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CFP: Pli, The Warwick Journal of Philosophy: Jean Hyppolite (2012)

Posted in Calls for papers, Special Issues on 22 September 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Call for Papers

Pli, The Warwick Journal of Philosophy: Jean Hyppolite

Man is consciousness and universal self-consciousness (this proposition must not be inverted by expressing universal self-consciousness in terms of man). The manifestation of this universal self-consciousness is no longer the State, but authentic language, which is the dwelling place [demeure] of Being. It is not man who interprets Being, but Being which comes to speech [se dit] in man, and this revealing of Being, this absolute logic – substituted for a metaphysics (which would be more or less theology) – goes through man.

Jean Hyppolite, ‘Ruse de la raison et histoire chez Hegel’

‘Hyppolite is the one who has established for us all of the problems which are ours… Logic and Existence…is one of the great works of our time’. (Michel Foucault)

Jean Hyppolite was a figure of pivotal importance in twentieth century French philosophy.  As a translator he produced the first full French translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit; as a scholar his careful and innovative readings of Hegel’s entire corpus established him as an authority at home and abroad; and as a teacher and a philosopher he exerted a crucial influence on the generation of thinkers that included Deleuze, Derrida, and Foucault, raising questions about difference, immanence, sense, and method that continue to resonate through contemporary philosophy.

For its twenty-fourth volume, Pli invites papers on any aspect of Hyppolite’s work, his development, and his influence both on his own generation and beyond. Possible topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

  • The unhappy consciousness: Hegel and Kierkegaard in France
  • The ‘most obscure dialectical synthesis’: Hegel, Marx and the relation between logic and history
  •  ‘There is no primacy of the thesis’: the Absolute as mediation in Logic and Existence
  • The ontological status of Hegel’s Logic and the nature of Hegel’s critique of Kant
  • ‘The Structuralism Controversy’ and Hyppolite’s contribution to the Johns Hopkins symposium
  • Hyppolite and Heidegger: onto-logy and the critique of Humanism
  • Sense and nonsense in Hyppolite and beyond
  • ‘The only secret is that there is no secret’: forms of the rejection of essentialism
  • Logics of contradiction and logics of repetition: from Hyppolite to Deleuze, Derrida, Levinas…
  • Hyppolite, Lacan and Verneinung
  • Hyppolite’s writings on figures other than Hegel, for example, Fichte, Marx, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty
  • Key concepts in Hyppolite, for example, language, sense, immanence, difference, mediation, ontology, and logos.

Pli also welcomes enquiries from individuals who may be interested in translating short texts by or on Hyppolite (please contact the journal to discuss possible texts).

Varia

As well as works addressing the theme of the issue, Pli is also happy to consider:

  • Strong articles on any aspect of ‘continental philosophy’
  • Book reviews (please contact the journal to discuss prospective reviews)
  • Short translations of important works in continental philosophy.

Submissions should be no longer than 8,000 words, prefaced by an abstract, and sent by email to: plijournal@warwick.ac.uk as a Word, ODT or RTF file. The deadline for submissions is November 1st 2012. Before submitting an article, please ensure that you have read the ‘Notes for Contributors’ on the Pli website as we will only accept submissions that are formatted in accordance with these guidelines.

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CFP: The Foucault Circle (2012)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences on 12 August 2012 | Leave a Comment »

CALL FOR PAPERS

The thirteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle at
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
April 18-20, 2013

Papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking, are welcome. This year’s conference also includes two special sessions:

A discussion of Foucault’s text I, Pierre Rivière;
A session on Foucault and the family for which we are seeking individual paper submissions.

Please send an ABSTRACT (as a “.doc” attachment) of no more than 750
words by e-mail to program committee chair Erinn Gilson (e.gilson@unf.edu) on or before Friday, November 16th, 2012.
Indicate “Foucault Circle submission” in the subject heading.

Program decisions will be announced in mid-December.

