Programme

 

08:30 – 09:00 Registration (Aula Prima)

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome Address: Foucault Lives - Kurt Borg

09:30 – 10:30 Session A

Foucault’s Last Ethics - Niki Kasumi Clements

The Transformation of the Self: Foucault’s observations on the Stoics-  Luke Fenech

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Session B

On Foucault and Social Dialogue - Claude Mangion

Rorty and Foucault on the ‘we’ in Politics -Kenneth Wain

Indifference as resistance: From Baudrillard’s critique of critique to Foucault's ethics - Karl Baldacchino

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:30 Session C

The Two Faces of Biopolitical Theory after Foucault: Genealogies and Current Approaches - Sara Raimondi & Marco Piasentier

Enjoy Your Freedom! Entrepreneurship of the self as the ultimate apparatus - Francois Zammit

Governing Dissent in the EU: Technocratic Politics in an Age of Populism - Raylene Abdilla

Assujettissement as the ethico-political gateway of the Lacanian Real in Westphalian Ideology - Valter Cassar

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 Session D

The Governmentality of China’s Development Discourse - Rasmus Björklund

The Individual Education Programme: Who knows best? - Anne-Marie Callus & Georgette Bajada

“Ho Orthos Eros” – Foucault for Love in Human-Computer Interaction - Renata Ntelia

17:30-18:00 Closing Address

18:00 Social Event


 

The programme and booklet of abstracts can be accessed from here


https://www.um.edu.mt/event/foucault2022/programme