Call for papers
Foucault’s works remain among the most drawn upon in critical work, within the humanities and beyond. So while exegetical approaches to his work remain crucial, particularly in light of how posthumous publications can re-orient our grasp of his work, it is also important to go beyond the interpretative task in order to open up new spaces for thinking, critical work and action.
In this spirit, we would like to gather Foucault scholars and users of his work to a 1-day seminar in Malta on the 38th anniversary since Foucault’s death.
By way of indication, some eclectic pointers on which we are inviting proposals include, but are definitely not limited to:
- Governmentality & Biopolitics as Analytical Lenses in Politics
- Foucault, Activism & Resistance
- Biopower & Infopower
- Thinking the Pandemic through Foucault
- Foucault and Black Radical Thought
- Foucault in the Age of Algorithmic Governmentality
- Critical Education Studies
- Foucault Studies in the Neoliberal University
- Radical Academia
- Foucault, the Body & the Medical Humanities
- Foucault, Psychopolitics and the ‘Psy’ Complex
- Foucault & Psychoanalysis: Beyond the Impasse
- Foucault & Culture Wars
- Foucault & Cultural Studies
- Foucault, Gender & Queer Theory
- Foucault, Ethics & Techniques of the Self
- Foucault & the Ethico-Politics of Pleasure
- Foucault and Recreational Drugs
- Foucault’s Ethos
- Care of the Self Today
- Foucault, Aesthetics & Somaesthetics
- Critique & Parrhesia Today
- Foucault: Doing Theory with/against/in spite of the Social Sciences
- Foucault & ‘Methods’: Discourse Analysis; Narrative Methods; New Materialism(s)
- Foucault and the Sciences
- The Politics of Knowledge, Subjugated Knowledges, Political Epistemology & Epistemic Injustice
- Foucaultian (Anti-)Methodologies
- Foucault & 20th Century Continental Philosophy
- Foucault Beyond Philosophy
- Foucault as Classicist
- Les Aveux de la Chair
- Foucault the Lecturer
- Beyond Foucault?
Interested participants can send their queries to the seminar convenors, Kurt Borg and Karl Baldacchino.
This seminar is organised by the Department of Education Studies, University of Malta.
Kindly fill in Abstract submission form from here
Deadline to submit abstracts: 15th April 2022
Each speaker will have a 30-minute slot to present their paper, with further time for Q&A
