Foucault Circle Stockholm 2025
Foucault Circle Stockholm 2025
THURSDAY 26 JUNE, DAY 1
SESSION 1 - 9:00-10:45
Beyond “Man”: Humanism, History, and Race
Moderator: Ed McGushin (Stonehill College)
Charles A. Piecyk, Maynooth University, After Man: a Foucauldian Analysis of Transhumanism and
Posthumanism
Daniel Schultz, Whitman College, History and Humanism: Black Thought Confronts Foucault
Larisa Reznik, University of Chicago, Has Jewish History Ever Been Genealogical?
SESSION 2 - 11:05-12:15
Sovereignty, Coloniality, and Biopolitics
Moderator: Christian Lundahl (Örebro University)
Selin Islekel, Texas A&M, Decolonizing Damiens: The Coloniality of Sovereignty and Government by Terror
Gabriele Leone, University of Lapland, Biopolitical Nationalism in the Kurdish Context of Turkey: State
Mechanisms of Control, Exclusion, and Survival
Lunch - 12:30-13:55
SESSION 3 - 14:00-15:45
Siting (Counter)-conduct: Askēsis, Heterotopia, and Self-transformation
Moderator: Daniel Schultz (Whitman College)
Zach Schwarze, Rice University, Sex Workers and Virgin Saints: the Questionable Future of Foucauldian Askēsis
Xiaobo Yuan, Whitman College, Livestreaming Heterotopia: Citizen-Journalism and the Ethics of Witnessing in
China
Kurt Borg, University of Malta, Writing as Self-(trans)formation: Foucault, Montaigne and the Essay as a Way of Life
Keynote 16:00-17:00 Lynne Huffer, Emory University, “Queer Minded”
Introduced by: Ed McGushin (Stonehill College)
Reception on Thursday Evening
FRIDAY 27 JUNE, DAY 2
SESSION 4 - 9:00-10:45
Critique, Solidarity, and Forms of Life
Moderator: Anna Ahlgren (Stockholm University)
Anki Bengtsson, Stockholms Universitet, Critique, Authority, and Epistemic Contestation over Truth
Dawn Herrera Helphand, Loyola University Chicago, Critique, Counter-Conduct, and Forms of Life
Shterna Friedman, Harvard University, Solidarity as Totality or as Calculation?
SESSION 5 - 11:00-12:45
Pleasure, Politics, Life
Moderator: Sam Binkley (Emerson College)
Cristian González Arévalo, Universität Freiburg, A Potential Political Dimension of Foucault’s Sadomasochism
Concept
Elena Vasiliou, University of Warwick, Self-Destruction, Resistance, and Pleasure: Reflections on Foucault,
Mbembe, and Kojeve
Laura Ercoli, Università di Macerata, What Is Life? Life, Biopolitics and Forms of Life in the Philosophy of Michel
Foucault
Lunch - 13:00-14:25
Business meeting during lunch
SESSION 6 - 14:30-16:15
Foucault and the Legacies of German Idealism
Moderator: Brad Stone (Loyola Marymount University)
Kevin Thompson, DePaul University, Foucault on Absolute Knowing: Transcendentality and Historicity in the
Diploma Thesis
Leonhard Riep, Goethe-Universität, Towards an Objective Method of Intuitive Understanding? Early Foucault as a
Reader of Jaspers
Shawn G. F. Huberdeau, Villanova University, Archaeology against Anthropology: Foucault against German
Philosophical Modernity
Keynote 16:30-17:30 Elisabetta Basso, Università di Pavia, “‘A Science of Madmen and of Genius’: Young
Foucault's Phenomenology”
Introduced by: Daniel Schultz (Whitman College)
SATURDAY 28 JUNE, DAY 3
SESSION 7 - 9:00-10:45
Subjects and Power: Foucault in Hegelian Marxist Relief
Moderator: Lourens van Haaften (Groningen University)
Daphne Pons, Loyola University Chicago, Foucault and Althusser
Raffaele Maria Campanile, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Giving Voice to the Subalterns: From the History of
the Victors to a Democratic Practice
Matteo Gonfiantini, Liceo Montanari (Verona), Michel Foucault: Pedagogies of Silence and Noise
SESSION 8 - 11:05-12:15
Revolution and Political Spirituality: Foucault in Iran
Moderator: Selin Islekel (Texas A&M University)
Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, A Genealogy of Political Spirituality
Giovanni Mascaretti, Università di Firenze, What is a “Will to Revolution”? A Reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s
Writings on Iran
Lunch - 12:30-13:55
SESSION 9 - 14:00-15:45
Technologies of Governance
Moderator: Lynne Huffer (Emory University)
Léa Antonicelli, Sciences Po, The Concept of the Useless as a Dispositive of Neoliberal Governmentality: a
Foucauldian Reading
Alessandro Falconieri, Université Paris 8, The Genealogy of Green Spaces in Paris: An Unfinished Project in the
Collective Works of Michel Foucault
Raylene Abdilla, University of Malta, Governing Crises: A Foucauldian Analysis of EU Discourses on Greece and the
UK
Keynote 16:00-17:00 Niki Clements, Rice University, “Foucault’s Histories of Sexuality”
Introduced by: Anna Ahlgren (Stockholm University)
Dinner on Saturday
SUNDAY 29 JUNE, DAY 4
SESSION 10 - 9:00-10:45
Criminality and Power
Moderator: Anki Bengtsson (Stockholm University)
Claryn Spies, Villanova University, The Uses of the Criminal
Sam Binkley, Emerson College, Society Must Be Defunded: Race War, Phobogenesis and the Criminological
Imaginary
Rebecca Robinson, Université de Montréal, Life on the Lam in Early China
SESSION 11 - 11:05-12:50
History and Ontology: Desire, Selves, Subjectivity
Moderator: Kevin Thompson (DePaul University)
Jonas Oßwald, Universität Wien, One Dialogue, Two Materialisms: On Foucault and Deleuze
Senda Sferco, CONICET (University of Buenos Aires), Is “Desire” the Ontological Experience of Ourselves?
Mads Peter Karlsen, University of Copenhagen, and Kaspar Villadsen, Copenhagen Business School, What is
the Price of the Interview? Foucault’s Negotiation of Subjectivity in Intellectual
Conversations
All sessions will be held at the Zinkensdamm conference center
Zinkens Väg 20, 117 41 Stockholm, Sweden
For additional information please visit:
https://sites.google.com/a/elmira.edu/foucault/2016-program?authuser=0