The meeting will begin with a Thursday afternoon screening and discussion of René Allio’s film, “Moi, Pierre Rivière…” (English subtitles), followed by an informal welcome session and dinner. There will be morning and afternoon paper sessions on Friday, followed by a business meeting and dinner. The conference will conclude with paper sessions on Saturday 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).

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 the
website.

The Foucault Circle wishes to thank William Clare Roberts of McGill University for his help in organizing this year’s conference.

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CFP: Affecting Deleuze: A Conference on the Ethics of Gilles Deleuze (2012)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences on 28 July 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“I would say that Anti-Oedipus (may its authors forgive me) is a book of ethics, the first book of ethics to be written in France in quite a long time. … The Christian moralists sought out traces of the flesh lodged deep in the soul. Deleuze and Guattari, for their part, pursue the slightest traces of fascism in the body.”
Michel Foucault, Preface to Anti-Oedipus.

“This requirement persists in [Spinoza’s] Ethics, albeit understood in a new way. In neither case can it suffice to say that truth is simply present in ideas. We must go on to ask what is it that is present in a true idea. What expresses itself in a true idea? What does it express?”
Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Spinoza.

What is that peculiar insistence on ethics that Foucault glimpsed early on? And is it at all engaged with the complications Deleuze makes with Spinoza and Leibniz — a curious ethics expressed in active affectivity of joyous passions contrasted with the passivity of sad passions?: “Most men remain, most of the time, fixated by sad passions which cut them off from their essence and reduce it to the state of an abstraction” (E in S, p. 320). Would we want to say that the sad passions that for the most part afflict most men are the micro-fascisms by which we coerce each other, reducing each to a state of abstraction? How is ‘ethics’ complicated by Deleuze? When we read Deleuze and apply his thinking in myriad fields how do we keep a Deleuzian ethics in sight? How does Deleuze not become a state of abstraction or theoretical strata, cause of its own fascisms?

Affecting Deleuze is a three-day conference that aims to focus on the practical philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and on practices that engage the philosophy of Deleuze. We aim for papers that foreground a questioning of Deleuzian ‘ethics’ in relation to a thinking that might otherwise approach Deleuze as method or procedure in practical, or one might say, creative assemblages. How would ‘ethics’ differentiate itself from a politics and, more acutely, from a theory of the ethical?

We are calling for

Individual paper presentations — 20-minute papers/10-minute question time. We will thematically group papers for 90-minute sessions.

Panel/group presentations — 90 minutes organized according to your own inventiveness

Abstracts (250-300 words individual / up to 700 words for panel) will be blind reviewed.
Abstract submission no later than Friday 24th August.

Some possible themes to consider for a focus on Deleuze’s ethics:

  • Deleuze’s Foucault: Power, knowledge, self
  • Ethics and the outside of thought (Deleuze and Blanchot)
  • Ideas of Reason (Kant and Deleuze)
  • Aesthetics and Ethics: Expression and affects
  • Deleuze with Guattari: Thinking a new earth
  • Spinoza’s multitudes: Negri and Deleuze

And with respect to a focus on working with Deleuze:

  • Space, design and ethics
  • The image of thought: affectivity and percepts
  • Sensations and matter: Bergson and freedom
  • Ethics and the post-cinematic
  • Societies of Control

Key dates

  • Abstract submission no later than: Friday 24th August
  • Notification of acceptance by: Monday 3rd September
  • Conference early registration opens: Monday 10th September
  • Conference commences: Thursday 18th October at 5.30p.m (opening key note and reception)
  • Conference concludes: Saturday 20th October with conference dinner

Registration rates

  • Full Registration:  $130.00 (NZ)
  • Early Bird Registration (10th to 30th September):  $100.00 (NZ)
  • Student Rate:  $ 65.00 (NZ)
  • Early Bird Student (10th to 30th September):  $ 50.00 (NZ)
  • Conference dinner rate:  To be advised

(Credit card and other payment option details to be confirmed)

