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 CLICK HERE for conference schedule

Keynote Panel, 3:00-5:00pm

Agnes Heller
Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, New School for Social Research. One of the most prominent social philosophers of the latter 20th century, Professor Heller is a former student and colleague of Georg Lukács and the author of numerous books, including The Theory of Needs in Marx (1974), The Power of Shame (1985), Can Modernity Survive? (1990), and The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History (2002).

James Miller
Professor of Political Science and Director of Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research. Professsor Miller specializes in the history of political thought, democratic theory, social movements and political culture. He was general editor of Newsweek magazine until 1990 and is current editor of the AAAS journal Daedalus. His diverse writings include History and Human Existence (1982), Democracy Is in the Streets (1987), The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993), Flowers in the Dustbin (1999), and Examined Lives: What We Can Learn from the Eminent Philosophers (forthcoming).

Ann Laura Stoler
Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology, New School for Social Research. Professor Stoler is an internationally reknowned anthropologist with interdisciplinary expertise in colonial cultures, critical race theory, gender studies, political economy, historical methodologies, and Southeast Asia. Her many publications include Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (2002), and Along the Archival Grain: Colonial Cultures and Their Affective States (forthcoming).

Moderated by
Simon Critchley
Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research. Formerly Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Essex, Professor Critchley specializes in continental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, and the ethical and the political. He has written several highly-regarded books, including The Ethics of Deconstruction (1992), Very Little, Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (1999), Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (1999), and On Humour (2002).


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