The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the
American University of Paris presents
Michel Foucault and Neoliberalism
Organized by
Stephen Sawyer and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
March 25th, 9h-18h30 & March 26th, 10h-13h
6 rue du Colonel Combes Paris 75007 Room C-104
Friday, March 25
9h-9h15: Introductory Remarks Stephen Sawyer
9h15-10h30: Contextualizing Foucault
-Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Foucault and the Neo-liberalism Debate: On the Limitations of a Contextualist Approach
-Claudia Castiglioni, Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian revolution: an unconventional thinker confronted with an unconventional revolution
10h30-10h45: Short Coffee Break
10h45-12h: Foucault and Politics
-Duncan Kelly, Michel Foucault as Historian of Political Thought
-Aner Barzilay, A rereading of Foucault’s Lectures on the Birth of Biopolitics in light of his early reading of Marx 12h-1h30: Lunch
13h30-15h15: Foucault and the State
-Luca Paltrinieri, Beyond Foucault and neoliberalism: firms, self-employment, self-entrepreneurship today
-Luca Provenzano, Of state-phobia and conceptual inflationism: Foucault and the aporias of anti-Statism
15h15-15h30: Short Coffee Break
15h30-16h45: Was Foucault a Neo-Liberal?
-Micheal Behrent, Neoliberalism: The Highest Stage of Anti-Humanism?…
-Serge Audier, Foucault est-il un bon guide pour comprendre, critiquer et combattre le néolibéralisme
17h-18h15: Thinking Foucault and Neoliberalism after the University of Chicago Lectures
-Bernard Harcourt, Foucault’s Critiques of Neoliberalism
-François Ewald, Vérité du néolibéralisme
Saturday, March 26
10h-12h: Governmentality
-Judith Revel, Qu’est-ce que gouverner aujourd’hui? Du gouvernement des vivants au gouvernement des conduites, et retour
-Danilo Scholz, Michel Foucault and François Châtelet: Governmentality and État savant
-Colin Gordon, The political project of Foucault’s governmentality lectures
12h-13h: Closing remarks
Stephen Sawyer and Bernard Harcourt