Foucault News

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

Conscripted Subjects: Disciplined Society, Critique, and the Humanities. Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA, USA February 23-25, 2011 Submission deadline: October 15, 2010. In light of our current moment marked by economic collapse, heightened political paranoia, racial profiling, and ubiquitous surveillance, this conference wishes to highlight the connection between states of crisis and …

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The Portail Michel Foucault has just listed a number of seminars and conferences on Foucault taking place from September onwards in France. Et si Foucault n’avait pas tort? 16/09/10 – 06/01/11 Foucault et le droit 22/09/10 – 01/12/10 Le philosophe et les livres 29/09/10 – 01/10/10 Foucault-Nietzsche : nouveaux regards 07/10/10

CFP: Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History This year’s theme: Genealogies Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 3-5, 2011 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 The Executive Committee of the Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois …

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Foucault, the Family & Politics Friday, 12 November 2010 Location: King’s College, Keynes Hall Registration for this conference is free. Conveners Robbie Duschinsky (Sociology, University of Cambridge) Dr Jude Browne (Gender Studies, University of Cambridge) Dr Deborah Thom (History, University of Cambridge) Foucault writes of how the internal power-dynamics of the family interact with the …

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