Dear all, I have posted this on Foucault news with a corrected link http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258128
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Clare
Clare O'Farrell
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> Dear Foucault-list,
> Please see this call for the Ph.d. Course:
>
>
> Foucault, Governmentality,
> Biopolitics - Analytical strategies for critique of power (Ph.d.
> course,
> 11-13
> December 2013): http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> Faculty:
> · Jeffrey
> Bussolini, Associate Professor, Staten Island, City University of New
> York, USA.
> · Mitchell
> Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS/University of Newcastle,
> Denmark/Australia, · Thomas Dumm, Professor, Department of Political
> Science, Amherst College, USA.
> · Marius
> Gudmand-Høyer, Post.Doc, Dept. of Management, Politics & Philosophy,
> CBS, Denmark.
> · Kaspar
> Villadsen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Management, Politics &
> Philosophy, CBS, Denmark.
> Place: Department of
> Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS, Copenhagen Course Coordinators
> Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
>
> Prerequisite/progression of the course Only PhD students can
> participate in the course.
>
> It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that the PhD
> student attends the whole course.
>
> Aim of the course
> The
> course will provide the participants with:
>
> a)
> An updated introduction to key analytical concepts in the
> Governmentality literature, and the potentials and weaknesses of these
> concepts will be discussed.
>
> b)
> Possibilities for supplementing the governmentality approach with
> other analytical sources will be discussed.
>
> c)
> Furthermore, a detailed consideration of the current status of
> governmentality studies and post-Foucauldian studies will be given, in
> particular in light of recent claims for a crisis of critique.
>
> d)
> Finally, suggestions will be presented on how to elaborate or move
> beyond the framework of governmentality by activating concepts of
> bio-power and sovereignty, reconsidering the social and notions of
> society, and focusing on international dimensions of governmentality.
>
> In
> brief, the course aims to provide participants with a thorough
> understanding of the governmentality framework, that is, its
> analytical possibilities, its current status, and its possible
> directions of development.
>
> Course content, structure and teaching Over the last 20 years,
> post-Foucauldian "governmentality studies" have come to growing
> prominence. These studies have been effective in critically analyzing
> new types of liberal government, in particular by demonstrating 'the
> active side of laissez faire'. They describe how the motto of 'pulling
> back the state'
> has been accompanied by a series of governmental strategies and
> technologies aimed at shaping institutions and subjects in particular
> ways. Perhaps most noticeably, they have presented a diagnosis of a
> proliferation of regimes of enterprise and accounting in new and
> surprising places. But a wide range of other domains have been
> subjected to governmentality analysis spanning from genetic screening
> and risk calculation, new crime prevention strategies, to health
> promotion by self-responsibilization. To be sure, the concepts in
> governmentality studies continue to constitute effective tools for
> critical social analysis.
>
> Nevertheless,
> in recent years critical objections have been raised against the
> governmentality approach. It has been noted by some observers that the
> Foucauldian and post-structuralist language, originally used for
> critical academic purposes, seems to be increasingly appropriated by 'the powers'
> that
> were the object of such critique. Most notably, this point has been
> voiced (although in different versions) by Zizek, Boltanski, and Hardt & Negri.
> These thinkers suggest that a post-structural 'politics of difference'
> increasingly seems to be an integral part of the ways, in which
> institutions and companies organize themselves. If modern liberal
> government has begun to speak for the dissolution of binary
> essentials, the destabilization of rigid power structures, the
> creation of space for the subject's self-transforming work upon
> itself, and so on. In light of this development, we need to think of
> ways to revitalize the Foucauldian concepts of critique/criticism or
> to push a critical perspective beyond Foucault.
>
> A
> central theme of the PhD course is the search for effective analytical
> strategies for critique of power (some perhaps less noticed) in the
> works of Foucault and other writers within and outside the
> governmentality tradition. Of particular interest is Giorgio Agamben's
> recent critique and extension of Foucault's genealogy of government.
>
> The
> course requires the submission of a paper that deals with conceptual
> problems or analytical designs in relation to Foucauldian
> inspired/governmentality studies. Furthermore, papers that apply
> Foucauldian concepts to empirical problems in a variety of domains are
> welcomed.
>
> It
> is also possible to participate on the basis of an abstract stating
> the theme of the PhD project. An abstract should be approximately 1
> page, whereas a paper should be approx. 5 pages. In both cases, the
> PhD student should state his main analytical challenge/concern at
> his/her current stage in the project.
>
> Papers/abstracts
> must be in English. DEADLINE is 2 December 2013.
>
> Lecture plan
> Time/period Faculty Title
> Wednesday 11th
> December.
> 10:00-12:30 Kaspar Villadsen Analytical approaches in
> governmentality studies
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13:30-16:00 Mitchell Dean Concepts of power:
> 'The signature of power''
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean Papers from Ph.D.
> scholars
>
> Thursday 12th December.
> 10.00-12.30 Thomas Dumm Foucault, Neo-liberalism and Freedom.
