Foucault News

French Theory in Translation: The Question of the Archive. Conference (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

23 October 2011

French Theory in Translation: The Question of the Archive
An international conference

Sponsored by The Alliance Française of Chicago, the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago, DePaul University, the France-Chicago Center, and the University of Chicago,

3-5 November 2011

The University of Chicago will host the 3rd Day, on Saturday, November 5, 2011, dedicated to “French Theory and the Archives: Foucault, Derrida, Ricoeur”, at The Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 E. 57th Street, Room 118. The programme is as follows.

10:30 Introductory Remarks
Arnold Davidson (University of Chicago)

10:45-1:00 The Archives in France
Moderator & Introduction of Speakers: Françoise Meltzer (University of Chicago)
Albert Dichy (Institut Mémoires de l’Edition Contemporaine)
“IMEC and French Philosophy Archives”
Frédéric Worms (Centre international d’étude de la philosophie française contemporaine, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris & Université de Lille 3)
“Works and Archives : A Theoretical and Historical Typology of their Relationship in XXth Century Thought”
Giuseppe Bianco (University of Warwick / CIRPHLES, ENS)
“French Philosophy’s Backstage”

2:00-3:20 Michel Foucault
Moderator and Introduction of Speakers: Tuomo Tiisala (University of Chicago)
“Meeting Michel Foucault at IMEC: Between Historical Reconstruction and Philosophical Attitude” Daniele Lorenzini (Université de Paris-Est Créteil & La Sapienza University of Rome) Respondents: Bernard Harcourt (University of Chicago) & Arnold Davidson (University of Chicago)

3:20-4:40 Jacques Derrida
Moderator & Introduction of speakers: Rick Elmore (DePaul University)
Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California), Geoffrey Bennington (Emory University) and Michael Naas (DePaul University)
“Archive Fever”

5:00-6:20 Paul Ricoeur
Moderator & Introduction of speakers: Michael Sohn (University of Chicago)
Olivier Abel (Fonds Ricoeur & Faculté Protestante de Théologie, Paris)
“The Trace as Answer and as Question”
Respondents: Ryan Coyne (University of Chicago) & David Pellauer (DePaul University)

Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop seminars (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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22 October 2011

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 Politics”

Monday 14th November 2011
Martina Tazzioli (Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, London)
“Countermapping the Governmentality of Human Mobility: Migrants’ Struggles, Practices of R-existence and Regime of Discursivity”

Monday 28th November 2011
Silvia Lami (University of Pisa)
TBA

All meetings will take place from 4:30 to 6:20 pm in Cobb 110, unless noted otherwise.

The Same and the Other: 50 years of History of Madness. Colloquy (1961-2011) (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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21 October 2011

The Same and the Other: 50 years of History of Madness (1961-2011)
VII International Michel Foucault Colloquy (at PUC-SP)

O Mesmo e o Outro. 50 anos de História da Loucura (1961-2011).

24 a 27 de outubro de 2011.
Monday October 24th – Thursday October 27th
Pontificia Universidade Catolica,
Sao Paulo, Brazil.

There will be an online transmission of the Colloquium.
Papers will be in each speaker’s original language (some francophone speakers will speak in french).

Mas, para mim, 1961 continua e continuará sendo o ano em que se descobriu um verdadeiro grande filósofo. Eu já conhecia pelo menos dois que haviam sido meus colegas de estudos, Raymond Aron e Jean-Paul Sartre. Também não eram indulgentes com relação a Foucault. Um dia, contudo, os três foram vistos juntos. Era para apoiar, contra a morte, uma aventura sem fronteiras. (Georges Canguilhem)

Tendo por mote central a comemoração do cinquentenário de História da loucura na idade clássica, o Departamento de Filosofia e o Programa de Estudos Pós-graduados em Filosofia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo propõem a realização do VII Colóquio Internacional Michel Foucault. O evento pretende dar continuidade a uma sequência regular de Colóquios, realizados em várias instituições (USP, UERJ, UNICAMP, UFRN, UERJ) e fazer da “celebração” desta obra já cinquentenária um instrumento de interrogação e de abertura às questões do presente.

A programação do evento está estruturada em conferências e comunicações. As conferências serão proferidas por professores convidados estrangeiros (Ècole Normale Superieure de Paris, Université de Bordeaux, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad de Caracas, Universidad de Valparaíso e Universidade de Lisboa). As comunicações serão organizadas em mesas redondas com professores brasileiros de várias universidades do país, vinculados a diferentes áreas do conhecimento (Filosofia, História, Educação, Ciências Sociais, Psicologia, Direito), configurando assim a natureza interdisciplinar do evento.

Devonya N. Havis, Arts of Resistance: Locating Black Women’s Philosophies (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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20 October 2011

The Foucault Society, NYC
2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies

We are delighted to announce our first colloquium of this academic year. Please join us for an evening of critical dialogue and light refreshment.

