Neoliberalism and Biopolitics Working Group | Revisiting Foucault: The Biopolitics Lectures and Beyond Hans Sluga, William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley & William Callison, Political Science, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley 17 September, 2014, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Further info The opening session of …
Resisting Force and Discourse Host: California State University, San Marcos Date: Friday, September 26, 2014 Location: University Student Union, Ballroom Keynote Speaker: TBA Conference Website The conference theme brings into critical light the way that bodies are marked and regulated by discursive practices and spaces, and institutional procedures. This operational force can take the form …
Engaging Foucault Conference December 5-7, 2014 Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade June 25, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of Michel Foucault. During his lifetime, Foucault was, in his own words, described as an anarchist and a leftist; a covert Marxist or an explicit or covert anti-Marxist; a nihilist, a technocrat …
Call for Papers A HISTORY OF PENAL REGIMES IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: 1800-2014 Harvard University March 5-7th, 2015 Website The rise of the prison has been an important historical development of the modern era. Over the past two hundred years, the growth of prisons has ticked upward. Confinement has come to dominate national penal regimes, increasingly …
“Foucault: The Masked Philosopher” An International Conference June 8-9, 2014 Bar-Ilan University & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Call for papers Workshop Historicising Foucault: What does this mean? 6-8 November 2014 University of Zurich, Switzerland Further info Michel Foucault figures among the icons of today’s cultural and social sciences. The French philosopher and historian is productively read, quoted, discussed, refuted, and recycled in virtually every cultural and social scientific discipline. Voiced in 1975, …
Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation Conference 1: ‘Hellenistic Ethics in Nietzsche and Foucault’ Date: 25-27 September, 2014 Location: The University of Warwick, UK PDF of call for papers 1st Call for Abstracts: Philosophical interest in the ethical ideal of self-cultivation has increased in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as philosophers have sought alternatives to …
Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984): les arts & les lettres/arts & humanities in the 21st Century Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies & Collège de France Symposium L’Institut d’études avancées de Paris 17 quai d’Anjou, Paris 75004 June 12 – 13, 2014 Conference website PDF flyer Art and architectural history, visual culture, literary studies, media …
Call for Papers A day-long workshop on the topic (with a view to an edited volume) “Crisis and Reconfigurations: 100 years of European Thought Since 1914” November 7 2014, Deakin Melbourne City Campus, Australia An event hosted by the European Philosophy and History of Ideas Research Centre http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/centre-for-citizenship-and-globalisation/research/thematic-research-groups/ephi and the School of Humanities and Social …
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