The Third Annual Foucault Circle
February 28-March 2, 2003
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH
Friday, February 28
7:00 10:00 P.M. Welcome Buffet and Reception at the home of Dianna
Taylor and Benjamin Fambrough
Saturday, March 1
8:00 -8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:15 Method
Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond): "Anti-science: genealogy and
regimes of truth"
Julian Bourg (Washington University-St. Louis): "'Society must be defended'
and the last Foucault"
Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University): "'In the flat field'
(take 1): pursuing resemblance across the Foucauldian corpus"
10:30-12:15 Foucault and his interlocutors
Brent Adkins (Roanoke College): "Sade's wall: the role of Sade as
'threshold' and 'retroversion' in the work of Foucault"
Todd May (Clemson University): "World-changing and life-celebrating:
Foucault and Merleau-Ponty on the body"
Margaret McLaren (Rollins College): "The aesthetics of existence: Foucault
and Sartre"
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Subjectivity
James Bernauer, SJ (Boston College): "Michel Foucault: Philosopher of the
Christian Present"
Roberto Nigro (University of Bari, Italy/Harvard University): "The question
of subjectivity in Foucault's last courses at the Collège de France"
Mark R. Pepper (College of William and Mary): "Bequia and Foucault: an
ethnoecological examination of a Caribbean island"
4:05-5:15 Ethics
Benjamin S. Pryor (University of Toledo): "The Birth of tragedy and the
death of 'free speech'"
Chris Blakley (Southern Illinois University): "Becoming autonomous:
Foucault's ethics of resistance"
7:009:00 Dinner and Business Meeting
Sunday, March 2
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:45 Power
Joanna Crosby (Morgan State University): "Power for mere mortals: Foucault
and the paradox of power"
Ellen K. Feder (American University): "The subject of violence: biopower and
the production of race"
John Hartmann (Southern Illinois University): "Power and resistance in the
later Foucault"
11:05-12:15 Parrhesia
Adam Konopka (Boston College): "Foucault's critique of psychoanalysis and a
parrhesiastic reform"
Joshua Mills-Knutsen (University of Kentucky): "Parrhesia or panopticism:
the webcam phenomenon and Foucault's philosophy"
All paper sessions will be held in Rodman Hall, Conference Room A.
http://www.siu.edu/~foucault
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Richard A. Lynch
Research Fellow
Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts
Wabash College
301 W. Wabash Ave.
Crawfordsville, IN 47933 USA
765-361-6046 (office)
765-361-6475 (fax)
lynchr@xxxxxxxxxx
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February 28-March 2, 2003
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH
Friday, February 28
7:00 10:00 P.M. Welcome Buffet and Reception at the home of Dianna
Taylor and Benjamin Fambrough
Saturday, March 1
8:00 -8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:15 Method
Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond): "Anti-science: genealogy and
regimes of truth"
Julian Bourg (Washington University-St. Louis): "'Society must be defended'
and the last Foucault"
Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University): "'In the flat field'
(take 1): pursuing resemblance across the Foucauldian corpus"
10:30-12:15 Foucault and his interlocutors
Brent Adkins (Roanoke College): "Sade's wall: the role of Sade as
'threshold' and 'retroversion' in the work of Foucault"
Todd May (Clemson University): "World-changing and life-celebrating:
Foucault and Merleau-Ponty on the body"
Margaret McLaren (Rollins College): "The aesthetics of existence: Foucault
and Sartre"
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Subjectivity
James Bernauer, SJ (Boston College): "Michel Foucault: Philosopher of the
Christian Present"
Roberto Nigro (University of Bari, Italy/Harvard University): "The question
of subjectivity in Foucault's last courses at the Collège de France"
Mark R. Pepper (College of William and Mary): "Bequia and Foucault: an
ethnoecological examination of a Caribbean island"
4:05-5:15 Ethics
Benjamin S. Pryor (University of Toledo): "The Birth of tragedy and the
death of 'free speech'"
Chris Blakley (Southern Illinois University): "Becoming autonomous:
Foucault's ethics of resistance"
7:009:00 Dinner and Business Meeting
Sunday, March 2
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:45 Power
Joanna Crosby (Morgan State University): "Power for mere mortals: Foucault
and the paradox of power"
Ellen K. Feder (American University): "The subject of violence: biopower and
the production of race"
John Hartmann (Southern Illinois University): "Power and resistance in the
later Foucault"
11:05-12:15 Parrhesia
Adam Konopka (Boston College): "Foucault's critique of psychoanalysis and a
parrhesiastic reform"
Joshua Mills-Knutsen (University of Kentucky): "Parrhesia or panopticism:
the webcam phenomenon and Foucault's philosophy"
All paper sessions will be held in Rodman Hall, Conference Room A.
http://www.siu.edu/~foucault
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Richard A. Lynch
Research Fellow
Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts
Wabash College
301 W. Wabash Ave.
Crawfordsville, IN 47933 USA
765-361-6046 (office)
765-361-6475 (fax)
lynchr@xxxxxxxxxx
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