2018 Meeting
18th Annual Meeting of the Foucault Circle
John Carroll University
Cleveland, OH
April 6-8, 2018
Friday, April 6th
Visit to Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA): gallery tour; optional social event at CMA
Dinner on your own
Saturday, April 7th:
8:30am: Coffee and light breakfast
9-11am
Session #1: Speaking, writing, feeling
Michael Eng, John Carroll University
Foucault, Blanchot, and Deleuze: Writing the Outside in the University
Lauren Guilmette, Florida Atlantic University
We Tend to Feel: Foucault, Fictions, and the Present-Day Politics of Personal Feeling
Marcelo Hoffman
From Public Silence to Public Protest: Michel Foucault at the University of São Paulo in 1975
11-11:15am Break
11:15am-1:15pm
Session #2: (Managing) bodies
Juniper Alcorn
Is Pregnancy Biopolitical?
Devonya N. Havis, Canisius College and Melissa Mosko
Managing Individuals and Populations through Psychiatric Classification
Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta
Alimentary Monstrosity
1:15-2:15: lunch
2:30-3:45
Session #3: Manet and the Object of Painting
3:45-4 Break
4-5:20pm
Session #4: Foucault and Baldwin
Corey McCall, Elmira College
Prophets in Spite of Themselves: Michel Foucault, James Baldwin, and Intellectual Praxis
Erica Nelson, Florida Atlantic University
Coercive Coming Out
5:30-6:30pm Business meeting
7:00pm Dinner
Sunday, April 8th
8:30am: Coffee and light breakfast
9-11am
Session #5: Truth and post-truth
Lynne Huffer, Emory University
Post-Truth American Grotesque: Foucault, Ubu, Trump
Rylin Johnson, Emory University
Descartes and Cynical Embodiment: On Cartesianism in the Late Foucault
Amie Zimmer, University of Oregon
The Modern Cynic: Foucault’s Manet
11-11:15 Break
11:15am-1:15pm
Session #6: Violence, power, resistance
Erinn Gilson, University of North Florida
Practices of Self-Relation and Relations of Solidarity
Steven G Ogden, Charles Sturt University
Foucault’s Violence: Political Rationality and Embodied Subjectivity
Brad Elliott Stone, Loyola Marymount University
Blood On Our Minds, Blood On Our Hands
Optional lunch for people staying in town or with late flights