At Last: The Program for the 17th Meeting of the Foucault Circle is here!

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17^th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle

Loyola-Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA

March 23-25, 2017

 

 

Thursday 23 March

 

4:00-4:45 Foucault Circle Welcome

 

5:00-7:15 Film Screening of "Sur les toits” and Roundtable Discussion with director Nicolas Drolc

 

Moderator: Andrew Dilts

 

7:15-8:15 Reception with Filmmaker

 

Friday 24 March

 

8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea, Light Breakfast

 

9:00-10:15

            Moderator: Anthony Ristow

1.     Kevin Jobe (Morgan State University, USA), Foucault & the Meaning of Politics: Towards a Genealogy of Tyrannical Power

2.     Stephanie Martens (Laurentian University, Canada) Foucault’s Game(s): Jeu, Metaphors and Translations

 

10:30-11:45

            Moderator: Ed McGushin

1.     Verena Erlenbusch (University of Memphis, USA), The Spatiality of History: Foucaultian Genealogy and Coloniality of Power

2.     Valentina Moro (Università di Padova, Italy, Brown University, USA), Politics of Refusal: Criticizing the Notion of Exclusion through the Interruption of the Settlers’ Narration

 

12:00-1:15

            Moderator: Brad Stone

1.     Selin Islekel (Loyola Marymount University, USA), Haunting Dead: Necropolitics of Mourning and Grief

2.     Sarah Earnshaw (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany), Foucault in Foreign Policy: Interrogating the Global Society to Be Defended 

 

1:15-2:30 LUNCH

 

 

2:30-4:15

            Moderator: Joanna Crosby

1.     Dianna Taylor (John Carroll University, USA), The Relation of Self to Self and (Counter)Normalization: Irish Republican Women During and After the Troubles

2.     Don Deere (Loyola Marymount University, USA), Truth, Terror, and Dangerous Speech: Foucault and León Rozitchner

3.     Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli (Emily Carr University, Canada, Fernand Baudel Center, USA), Governmentality, Sovereignty, and Critique: Revisiting Foucault’s Contemporary Relevance

 

4:30-5:30 Business Meeting

 

6:30 DINNER (Location TBD)

 

Saturday 25 March

 

8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea, Light Breakfast

 

9:00-10:45

            Moderator: Kevin Jobe

1.     Martín Bernales Odino (Boston College, USA), Towards a Genealogy of Latin American Poverty: La Buena Policía de los Pobres (The Good Police of the Poor)

2.     Berndt Clavier (Malmö University, Sweden), On Veridiction: Metrologies of Art in the European Welfare State

3.     Diana Young (Carleton University, Canada), Images of the Individual Rights and Governmental Power in Canadian Criminal Law

 

11:00-12:15

            Moderator: Dana Belu

1.Kevin Thompson (DePaul University, USA) Intolerable: Foucault's Historical Constructivism

2. Shruti Rao and Kristi Carey (University of British Columbia, Canada) Error Signals: Registering Intimacies and Occlusions of the Female Body Politic   

 

12:10-1:30 LUNCH

 

1:30-3:00

            Moderator: Nicole Ridgway

1.     Alex Feldman (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Foucault and Meinecke at the Intersection of Raison d’Etat, Historicism, and Ethics: The Problem of History

2.     Andrew LaZella (University of Scranton, USA), Vie Autre: Foucault’s Neo-nominalism and the Invention of the Improbable