Meetings
Upcoming Workshop
Critical Genealogies Workshop: Practicing Philosophical Criticism following Michel Foucault
(This event is part of the World Congress: Foucault 40 Years After.)
April 26–27, 2024
Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
The Critical Genealogies Workshop provides a space of collaboration and experimentation for scholars who deploy genealogy in order to investigate problematizations, possibilizations, and assemblies of the contemporary. The purpose of the event is to present in-progress genealogical work to thematize and reflect on larger questions of research design, strategy, and structure and practical questions about conducting genealogical research. Approaching genealogy largely through the lens of Foucault, we also welcome other genealogical approaches of diverse inspiration. We endeavor to take seriously Foucault’s challenges to inherited practices of philosophical critique by taking up genealogy to interrogate the history of the present.
Past Workshops
Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Richmond, October 21–22, 2022.
Virtual Critical Genealogies Paper Series, Virtual During Pandemic, on occasion during 2020 & 2021
Third Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Oregon. May 9–11, 2019.
Second Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Utah. September 2017.
Spindel Conference: Critical Histories of the Present, University of Memphis. September 16-17, 2016.
Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Denver. June 2016.
Roundtable: Diagnosing the Contemporary: Critical Genealogies of the Present (with Thomas Biebricher, Andrew Dilts, Verena Erlenbusch, Colin Koopman, Ladelle McWhorter, Kevin Olson, and Paul Rabinow), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. September 3-6, 2015.
Roundtable: Deploying Genealogy: Designs for Critical Political Inquiry (with Thomas Biebricher, Andrew Dilts, Verena Erlenbusch, Colin Koopman), Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. April 2-4, 2015.
Multiple sessions on the 'group program' of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division program (if you are interested in participating in one of these sessions in the future please email us).