Send abstracts and any enquiries to:

Associate Professor Laurence Simmons (University of Auckland) l.simmons@auckland.ac.nz & Associate Professor Mark Jackson (AUT University) mark.jackson@aut.ac.nz

Source: Philevents

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CFP: Les critiques de la raison au XXème siècle (2012)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences on 15 June 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Journées d’étude du 25 et 26 octobre 2012

Les critiques de la raison au XXème siècle

Université Paris-Est Créteil
France

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On connait le mot fameux – et souvent mal compris – de Heidegger : « la pensée ne commence que lorsque nous avons éprouvé que la Raison, tant magnifiée depuis des siècles, est l’adversaire la plus opiniâtre de la pensée ».

C’est à l’aune de cette sentence que nous aimerions consacrer deux journées de réflexion aux critiques de la raison au XXème siècle – et jusqu’aujourd’hui. Mais de quelle raison s’agit-il au juste ? Et de quelle nature sera, ou seront, la ou les critiques ?

On sait que Kant a critiqué au XVIIIème siècle la raison métaphysique ou spéculative qui avait pour prétention de connaître la totalité du réel à travers ces trois grandes idées que sont Dieu, l’âme et le monde dans des philosophies telles que celles de Descartes, Leibniz ou Spinoza, pour lesquelles ce qui est est rationnel, de part en part. De l’idée à l’être la conséquence était bonne, mais le projet de Kant était d’instituer un tribunal de la raison où la raison et ses prétentions à connaître l’absolu seraient jugées par la raison elle-même. La Critique de la Raison Pure était selon le mot de Kant le lieu même de ce tribunal. C’est donc à partir d’elle-même que la raison opérait une critique sur ses prétentions au savoir. Au siècle suivant, le Système de Hegel avait pour objectif de mener à son terme le projet inachevé de Kant en réaffirmant que tout ce qui est effectif est rationnel : la Raison spéculative, grâce au Concept, parvenait à démontrer que c’est seulement une version appauvrie d’elle-même – la pensée d’entendement – qui devait être critiquée, mais pas son projet de totalisation rationnelle du réel.

De manière sommaire, l’on pourrait dire que la donne change ou évolue au XXème siècle, car à côté des courants néo-kantiens (l’école de Marbourg, celle de Heidelberg, ou les traditions anglophones avec, notamment, Putnam, Rawls et Dworkin) qui sont nés de la décomposition du système hégélien et avancent sous le mot d’ordre « Zurück zu Kant ! » (« Retour à Kant ! »), une multitude de pensées nouvelles ont vu le jour en critiquant la raison non plus à partir d’elle-même, mais à partir de son autre, de ce qu’elle a toujours nié en le réduisant à son discours.

C’est donc aussi à partir de ce dehors de la raison qu’il faut explorer les critiques de la raison au XXème siècle, que celles-ci soient nourries de la phénoménologie heideggérienne, dénonçant dans tout système rationnel le règne de la métaphysique de la subjectivité pour laquelle le réel sensible n’est qu’un « pas encore connu », de ce que l’on a pu nommer la French Theory qui approche la différence en déconstruisant le discours de la raison, ou d’autres perspectives mettant à l’épreuve le règne de la raison sur la pensée.

Par delà ce clivage un peu facile entre critique rationaliste et anti-rationaliste de la raison – Être et Temps dans sa forme argumentative n’a en effet rien à envier à la Critique de la Raison Pure !-, on peut se poser la question de la manière dont les critiques de la raison opèrent. En effet, on a affaire dans ces pensées critiques tant à des mises en question frontales de la raison au nom de son autre – notamment dans la lignée d’une pensée héritière de Bataille et de Blanchot – qu’à des analyses substituant à la Raison comme instance unifiée une multitude de rationalités entrecroisées, de « jeux de raisons » indissociablement pratiques et intellectuelles, dont seule la restitution fine permet de comprendre le monde humain. Ici, la façon dont la philosophie a pu et peut encore croiser les méthodes des sciences humaines (du structuralisme au retour au « micro » et à l’analyse des dynamiques individuelles et collectives) peut notamment, nous intéresser, dans la mesure où elle révèle des choix de « perspectives rationnelles ».

