Foucault: Across The Disciplines March 1-2, 2008 University of California, Santa Cruz

 

Michel Foucault

 

'Foucault Across the Disciplines' was a national conference providing a forum for assessing and reassessing the tremendous impact of Michel Foucault’s thought across the disciplines over the past half century. This conference will convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars of world and national renown to explore the many ways in which Foucault’s work is being deployed across the disciplines. These cross-disciplinary deployments assume at least two forms: they are challenges to the disciplines that define our academic research formations, and they are critiques of specific disciplinary apparatuses. We hope to establish lines of engagement that will extend innovative research paths beyond the current limits of inquiry.

Michel Foucault

 

Speakers & Panelists

Ian Hacking
Collège de France & U. Toronto
Philosophy
History of Scientific Concepts
Paul Rabinow
UC Berkeley
Anthropology
Arnold Davidson
U. of Chicago & U. di Pisa
Philosophy
Comparative Literature
Divinity School
Hayden White
Stanford U. & UC Santa Cruz
Comparative Literature
History of Consciousness
Martin Jay
UC Berkeley
History
Jana Sawicki
Williams College
Philosophy
Women's Studies
Amy Allen
Dartmouth College
Philosophy
Women's & Gender Studies
Mark Poster
UC Irvine
History
Film and Media Studies
Critical Theory Institute
Hans Sluga
UC Berkeley
Philosophy
Mark Bevir
UC Berkeley
Political Science
James Ferguson
Stanford University
Anthropology
Catherine Soussloff
UC Santa Cruz
History of Art & Visual Culture
Mark Franko
UC Santa Cruz
Dance & Performance Studies
Karen Barad
UC Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness
Feminist Studies
David Hoy
UC Santa Cruz
Philosophy

 

Commentators & Moderators

Donna Haraway
UC Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness
James Clifford
UC Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness
Teresa de Lauretis
UC Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness
Carla Freccero
UC Santa Cruz
Literature
Tyrus Miller
UC Santa Cruz
Literature
Paul Roth
UC Santa Cruz
Philosophy
David Hoy
UC Santa Cruz
Philosophy
Vanita Seth
UC Santa Cruz
Politics
   
         

 

Logistics & Information

The 'Foucault Across the Disciplines' conference will be free and open to the public. Visitors are most welcome to attend and participate in the conversations. Registration is not required.

The conference will take place from approximately 9:00am to 5:30pm on Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2, 2008. This event will be held at the new and spacious Humanities Lecture Hall in the Humanities and Social Science Facility near Cowell College on the UCSC campus.

Additional information on local lodging including two conference rate hotels is available on the Foucault Across the Disciplines Conference Blog. Please check the blog for additional information on local dining and to organize carpools to the conference.

Please contact the conference organizer, Colin Koopman (UCSC Humanities Research Fellow), at cwkoopman@gmail.com for more information or with questions.

This event has been made possible by the generous sponsorship of the following campus units: The Center for Cultural Studies, The Philosophy Department, The Institute for Humanities Research, and the Literature, Feminist Studies, History of Art & Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, Digital Arts & New Media, Anthropology, Psychology, History of Consciousness, American Studies, Community Studies, Sociology, and Politics Departments and Programs. This event was organized by the UCSC Foucault Across the Disciplines Research Cluster.
 
 

 

Program & Schedule



Saturday March 1
9:30-9:45: Introduction and Welcome
Colin Koopman, Conference Welcome
David Hoy, “Introduction: Foucault, Twenty-Five Years Later”

9:45-11:30: Panel: Foucault, Science, Media
Karen Barad, “Discontinuities, Phase Transitions, & Power Dynamics: When micro-physics goes nano”
Mark Poster, “Foucault, Deleuze, and New Media”
Donna Haraway, moderator

11:45-1:00: Address
Paul Rabinow, “Untimely & Inconsiderate Observations: Toward an Anthropology of Concepts, Practices and Venues”
James Clifford, moderator

1:00-2:00: Lunch Break

2:00-4:15: Panel: Foucault, Power, Politics
Hans Sluga, “Politics as Power Acting on Power”
Mark Bevir, “Anti-Foundational Approaches to Political Science”
James Ferguson, “Toward a Left Art of Government: From ‘Foucauldian Critique’ to Foucauldian Politics”
Vanita Seth, moderator

4:30-5:45: Address
Arnold Davidson, “In Praise of Counter-Conduct”
Teresa De Lauretis, moderator




Sunday March 2
9:30-11:15: Panel: Foucault, Discourse, Body
Mark Franko, “Archeological Choreographic Practices”
Hayden White, “Foucault Historian?”
Tyrus Miller, moderator

11:30-1:15: Panel: Foucault, Visuality, Truth
Catherine Soussloff, “Foucault and the Point of Painting”
Martin Jay, “Visual Parrhesia? Foucault and the Truth of the Gaze”
David Hoy, moderator

1:15-2:15: Lunch Break

2:15-3:45: Panel: Foucault, Subjectivity, Ethics
Jana Sawicki, “Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Why Embrace an Ethics of Pleasure?”
Amy Allen, “The Politics of Our Selves”
Carla Freccero, moderator

4:00-5:30: Address
Ian Hacking, “Déraison”
Paul Roth, moderator

 

 

Archive

 

Conference archives will be made available in two forms. Conference organizers are currently at work on a special issue of History of the Human Sciences. This special issue will include select papers from among those presented at the conference. Publication is currently planned for sometime in early 2010. Please email the conference organizer (Colin Koopman at cwkoopman@gmail.com) for further information.

Additionally, a second archive is available online on the conference website in the form of audio recordings of the conference proceedings. To listen to these MP3 recordings click on the audio icon next to each presentation title in the conference schedule above.