Foucault News

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

Colóquio Internacional Kant 22 de agosto de 2011 Auditório 106 IFCS/UFRJ Brasil 11:00 – Roberto Nigro – (Institut für Theorie, Zürcher Hochshule der Künst) – La critique de l’anthropologie philosophique comme enjeu majeur pour repenser le politique (comunicação com tradução simultânea) 12:00 – Almoço 14:00 – Daniel Omar Perez – (PUC-PR) – Michel Foucault como …

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Call for papers The twelfth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Canisius College Buffalo, NY, USA March 30-April 1, 2012 Papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, and studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking, are all welcome. We will aim for a diversity of topics and perspectives in the program selection. Please send a …

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International Conference on Autobiography “Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription” University College Cork, 2-3 September 2011 Confirmed Key-Note Speaker: Professor Patricia Clough (CUNY) There are contesting versions of autobiography. We’ve travelled far since Georges Gusdorf traced the origins of autobiography back to the origins of language itself, saying “the very first man who …

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MANCHESTER Workshops in Political Theory 2011 31 August – 2 September 2011 Call for Papers – Ontology and Politics Workshop Convenors: Paul Rekret (Queen Mary), Simon Choat (Kingston), Clayton Chin (Queen Mary) Description Despite its pervasiveness, the question of the relation between ontology and politics continues to be a crucial one for Continental philosophy. While …

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Table Ronde Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Cours au Collège de France (1970-1971), Seuil/Gallimard, Paris 2011 lundi 23 mai 2011 17h-20h Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 17, rue de la Sorbonne Salle Cavaillès (1er étage, esc. C) introduite par Daniel Defert, Université Paris VIII modérée par Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago avec …

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Politics Beyond the Biopolitical Subject A Symposium Brisbane, Australia, December 8-9, 2011 Hosted by Griffith University Funded by the Finnish Academy The theory of biopolitics has, in the years since Michel Foucault first deployed the concept, taken a decidedly affirmative turn. No longer is biopolitics theorized simply to expose the violence done to human beings …

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FOUCAULT ET LA RENAISSANCE COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL Toulouse, 7, 8, 9 mars 2012 Colloque organisé par le laboratoire PLH de l’Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail et l’Institut Universitaire de France, avec la collaboration du CERPHI et de l’UMR5037 (Lyon) Le présent colloque vise, dans une optique naturellement pluridisciplinaire, à convier littéraires, philosophes, historiens à penser le rapport …

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« Une histoire au présent : Les historiens et Michel Foucault aujourd’hui » 30, 31 mai – 1er juin 2011 Aix-en-Provence Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme salle Georges Duby Colloque organisé par Damien BOQUET, Blaise DUFAL et Pauline LABEY Institut Universitaire de France CNRS – Université d’Aix-Marseille I UMR TELEMME EHESS – Centre de …

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