Nous aimerions repartir du programme kantien, qui a pour mérite d’exhiber à la fois les différents usages de la raison et d’en révéler la nature unitaire, pour proposer trois axes problématiques. De là :

I. Les critiques de la raison théorique : pourquoi a-t-il fallu penser autrement que la raison au XXème siècle (notamment Heidegger et ses disciples phénoménologues, mais aussi les différentes critiques de la raison connaissante, de Bergson à Rancière) et pourquoi a-t-il été nécessaire de repenser le travail kantien ? Pensons également au linguistic turn qui a irrigué le travail sur la raison communicationnelle chez Habermas ou les réflexions sur la sémiotique de K.O. Apel.

II. Les critiques de la raison pratique

Quelles sont les pratiques de raison qui ont été critiquées au XXème siècle, et pourquoi ? On peut songer au travail de Foucault sur les gestes d’enfermement et de partage, aux analyses de Derrida sur le 11 septembre et l’invention du hors-la-loi par une raison juridique dévoyée ou à la théorie de la justice de Rawls avec la distinction rationnel/raisonnable et ses critiques. Des réflexions sur la pragmatique ou l’agir communicationnel auraient aussi toute leur place ici, ainsi que des interrogations sur les apports de la théorie critique de Adorno et Horkheimer, sur des courants néo-marxiens ou psychanalytiques (freudo-marxisme de Marcuse ou de Reich, entre autres) aux critiques de la raison, ou encore sur la forme si particulière de la philosophie morale d’un philosophe comme Levinas. Mais c’est plus largement à l’ensemble des réflexions critiques de la rationalité politique ou morale majoritaire et de ses logiques internes qu’on s’intéressera.

III. Des critiques du jugement qui initieraient à travers des problématiques esthétiques ou biologiques des réflexions sur le lien indissociable entre théorie et pratique dans toute vie concrète. Songeons par exemple à l’importance de l’art dans les courants phénoménologiques (la poésie chez Heidegger, la peinture chez Merleau-Ponty), mais aussi au langage incarné et expressif (Phénoménologie de la Perception) et aux nouvelles façons de penser nos rapports à la vie et à l’environnement (Hans Jonas et le Principe de responsabilité pour ne citer que lui). Ces pistes ne sont évidemment pas limitatives, et toute proposition portant sur la manière dont les critiques de la raison s’articule au problème de la sensibilité et du vivant est bienvenue.

Organisées par les doctorants en philosophie de l’Université Paris-Est Créteil, ces journées s’inscrivent dans des questionnements philosophiques sur des thèmes au croisement de plusieurs disciplines. Par conséquent, des contributions provenant d’autres champs disciplinaires sont tout à fait envisageables, dans la mesure où elles participent à l’exploration de ces « critiques de la raison ».

Les projets de communication (500 mots environ) comportant les nom et prénom du contributeur, le rattachement institutionnel et le titre de la communication proposée, seront à envoyer avant le 15 juillet 2012 à l’adresse suivante :

 journeescreteil@gmail.com

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CFP: Foucault and Mobilities Research (2012)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences, Symposia on 28 May 2012 | 1 Comment »

Call for Papers : Foucault and Mobilities Research

A Two-Day Symposium, 6th and 7th of January 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland

The publication in English and in German of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the years 1970-1984 has been a key driver of the recent renaissance of research inspired by his work across the social sciences. As part of this, sociologists, geographers and others in the academic world have begun to draw on and work with a wider range of Foucauldian concepts than in earlier studies. Foucault’s thinking on power/knowledge, panopticism, discourse, the role of the sciences, and so on still resonates strongly across the social sciences but it is the topics that he lectured on at the Collège that arguably attract the bulk of attention: a surge of interest has occurred among social scientists in his writings on apparatuses/dispositifs, governmentality, self-government and ethics to name but a few concepts. The translation of the lectures into German and English has also brought to the fore a greater focus on the liveliness of the world, the non-discursive realm, materiality and resistance than Foucault is usually credited for. In fact, and as Philo (2012) has noted, the lectures show more than his published books that Foucault was closer to Deleuze than is often assumed.

