Reading the Foucault Collège de France Lectures with
Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul Rabinow, Judith Revel, Pierre Rosanvallon, Ann Stoler, and Linda Zerilli
in conversation with Columbia University colleagues
Etienne Balibar, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Katherine Franke, Robert Gooding-Williams, Stathis Gourgouris, Axel Honneth, Jeremy Kessler, Lydia Liu, Anna Lvovsky, Sharon Marcus, Alondra Nelson, John Rajchman, Emmanuelle Saada, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kendall Thomas, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati
Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Race war, biopolitics, the hermeneutics of the self, governmentality, the examination of one’s conscience, sécurité, the courage of truth, illégalismes, juridical forms, governing through truth, the “punitive society,” truth-telling, judicial apparatuses of repression, the Nu-pieds rebellions of 1639, parrhesia … Michel Foucault’s thirteen years of lectures at the Collège de France introduced us to new concepts and novel research avenues. For many of us, those avenues have been fertile ground for our own theorization, for others fertile ground for critique. They represent, as Foucault intended, rich and productive “pistes de recherches.”
With the publication of the entire series of lectures at the Collège de France—the last, Théories et institutions pénales (1971-1972) just released in May 2015—it is now time to read them chronologically: to grasp the overall project of those lectures at the Collège, to discuss the full trajectory, and to continue to excavate our own “pistes de recherche” building on Foucault’s.
The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and the Columbia Society of Fellows, with the support of the Maison Française, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, are delighted to host 13 seminars on the 13 courses. The seminar series—Foucault 13/13—will extend over the full 2015-2016 academic year at Columbia University. The seminar series will be open to Columbia faculty, fellows, and students, as well as faculty and students from other New York universities.
Each seminar will be led by distinguished scholars from different disciplines. The seminars will take place on Monday evenings in the Fall semester (2015) and Thursday evenings in the Spring semester (2016) from 6:15pm to 8:45pm.
The seminars will be open to students and faculty from Columbia University and other New York universities (please bring university ID). Please RSVP at [list from Sundial, CU event listing place]. If you are interested in attending and would like a place reserved at the seminar table, please send an e-mail explaining your interest to Claire Merrill at cm3325@columbia.edu.
Event locations vary — please see event location for each seminar. The Columbia Maison Française is located on the Columbia campus in Buell Hall next to Low Library. The Heyman Center Common Room is located in the Heyman Center (in East Campus) on the second floor. The Hispanic Institute for Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Casa Hispanica) is located at 612 West 116th Street. A campus map of Columbia University is here.
Seminar Series Schedule: Foucault 13/13
Monday, September 14, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Lessons on the Will to Know (1970-1971)
James Faubion, Rice University
and Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Maison Française
***
Monday, September 28, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)
Etienne Balibar, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & Columbia University
and François Ewald, Series Editor of Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures
Casa Hispánica
***
Monday, October 12, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Punitive Society (1972-1973)
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) & EHESS,
Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University, and
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Psychiatric Power (1973-1974)
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago,
Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University, and
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, November 16, 2015, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Abnormal (1974-1975)
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University,
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France, Paris, and
Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Monday, November 23, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
“Society must be defended” (1975-1976)
Ann Stoler, The New School,
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, and
Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978)
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University,
Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University, and
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, January 28, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)
Nancy Fraser, The New School
and Kendall Thomas, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of the Living (1979-1980)
Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
Daniele Lorenzini, Université Paris-Est Créteil, and
Jean Cohen, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Subjectivity and Truth (1980-1981)
Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley,
Katherine Franke, Columbia University, and
Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, March 10, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982)
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University,
Paul Rabinow, University of California Berkeley, and
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of Self and Others (1982-1983)
Judith Revel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, and
John Rajchman, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Courage of Truth (1983-1984)
Frederic Gros, Sciences Po,
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Casa Hispánica
***
All sessions moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Reading the Foucault Collège de France Lectures with
Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul Rabinow, Judith Revel, Pierre Rosanvallon, Ann Stoler, and Linda Zerilli
in conversation with Columbia University colleagues
Etienne Balibar, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Katherine Franke, Robert Gooding-Williams, Stathis Gourgouris, Axel Honneth, Jeremy Kessler, Lydia Liu, Anna Lvovsky, Sharon Marcus, Alondra Nelson, John Rajchman, Emmanuelle Saada, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kendall Thomas, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati
Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Race war, biopolitics, the hermeneutics of the self, governmentality, the examination of one’s conscience, sécurité, the courage of truth, illégalismes, juridical forms, governing through truth, the “punitive society,” truth-telling, judicial apparatuses of repression, the Nu-pieds rebellions of 1639, parrhesia … Michel Foucault’s thirteen years of lectures at the Collège de France introduced us to new concepts and novel research avenues. For many of us, those avenues have been fertile ground for our own theorization, for others fertile ground for critique. They represent, as Foucault intended, rich and productive “pistes de recherches.”
