Foucault Circle 18th Annual Meeting Program

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18th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle

John Carroll University

Cleveland, OH

April 6-8, 2018

 

 

Friday, April 6th

 

3:30-5pm: Visit to Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA): gallery tour

6pm: optional social event at CMA

 

Dinner on your own

 

Saturday, April 7th:

 

8:30am: Coffee and light breakfast

 

9-11am

Session #1: Speaking, writing, feeling

 

Michael Eng, John Carroll University

Foucault, Blanchot, and Deleuze: Writing the Outside in the University

Lauren Guilmette, Florida Atlantic University

We Tend to Feel: Foucault, Fictions, and the Present-Day Politics of Personal Feeling

Marcelo Hoffman

From Public Silence to Public Protest: Michel Foucault at the University of São Paulo in 1975

 

11-11:15am Break

 

11:15am-1:15pm

Session #2: (Managing) bodies

 

Juniper Alcorn

Is Pregnancy Biopolitical?

Devonya N. Havis, Canisius College and Melissa Mosko

Managing Individuals and Populations through Psychiatric Classification

Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta

Alimentary Monstrosity

 

1:15-2:15: lunch

 

2:30-3:45

Session #3: Manet and the Object of Painting

 

3:45-4 Break

 

4-5:20pm

Session #4: Foucault and Baldwin

 

Corey McCall, Elmira College

Prophets in Spite of Themselves: Michel Foucault, James Baldwin, and Intellectual Praxis

Erica Nelson, Florida Atlantic University

Coercive Coming Out

 

 

5:30-6:30pm Business meeting

 

7:00pm Dinner

 

Sunday, April 8th

 

8:30am: Coffee and light breakfast

 

9-11am

Session #5: Truth and post-truth

 

Lynne Huffer, Emory University

Post-Truth American Grotesque: Foucault, Ubu, Trump

Rylin Johnson, Emory University

Descartes and Cynical Embodiment: On Cartesianism in the Late Foucault

Amie Zimmer, University of Oregon

The Modern Cynic: Foucault’s Manet

 

11-11:15 Break

 

11:15am-1:15pm

Session #6: Violence, power, resistance

 

Erinn Gilson, University of North Florida

Practices of Self-Relation and Relations of Solidarity

Steven G Ogden, Charles Sturt University

Foucault’s Violence: Political Rationality and Embodied Subjectivity

Brad Elliott Stone, Loyola Marymount University

Blood On Our Minds, Blood On Our Hands

 

Optional lunch for people staying in town or with late flights


Flights:

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE): http://www.clevelandairport.com provides easiest access to the conference hotel and John Carroll University. It is also possible to fly into Akron-Canton Airport (CAK): http://www.akroncantonairport.com, but you will need to rent a car or take a ride share in order to get from there to Cleveland, whereas public transportation (see below) as well as (less expensive, since CLE is closer) ride shares are available from CLE. 
 
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Light rail service operated by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is available from CLE to University Circle, where the conference hotel is located: http://www.riderta.com; the ride takes about 45 minutes. You will need to get off the train at the Little Italy station and walk (about seven minutes) to the hotel. Maps, routes, etc. are available on the RTA website.
 
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Lodging:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Courtyard Cleveland Hotel in University Circle: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/clece-courtyard-cleveland-university-circle/.
 
Stay at one of the best Cleveland hotels, the Courtyard by Marriott-Cleveland University Circle hotel near Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital. The Courtyard ...

The conference rate is $139/night for a room with two queen beds. You may book online by using the following link Book your group rate for Foucault Circle or by telephone. Whichever option you choose you will need to mention the Foucault Circle in order to get the conference rate.

The hotel is within easy walking distance of the restaurant where we will have dinner on Saturday night, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and other attractions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Museum of Natural History, the campus of Case Western Reserve University, and Little Italy. It is directly adjacent to a Starbucks and surrounded by a variety of restaurants. The hotel also operates a shuttle within a two-mile radius of its location.

The hotel is not within walking distance of John Carroll's campus. A shuttle will take conference participants from the hotel to the conference on Saturday and Sunday, to the restaurant for dinner at the end of the day on Saturday, and back to the hotel at the end of the day on Sunday. There are AirBnbs and other lodging options available in the area; if you stay elsewhere you are still welcome to ride the shuttle, but we need to know that you will be doing so. Please let Dianna know as soon as possible (JCU vehicles are in high demand) whether you intend to ride the shuttle: dta...@jcu.edu.

 

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