Foucault’s work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by ‘mobilities’ scholars (e.g. Adey, 2009; A. Jensen, 2011; Merriman, 2007; Paterson, 2008, Richardson and Jensen, 2008; Schwanen et al, 2011; Manderscheid, 2012). It can nonetheless be argued that mobilities researchers have not yet fully explored or exhausted the potential of Foucault’s philosophy for understanding mobilities. Against this background we seek to bring together scholars from across the social sciences with a shared interest in both mobilities and Foucauldian thinking. Mobilities are here understood broadly as the flows (or lack thereof) of people, artefacts, money, ideas, practices, and so on across a wide variety of spatial and temporal scales, both in contemporary societies or in the past. More specifically, we are soliciting conceptual and/or empirical papers that address one or several of the following topics or a related theme:

-          The governmentalities that shape mobilities

-          The government of im/mobile others and selves

-          Mobility dispositifs

-          Mobile subjectivities

-          Formation and contestation of material landscapes of mobilities

-          Ethics of mobility and mobile ethics

-          Discourses surrounding and underpinning mobilities

-          Mobilities as an object of knowledge

-          The ‘disciplining’ of mobilities

-          Techniques of im/mobility and im/mobile techniques

-          Conceptualisation of mobilities in regards to biopolitics and territory

The two-day symposium aims at connecting scholars from different disciplines with an interest in this range of topics. If you are interested in participating in this event with a paper, we ask that you prepare an abstract of no more than 250 abstract and send this to one of the organisers no later than 10th of June 2012.

Katharina Manderscheid, Lucerne University(katharina.manderscheid@unilu.ch)

Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford(tim.schwanen@ouce.ox.ac.uk)

David Tyfield, Lancaster University(d.tyfield@lancaster.ac.uk)

Source: Via Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies

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CFP: Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance (2012)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences on 9 January 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Call for papers Panel on Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance

Part of the 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis. The conference for 2012 is titled ‘Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation’. The International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis has travelled through Europe. After visiting Birmingham, Amsterdam, Essex, Kassel, Grenoble and Cardiff, interpretivists of various kinds will gather in Tilburg, the Netherlands in July 2012.

Panel Chairs
◦Dr. Michelle Brady
Assistant Professor @ University Of Victoria
◦Dr. Tara Ney
Assistant Professor @ University Of Victoria

July 5, 2012 – July 7, 2012

This panel is seeking papers that focus on the processes and practices through which neoliberalization occurs. We invite papers that examine specific cases through the use of ethnographic or quasi-ethnographic methodologies (interviews and observations). Collectively, the panel will exemplify the geographic and historic diversity of neoliberal governmentalities. A fundamental premise of this panel is that neoliberal forms of governance seek to organize social and political life according to the structure of competition, to encourage enterprising subjectivities, and to move forms of governance downwards to policy practices, individuals, and communities. As Foucault perceptively noted in 1979, neoliberalism assumes that competition can only appear if it is produced through active governance by the state (Foucault, 2008). Thus neoliberal practices emphasize governance of the market and social life through what Dorow (2007) calls “the interplay of coercive regulation and voluntary participation”. As Larner (2011) argues, many initial studies of neoliberal thinking incorrectly assumed that these ideas would be short-lived. However, such scepticism and dismissal was quickly replaced by equally problematic “monolithic narratives” of a uniform shift from the collectivist welfare state to individualistic neoliberal governance. Recently, a small number of interpretivist policy analysts from diverse disciplines have attempted to be more attentive to specific local cases thereby drawing attention to the geographical and historic specificity of neoliberal policy practices. These are what Larner (2007) calls ethnographies of “actually existing neoliberalism”. We are seeking papers that highlight the diversity of contemporary neoliberal practices of governance.

