Foucault News

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

CALL FOR PAPERS The sixteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Sydney, Australia June 29-July 2, 2016 (hosted by the University of New South Wales) PDF of Call for papers We invite individual papers and roundtable proposals (4-5 panelists) on any aspect of Foucault’s work. Studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking are all welcome. …

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Biopolitics, Bioscience and Governmentality November 19, 2015 Jornadabios.blogspot.com This colloquium aims to discuss current perspectives on biopolitics and its intersections with bioscience, pharmacology, and medicine; and to propose readings that link this knowledge with the individual and governmentality, especially in the Latin American and Chilean context. The category of “biopolitics” was reintroduced by Michel Foucault in 1974, …

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Rencontre doctorale du Centre Michel Foucault 14/15/16 octobre 2015. IMEC. Caen L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault propose pour la sixième année une école doctorale visant à réunir les doctorants travaillant sur, avec et autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault. L’objectif est comme les années précédentes de mettre en relation, le plus agréablement possible …

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The “International Congress of Critical Applied Linguistics” will take place in Brasília, Brazil, at the University of Brasília, from Monday, October 19th, 2015, to Wednesday, October 21st, 2015. The event is organized by research groups from the University of Brasília and the State University of Londrina. Contributions on the following themes are welcome: (i) Language …

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Last Call for Abstracts MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 1-3 September 2015 ‘Resistance and Power beyond Foucault’ Convener: Guilel Treiber, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Guilel.Treiber@hiw.kuleuven.be) The nature of political power is changing. The state is no longer the only, or even the main player in the complex mechanisms of power structures at the beginning …

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Call for Papers Theatre, Performance, Foucault! TaPRA Theatre, Performance, and Philosophy working group interim event – a one-day symposium Date: 4th July 2015 Location: King’s College London Further info Michel Foucault was not only one of the most controversial and provocative thinkers of the 20th Century, he was also one of its most inventive and …

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Appel à Article : “RELIRE MICHEL FOUCAULT Pouvoir et résistances : les dispositifs de contrôle” Cet appel invite à proposer des interprétations de Michel Foucault qui s’éloignent de la vision réductrice d’un critique pessimiste, qui dénonce les excès de pouvoir et les dispositifs en tout genre de contrôle social, mais sans proposer d’alternative. D’autres lectures …

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Call for Papers After Biopolitics The Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University will be hosting the 29th Annual (SLSA) Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference. November 12-15, 2015 at the BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) located within the Houston Medical Center and Rice University. Keynote Speakers: Viciane Despret Mark Dion POTENTIAL …

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Contrivers’ Review Call for Essays on Technology Update October 2025: Links in this post are to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Through 2015 and beyond, Contrivers’ Review will dedicate a series of articles and interviews examining technology and society from several complementary angles. Our goal is to bring together a broad …

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Call for Abstracts MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 1-3 September 2015 ‘Resistance and Power beyond Foucault’ Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester, UK Convener: Guilel Treiber, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (Guilel.Treiber@hiw.kuleuven.be) The nature of political power is changing. The state is no longer the only, or even the main player in the …

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