With the publication of the entire series of lectures at the Collège de France—the last, Théories et institutions pénales (1971-1972) just released in May 2015—it is now time to read them chronologically: to grasp the overall project of those lectures at the Collège, to discuss the full trajectory, and to continue to excavate our own “pistes de recherche” building on Foucault’s.
The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and the Columbia Society of Fellows, with the support of the Maison Française, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, are delighted to host 13 seminars on the 13 courses. The seminar series—Foucault 13/13—will extend over the full 2015-2016 academic year at Columbia University. The seminar series will be open to Columbia faculty, fellows, and students, as well as faculty and students from other New York universities.
Each seminar will be led by distinguished scholars from different disciplines. The seminars will take place on Monday evenings in the Fall semester (2015) and Thursday evenings in the Spring semester (2016) from 6:15pm to 8:45pm.
The seminars will be open to students and faculty from Columbia University and other New York universities (please bring university ID). Please RSVP at [list from Sundial, CU event listing place]. If you are interested in attending and would like a place reserved at the seminar table, please send an e-mail explaining your interest to Claire Merrill at cm3325@columbia.edu.
Event locations vary — please see event location for each seminar. The Columbia Maison Française is located on the Columbia campus in Buell Hall next to Low Library. The Heyman Center Common Room is located in the Heyman Center (in East Campus) on the second floor. The Hispanic Institute for Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Casa Hispanica) is located at 612 West 116th Street. A campus map of Columbia University is here.
Seminar Series Schedule: Foucault 13/13
Monday, September 14, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Lessons on the Will to Know (1970-1971)
James Faubion, Rice University
and Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Maison Française
***
Monday, September 28, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)
Etienne Balibar, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & Columbia University
and François Ewald, Series Editor of Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures
Casa Hispánica
***
Monday, October 12, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Punitive Society (1972-1973)
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) & EHESS,
Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University, and
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Psychiatric Power (1973-1974)
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago,
Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University, and
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, November 16, 2015, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Abnormal (1974-1975)
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University,
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France, Paris, and
Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Monday, November 23, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
“Society must be defended” (1975-1976)
Ann Stoler, The New School,
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, and
Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978)
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University,
Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University, and
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, January 28, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)
Nancy Fraser, The New School
and Kendall Thomas, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of the Living (1979-1980)
Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
Daniele Lorenzini, Université Paris-Est Créteil, and
Jean Cohen, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Subjectivity and Truth (1980-1981)
Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley,
Katherine Franke, Columbia University, and
Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, March 10, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982)
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University,
Paul Rabinow, University of California Berkeley, and
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of Self and Others (1982-1983)
Judith Revel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, and
John Rajchman, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Courage of Truth (1983-1984)
Frederic Gros, Sciences Po,
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Casa Hispánica
***
All sessions moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Reading the Foucault Collège de France Lectures with
Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul Rabinow, Judith Revel, Pierre Rosanvallon, Ann Stoler, and Linda Zerilli
in conversation with Columbia University colleagues
Etienne Balibar, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Katherine Franke, Robert Gooding-Williams, Stathis Gourgouris, Axel Honneth, Jeremy Kessler, Lydia Liu, Anna Lvovsky, Sharon Marcus, Alondra Nelson, John Rajchman, Emmanuelle Saada, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kendall Thomas, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati
Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Race war, biopolitics, the hermeneutics of the self, governmentality, the examination of one’s conscience, sécurité, the courage of truth, illégalismes, juridical forms, governing through truth, the “punitive society,” truth-telling, judicial apparatuses of repression, the Nu-pieds rebellions of 1639, parrhesia … Michel Foucault’s thirteen years of lectures at the Collège de France introduced us to new concepts and novel research avenues. For many of us, those avenues have been fertile ground for our own theorization, for others fertile ground for critique. They represent, as Foucault intended, rich and productive “pistes de recherches.”
With the publication of the entire series of lectures at the Collège de France—the last, Théories et institutions pénales (1971-1972) just released in May 2015—it is now time to read them chronologically: to grasp the overall project of those lectures at the Collège, to discuss the full trajectory, and to continue to excavate our own “pistes de recherche” building on Foucault’s.
The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and the Columbia Society of Fellows, with the support of the Maison Française, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, are delighted to host 13 seminars on the 13 courses. The seminar series—Foucault 13/13—will extend over the full 2015-2016 academic year at Columbia University. The seminar series will be open to Columbia faculty, fellows, and students, as well as faculty and students from other New York universities.
Each seminar will be led by distinguished scholars from different disciplines. The seminars will take place on Monday evenings in the Fall semester (2015) and Thursday evenings in the Spring semester (2016) from 6:15pm to 8:45pm.
