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”