Foucault News

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

The Foucault Society, NYC 2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies Our popular Colloquium Series continues next week! We are delighted to invite you to another evening of critical dialogue and light refreshment. Join the discussion, celebrate the end of the semester and find out how you can help shape the Foucault Society’s agenda …

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The Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop of the University of Chicago, sponsored by Arnold I. Davidson, Ryan Coyne and Jocelyn Benoist, will host this Term some “Foucaultian” presentations: Monday 31st October 2011 Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris-Est Créteil & La Sapienza, Rome) “Aesthetics of Existence, Eternal Stoicism or Moral Perfectionism? Foucault, Hadot and Cavell between Ethics and …

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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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