Foucault News

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

Call for Papers Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research This panel is a part of 5th Congress of Young Science Gdansk, Poland, July 17-19, 2025 Moderator: Alessandro di Ludovico, PhD, University of Rome La Sapienza Scientific supervisor: Alessandro di Ludovico, PhD, University of Rome La Sapienza; Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco …

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Colloque international Le(s) Nietzsche de Foucault Autour du volume de Michel Foucault, Nietzsche. Cours, conférences et travaux 17 et 18 décembre 2024 Columbia University | EHESS | Université Paris 8 Événement coorganisé par le Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT), le Columbia Global Paris Center, le Laboratoire IRIS (UMR 8156) de l’École des Hautes …

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Call for Papers 10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology:Intersections of Psychological Research and Psychotherapeutic Practices 27-29 March 2025 IMGWF, Universität zu Lübeck Organized by: EpistHist Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology https://episthist.hypotheses.org/ Opening lecture: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Ten years ago, the Research Network on the History and Methods of Historical Epistemology, …

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Call for Abstracts: Michel Foucault and Phenomenology The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis PDF of call for abstracts Keynote Speakers: Philippe Sabot, Elisabetta Basso, Christophe Bouton How is Michel Foucault’s thought related to the tradition of phenomenology? Studies addressing this question have been overshadowed by scholarship that considers …

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Seminar: Resistance and Pleasure in Foucault: Recovering a Lost Connection? The University of Warwick invites you to a two-day seminar exploring the connections between resistance and pleasure through Michel Foucault’s thought. This seminar is part of the World Congress Foucault: 40 Years After series. Event Information Date: Friday, October 25th 2024 Location: Ramphal Building R1.13, University of …

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CALL FOR PAPERS The twenty-third annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Stockholm, Sweden June 26-29, 2025 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 formatted as a …

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Echoes of Foucault, forty years after The Foucault Circle NL/BE is organizing a conference about interdisciplinary uses of Foucault’s work, with a focus on themes which Foucault did not think much about himself, but we do. Among other topics, colonialism and decolonization, gender, ecology. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam Roeterseilandcampus 25-06-2024 Few philosophers have been such …

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O Colóquio Foucault Presente 40+ acontecerá para celebrar a vida e a obra de um dos maiores intelectuais do Séc. XX. Na perspectiva de como a filosofia foucaultiana demanda uma análise do presente, o Colóquio tem por objetivo refletir e debater as possibilidades e os sentidos de seu legado, segundo alguns usos conceituais e metodológicos …

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GLOBAL FOUCAULT Divergences and Agreements in Italian Thought Lisbon, 6-7 June 2024 (in person & online) Orgs.: Gianfranco FERRARO, Greg BIRD, Giovanbattista TUSA Universidade Aberta, Centro de Estudos Globais – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91692099038 More info: https://foucault40.info/lisboa | https://globalfoucault.wordpress.com/ Contact: globalfoucault@gmail.com n the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death, the Differenças italianas …

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