Foucault News

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

The second South Asian Governmentalities Workshop will be held at the British Academy in London on Friday 30 March 2012. This is part of a series of workshops organised through the BASAS South Asian Governmentalities Research Group. Attendance is free but limited to those who pre-register. The concept of governmentality has exerted an ever growing …

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RENCONTRE DOCTORALE DU CENTRE MICHEL FOUCAULT 2/3/4 mai 2012. IMEC. Caen, France L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault propose pour la quatrième année consécutive une école doctorale visant à réunir les doctorants travaillant sur, avec et autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault. L’objectif est, comme les années précédentes de mettre en relation, le plus …

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EPTC Incubator Workshop—Philosophy and/as Biopolitics The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is looking for submissions for the Second ETPC Incubator. This event will be a collaborative workshop with presentations of work-in-progress as well as paper presentations on this year’s theme: Philosophy and/as Biopolitics. Some of the most important thinkers from the …

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Epistemologies of the Political, the Global and the International A workshop to reflect collectively on the ways we know the ‘factual’ world we research. For further info see this site Organised by the Emerging Securities Research Unit, Keele University and co-sponsored by the BISA Poststructuralist Politics Working Group Keynote speaker: Prof Michael Shapiro, University of …

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MANCHESTER Workshops in Political Theory 2011 31 August – 2 September 2011 Call for Papers – Ontology and Politics Workshop Convenors: Paul Rekret (Queen Mary), Simon Choat (Kingston), Clayton Chin (Queen Mary) Description Despite its pervasiveness, the question of the relation between ontology and politics continues to be a crucial one for Continental philosophy. While …

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First two-day workshop of the CIBB Project (‘Contemporary Issues in Bioethics and Biopolitics’) ‘The Normal and the Pathological’ 27th and 28th September 2011 MS.05 (second floor) Zeeman Building, The University of Warwick. Please note that all the papers will be delivered in English. All welcome. Free registration at normalpathological@gmail.com Confirmed speakers: Jean-Claude Dumoncel, Robert Bernasconi, …

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Seminario de actualización La Biopolítica en el mundo actual. Reflexiones sobre el “efecto Foucault” Salón de Grados. Facultad de Filosofía. Campus de Guajara. Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife). PROGRAMACIÓN: Martes 12 abril 2011 17.30 horas ‐ Presentación del Seminario. Intervendrán: un representante del Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Dra. Ángela Sierra González (Decana de la Facultad …

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Patrice Maniglier et Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma., Montrouge: Editions Bayard, Collection La logique des images, 2011 A workshop on 11 February 2011 and a subsequent cinema program in association with the book took place in Nice. See here for a video of the program. See also this press release You can can also …

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Ecole doctorale : 27/28/29 avril 2011. IMEC. Caen L’Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault propose, pour la troisième année consécutive, avec l’aide de la Fondation de France une école doctorale visant à réunir les doctorants travaillant sur, avec et autour de la pensée de Michel Foucault. L’objectif est, comme les années précédentes de mettre en …

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A workshop on Foucault and Habermas is being convened in the context of the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, to be held between 31 August and 2 September 2011 at the University of Manchester. Papers are invited on any aspect of the social and political thought of Foucault, Habermas, the Foucault/Habermas debate and the Habermas/Rawls …

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