Foucault Circle: 2011 CFP, 2010 APA East, other news
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I hope all is well with you. It actually feels like autumn in
Indiana. And so with the new school year I bring news of upcoming
Foucault Circle events and changes:
1. Our 11th annual conference will be March 25-27, 2011 at the Banff
Centre in Banff, Alberta, Canada, hosted by Chloë Taylor and Cressida
Heyes at the University of Alberta at Edmonton. The call for papers
(abstracts due on or before Friday, November 19, 2010) is available
via the Foucault Circle Google Group (see #4 below).
To submit an abstract, please send a 1-2 page ABSTRACT of the paper,
by e-mail to the program committee chair: Corey McCall
(cmc...@elmira.edu) on or before Friday, November 19, 2010. Please
indicate "Foucault Circle submission" in the subject heading, and
include the abstract as a ".doc" attachment to your message. Final
papers should be about 3000 words, or 15-20 minutes reading time.
Program decisions will be announced in mid-December.
2. FYI, our 2012 conference will be in Buffalo, NY, hosted by
Devonya Havis and Canisius College. Precise dates to be announced—
but not for a while...
3. Because our recent APA group sessions have been quite popular, we
will once again be sponsoring a group session at the APA Eastern
division meetings. Our session is Group GIII-1, on Tuesday, December
28, 11:15 AM-1:15 PM. (Location will be available in the program
distributed on site.) Many thanks to Sokthan Yeng for organizing
this year's group session!
Our program will feature:
Sokthan Yeng (Adelphi University), chair
Andrew Dilts (University of Chicago), “From ‘Entrepreneur of the
Self’ to ‘Care of the Self’: Neoliberal Governmentality and
Foucault’s Ethics”
Marcelo Hoffman (Marion University), “Population, Biopolitics and the
Iranian Revolution”
Samuel Talcott (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia),
“Iterating la Question des Lumières: Foucault, Knowledge of Life, and
Ethics”
4. After 10 years serving as Coordinator of the Foucault Circle, I
have decided the time has come to step down. So I will step down as
of our 2011 meeting. This was announced at the business meeting this
year, and we elected Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University) as our
next Coordinator. She agreed to serve a 5-year term, with this year
as a "transitional" year, so that she can get up to speed in the
job. We also decided that we'd follow this year's pattern and elect
our next coordinator before Dianna's fifth year, so that the next
person has a fade-in period. Many, many thanks to Dianna!
5. As part of the transition, and to make communication easier (and
less tied to one individual), the Foucault Circle has set up a Google
Groups account. All the current members of our e-list have been
added to the Google groups list. You can log into Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com) with the email address where you received
this email, and then make changes to your Google Groups account (like
changing the email address where you receive these notes, adding your
name, etc.). You can also see documents like our CFP under the
"Files" section: http://groups.google.com/group/foucaultcircle
However, John Hartmann still maintains our "regular" website,
www.foucaultcircle.org, which will also have our CFP, etc.
All best to you and yours,
Richard Lynch
Coordinator
Foucault Circle
www.foucaultcircle.org
groups.google.com/group/foucaultcircle