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13.30-15.00 Kaspar Villadsen Technologies and organisations in
> Foucault's thinking
>
> 15.00-17.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Thomas Dumm & Mitchell Dean Papers
> from Ph.D. scholars
>
> Friday 13thDecember
> 10:00-11:30 Jeffrey Bussolini Biopolitics: Foucault meets Agamben
> 11:00-12:30 Mitchell Dean
> Governmentality meets theology
> 12.30-13.30 Lunch
> 13:30-15:00 Marius Gudmand-Høyer Dispositive analysis: the key
> concept in Foucault?
> 15.00-16.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Jeffrey Bussolini & Mitchell Dean
> Papers from Ph.D. scholars
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
> Concluding discussion and evaluation
>
>
>
>
> Teaching methods
> The
> course will use lectures given by specialists in the field, roundtable
> discussions, and presentation of papers from PhD students.
> Participation in the course requires a paper with an outline of PhD
> project or parts of the project.
> See more details above.
>
>
> Course literature
>
> Agamben, G. (2011) The Kingdom and the Glory: a Theological Genealogy
> of Economy and Government. Stanford University Press, especially pages
> 109-114; Appendix.
> Bussolini, J. (2010) 'Critical encounter between Giorgio Agamben and
> Michel Foucault: Review of recent works by Giorgio Agamben', Foucault
> Studies 10: 108-143.
> Dean, M. (2012) 'Governmentality meets theology: the king reigns but
> does not govern', Theory, Culture and Society 29 (3):
> 145-58.
> Dean, M. (2012) 'The signature of power', Journal of Political Power 5
> (1): 101-117.
> Foucault, M. (2007) Security, Territory, Population.
> New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 5) Foucault, M.
> (2008) The Birth of Biopolitics. New
> York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 12).
> Villadsen, K. & Karlsen, M.P. (2008) "Who Should Do the Talking? The
> proliferation of dialogue as governmental technology",
> in: Culture & Organization, no. 14, vol. 4.
> Villadsen, K. (2008) "Doing without the State and Civil Society as
> Universals: 'Dispositifs' of care across the classic sector divide",
> in: Journal of Civil Society, no. 4, vol. 3.
>
> ECTS awarded
> 3 ECTS
>
> Language
> English
>
> Maximum and Minimum number of
> participants
> Min: 19
> Max:
>
> Fee
> DKK 3,900 (covers the course, coffee, tea, lunch and one dinner)
>
> Enrol no later than
> 1 November 2013
> Contact: See Link: http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
_______________________________________________
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Regards
Clare
Clare O'Farrell
c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx
http://michel-foucault.com
http://foucaultnews.com
http://inputs.wordpress.com
> Dear Foucault-list,
> Please see this call for the Ph.d. Course:
>
>
> Foucault, Governmentality,
> Biopolitics - Analytical strategies for critique of power (Ph.d.
> course,
> 11-13
> December 2013): http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> Faculty:
> · Jeffrey
> Bussolini, Associate Professor, Staten Island, City University of New
> York, USA.
> · Mitchell
> Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS/University of Newcastle,
> Denmark/Australia, · Thomas Dumm, Professor, Department of Political
> Science, Amherst College, USA.
> · Marius
> Gudmand-Høyer, Post.Doc, Dept. of Management, Politics & Philosophy,
> CBS, Denmark.
> · Kaspar
> Villadsen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Management, Politics &
> Philosophy, CBS, Denmark.
> Place: Department of
> Management, Politics & Philosophy, CBS, Copenhagen Course Coordinators
> Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
>
> Prerequisite/progression of the course Only PhD students can
> participate in the course.
>
> It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that the PhD
> student attends the whole course.
>
> Aim of the course
> The
> course will provide the participants with:
>
> a)
> An updated introduction to key analytical concepts in the
> Governmentality literature, and the potentials and weaknesses of these
> concepts will be discussed.
>
> b)
> Possibilities for supplementing the governmentality approach with
> other analytical sources will be discussed.
>
> c)
> Furthermore, a detailed consideration of the current status of
> governmentality studies and post-Foucauldian studies will be given, in
> particular in light of recent claims for a crisis of critique.
>
> d)
> Finally, suggestions will be presented on how to elaborate or move
> beyond the framework of governmentality by activating concepts of
> bio-power and sovereignty, reconsidering the social and notions of
> society, and focusing on international dimensions of governmentality.
>
> In
> brief, the course aims to provide participants with a thorough
> understanding of the governmentality framework, that is, its
> analytical possibilities, its current status, and its possible
> directions of development.
>
> Course content, structure and teaching Over the last 20 years,
> post-Foucauldian "governmentality studies" have come to growing
> prominence. These studies have been effective in critically analyzing
> new types of liberal government, in particular by demonstrating 'the
> active side of laissez faire'. They describe how the motto of 'pulling
> back the state'
> has been accompanied by a series of governmental strategies and
> technologies aimed at shaping institutions and subjects in particular
> ways. Perhaps most noticeably, they have presented a diagnosis of a
> proliferation of regimes of enterprise and accounting in new and
> surprising places. But a wide range of other domains have been
> subjected to governmentality analysis spanning from genetic screening
> and risk calculation, new crime prevention strategies, to health
> promotion by self-responsibilization. To be sure, the concepts in
> governmentality studies continue to constitute effective tools for
> critical social analysis.
