International Symposium on Foucault

28.6.2013

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUCAULT 28 June 2013

University of Helsinki, Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40), room 12, 3rd fl.

10.15–12.00 Béatrice Han-Pile (University of Essex): Foucault, Normativity, and Critique as a Practice of the Self

12.00-13.30 Lunch Break

13.30–15.00 Martin Saar (Frankfurt University): Subject, Truth, Democracy: Foucault and Political Philosophy

Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyväskylä):  Plato and Bio-politics

15.00-15.30 Coffee

15.30–17.30 Sergei Prozorov (University of Helsinki):  Biopolitics of Stalinism: Ideas and Bodies in the Construction of Socialism

Jemima Repo (University of Helsinki):  Herculine Barbin and the Omission of Biopolitics from Judith Butler's Gender Genealogy

Lauri Siisiäinen (University of Jyväskylä):  From Global Vision to Short Sight: Foucault and the Neo/Liberal Turn in Political Optics

Contact:
Johanna Oksala (johanna.oksala at helsinki.fi) & Jemima Repo (jemima.repo at helsinki.fi)

Organised by the Subjectivity, Historicity, and Communality (SHC) Research  Network, University of Helsinki