Foucault News

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

Call for papers CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus, KT1 2EE Thursday 21st – Friday 22nd May 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker: Alenka Zupančič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts/EGS) Deadline for abstracts: 28th February 2015 * * * In a contemporary …

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  CFP: Time Served: Discipline and Punish 40 Years On Nottingham Trent University is now accepting submissions for their 2015 conference on Michel Foucault‘s “Discipline and Punish.” The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2015. 11-12 September 2015, The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK 40 years after it was first published in French, the impact …

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Call for Papers: Critical Spaces – Disorienting the Topological Critical Spaces Call for Papers Facebook page ***The deadline for applications has now been extended to Friday 14th November 2014*** A graduate conference in the critical humanities to be hosted by The London Graduate School at Kingston University, London. Monday 5th January 2015 Keynote speakers will …

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Performing Sexual Liberation: The Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography A critical counter point to the current academic trend for analysing pornography as sexually liberating for women Further info Date 24 October 2014 Duration One day Venue College Court Fee £7 Contact Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans        hbe1@le.ac.uk Book now only 50 places …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The fifteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia March 20-22, 2015 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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Colloque International « Foucault et les religions » IRCM – UNIL Lausanne Avec le soutien de l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault. 22, 23, 24 octobre 2014 PDF of flyer and program La pensée de Michel Foucault est faite de nombreux excursus vers des domaines inédits comme la spiritualité antique, l’histoire du christianisme primitif, l’ascétisme …

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Michel Foucault: After 1984 Friday, October 17, 2014 9:00 AM – Saturday, October 18, 2014 9:00 AM Yale University Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), Auditorium 53 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511 (Location is wheelchair accessible) Further info Speakers: Etienne Balibar, Columbia University; Jean-François Braunstein, University of Paris; Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley; Judith Butler, …

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Philosophy, Language and the Political – Re-evaluating Post-Structuralism December 10, 2014 – December 12, 2014 School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityConvention Centre JNU New Delhi 110067 IndiaFurther info Sponsor(s): ICCSR, ICPR Main speakers: Gérard Bensussan Universite de Strasbourg Hélène Cixous University of Paris Marc Crépon École Normale Supérieure, Paris Paul Patton …

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