Foucault News

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

Governing Academic Life A conference at the LSE and the British Library, June 25-26, 2014 Register online* June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our present situation through our reflections on Foucault’s legacy – …

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1° Encuentro Internacional de Estudios Foucaultianos Joao Pessoa (Brazil), Universidade Federal da Paraiba May 13-16 2014 Conference Website Objetivos Além de somar esforços às inúmeras iniciativas que presumivelmente ocorrerão por ocasião do 30º aniversário da morte de Michel Foucault (1984-2014) e dos 50 anos do Golpe Civil-Militar brasileiro (1964-2014), a proposta de realização do 1º Encontro …

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Performing Sexual Liberation: The Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography INVITED PAPERS October 24, University of Leicester PDF of call for papers The 21st century has witnessed a growth in academic interest in what has come to be understood as the pornographication of culture. The purpose of this conference is to gather a group …

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Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment Conference website ‘In every era the attempt must be made anew to rescue tradition from a conformism that is about to overpower it’ (Walter Benjamin)  June 2-3, 2014. University of Warwick  Confirmed Speakers: ·         William Connolly (Johns Hopkins) ·         Christian Borch (CBS, Copehagen) ·         Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck) ·         Amade M’charek …

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Governing Academic Life Conference at the London School of Economics and British Library 25 & 26th June 2014 Deadline for Abstracts: 31st March 2014 Website Details June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our …

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Association Tunisienne des Etudes Philosophiques Michel Foucault trente ans après Les 17, 18 et 19 mars 2014 à l’Hôtel Marina Palace Hammamet Tunisie Avec le soutien de : Ministère de la Culture et de la sauvegarde du patrimoine, L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, La Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis, L’Ecole Normale …

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Exclusion, discipline, terreur : à partir de Michel Foucault Colloque international 11 et 12 avril 2014, Strasbourg vendredi 11 avril : amphithéâtre du Collège doctoral européen, 42 bd de la Victoire PDF 9h : accueil des participants, introduction 9h30-10h30 : Alain Brossat, Université Paris-8, “Le ” geste obscur” – partage et/ou persécution” 10h30-11h30 : Jacob …

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Cycle Foucault: psychiatrie et psychanalyse (II). Journée d’étude internationale (15 mars 2014) 31 janvier 2014 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo EA3562) Further info Organisation: Judith Revel et Pascale Gillot Date et horaires: 15 mars 2014, 9h15-18h Lieu: salle Lalande, UFR de philosophie – 17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, …

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Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know February 21-22, 2014 Stony Brook Manhattan 387 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 A conference presented by The Foucault Society and the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University In celebration of the publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at …

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Foucault and Education: retrospect and prospect 29 January 2014, ICOSS, University of Sheffield Conference website Update September 2025. Conference site as it is archived on the Wayback Machine Conference Program 10:00am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 10:30am INTRODUCTION: Ansgar Allen, University of Sheffield, Carrie Paechter, Goldsmiths, University of London 10:45am KEYNOTE: ‘The Use and Abuse of Michel …

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