Foucault News

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

Guillaume Le Blanc, Why read Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh today? (french version), Critique 13/13, Seminars at Columbia, Nov 30 2019 Que pouvons-nous trouver dans un texte sur la sexualité chrétienne qui aurait dû paraître en 1982 voire en 1984 et qui finalement ne le sera qu’en 2018 ? Étrange situation puisque nous lisons ce livre …

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Mini curso sobre Michel Foucault (2019)

24 October 2019

Foucault franco-allemand : lectures actuelles en dialogue 14 octobre 2019 11h-19h Journée organisée par le CEVIPOF, l’Ecole docorale de Sciences po et le Centre Michel Foucault. 11h-13h : Panel 1 : Current work by doctoral students « Foucault’s moral monsters: gender and the reversal of penal norms » Amélie Bescont, Sciences Po, CEVIPOF « Autonomy, …

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Foucault at Warwick – seminar (2018)

3 November 2018

Michel Foucault a militância politíca e o Brasil (2018)

4 October 2018

Daniele Lorenzini, Rhetoric Lecture – The Emergence of Desire: Notes toward a Political History of the Will in Foucault’s “Aveux de la Chair” 2 October 2018 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm The Department of Rhetoric 3335 Dwinelle Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2670 In this paper on Foucault’s fourth volume to The History of …

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Foucault and Parrhesia Rhetoric 200 Seminar 10/02/2018, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm Daniele Lorenzini Please contact Prof. James Porter to attend this session of Rhetoric 200. Daniele Lorenzini is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ‘Move-in Louvain’ Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre Prospéro (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought …

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ThinkOlio Foucault & Modern Prisons, External and Internal Strand Bookstore Published on Feb 14, 2018 Professor Jamie Warren devotes this Olio solely to unpacking and understanding one of Foucault’s most celebrated and provocative works, Discipline and Punish. With the help of Foucault, we will ask ourselves the painful but much needed questions: What role should …

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