The 21st Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle Meeting
The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center
1 E Pershing Rd, Kansas City, MO 64108
All Sessions will take place in The Fremont room at the Sheraton Hotel Crown Center
Friday, April 21
3:00pm-5pm Panel 1: Revolutions and Populations
Marcelo Hoffman, Pace University:
Foucault and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Daniel J. Smith, University of Memphis:
A Goose Woke Up the Sleeping Philosophers”: Foucault on Political Historicism in the English Revolution
Joseph L. Smith: Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Foucaultian Insights for Black Male Subjectivity
5:15pm: Conference Participants retire for Happy Hour at One East Urban Bar + Kitchen, a restaurant in the downtown Crown Center District. Drinks and Dinner are available at the bar.
Saturday, April 22
8:45am-10:45am Panel 2: Economies and Subjectivities
Emily Clark, University College London, United Kingdom:
Is the Universal Basic Income (UBI) a Neoliberal Project? Analyzing UBI Discourses in the UK Through a Foucauldian Interpretation of Neoliberal Social Policy
Benda Hofmeyr, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Foucault and Neoliberal Governmentality. Living to Work in the Age of Control (zoom presentation)
Fay Alafouzou, Emory University, USA
On the Two Faces of Foucauldian Resistance: Tactical Reversal as a Condition of Self-Formation
11:00am-1:00pm Panel 3: Experience
Vilde Aavitsland: Department of Philosophy, University of Louisville
Foucault, Feminism and the Concept of Experience
Leonhard Riep: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main; Leipzig University; DePaul University, Chicago
Between Le Vécu and L’Expérience: Foucault’s early Concept of Experience Reconsidered
Max Tohline: independent scholar
Through the Keyhole: The Emergence of Discipline and Security in Cinematic Seeing, ca. 1930
1:00pm-3:00pm LUNCH and Business Meeting
3:00pm-5:00pm Panel 4: Mysticism and Religion
Chair: Marcelo Hoffman
Hassan Ali, University of Memphis:
Hindutva: Exploring Contemporary Biopolitics in South Asia
Shareed Mohammed, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus:
Convulsion as the Plastic and Visible Form of the Struggle in the Body of the Possessed: A Cross-Cultural Foucauldian-Haitian Voodoo Approach
John Soboslai, Montclair State University:
Suffering Truth: Parrhēsia in Early Christianity
5:15pm-6:45pm Special Roundtable: Reproductive Oppression and Reproductive Freedom: Foucauldian-Feminist Perspectives
Joanna Crosby, Morgan State University
Merritt Rehn-DeBraal, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
Kristina Grob, University of South Carolina, Sumter
Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University
7:00pm DINNER: Details to Follow
Sunday, April 23
9:00am-11:00am Panel 5: Biopower and Death
Emre Keser, University of California, Santa Cruz
Genealogy as Storytelling
Adam Herpolsheimer, Temple University:
Foucault, Camus, and Plague in a Plague-Stricken Society
Tom Roach, Bryant University:
Ancient Ascetics, Modern Activists: The Art of Dying Well in Biopower
11:15am-1:15pm Panel 6: Space and the Speaking Subject
Elena Vasiliou, Department of Gender and Women’s studies, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick
Penitentiary pleasures: Queer understandings of prison paradoxes
Andre Patrao, Yale University, School of Architecture
Architecture for Foucault: Rereading Influential yet Incidental Words and Silences.
Sarah Lee, University of Memphis:
The “Promise” of Liberation: Consent, Rape Culture, and the Injunction to Speak the Truth
7:00pm DINNER: Details to Follow
Sunday, May 15
9-11am
Session 5: Rethinking Genealogy
Moderator: Shiv Datt Sharma, Emory University
Kevin Thompson, DePaul University
“Genealogy: Object, Causality, Purpose”
Zeinab Nobowati, University of Oregon
“Foucauldian Genealogy and the Ambivalence of Subjectivation: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogical Critique”
Haylee Harrell, Rutgers University
“From Juridico-Biological to Juridico-Political: The Emergence of the Mulatta as a Racial and Sexual Monster in the United
States"
11:15am-12:35pm
Session 6: Askesis Today
Moderator: Edward McGushin, Stonehill College
Stéphanie Martens, York University
“'Politics of Discomfort’ against ‘Neo-Liberalism of Enjoyment’: Foucault’s Nietzschean Politics Today”
Strand Sheldahl-Thomason, Purdue University Fort Wayne
“Toward a Foucaultian Environmentalism”