Cory,
A one year pass at the Foucault archives costs 25 euros. As of a year ago,
Jose Ruiz Funes was in charge of the archives. You may want to contact him to
have materials prepared for your date of arrival.
-Marcelo.
>===== Original Message From Stuart Elden <stuartelden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> =====
>Hi Cory
>
>I was there in July. At that point the Foucault materials were still
>available in Paris. What might be causing some of the problems is that the
>Centre Michel Foucault site has not been updated for three years, as the
>material is now available through IMEC. This is the Institut Mimoires de
>l'idition contemporaine which houses lots of 20th century material - lots of
>other thinkers and writers as well as Foucault.
>
>IMEC, 9 rue Bleue, 75009 Paris. Tel 01 53 34 23 23
>E-mail : bibliotheque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.imec-archives.com/sommaire.htm
>
>You are supposed to book a place in advance, and while I was there the small
>reading room was usually full. It's only open 2-6 if I remember right, which
>I found a bit restrictive. The Foucault material is off site, so needs to be
>preordered. The staff there were very helpful and efficient, and put up with
>my spoken French very kindly. There is a daily charge or you can buy a
>longer pass.
>
>There were plans to move the reading rooms to Caen, to a marvellous site
>that is an old abbey. They have held conferences there, and when I was there
>for one in 1999 they were renovating the abbey building for the new project.
>
>But as far as I know they haven't completed the move yet.
>
>Hope that's helpful
>
>Stuart
>
>Dr Stuart Elden
>Lecturer in Political Geography
>Department of Geography
>University of Durham
>Durham, DH1 3LE
>www.geography.dur.ac.uk/information/staff/elden.html
A one year pass at the Foucault archives costs 25 euros. As of a year ago,
Jose Ruiz Funes was in charge of the archives. You may want to contact him to
have materials prepared for your date of arrival.
-Marcelo.
>===== Original Message From Stuart Elden <stuartelden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> =====
>Hi Cory
>
>I was there in July. At that point the Foucault materials were still
>available in Paris. What might be causing some of the problems is that the
>Centre Michel Foucault site has not been updated for three years, as the
>material is now available through IMEC. This is the Institut Mimoires de
>l'idition contemporaine which houses lots of 20th century material - lots of
>other thinkers and writers as well as Foucault.
>
>IMEC, 9 rue Bleue, 75009 Paris. Tel 01 53 34 23 23
>E-mail : bibliotheque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www.imec-archives.com/sommaire.htm
>
>You are supposed to book a place in advance, and while I was there the small
>reading room was usually full. It's only open 2-6 if I remember right, which
>I found a bit restrictive. The Foucault material is off site, so needs to be
>preordered. The staff there were very helpful and efficient, and put up with
>my spoken French very kindly. There is a daily charge or you can buy a
>longer pass.
>
>There were plans to move the reading rooms to Caen, to a marvellous site
>that is an old abbey. They have held conferences there, and when I was there
>for one in 1999 they were renovating the abbey building for the new project.
>
>But as far as I know they haven't completed the move yet.
>
>Hope that's helpful
>
>Stuart
>
>Dr Stuart Elden
>Lecturer in Political Geography
>Department of Geography
>University of Durham
>Durham, DH1 3LE
>www.geography.dur.ac.uk/information/staff/elden.html