Foucault News

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

CFP: Appels à contributions La figure de l’auteur entre hier et aujourd’hui : Posture(s) et esthétique(s) (2022) Le 30 Septembre 2022 Université de Sfax, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines Tunisia Laboratoire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Discours, Art, Musique et Économie (LARIDIAME, LR18ES23) Colloque international Du 2 au 4 février 2023 Appel à communications Les …

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CFP Appel à contributions Raymond Roussel dans son temps ? (n°8 de la Revue des Lettres Modernes) L’inscription de Raymond Roussel dans l’histoire littéraire reste problématique, tellement l’auteur s’est efforcé de préserver une solitude et une distance radicales par rapport à la société et au monde littéraire et culturel de son époque. Né en 1877 …

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Segni e Comprensione Deadline April 15, 2023. Interested researchers are invited to submit their paper by sending their article of no more than 60,000 characters, including spaces, to the email address fabio.sulpizio@unisalento.it by 15 April 2023. Papers may be submitted in Italian, French, English, German or Spanish. Michel Foucault La morte di Michel Foucault, avvenuta …

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Foucault and the Study of Religion Seminar Call for Proposals (2022) We invite papers for the inaugural year of our seminar on Foucault and the Study of Religion. Following our exploratory session at the 2021 AAR on Michel Foucault’s posthumously published Confessions of the Flesh (2018), we seek to gather scholars engaging the work of …

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Workshop Nietzsche, Genealogy, Foucault: History between between Life and Power School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon 14th June 2022 Event organized as part of the Praxis-CFUL  Keynote Speakers: Keynote Speakers: João Constâncio (NOVA University Lisbon) Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick University) Much has been written regarding genealogy, either as a new …

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CFP: Session – Geographies of Parrhesia: Resistance, Critique, and the Formation of Self and Other Link Federico Ferretti, University of Bologna Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham Session in Royal Geographical Society with IBG Conference, August 2022, Newcastle University. The influence of Michel Foucault on geographical research is long-standing, widespread, and much critiqued. While his philosophy …

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Call for Papers 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology: Arts and Sciences, Historicizing Boundaries Venice, 9-10 June 2022 Confirmed keynote speakers: Peter Galison (Harvard) Caroline Jones MIT Abstract [for full abstract see here] The 7th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology is dedicated to exploring new ways of approaching the historical, conceptual, methodological, and technical relations between the …

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Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2021/2022 Continental Philosophy and Global Challenges Historical perspectives through practical engagements 09-11 June 2022 University of Warwick (UK) Conference Venue: Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom Keynote Speakers: Prof. Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School) Dr Elena Louisa Lange (University of Zurich) TBA Call for Abstracts The aim of …

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Call for papers Michel Foucault and the Historiography of the Sciences The June 2022 edition of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science will present a special issue dedicated to the work of Michel Foucault. The aim is to bring together analyses and reflections on the history of the relationship between Michel Foucault’s work …

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Sabrina Corbellini and Margriet Hoogvliet (eds.): “Medieval and Early Modern Places and Spaces of Knowledge,” in: Le foucaldien, 7/1 (2021), Collection launched: 29 Mar 2021 This special collection welcomes articles discussing places and spaces connected to knowledge and its practices in the premodern period. In order to be fully understood and investigated, knowledge should be …

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