Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault et la géopolitique. Journée d’étude 13 octobre 2026 De 09:00 à 19:00 École normale supérieure 45 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris Pour inscrire À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Michel Foucault, l’Institut géopolitique d’études avancées organise une journée d’étude sous la direction scientifique de Frédéric Gros et avec le concours du département …

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THE FOUCAULT CENTURY (1926-2026) Forum at the 50th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) Online and at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil  ·  October 2, 8, and 9, 2026 Forum conducted in Portuguese Enquiries: Professor Marcos César Alvarez, Department of Sociology, University of São …

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Symposium Global Foucault: Divergences and Agreements in Italian Thought 7 de Junho 2024 / 7th June 2024 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | Auditorium 3 Simpósio Temático com Roberto Esposito 16h: Roberto Esposito: “Oltre la biopolítica” / “Beyond Biopolitics” Introduz e modera / Introduction and moderation by: Gianfranco Ferraro (CEG – Universidade Aberta de Lisboa) Comentário crítico …

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GLOBAL FOUCAULT Divergences and Agreements in Italian Thought Lisbon, 6-7 June 2024 (in person & online) Orgs.: Gianfranco FERRARO, Greg BIRD, Giovanbattista TUSA Universidade Aberta, Centro de Estudos Globais – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91692099038 More info: https://foucault40.info/lisboa | https://globalfoucault.wordpress.com/ Contact: globalfoucault@gmail.com n the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death, the Differenças italianas …

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PDF of program and other details Foucault and Marx Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles International Symposium 18–19 October 2024 University of Vienna, Austria The symposium aims to explore the tense relationship between Foucault and Marx and, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death in 2024, to put it into perspective with regard …

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Institut français de recherche sur le Japon Published on Jun 18, 2018 Conférence donnée à la Maison franco-japonaise le 21 mai 2018 Conférenciers : Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE (ENS Lyon, Institut français), Patrice MANIGLIER (univ. Paris Nanterre) Modérateur: Mathieu CAPEL (UMIFRE 19- MFJ) Dans la préface qu’il rédige en 1972, pour la réédition de son Histoire de …

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Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, Society for contemporary thought and the Islamicate world (SCTIW) 3/21/2017 “Foucault and Iran” by Banu Bargu (New School for Social Research) 3/23/2017 “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes” by Anthony C. Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community College / CUNY Graduate Center) 3/28/2017 “Foucault: Against …

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Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Introduction: The Making Visible of Carceral Politics Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick This symposium contains a rich collection of contributions based on the screening of the French documentary film Sur les Toits (“On the Roofs”). On a Wednesday in May 2016 I invited the film’s independent maker, Nicolas Drolc, and…