Foucault News

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

CFP: Foucault und Organisation 19-20 May 2011 at Technische Universität Chemnitz. You can find a link to the pdf of the call for papers here Das Forum ‘Kritische Organisationsforschung’, eine transdisziplinäre Forschungsinitiative der Chemnitzer Juniorprofessur Europäisches Management, veranstaltet vom 19.-20. Mai 2011 einen Workshop zum Schwerpunkt ‘Foucault und Organisation’. Neben dem Schwerpunktthema sollen “in programmatischer …

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CALL FOR PAPERS Radical Foucault: A One Day Conference Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London. The publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-84 in English will be complete in April 2011 and his first Collège de France lecture course, La Volonté de Savoir will be published for the …

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A workshop on Foucault and Habermas is being convened in the context of the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, to be held between 31 August and 2 September 2011 at the University of Manchester. Papers are invited on any aspect of the social and political thought of Foucault, Habermas, the Foucault/Habermas debate and the Habermas/Rawls …

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CFP: The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English Location: France Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-12-15 The CRILA short story research group (JE2536) of the Université d’Angers, France, will be hosting an international conference in collaboration with Edge Hill University, U.K. on “The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in …

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Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present: A Symposium Bologna, Italy, March 3-4, 2011. Hosted by the University of Bologna Funded by the Finnish Academy Description Neoliberalism is superficially understood as a theory of political economic practices proposing that human well-being can best be advanced by the development of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework …

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ESRC Seminar Series on Contemporary Biopolitical Security Fourth workshop: Problematising Danger Co-sponsored by the Biopolitics of Security Network, the Emerging Securities Research Unit @ Keele University and the Centre for International Relations, War Studies Department, King’s College London 21-22 February 2011 The River Room, King’s College London, Strand Campus Keynote speaker: Professor Marieke de Goede …

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From the Materiali Foucaultiani site. Geographies of power: space and heterotopias, beginning from Foucault The online journal mf/materiali foucaultiani dedicates a special issue to the theme of space and its possible declinations in the fields of philosophy, politics and geography-urbanism, starting from the reflections brought forward by Michel Foucault. In a number of brief texts …

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The Foucault Society, NYC Call for Papers: 2011 Colloquium Series The Foucault Society is pleased to announce a new colloquium series, which will begin in January 2011 and meet monthly in New York City. As a forum for new research and works-in-progress, this series will provide an opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to …

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American Comparitive Literature Association 2011 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 31st – April 3rd, 2011 “World Literature / Comparative Literature” Seminar: Foucault and/on Literature Seminar Organizer: Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware-Wilmington, Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware-Wilmington Summary The question of how the work of Michel Foucault bears on the study of literature has been controversial. …

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Call for Papers: The Green Apparatus? Political Technologies of the Sustainable City Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 12-16th April 2011, Seattle, USA. Session organized by Stephanie Wakefield (CUNY Graduate Center) and Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) “Nature is the new civic ideal.” —Alexandros Washburn, Director of Urban Design for the NYC Department of City …

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