20 Years after Foucault

Graduate Student Conference, Monday, April 26, 2004

New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Wolff Conference Room


picture: Michel Foucault Conference Schedule

Session One (10:00-11:45am): "The Philosophical Legacy of Michel Foucault"

  • "Foucault and Althusser: Ideology, Materiality and Power" by Michael Jolley, Sociology Department, CUNY Graduate Center.
  • "Depathologizing Pathology: On Foucault and Psychoanalysis" by Adam Rosen, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research.
  • "Rethinking Foucault's Individual" by Marta Nuñes da Costa, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.

  • Discussant: Christopher Adamo, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Marymount Manhattan College.
    Moderator: Brian Milstein, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.

    (Break for Lunch)

    Session Two (1:00-2:45pm): "Foucault, the Individual and History"

  • "History and Heternomy: Kant, Foucault, Schneewind and the Problem of a History of Autonomy" by Sabrina Hom, Department of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook.
  • "Gadamer and Foucault, Ankersmit vs. Zagorin: Modernism and Postmodernism, Historical Texts and Interpretation" by Robert Martinez, Departments of Political Science and Historical Studies, New School for Social Research.
  • "Subject and Method: Foucault, Derrida, and the Craft of History Writing" by Rahul Govind, History Department, Columbia University.
  • "Foucault and the Defense of Deep Ecology" by Brian Solis, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park.

  • Discussant: Susan Walkley, Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies, New School University.
    Moderator: Jennifer Terrell, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.

    KEYNOTE PANEL (3:00-5:00pm): "20 Years after Foucault"

  • Agnes Heller, Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, New School for Social Research.
  • James Miller, Professor of Political Science and Director of Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research.
  • Ann Laura Stoler, Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology, New School for Social Research.

  • Moderated by Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research.

    (Break for Dinner)

    Session Three (6:15-8:00pm): "Explorations in Governmentality"

  • "Following the Market: Rational Choice Theory and Neoliberal Governmentality" by André Munro, Political Science Department, Concordia University.
  • "Foucault in Africa: Humanitarian Intervention and Transnational Governmentality" by Adam Branch, Department of Political Science, Columbia University.
  • "A Foucauldian Explanation of Racism beyond Foucault's" by Avital Shein, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park.
  • "Foucault, Globalization, Resistance" by Anne Kirkham, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.

  • Discussant: Nami Ishihara, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.
    Moderator: Amando Basurto, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.

    Session Four (8:15-10:00pm): "Foucault: An Unfinished Project?"

  • "The Ascetic/Aesthetic Dimensions of an Ethics of Self-Fashioning: Foucault's Contribution With a Nietzschean Twist" by Alan Milchman, Department of Political Science, and Alan Rosenberg, Department of Philosophy, Queens College of the City University of New York.
  • "A Visual Culture of Political Thought" by Daniel Morris, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research.
  • "Michel Foucault on Freedom and the Politics of Experience" by Paul Simpson, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.

  • Discussant: Ian Zuckerman and Brian Milstein, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.
    Moderator: Carlos Figueroa, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research.

    Reception (10:00pm, location to be announced)


    Additional information will be posted in the coming weeks.
    Contact Maya Joseph or Brian Milstein with questions or comments.

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