>
> Nevertheless,
> in recent years critical objections have been raised against the
> governmentality approach. It has been noted by some observers that the
> Foucauldian and post-structuralist language, originally used for
> critical academic purposes, seems to be increasingly appropriated by 'the powers'
> that
> were the object of such critique. Most notably, this point has been
> voiced (although in different versions) by Zizek, Boltanski, and Hardt & Negri.
> These thinkers suggest that a post-structural 'politics of difference'
> increasingly seems to be an integral part of the ways, in which
> institutions and companies organize themselves. If modern liberal
> government has begun to speak for the dissolution of binary
> essentials, the destabilization of rigid power structures, the
> creation of space for the subject's self-transforming work upon
> itself, and so on. In light of this development, we need to think of
> ways to revitalize the Foucauldian concepts of critique/criticism or
> to push a critical perspective beyond Foucault.
>
> A
> central theme of the PhD course is the search for effective analytical
> strategies for critique of power (some perhaps less noticed) in the
> works of Foucault and other writers within and outside the
> governmentality tradition. Of particular interest is Giorgio Agamben's
> recent critique and extension of Foucault's genealogy of government.
>
> The
> course requires the submission of a paper that deals with conceptual
> problems or analytical designs in relation to Foucauldian
> inspired/governmentality studies. Furthermore, papers that apply
> Foucauldian concepts to empirical problems in a variety of domains are
> welcomed.
>
> It
> is also possible to participate on the basis of an abstract stating
> the theme of the PhD project. An abstract should be approximately 1
> page, whereas a paper should be approx. 5 pages. In both cases, the
> PhD student should state his main analytical challenge/concern at
> his/her current stage in the project.
>
> Papers/abstracts
> must be in English. DEADLINE is 2 December 2013.
>
> Lecture plan
> Time/period Faculty Title
> Wednesday 11th
> December.
> 10:00-12:30 Kaspar Villadsen Analytical approaches in
> governmentality studies
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13:30-16:00 Mitchell Dean Concepts of power:
> 'The signature of power''
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean Papers from Ph.D.
> scholars
>
> Thursday 12th December.
> 10.00-12.30 Thomas Dumm Foucault, Neo-liberalism and Freedom.
> 12:30-13:30 Lunch
> 13.30-15.00 Kaspar Villadsen Technologies and organisations in
> Foucault's thinking
>
> 15.00-17.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Thomas Dumm & Mitchell Dean Papers
> from Ph.D. scholars
>
> Friday 13thDecember
> 10:00-11:30 Jeffrey Bussolini Biopolitics: Foucault meets Agamben
> 11:00-12:30 Mitchell Dean
> Governmentality meets theology
> 12.30-13.30 Lunch
> 13:30-15:00 Marius Gudmand-Høyer Dispositive analysis: the key
> concept in Foucault?
> 15.00-16.00 Kaspar Villadsen, Jeffrey Bussolini & Mitchell Dean
> Papers from Ph.D. scholars
> 16:00-17:00 Kaspar Villadsen & Mitchell Dean
> Concluding discussion and evaluation
>
>
>
>
> Teaching methods
> The
> course will use lectures given by specialists in the field, roundtable
> discussions, and presentation of papers from PhD students.
> Participation in the course requires a paper with an outline of PhD
> project or parts of the project.
> See more details above.
>
>
> Course literature
>
> Agamben, G. (2011) The Kingdom and the Glory: a Theological Genealogy
> of Economy and Government. Stanford University Press, especially pages
> 109-114; Appendix.
> Bussolini, J. (2010) 'Critical encounter between Giorgio Agamben and
> Michel Foucault: Review of recent works by Giorgio Agamben', Foucault
> Studies 10: 108-143.
> Dean, M. (2012) 'Governmentality meets theology: the king reigns but
> does not govern', Theory, Culture and Society 29 (3):
> 145-58.
> Dean, M. (2012) 'The signature of power', Journal of Political Power 5
> (1): 101-117.
> Foucault, M. (2007) Security, Territory, Population.
> New York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 5) Foucault, M.
> (2008) The Birth of Biopolitics. New
> York: Palgrave Macmillan (especially lecture 12).
> Villadsen, K. & Karlsen, M.P. (2008) "Who Should Do the Talking? The
> proliferation of dialogue as governmental technology",
> in: Culture & Organization, no. 14, vol. 4.
> Villadsen, K. (2008) "Doing without the State and Civil Society as
> Universals: 'Dispositifs' of care across the classic sector divide",
> in: Journal of Civil Society, no. 4, vol. 3.
>
> ECTS awarded
> 3 ECTS
>
> Language
> English
>
> Maximum and Minimum number of
> participants
> Min: 19
> Max:
>
> Fee
> DKK 3,900 (covers the course, coffee, tea, lunch and one dinner)
>
> Enrol no later than
> 1 November 2013
> Contact: See Link: http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/258118
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
_______________________________________________
Foucault-L mailing list