Foucault News

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

Partha Chatterjee, Governmentality in the East, lecture delivered 27 April, 2015, at the University of California, Berkeley. [Updated 5 October 2026. Link above to page archived on the Wayback Machine] Foucault’s genealogy of governmentality as described in Security, Territory, Population is entirely West European. What would a genealogy of modern state practices look like in …

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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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Margaret Bird – Inculcating an appreciation of time pressure in the young: the training of children for working life in 18th-century England Podcast at Backdoor broadcasting Royal Holloway University of London Department of History 
Departmental Research seminars 2014/2015 24 March 2015 The rearing of children has been a topic at the centre of academic debate …

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https://vimeo.com/49843119 Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists, Feb 28, 2012 [Update December 2025. This video is no longer publicly accessible. But a written open access journal publication can be found here] Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement, theologie.geschichte 7 (2012) https://doi.org/10.48603/tg-2012-art-02 Michel Foucault’s conception of “power-knowledge” has been one …

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Videos on youtube of lectures referring to Foucault Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, [Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju] University of Belgrade is the only scientific research institutions in Serbia which deals with research in the field of philosophy and social theory in a systematic and long-term way. As part of its scientific activities, …

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