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Stuart Elden is giving a lecture at the University of Melbourne on Tuesday, 4th March at 2pm.

This lecture provides an overview and critical discussion of Foucault’s 1973 lectures La société punitive. This was Foucault’s third course at the Collège de France, and links in important ways to the two previous ones, as well as looking forward to the 1975 book Surveiller et punir (translated as Discipline and Punish) […] This presentation will concentrate on four areas: the interlinked themes of measure, inquiry and examination; shifts in modes of punishment; the discussion of civil war and the social enemy; and the treatment of popular illegality in England and France.

Further details and registration are at this link. Stuart is speaking at RMIT and Monash University; his blog has all the details.