Foucault News

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

Performing Sexual Liberation: The Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography INVITED PAPERS October 24, University of Leicester PDF of call for papers The 21st century has witnessed a growth in academic interest in what has come to be understood as the pornographication of culture. The purpose of this conference is to gather a group …

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Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know February 21-22, 2014 Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 A conference presented by The Foucault Society and the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University In celebration of the publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at …

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CFP, Itineration, Special Edition Call for Projects: Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture Special Edition: Privacy and Dataveillance Due February 1, 2014 The special edition, Privacy and Dataveillance Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture invites projects that engage questions of data collection and dataveillance. Some possible areas of inquiry may include, …

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Call for Papers Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique Convenors: Orazio Irrera & Martina Tazzioli Bergamo, June 5-7, 2014 Deadline: February 17, 2014 Conference Website and contact details [Editor: Link Updated 16 April 2026 to page archived on Wayback Machine] Since the Sixties, Michel Foucault had described his work in ethnographic terms, stressing that for him …

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CFP: Theoria: The Police and the Theory of the State Submission deadline: Friday, February 28 2014 The editors of Theoria: A journal of Social and Political Theory invite contributors to interrogate contemporary political and social theory through the lens of policing, with the view of connecting politics and policing. Well documented reflections based on a …

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Call for Papers in French and English FROM “SECURITY SOCIETIES” TO (NEO)LIBERALISM FOUCAULT, THE MODERN INTERNATIONAL AND WORLD POLITICS Foucault Doctoral Workshop January 15th-16th, 2014 IMEC, Caen, France PDF of CFP in French PDF of CFP in English The Association for the Centre Michel Foucault with the support of the Fondation de France, organizes a …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The fourteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle University of Malmö Malmö, Sweden June 5-8, 2014 We seek submissions for: 1). Papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking; 2). Round table discussions comprised of four or five panelists: European and North American …

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Call for Papers  Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know  November 8-9, 2013 A conference presented by the Foucault Society and Stony Brook University Department of Philosophy Location: Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY Keynote: Todd May, Clemson University: “The Will to Know” Guest Speaker: Eduardo Mendieta, Stony …

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Free 1 Day Conference Foucault and Education: retrospect and prospect 29 January 2014, ICOSS, University of Sheffield [Editor: Update 14 March 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine.] Conveners: Ansgar Allen & Wilfred Carr; Keynotes: Erica Burman & Stephen Ball Hosted, sponsored and funded by the international journal Pedagogy, Culture …

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