Conference “Michel Foucault and Neoliberalism”, AUP Center for Critical Democracy, March 25-26.

HiSoPo vous informe de l’organisation par le Center for Critical Democracy Studies de l’Université américaine de Paris d’une conférence sur Michel Foucault et le néolibéralisme les 25-26 mars. L’événement aura lieu au 6 rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris, Salle C-104. Pour pouvoir y participer, il faut s’enregistrer à l’adresse suivante: criticaldemocracy@aup.edu. Vous en trouverez le programme ci-dessous.

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