Category Archives: Michel Foucault

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

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CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

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Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard update October 2025: the database is now available. Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued … Continue reading →

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Eugenio Donato and “The Structuralist Controversy” conference – proceedings, recordings, Foucault and Flaubert

Posted on July 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The 18-21 October 1966 Baltimore conference on structuralism has long been recognised as important for the reception of French theory in the United States. Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Lacan and Jean-Pierre Vernant were some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, René Girard, Sunday Histories | 5 Comments

Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025)

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025) (via Foucault News) This issue of Foucault Studies is the first to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/foucault-studies/. The journal retains its full intellectual independence and keeps publishing according to a diamond open access … Continue reading →

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Edward Said, Emile Benveniste, Erwin Panofsky, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Hyppolite, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas” – audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

Posted on June 18, 2025 by stuartelden

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk … Continue reading →

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Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo

Posted on June 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Josué V. Harari plays a small but important role in the story of Foucault in the United States. A PhD researcher at the University at Buffalo when Foucault visited in the early 1970s, he went on to edit a 1979 volume … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edward Said, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Pierre Klossowski, Roland Barthes, Sunday Histories | 6 Comments

Remembering / Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy – Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Remembering / Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy, Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025 Registration and further details at the above link Nearly forty years after the death of Michel Foucault, the time may be ripe for a critical reassessment … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars on the young Marx in 1961-62 and Lacan and psychoanalysis in 1963-64. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Georges Canguilhem, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 3 Comments