Foucault: Genealogies for the Future, April 18-19, 2024, Rice University
On April 18 and 19, we convened a group of international scholars at Rice University (Houston, U.S.A.) to reconsider the vital influence of Michel Foucault in academic and cultural domains since his 1984 death. Our scholars have been central to the production of critical discourse on Foucault as well as the publication of materials byFoucault. Foucault’s posthumous publications — especially those from his vast archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France — continue to change how we understand and use his work.
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FOUCAULT’S CONFESSIONS :: A SERIES, May 4-June 3, 2021, Rice University
Over five weeks in the month of May and the beginning of June, an international group of scholars engage the work of Michel Foucault at the intersection of ethics, power, and Christianity in the context of the 2018 Éditions Gallimard publication of Les Aveux de la chair and its 2021 translation as Confessions of the Flesh. Foucault’s work and biography are not without controversy and we invite both critical and charitable engagement.
Foucault’s Christianities, May 19, 2021, Foucault’s Confessions : A Series, Rice University
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Menil Collection, March 2, 2021, In Dialogue: On Acedia and Specters of Noon with Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla on their exhibit, Specters of Noon (2020-2021); a public dialogue with the artists and Jonathan Zecher.
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DiverseWorks & Open Dance Project, January 30, 2021, Power, Sex, & Climate Change, a public roundtable for ‘All the Devils Are Here’: A Tempest in the Galapagos (May 2021).
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“Cassian’s Therapies of Desire,” Emotions and Clinical Communication in Antiquity, Australian Catholic University, October 2020
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Connections: Humanizing the Humanities, A Conversation with Jeffrey Kripal and Niki Kasumi Clements, Rice University, October 2020; Rice University News Link.
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