Contacts:
Dr. Michelle Brady mabrady@uvic.ca
Dr. Tara Ney: tney@uvic.ca

Paper proposal deadline 31 January 2012. Details for how to submit a proposal can be found on the panel webpage

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CFP: Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion (2011)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences on 20 November 2011 | Leave a Comment »

CFP: Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion

Deadline: Saturday, December 31
Conference Venue:
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada

See Immanentism and Religion below for Foucault

Details
We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in Canada and abroad on the topic of Continental Thought and Religion. The general theme of the conference is meant to reflect the variety of articulations of religion that have emerged in contemporary European thought. While the focus of the conference is continental thought, we nonetheless conceive the latter in an interdisciplinary manner (including literary theory, social and political thought, psychoanalysis, and religious studies). We also encourage submissions from people interested in exploring possible connections with analytic philosophy.

Confirmed Speakers: John Caputo (Syracuse U.), Bettina Bergo (U. de Montréal), more to be announced in the near future.

In addition to our keynote speaker, John Caputo, we will have four commissioned workshops comprised of two papers and a response, and a series of themed panels. We invite submissions of three-page proposals for essays for the following themed panels with included possible topics:

Phenomenology of Religion
The thought of Chrétien, Henry, Lacoste, Levinas, Marion, and Ricoeur
Topics: the gift; the work of art; appearance and transcendence; call and response

Religion and Politics
The thought of Agamben, Asad, Connolly, Derrida, de Vries, Girard, Habermas, Schmitt, and Taylor
Topics: political theology; the post-secular; sovereignty; religion and violence; pluralism

Religion and Speculative Realism
The thought of Brassier, Harman, Laruelle, and Meillassoux
Topics: materialism; correlationism; nihilism; the things themselves; divine inexistence; ‘future Christ’

Beyond Theism and Atheism
The thought of Caputo, Kearney, Kristeva, Milbank, Vattimo
Topics: kenosis; anatheism; weak theology; a/theology; radical orthodoxy

Continental Thought, Religion, and Aesthetics
The artwork of Bresson, Caravaggio, Celan, Chagall, Dostoyevsky, Dumont, Artemisia Gentileschi, Kahlo, Kapoor, Kiarostami, Kiefer, Malick, Newman, O’Keefe, and Stevens
The thought of Cavell, Cixous, Critchley, Irigaray, Marion, Nancy, and Rancière
Topics: transcendence in art; image and icon; creativity and creation; representation and idolatry

Immanentism and Religion
Agamben, Badiou, Bergson, Deleuze, James, Foucault, Keller, and Žižek
Topics: self-organization; the event; plurality; bio-power; polydoxy

History of Continental Thought and Religion
Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger
Topics: death of God; reason and faith; scripture and philosophy; religion and fantasy; onto-theology

Please send only one three-page (double-spaced) proposal on one of the above themes and any questions to varieties2012@gmail.com by December 31, 2011. We intend to notify authors about our decisions by February 28, 2012. Other conference details (registration fee, preliminary program, etc.) will be announced in new year.

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CFP: The twelfth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle (2012)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences on 24 July 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Call for papers
The twelfth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle

Canisius College
Buffalo, NY, USA
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 (dtaylor@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 the website:

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CFP: VII Jornadas Michel Foucault (2011)

Posted in Calls for papers, Conferences on 26 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »

From the Portail Michel Foucault

Los días 24, 25 y 26 de noviembre de 2011 en el Centro Cultural Osvaldo Soriano de la ciudad de Mar del Plata, sito en calle 25 de Mayo 3108 (esq. Catamarca), se desarrollarán las VII Jornadas Michel Foucault organizadas por el Grupo GICIS de la Facultad de Humanidades de la UNMDP, con el aval del CONICET. Las Jornadas Michel Foucault vienen realizándose en la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata desde el año 1994 con importante participación de docentes, investigadores y estudiantes de distintas universidades del país, habiendo confirmado su presencia en las próximas Tomás Abraham, Christian Ferrer, Violeta Guyot, Héctor Marteau, Cecilia Colombani, entre otros.