Devonya N. Havis, Ph.D.
“Arts of Resistance: Locating Black Women’s Philosophies”
Friday, October 21, 2011
7:00-9:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409
New York, NY, USA

Abstract:
This paper works through Foucault to examine the parameters within which Black women’s lived experience can be intelligible as philosophy. Toni Morrison characterizes the condition of Black women in the US as one in which they have “nothing to fall back on; not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything.” It is at the juncture of self-invention, which simultaneously contests and resists imposed categories, that Black women’s philosophies emerge. As opposed to a static set of philosophical principles, Black women’s philosophies are more aptly described as philosophical strategies that perform ethico-political interventions–doing philosophy from the posture of critique. In evoking the notion of “doing philosophy,” the project calls attention to philosophy as a practice, or process of habituation, whereby one develops an active critical posture in which theory and action are necessary linked. My account enlists Foucault’s analytic of subjugated knowledges, takes up his elaborations on genealogy (as outlined in Society Must Be Defended), and explores his discussions of critique and the “Aesthetics of Existence.”

Speaker bio:
Devonya N. Havis (Ph.D., Boston College) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. Her research engages contemporary continental philosophy with critical race theory to promote social justice. Her current work develops a conception of auditory identity as a counter to the longstanding philosophical emphasis on the visual. Recent articles include “Blackness Beyond Witness” in Philosophy and Social Criticism (2010). Courses she teaches range from introduction to traditional Western philosophical concepts to explorations of the political implications of Hip-Hop theory. She is the Conference Site Coordinator for the Foucault Circle’s 2012 Annual Meeting, taking place in Buffalo on March 30-April 1.

About the Colloquium Series:
The Foucault Society’s Colloquium Series provides a forum for new research and works-in-progress, and offers an opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share new work with a friendly and supportive audience of colleagues.

Open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated. E-mail: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com

**As part of our on-going fundraiser, we will have Foucault’s The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983 (Palgrave, 2010) available for purchase.**

About the Foucault Society:
The Foucault Society is an independent, non-profit educational organization offering a variety of forums dedicated to critical study of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) within a contemporary context.

Website
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Twitter: @foucaultsociety

E-mail: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com

Foucault Studies Issue 12 (October 2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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20 October 2011

Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 12

A Special Issue on Foucault and Race
Guest Edited by Ladelle McWhorter

Issue 12 also includes:
A translated interview with Denys Foucault
An interview with Cressida J. Heyes
Three original articles related to Foucault’s writings on neoliberalism
and eight book reviews

Foucault Studies is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed, international journal that provides a forum for scholarship engaging the intellectual legacy of Michel Foucault, interpreted in the broadest possible terms. We welcome submissions ranging from theoretical explications of Foucault’s work and texts to interdisciplinary engagements across various fields, to empirical studies of contemporary phenomena using Foucaultian frameworks.

All articles are freely available as open access on the journal website
Please visit the website to sign up for E-alerts to receive news of CFPs and new issues.

Number 12, October 2011: Foucault and Race

Table of Contents

Editorial
Sverre Raffnsøe, Alan Rosenberg, Alain Beaulieu, Sam Binkley, Sven Opitz, Chloë Taylor, Jens Erik Kristensen, Ditte Vilstrup Holm
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Special Issue on Foucault and Race

Guest Editor’s Introduction
Ladelle McWhorter

Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism
José Medina

The Down Low and the Sexuality of Race
Brad Elliott Stone

The War on Terror and Ontopolitics: Concerns with Foucault’s Account of Race, Power Sovereignty
Falguni A. Sheth

Decapitating Power
Ladelle McWhorter

Modern Living and Vital Race: Foucault and the Science of Life
Mary Beth Mader
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Interviews

Changing the Subject
Cressida J. Heyes, Michael McGarry

Born to Learn
Denys Foucault, Jean-Luc Terradillos,
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Articles

From ‘Entrepreneur of the Self’ to ‘Care of the Self’: Neo-liberal Governmentality and Foucault’s Ethics
Andrew Dilts

Welfare and Foreign Aid Practices in the Contemporary United States: a Governmental Study
Philippe Fournier

The Biopolitics of Ordoliberalism
Thomas Biebricher
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Reviews

David Konstan, Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Brendan Boyle

Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005)
Sylvia Morin

Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Frédéric Gros and Judith Revel (eds.), Cahier de L’Herne 95: Michel Foucault (Paris: L’Herne, 2011)
Benoît Dillet

Frédéric Gros, States of Violence: An Essay on the End of War (London: Seagull Books, 2010)
Apple Zefelius Igrek

Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Pascal Michon, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Judith Revel and Jean-Claude Zancarini (textes choisis et présentés par), Les mots et les choses de Foucault. Regards critiques 1966-1968 (Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2009)
Elisabetta Basso

Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke (eds.), Deleuze, Guattari, and the Production of the New (London: Continuum, 2008)
Ricky Crano

Ben Golder and Peter Fitzpatrick (eds.), Foucault and Law (Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010)
Verena Erlenbusch

Magnus Hörnqvist, Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2010)
Donald Beggs

Sergey Dolgopolski, What Is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009)
Alan Milchman, Alan Rosenberg

Histoire de la folie : 50 ans. Deux livres (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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18 October 2011

Histoire de la folie : 50 ans

Le Centre Michel Foucault, en co-édition avec l’IMEC et les Presses Universitaires de Caen proposent deux ouvrages:

Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1961-2011.
Textes choisis et présentés par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Luca Paltrinieri, Judith Revel, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville et Martin Saar. Presses universitaires de Caen, 2011
Cette édition critique revient sur la publication de Michel Foucault, “Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique”. Un questionnement sur la manière dont la société se reconnaît et s’exprime au travers du malade qu’elle enferme et définit comme fou.

Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Un succès philosophique : L’Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique de Michel Foucault, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2011

Publié successivement, et dans différents formats, aux éditions Plon, puis en poche chez 10 / 18, enfin dans plusieurs collections de Gallimard, l’ouvrage de Foucault a une histoire que nous avons voulu écrire à l’aide de documents d’archives inédits. Nous présentons ici les pièces d’une enquête matérielle sur un succès éditorial sans précédent, avec leurs silences, leurs limites et parfois leurs incongruités. Histoire fragile d’un livre à partir des centaines de traces qu’il a laissées dans l’archive d’une époque. Par Philippe Artières et Jean François Bert.

Governing Human Beings in the Age of the Brain: A Symposium with Nikolas Rose (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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16 October 2011

Governing Human Beings in the Age of the Brain: A Symposium with Nikolas Rose

Presented by the Centre for the History of European Discourses at
the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

Wednesday, November 16 2011
1.30pm to 5.30pm
Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room,
Level 1 Duhig Building (Bldg 2), St Lucia Campus [See Map]

In his recent study, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (2006), Nikolas Rose examines the transformative effects of brain imaging technologies and recent developments in neuroscience on late twentieth and early twenty-first century concepts of the self. “Over the past half century,” he argues, “we human beings have become somatic individuals, people who increasingly come to understand ourselves, speak about ourselves, and act upon ourselves—and others—as beings shaped by our biology.” The papers in this symposium will examine the implications of this newly biologised understanding of subjectivity across the wide range of cultural, clinical and commercial contexts in which it can be found. The symposium will conclude with a public lecture by Nikolas Rose.

Programme
“The Biological Imaginary: Science and the Somaticised Self”
Elizabeth Stephens, ARC Research Fellow
Centre for the History of European Discourses
The University of Queensland

“Avoiding the Seductions of Neurohype in Ethical Analyses of Addiction Neuroscience”
Wayne Hall, NHMRC Australia Fellow
UQ Centre for Clinical Research
The University of Queensland

“Brain Whisperers: New Forms of Consumer Monitoring on the Frontiers of Neuroscience”
Mark Andrejevic, ARC QE II Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
The University of Queensland

“A Neurobiological Complex? Governing Human Beings in the Age of the Brain”
Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology
BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society
London School of Economics

This symposium is free, but registration is essential for seating and catering purposes. Please RSVP to Elizabeth Stephens: e.stephens@uq.edu.au

David Macey (1949 – 2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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14 October 2011

From the Verso blog via Stuart Elden

Sanna Karkulehto, The ‘Greatest Finn’ meets the ‘Gay Marshal’: Foucault’s cycle, national narratives and The Butterfly of the Urals (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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12 October 2011

Sanna Karkulehto, The ‘Greatest Finn’ meets the ‘Gay Marshal’: Foucault’s cycle, national narratives and The Butterfly of the Urals, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 1, no.2, June 2011
https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.1.2.177_1

Abstract
The article examines the case of the ‘Gay Marshal’, the late C.G.E. Mannerheim, president of Finland, supreme commander of Finnish military forces during World War II, and often voted the ‘Greatest Finn’ in opinion polls. In the puppet-animation film The Butterfly of the Urals (Katariina Lillqvist, 2008) Mannerheim wears a purple corset and enjoys a relationship with his male servant. The film incited a media war. The article shows how the film’s reception involves Foucault’s cycle, a concept adapted from Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality (1984 [1976]): sexuality fascinates and attracts large audiences, but its visibility is viable only under certain conditions, rules and restrictions. Focusing on sexuality also turns out to be a means of closeting the painful, wilfully forgotten Civil War (1918) history, which has divided Finland and remained a problematic topic in Finland’s national narratives.

Keywords
Michel Foucault,nationality,queer,sexuality,media reception,Mannerheim,Finland,animation,

Wanted: audiotapes of Foucault’s 1973 lectures (2011)

Clare O'Farrell

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10 October 2011

Le Seuil and Gallimard, publishers of the official French editions of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, are looking for copies of audio tape recordings of Foucault’s lecture series on La société punitive at the Collège de France in Winter and Spring 1973.

These lectures were delivered from January to March 1973. If you have any tapes of these lectures or any information leading to the discovery of such tapes, please contact Caroline Pichon at caroline.pichon@seuil.com, tel: +33 1 41 48 83 43.