Foucault Circle 2012: program

[Foucault Circle]

Dear All,

Please see below the program for this year's meeting. As soon as the
locations and times for the Friday reception and Saturday dinner
become available we will provide you with that information.

Best wishes,

Dianna

Foucault Circle 2012
Canisius College
Buffalo, NY

All sessions will be held in the Regis Room, located on the second
floor of the
Richard E. Winter '42 Student Center

Friday evening, March 30th
Reception – Time and location TBA

Saturday, March 31st
9-10:45 – Power and Resistance
Moderator: Pär Widén, Malmő University

“Where There is Resistance, There is Power: A Revision of the Concept
of Co-originality”
Marco Checchi, Radboud University

‘Between Foucault and Ekeh: Governmentality and the “Two Publics” in
Africa’
Wale Adebanwi, U.C. Davis

“Beyond the Neo-liberal Paradigm: Foucault on the Multiplicity of
Power-relations and the Critical Force of the Care of the Self”
Edward McGushin, Stonehill College

11- 12:10 – The Organic and the Inorganic
Moderator: Jonas Qvarsebo, Malmő University

“Abnormal Appetites: Foucault and the Politics of Food”
Chloё Taylor, University of Alberta

“Plasticization as Necrophilia: Death, Decomposition, and the
Inorganic in Foucault”
Kelsey Borrowman, Stony Brook University

12:10-1:30 – Lunch

1:30-3:15 – Prisons and Imprisonment
Moderator: Thom Axelsson, Malmő University

“The New Asylums: Madness and Mass Incarceration in the Neoliberal
Era”
Michael Rembis, SUNY Buffalo

“Isolate and Manage: The Birth of the Supermax”
Kristin Li, McGill University

“Imprisonment Begins in the Mind”
Anwar Harper, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

3:30-4:45 –Discussion of GIP Documents
Facilitators: Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, DePaul University

5:00 – Business Meeting

Dinner – Time and location TBA

Sunday, April 1st
9-10:45 – Ethics and Politics
Moderator: Sam Talcott, University of the Sciences

“Stoicism’s Hermeneutic of Interpretation and its Political
Implications”
Robin Weiss, DePaul University

“Integrity, Misanthropy, Democracy”
Robert Nichols, University of Alberta

“Real Bodies in Real Spaces? Rethinking Anatomo-politics for the
Twenty-first Century”
Sophie Fuggle, King’s College London

11-12:10 – Madness
Moderator: Sam Binkley, Emerson College

“Indeterminacies: Of Madness, Animality, and Theatricality in
Foucault’s History of Madness and J.M. Coetzee’s Lives of Animals”
Corey McCall, Elmira College

“Foucault's Madness: Re-reading the Foucault-Derrida Debate Through
the 1961 Preface”
Eric Jonas, Northwestern University

The Program Committee wishes to thank Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn
for their work in translating the GIP documents used in Saturday’s
discussion.