• Las ponencias tendrán una extensión máxima de 3.000 palabras, incluidas las notas. • Bibliografía : usar el sistema autor-año. Ejemplo : Eco, Umberto (1979). Lector in fabula. Barcelona : Lumen.

• A los fines de la evaluación de las ponencias se enviarán : a) un resumen ampliado de no menos de 400 palabras y que no exceda las 500 y, en página aparte, constará :

Nombre del/a autor/a o autores. Número de documento. Título del trabajo. Lugar o institución donde se realiza el trabajo. Teléfono y dirección de correo electrónico para consultas sobre el trabajo.

b) un resumen de 100 palabras. • Todos los documentos serán enviados en archivo adjunto como documento de Word, Times New Roman 12 a la dirección : jornadasfoucault2011(arroba)gmail.com

• El plazo de presentación de resúmenes vence el 8 de julio.

• La ponencia completa, ajustada a los requisitos de extensión y forma, será enviada hasta el 2 de septiembre, a efectos de su publicación. Los expositores alumnos deberán presentar la ponencia completa para el 6 de agosto.

Inscripción : Expositores : 150 pesos Asistentes : 100 pesos Alumnos : sin cargo

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CFP: Otherness: Essays and Studies

Posted in Calls for papers on 13 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Centre for Studies in Otherness invites papers for the e-journal issue Otherness: Essays and Studies 2.2.

Otherness: Essays and Studies, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary e-journal, publishes research articles from and across different academic disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study. We publish two issues a year, alternating between special topic issues and general issues. This is a call for our general issue, forthcoming in Winter 2011.

‘The foreigner is neither a race nor a nation … we are our own foreigners, we are divided.’
Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

Otherness is complex and multivalent term. Otherness is defined by difference, both via outside markers and internal characteristics. Otherness is also a means by which we define ourselves. Thus the concept is inevitably bound with conceptions of selfhood, making it fundamental for discussions of subjectivity, social, cultural and national identity, and larger discussions of ontology. In light of more recent theory and criticism, the assumed line between the self and the other, the defining boundary of identity construction, is blurred, and as such the entire concept of otherness has become intricate and problematic. It is this concept, otherness, in all of its complexities and nuances that we seek to explore and discuss through Otherness: Essays and Studies.

Past projects from the centre, and past issues of the journal, have brought together articles from the fields of cultural theory, continental philosophy, sociology, postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, gender studies, Gothic studies, postmodernism and poststructuralist theory in their consideration of otherness. This journal invites submissions dealing with aspects of critical, socio-political, cultural, and literary exploration, within the scope of studies in otherness and alterity.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Otherness in Cultural Representation
Hybridity, Creolization, and the Global other
Memory, History, Trauma, and Otherness
Ethics, Responsibility, and the Other
Sexuality, Gender, the Body and the Other
M/other / Sm/other: Engendering Otherness
Ambivalence and Otherness: Mimicry & Menace
Absolute Otherness vs. Self-Same Other
Monstrosity, Spectrality and Terror of the Other
Uncanny or Abject Others; or The Familiar Other
The Sublime or the Unimaginable Other
Malignant Otherness: Madness/Sadness
Healing Otherness: Sanity & Suffering
Pathography: Voicing the Otherness of Pain

Articles should be between 5,000 – 8,000 words. All submissions should be sent via email with Word document attachment formatted to Chicago Manual of Style standards, to editors, Maria Beville and Matthias Stephan at otherness.research@gmail.com

The deadline for submissions is Friday the 2nd of September 2011.

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