Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory Special Issue on ‘Freedom and Power’ Call for Papers Ever since Livy proclaimed that ‘freedom is to be in one’s own power’, if not from a long time before, the relationship between freedom and power has been an enduring concern of political theorists. It has withstood even …
MANCHESTER Workshops in Political Theory 2011 31 August – 2 September 2011 Call for Papers – Ontology and Politics Workshop Convenors: Paul Rekret (Queen Mary), Simon Choat (Kingston), Clayton Chin (Queen Mary) Description Despite its pervasiveness, the question of the relation between ontology and politics continues to be a crucial one for Continental philosophy. While …
Call for papers for a special issue “Mise-en-Scene: Crime” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 38 No. 1 (March 2012) Submissions due August 15, 2011 ******** In the beginning was murder. Then came drama: the hair-tearing (or eye-gouging) discovery of one’s own overweening hubris, the inconsolable grieving over the loss of the most basic sense …
Special Issue on Foucault and International Law 2012 marks Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL)’s 25th anniversary. Added 24 August 2012. Now published LJIL celebrates this Silver Jubilee with several initiatives, including a new prize. One of the highlights of LJIL volume 25 will be the special issue on Foucault and International Law. The Leiden …
Security, Life and Death: Governmentality and Biopower in the Post-9/11 Era CALL FOR PAPERS: For an edited collection of scholarly papers on the above topic to be published with de Sitter Publications. Editor: Claudio Colaguori, PhD. York University Theorizations of power through a Foucaultian conceptual paradigm continue to predominate analyses of the present geo-political order. …
Politics Beyond the Biopolitical Subject A Symposium Brisbane, Australia, December 8-9, 2011 Hosted by Griffith University Funded by the Finnish Academy The theory of biopolitics has, in the years since Michel Foucault first deployed the concept, taken a decidedly affirmative turn. No longer is biopolitics theorized simply to expose the violence done to human beings …
The IVR XXV WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY will take place at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany, from August 15th to 20th 2011. All the papers effectively presented in this special workshop will be translated into Portuguese, with the permission of the author, and published as a book in Brazil, possibily a …
“Apparatuses; Matter; Materialities.” 1st annual graduate conference Location: Science and Technology Studies at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dates May 20-22, 2011: The concept of the apparatus – both in the general sense of the term, and that employed by Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben – is in many ways a useful one for considering the …
[PANEL] Composing Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference; Foucault and Heterotopias (May 13, 2011) From the University of Penn English cfp website Description “I am interested in certain [sites] that have the curious property of being in relation to all other sites, but in such a way as to suspect, neutralize, or invert the set of …
MATERIALI FOUCAULTIANI – CALL FOR PAPERS italiano Abbiamo il piacere di annunciare il secondo call for papers per la rivista online « mf / materiali foucaultiani » : Razze e razzismi: approcci foucaultiani La rivista online mf/materiali foucaultiani intende dedicare il suo secondo numero all’articolazione di razza e razzismo che emerge dalle opere di Michel …
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