Foucault News

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

“Apparatuses; Matter; Materialities.” 1st annual graduate conference Location: Science and Technology Studies at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dates May 20-22, 2011: The concept of the apparatus – both in the general sense of the term, and that employed by Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben – is in many ways a useful one for considering the …

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From the Portail Michel Foucault PROGRAMME DU COLLOQUE « USAGES DE FOUCAULT » 1ère Journée (jeudi 3 mars 2011) Usages (Ouverture) 8h30-9h Accueil des participants 9h-9h45 Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE (Lycée J. Jaurès, Montreuil) : « De l’usage à l’usager » I/ L’archipel carcéral 9h45-10h30 Karine BOCQUET (Lille 3) : « Foucault et la question carcérale : …

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CFP: Foucault und Organisation 19-20 May 2011 at Technische Universität Chemnitz. You can find a link to the pdf of the call for papers here Das Forum ‘Kritische Organisationsforschung’, eine transdisziplinäre Forschungsinitiative der Chemnitzer Juniorprofessur Europäisches Management, veranstaltet vom 19.-20. Mai 2011 einen Workshop zum Schwerpunkt ‘Foucault und Organisation’. Neben dem Schwerpunktthema sollen “in programmatischer …

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CALL FOR PAPERS Radical Foucault: A One Day Conference Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London. The publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-84 in English will be complete in April 2011 and his first Collège de France lecture course, La Volonté de Savoir will be published for the …

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A workshop on Foucault and Habermas is being convened in the context of the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, to be held between 31 August and 2 September 2011 at the University of Manchester. Papers are invited on any aspect of the social and political thought of Foucault, Habermas, the Foucault/Habermas debate and the Habermas/Rawls …

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CFP: The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English Location: France Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-12-15 The CRILA short story research group (JE2536) of the Université d’Angers, France, will be hosting an international conference in collaboration with Edge Hill University, U.K. on “The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in …

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