Foucault Circle 2012 Call For Papers

[Foucault Circle]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The twelfth annual meeting of the
Foucault Circle

at Canisius College
Buffalo, NY
March 30-April 1, 2012

Papers on any aspect of Foucault's work, and studies, critiques, and
applications of Foucauldian thinking, are all welcome. We will aim
for a diversity of topics and perspectives in the program selection.

Please send a 1-2 page ABSTRACT of the paper, by e-mail.
Abstracts should be submitted to the program committee chair:
Dianna Taylor (dta...@jcu.edu)
on or before Friday, November 19, 2011.
Please indicate "Foucault Circle submission" in the subject heading,
and include the abstract as a ".doc" attachment to your message.
Program decisions will be announced in mid-December.

The meetings typically begin with an informal welcoming reception on
Friday evening. There will be morning and afternoon paper sessions on
Saturday, followed by dinner and a business meeting. The conference
will conclude with paper sessions on Sunday morning. Each speaker will
have approximately 35 minutes for paper presentation and discussion
combined—papers should be a maximum of 3000 words (15-20 minutes,
preferably 15). In conjunction with our meeting in Buffalo, a city in
which Foucault conducted research on the prison, this year's
conference will include a session dedicated to discussing documents
from the GIP (le Groupe d’information sur les Prisons, a French prison
reform organization that Foucault co-founded). English translations of
the texts will be available.

Logistical information about lodging, transportation, and other
arrangements will be available after the program has been announced.

For more information about the Foucault Circle, please see our
website:
http://www.foucaultcircle.org

(A PDF or Word doc of this Call For Papers will be availabe soon on
our website.)

Best,
Dianna Taylor & Richard Lynch