Foucault News

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

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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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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