Foucault News

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

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 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: decolonization, gender, climate change, etc. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam Roeterseilandcampus 25-06-2024 Few philosophers have been such …

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Emeritus Professor Stephen J Ball will be giving a presentation as part of the Foucault 40 Years After World Congress. Registration link Webinar details: Tuesday 4th June 20:00-21:30 (AEST), 11:00-12:30 (UTC) Why do we write? Or would Foucault thrive in the contemporary university? I want to say something about Foucault’s conception of the role 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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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Workshop “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. PDF of Workshop flyer WORKSHOP “Like a Face Drawn in Sand at the Edge of the Sea.” Vicissitudes of the Posthuman Forty Years After Foucault’s Death. “Does man really exist? …

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