Foucault News

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

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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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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Symposium Global Foucault: Divergences and Agreements in Italian Thought 7 de Junho 2024 / 7th June 2024 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | Auditorium 3 Simpósio Temático com Roberto Esposito 16h: Roberto Esposito: “Oltre la biopolítica” / “Beyond Biopolitics” Introduz e modera / Introduction and moderation by: Gianfranco Ferraro (CEG – Universidade Aberta de Lisboa) Comentário crítico …

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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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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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International Workshop: New Perspectives on Foucault’s Corpus: Digital Humanities and Scientific Projects University of Pavia, 31 May 2024, 10AM-6PM The one-day workshop intends to take stock of the new Foucault corpus emerging from the archives, starting in particular with the digital humanities projects currently underway. In the light of this research, some of the researchers …

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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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