2019 Meeting
19th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA
April 5-7, 2019
Friday, April 5th
3:00pm-5:00pm
Session 1: Confessions of the Flesh & A Preface to Transgression
Wencheng Zhu, Southeast University
Confession or Sign of Subjectivation?: Libido in Foucault’s Les Aveux de la Chair
Daniel Schultz, Oberlin College
Sex as the Seismograph of Subjectivity: Foucault’s Christian Archive
Charles Clements, Tufts University
Where There’s a Will There’s No Gay: Futurity and Nonknowledge in Foucault’s Reading of Bataille
Saturday, April 6th
9:00am-10:20am
Session 2: Archeology, History, and the Rational
Alex J. Feldman, Penn State University
The Real and the Rational in Foucault’s 1978 Debate with the Historians
Robert Leib, Florida Atlantic University
From a Priori History to Paradigmatic Ontology: Reconsidering Philosophical Archaeology from Kant to Agamben
10:40am-12:40am
Session 3: Genealogy and Subjugated Knowledges
Rebecca Longtin, SUNY, New Paltz
Formations and Transformations of the Sensible in Foucault, Rancière, and Wynter
Taryn Jordan, Emory University & Haylee Harrell, Emory University
"Black Foucault": A Discussion of Genealogy as a Real Problem and a Real Possibility in Black Studies
Rosa Acevedo, University of Oregon
Limits and Paradoxes of Foucault’s Genealogy of Marginalized Lives
12:45-2pm: Lunch
2:00pm-4:00pm
Session 4: Abolition and Incarceration
Joy James, Williams College
The Architects of Contemporary Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and Michel Foucault
Selin Islekel, Loyola Marymount University
Life Without Parole, Death By Incarceration: Biopolitical Aesthetics of the Penitentiary
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ontological Incarceration: Toward a Genealogy of the Human Genome Project
4:15-5:30pm
Round-table Discussion: Foucault and Christianity
James Bernauer, Boston College | Jared Highlen, Boston College| Steven Ogden, Charles Sturt University
5:45-6:30: Business Meeting
7pm: Dinner
Sunday, April 7th
9:00-11:00am
Session 5: Animality, Religiosity, and Spectral Dreams
Dayne Alexander, Emory University
Animality, Logic and Murmur: Spiraling with the Animal in Michel Foucault’s History of Madness.
Adrian Switzer, Colby College
Aestheticized Transcendence, Archaeological Unreason: The Religiosity of History of Madness
Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Spectral Dreams, Fugitive Pleasures: Art as an Ethical Event of Thought
11:15am-12:35pm
Session 6: Illegalisms and Dispositifs
Delio Vasquez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Foucault on Political Crime: Towards a Unified Theory of Illegalisms
Ricky Crano, Tufts University
Can There Be a Digital Dispositif?: Visuality and Discourse in the Age of Telematic Culture
