Foucault News

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

The Foucault Society, NYC — Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies “Governmentality and Vulnerable Populations” Wednesday, May 4, 2011 7:00-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY Speakers: Adrian Guta, MSW (U of Toronto): “Critically Reflecting on the Use of ‘Peer Researchers’ in Community-Based Participatory Research” Kevin Jobe (Stony Brook …

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Biopower & Birth Control: Queering the Racialization of Reproductive Rights New York University Tuesday, March 29 7:00pm – 9:00pm 1 Washington Square North, Parlor Facilitators: Zena Watson, Pride in Practice Johannah Westmacott, Counterpublic Collective Moderators: Mito and Juanes Roundtable participants will be following Michel Foucault and Angela Davis in the context of queering the current …

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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM in collaboration with the Departments of Political Science and Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada On Wednesday, March 23 at 3:30 p.m. in H. M. Tory Building 5-15 Sam Binkley (Emerson College) will be speaking on “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Neoliberal Transformations in the Government of Interiority” Abstract: This presentation theorizes the contemporary reinvention …

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The Foucault Society, NYC 2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies We are delighted to announce the second colloquium in our new series: Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:00-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY Verena Erlenbusch (University of Sussex and Emory University) “Sovereignty and Governmentality: Mapping Power With Butler …

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Short course for PhD students only. Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique – analytical strategies for critique of power (4-6 May 2011) Venue Department of Management , Politics & Philosophy Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 18a 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Seminar Coordinator: Kaspar Villadsen Participants Professor Mitchell Dean, Macquarie University, Sydney, Professor Sverre Raffnsøe, Department of Management, Politics & …

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The Foucault Society, NYC 2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies Please join us for the first colloquium in our new series: Stephanie Clare, “Foucault, Geopower, and the Transformation of the Earth” Time: 3 March 2011· 19:00 – 21:30 Location CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY, USA Free and …

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TOMÁS IBAÑEZ : “Réflexions à propos de l’anarchisme…” 28 janvier 2011 – de 15h à 18h, au CEDRATS (Centre de Ressources sur les Alternatives Sociales), 27 Montée Saint-Sébastien – 69001 Lyon, Métro C – Station Croix Paquet, ou Métro A – Station Hôtel de Ville Présentation de l’intervention “ Après quelques considérations préliminaires sur les …

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