Foucault News

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

Graduate Seminar: Asceticism, Eroticism, and the Premodern Foucault: Revisiting Foucault’s History of Sexuality through Medieval and Early Modern Sources The Newberry Centre for Renaissance Studies Chicago, USA Friday, January 11, 2013 to Friday, March 15, 2013 2- 5 pm Room B-91 Led by Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and Anna Klosowska, Miami University (Ohio) This …

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Power, Government and Strategy: Foucault’s Reconsideration of Power after 1976 Prof. Paul Patton (University of New South Wales) Deakin Philosophy Seminar Series Tuesday, September 18, 3:30pm – 5:00pm Deakin University C2.05 221 Burwood Highway Melbourne 3125 Australia Sponsor: The Alfred Deakin Research Institute, the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and …

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The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at University of Western Sydney, Australia presents following seminar on Wednesday July 4: SPEAKER: Peter Gratton (Memorial University of Newfoundland) TITLE: Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity TIME: July 4, 3-5pm PLACE: UWS Bankstown Campus, 3.G.55 ABSTRACT: Much has been written about bio-political …

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Presentation & Discussion of the book by Michel Foucault, “Sull’origine dell’ermeneutica del sé”, edited by mf / materiali foucaultiani (Cronopio, 2012) See mf site for further details with Carla Benedetti (Università di Pisa), Antonella Moscati (Edizioni Cronopio), Laura Cremonesi (Università di Pisa) and Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths College, London) Thursday, May 24, 2012, 2:30pm Introduction by …

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The Foucault Society presents For the published version, see Beloso, Brooke M., “Queer Theory, Sex Work, and Foucault’s Unreason”, Foucault Studies / (2017): 141-166. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.5345 Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:30-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY Beloso turns to Foucault’s History of Madness (1961) in order to trace a new queer …

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Séminaire “La décolonisation des savoirs. Pour une géographie postcoloniale de la connaissance” (sous la direction de Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Matthieu Renault) Mercredi 11 avril 2012, 14h-17h Université Paris-Est Créteil, Maison des Langues, salle 117 Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot) « Depuis la première publication en France de l’Orientalisme d’Edward Saïd, une place a-t-elle …

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Luca Paltrinieri, « L’archéologie à l’épreuve de l’analyse du langage : Foucault avec Wittgenstein » Quatrième séance du séminaire « Philosophie française & Philosophie analytique au 20e siècle » Mardi 3 avril 2012, 17h-19h, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France Il est désormais connu que Foucault connaissait et lisait l’œuvre du philosophe autrichien pendant l’écriture de …

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Jessica Whyte, Human Rights: Confronting Governments? Michel Foucault and the Right to Intervene Published later as chapter in New Critical Legal Thinking. Law and the Political, Edited By Matthew Stone, Illan Wall, Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck Law Press, 2012 The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at UWS TIME: March 21, 2-4pm …

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La gouvernementalité socialiste Quatrième soirée-débat : avec Pierre Dardot et Christian Laval Saint-Simon et Marx : gouvernement des hommes et administration des choses mardi 20 mars 2012, à 19h au Lieu-Dit (6 rue Sorbier, Paris, M° Ménilmontant) France Présentation du séminaire : Dans une formule provocatrice, Michel Foucault estimait « qu’il n’y a pas de …

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