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 …
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 Considered by some to have superseded terms such as postmodernism and globalisation, neoliberalism is no …
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 …
Resisting Force and Discourse Host: California State University, San Marcos Date: Friday, September 26, 2014 Location: University Student Union, Ballroom Keynote Speaker: TBA Conference Website The conference theme brings into critical light the way that bodies are marked and regulated by discursive practices and spaces, and institutional procedures. This operational force can take the form …
Editor: See comments on this post and this article and this retraction notice Also Michel Charles, Le plagiat sans fard. Recette d’une singulière imposture, Fabula, November 2014 Call for Papers: DISCOURSES OF MADNESS/ DISCOURS DE LA FOLIE (Special volume of Neohelicon [43, 2016]. Guest-Editor: R.-L. Etienne Barnett) PROSPECTUS Contributions on any aspect of madness in …
Engaging Foucault Conference December 5-7, 2014 Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade June 25, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of Michel Foucault. During his lifetime, Foucault was, in his own words, described as an anarchist and a leftist; a covert Marxist or an explicit or covert anti-Marxist; a nihilist, a technocrat …
Call For Papers: Conduct and Counter-Conduct: Critical Concepts for Old and New Times? A special issue of Foucault Studies, edited Barbara Cruikshank (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Sam Binkley (Emerson College) PDF of Call for papers Update September 2025. The special issue in response to this call was published 28 June 2016, no. 21. …
Call for Papers A HISTORY OF PENAL REGIMES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: 1800-2014 Harvard University March 5-7th, 2015 Website The rise of the prison has been an important historical development of the modern era. Over the past two hundred years, the growth of prisons has ticked upward. Confinement has come to dominate national penal regimes, increasingly …
Call for papers Workshop Historicising Foucault: What does this mean? 6-8 November 2014 University of Zurich, Switzerland Further info Michel Foucault figures among the icons of today’s cultural and social sciences. The French philosopher and historian is productively read, quoted, discussed, refuted, and recycled in virtually every cultural and social scientific discipline. Voiced in 1975, …
Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation Conference 1: ‘Hellenistic Ethics in Nietzsche and Foucault’ Date: 25-27 September, 2014 Location: The University of Warwick, UK PDF of call for papers 1st Call for Abstracts: Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as philosophers have sought alternatives to …
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