Foucault News

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

PDF of program and other details Foucault and Marx Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles International Symposium 18–19 October 2024 University of Vienna, Austria The symposium aims to explore the tense relationship between Foucault and Marx and, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death in 2024, to put it into perspective with regard …

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Press release PDF Event Announcement https://www.ocadu.ca/event/foucault-art-histories-and-visuality-21st-century OCAD University is pleased to host the academic symposium Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century, organized by Dr. Anton Lee, NSCAD University and Dr. Catherine M. Soussloff, UBC & University of California Santa Cruz, in collaboration with Dr. Charles Reeve, OCAD University. The French philosopher Michel …

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Foucault, writing and the contemporary university: a grim celebration Institute of Education, UCL, London 10.00am to 4.00pm Wednesday 19th June 2024 (Coffee, tea and biscuits available from 9.30am) Room: 106 Roberts Building, UCL Main Campus Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE Presenters include Patrick Bailey, Alice Bradbury, Bronwen Jones, Sarah Kerr, Adam Lang, Francesca Peruzzo, and …

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Foucault – 40 Years After Rethinking Foucault’s Historical Ontology of Ourselves: Subjects, Subjectivation, Self-Practices University of Innsbruck, Austria June 21-22, 2024 (June 21: online) Abstracts: April 1, 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS Foucault’s 1984 discussion of Kant’s 1784 “What is Enlightenment?” emphasizes the historical ontology of ourselves as our most noble task. Forty years after Foucault’s …

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Scholarly Conference: Call for Proposals Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada May 29 & 30, 2024 Deadline: January 22, 2024 The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has had a major effect on scholars of art and visuality since Les Mots et …

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WORLD CONGRESS Foucault: 40 years after Second call for proposals Call for proposals PDF 1. Introduction Michel Foucault died in Paris on 25 June 1984 at the age of 57. Forty years after his death, his work has continued to attract scholars and the general public. The number of books, as well as the doctoral …

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Autour du Discours philosophique de Michel Foucault Journées d’étude internationale 4 et 5 décembre 2023 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et Université Paris 8 Journées coorganisés par l’Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (ISJPS, UMR 8103) à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, par le Laboratoire d’études et de recherches sur les Logiques Contemporaines de …

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