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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Governing Academic Life A conference at the LSE and the British Library, June 25-26, 2014 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 – which could …
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 …
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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