Foucault News

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

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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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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Biopolitique, Gouvernementalité, Dispositifs (de sécurité). Concepts pour l’étude de l’International? Conférence internationale Biopolitics, Governmentality, (security) Dispositifs. Concepts for the Study of the International? International Conference PDF of program in English PDF en français Website Co-organisée par l’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, le Centre d’études et de recherches internationales Avec le soutien de l’IRI/PUC-Rio (Brasil),le …

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Dr. Thomas Lemke: “Biopolitics: Current Issues and Future Challenges” Keynotes from the Biopolitics, Society, and Performance conference. October 2012, Trinity College Dublin. Also of interest, another keynote lecture from the same conference Rosi Bradotti: “What is ‘Human’ about the Humanities today?” With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link

Call for Papers Michel Foucault: Ethnography and Critique Convenors: Orazio Irrera & Martina Tazzioli Bergamo, June 5-7, 2014 Deadline: February 17, 2014 Conference Website and contact details [Editor: Link Updated 16 April 2026 to page archived on Wayback Machine] Since the Sixties, Michel Foucault had described his work in ethnographic terms, stressing that for him …

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