Foucault News

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

Update on the Foucault 13/13 series Foucault 2/13: The Live Stream –28/09/15 at 6:15 EST (2015). Broadcasting from New York The live stream has now been posted as recorded content. Etienne Balibar and François Ewald discuss Foucault’s second annual lectures at the Collège de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972) TODAY at 6:15 EST.  Please tune …

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Unpacking Foucault The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Directed by Professor Bernard E. Harcourt, Set to Host a Major Series of Seminars Reassessing the Famed French Philosopher Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu New York, August 6, 2015—More than 30 years after his death, French philosopher Michel Foucault continues to influence contemporary thinkers …

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The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and The Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University present Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia Reading the Foucault Collège de France Lectures with Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, …

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Partha Chatterjee, Governmentality in the East, lecture delivered 27 April, 2015, at the University of California, Berkeley. There is a complete audio of the lecture on the site (Program in Critical Theory) Foucault’s genealogy of governmentality as described in Security, Territory, Population is entirely West European. What would a genealogy of modern state practices look …

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Foucault and May 1968 Published on 18 Jun 2015 François Ewald (CNAM), Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought), and Jesús R. Velasco (LAIC Chair, Columbia University) delve into the influences and effects of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the College de France, Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972). The panelists explore how …

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Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Columbia Global Centers/Europe École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales vous invitent à une Journée d’étude PDF of flyer Mardi 2 Juin 2015 Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches  Journée d’étude autours de M. Foucault, Théories et institutions pénales Cours au Collège de France 1972-1973 avec Étienne Balibar …

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The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought​ and The Hispanic Institute for Latin American & Iberian Cultures are proud to invite you to the release of the last volume of Michel Foucault’s series of seminars at the Collège de France: Foucault and May 68: Penal Theories and Institutions (Collège de France Lectures, 1971-1972) (Hautes Études, …

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SÉMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein et Daniele Lorenzini Samedi 18 avril 2015, 10h30 – 12h30 Judith REVEL (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre) “Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty : une ontologie politique” Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR de philosophie 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 1er étage droite, salle Lalande

Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault link to book details Published on 12 Mar 2015 Mark D. Jordan of the Harvard Divinity School discusses his recent publication, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault. Respondents include James Bernauer, S.J., of Boston College, Amy Hollywood and Mayra Rivera Rivera, both of Harvard Divinity School. 00:00 …

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