant’s 1784 “What is Enlightenment?” emphasizes the historical ontology of ourselves as our most noble task. Forty years after Foucault’s …

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Call for Papers for Special Issue “Colors in Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World“, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies Guest Editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki Colors are not only visual stimuli, but also social constructs that play a pivotal role in our perception, psychology, behavior and communication. Colors also evoke …

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CFP: Special Issue: Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene, Lagoonscapes The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities Guest editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Both life and death are natural states of humans and non-humans, coexisting and at …

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Workshop “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. PDF of Workshop flyer WORKSHOP “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. “Does man really exist? …

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Scholarly Conference: Call for Proposals Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada May 29 & 30, 2024 Deadline: January 22, 2024 The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has had a major effect on scholars of art and visuality since Les Mots et …

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WORLD CONGRESS Foucault: 40 years after Second call for proposals Call for proposals PDF 1. Introduction Michel Foucault died in Paris on 25 June 1984 at the age of 57. Forty years after his death, his work has continued to attract scholars and the general public. The number of books, as well as the doctoral …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-second annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Emerson College Boston, MA, USA May 17-19, 2024 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. Paper submissions require an abstract of no more than 750 words. All submissions should be …

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Michel Foucault en América Latina: 40 años de ontologías del presente Llamado a publicación  Vol. 7 No. 131 (2024) (abierto) Editores invitados: Nelson F. Roberto-Alba, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia) Luis F. Blengino, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (Argentina) Michel Foucault se ha constituido en uno de los filósofos más influyentes del …

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Scientia Sexualis and Historiography of Sexuality Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will receive proposals for articles that seek to reflect on Scientia Sexualis for the issue of June 2024. Sexual science began at the end of the 19th century with the ambitious undertaking of physicians such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfeld, who set …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-second annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Emerson College Boston, MA, USA May 17-19, 2024 PDF of Call for Papers We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. Paper submissions require an abstract of no more than 750 …

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