Foucault News

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

Foucault – 40 Years After Rethinking Foucault’s Historical Ontology of Ourselves: Subjects, Subjectivation, Self-Practices University of Innsbruck, Austria June 21-22, 2024 (June 21: online) Abstracts: April 1, 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS Foucault’s 1984 discussion of Kant’s 1784 “What is Enlightenment?” emphasizes the historical ontology of ourselves as our most noble task. Forty years after Foucault’s …

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Scholarly Conference: Call for Proposals Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada May 29 & 30, 2024 Deadline: January 22, 2024 The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has had a major effect on scholars of art and visuality since Les Mots et …

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WORLD CONGRESS Foucault: 40 years after Second call for proposals Call for proposals PDF 1. Introduction Michel Foucault died in Paris on 25 June 1984 at the age of 57. Forty years after his death, his work has continued to attract scholars and the general public. The number of books, as well as the doctoral …

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Autour du Discours philosophique de Michel Foucault Journées d’étude internationale 4 et 5 décembre 2023 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et Université Paris 8 Journées coorganisés par l’Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (ISJPS, UMR 8103) à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, par le Laboratoire d’études et de recherches sur les Logiques Contemporaines de …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-second annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Emerson College Boston, MA, USA May 17-19, 2024 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 …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-second annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Emerson College Boston, MA, USA May 17-19, 2024 PDF of Call for Papers 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 …

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