Foucault News

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

CFP: Conference: Discipline and Punish – Today November, 5th to 7th Bremen, Germany Update October 2025. Link above is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. This conference is about how we can use and develop Foucault’s analysis from Discipline and Punish now, 40 years after its publication. We invite you to …

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Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation Conference 2: ‘Modern Appraisals of the Hellenistic Legacy’ 29 June–1 July 2015 Monash University Prato Centre, Italy See facebook page Call for Abstracts Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in recent years as philosophers have sought alternatives to deontological and utilitarian theories. This interest has …

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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Ecole Doctorale de Philosophie CALL FOR PAPERS  Workshop Historical Epistemology: beginnings and current issues  22-23 May 2015 PDF of Call for papers We hereby invite contributions by graduate students and young researchers for the two-day workshop “Historical epistemology: beginnings and current issues”, which will take place at the University of Paris …

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Call for papers CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus, KT1 2EE Thursday 21st – Friday 22nd May 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker: Alenka Zupančič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts/EGS) Deadline for abstracts: 28th February 2015 * * * In a contemporary …

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  CFP: Time Served: Discipline and Punish 40 Years On Nottingham Trent University is now accepting submissions for their 2015 conference on Michel Foucault‘s “Discipline and Punish.” The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2015. 11-12 September 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK 40 years after it was first published in French, the impact …

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Call for Papers: Critical Spaces – Disorienting the Topological Critical Spaces Call for Papers Facebook page ***The deadline for applications has now been extended to Friday 14th November 2014*** A graduate conference in the critical humanities to be hosted by The London Graduate School at Kingston University, London. Monday 5th January 2015 Keynote speakers will …

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Call for Papers: Soft Power Third Issue: June 30, 2015 Soft Power: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics Soft Power is an inter-disciplinary academic journal published in 2014 by the Grupo Planeta, one of the leading publishers in the Spanish-speaking world. It is supported by the University of Salerno and the Universidad …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The fifteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia March 20-22, 2015 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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EXTENDED DEADLINE: 7TH NOVEMBER 2014 Assuming Gender would like to invite submissions to our forthcoming special issue: ‘Neoliberal Gender, Neoliberal Sex’. Neoliberalism has recently come to define a particular object of critical enquiry, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Considered by some to have superseded terms such as postmodernism and globalisation, neoliberalism is no …

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CFP: Social Epistemology & Technology: Toward Increasing Public Self-Awareness Regarding Technological Mediation Editors note: Papers from a foucauldian perspective are invited. Summary This edited volume seeks to bring together scholars from across disciplines to discuss the social effects of technological mediation, focusing on the normative social dimensions effected by technological mediation of knowledge or the …

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