The seminars will be open to students and faculty from Columbia University and other New York universities (please bring university ID). Please RSVP at [list from Sundial, CU event listing place]. If you are interested in attending and would like a place reserved at the seminar table, please send an e-mail explaining your interest to Claire Merrill at cm3325@columbia.edu.
Event locations vary — please see event location for each seminar. The Columbia Maison Française is located on the Columbia campus in Buell Hall next to Low Library. The Heyman Center Common Room is located in the Heyman Center (in East Campus) on the second floor. The Hispanic Institute for Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Casa Hispanica) is located at 612 West 116th Street. A campus map of Columbia University is here.
Seminar Series Schedule: Foucault 13/13
Monday, September 14, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Lessons on the Will to Know (1970-1971)
James Faubion, Rice University
and Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Maison Française
***
Monday, September 28, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)
Etienne Balibar, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & Columbia University
and François Ewald, Series Editor of Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures
Casa Hispánica
***
Monday, October 12, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Punitive Society (1972-1973)
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) & EHESS,
Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University, and
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Psychiatric Power (1973-1974)
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago,
Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University, and
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, November 16, 2015, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Abnormal (1974-1975)
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University,
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France, Paris, and
Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Monday, November 23, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
“Society must be defended” (1975-1976)
Ann Stoler, The New School,
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, and
Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978)
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University,
Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University, and
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, January 28, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)
Nancy Fraser, The New School
and Kendall Thomas, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of the Living (1979-1980)
Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
Daniele Lorenzini, Université Paris-Est Créteil, and
Jean Cohen, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Subjectivity and Truth (1980-1981)
Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley,
Katherine Franke, Columbia University, and
Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, March 10, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982)
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University,
Paul Rabinow, University of California Berkeley, and
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of Self and Others (1982-1983)
Judith Revel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, and
John Rajchman, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Courage of Truth (1983-1984)
Frederic Gros, Sciences Po,
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Casa Hispánica
***
All sessions moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Reading the Foucault Collège de France Lectures with
Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul Rabinow, Judith Revel, Pierre Rosanvallon, Ann Stoler, and Linda Zerilli
in conversation with Columbia University colleagues
Etienne Balibar, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Katherine Franke, Robert Gooding-Williams, Stathis Gourgouris, Axel Honneth, Jeremy Kessler, Lydia Liu, Anna Lvovsky, Sharon Marcus, Alondra Nelson, John Rajchman, Emmanuelle Saada, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kendall Thomas, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati
Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Race war, biopolitics, the hermeneutics of the self, governmentality, the examination of one’s conscience, sécurité, the courage of truth, illégalismes, juridical forms, governing through truth, the “punitive society,” truth-telling, judicial apparatuses of repression, the Nu-pieds rebellions of 1639, parrhesia … Michel Foucault’s thirteen years of lectures at the Collège de France introduced us to new concepts and novel research avenues. For many of us, those avenues have been fertile ground for our own theorization, for others fertile ground for critique. They represent, as Foucault intended, rich and productive “pistes de recherches.”
With the publication of the entire series of lectures at the Collège de France—the last, Théories et institutions pénales (1971-1972) just released in May 2015—it is now time to read them chronologically: to grasp the overall project of those lectures at the Collège, to discuss the full trajectory, and to continue to excavate our own “pistes de recherche” building on Foucault’s.
The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and the Columbia Society of Fellows, with the support of the Maison Française, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, are delighted to host 13 seminars on the 13 courses. The seminar series—Foucault 13/13—will extend over the full 2015-2016 academic year at Columbia University. The seminar series will be open to Columbia faculty, fellows, and students, as well as faculty and students from other New York universities.
Each seminar will be led by distinguished scholars from different disciplines. The seminars will take place on Monday evenings in the Fall semester (2015) and Thursday evenings in the Spring semester (2016) from 6:15pm to 8:45pm.
The seminars will be open to students and faculty from Columbia University and other New York universities (please bring university ID). Please RSVP at [list from Sundial, CU event listing place]. If you are interested in attending and would like a place reserved at the seminar table, please send an e-mail explaining your interest to Claire Merrill at cm3325@columbia.edu.
Event locations vary — please see event location for each seminar. The Columbia Maison Française is located on the Columbia campus in Buell Hall next to Low Library. The Heyman Center Common Room is located in the Heyman Center (in East Campus) on the second floor. The Hispanic Institute for Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Casa Hispanica) is located at 612 West 116th Street. A campus map of Columbia University is here.
Seminar Series Schedule: Foucault 13/13
Monday, September 14, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Lessons on the Will to Know (1970-1971)
James Faubion, Rice University
and Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Maison Française
***
Monday, September 28, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)
Etienne Balibar, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & Columbia University
and François Ewald, Series Editor of Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures
Casa Hispánica
***
Monday, October 12, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Punitive Society (1972-1973)
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) & EHESS,
Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University, and
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Psychiatric Power (1973-1974)
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago,
Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University, and
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, November 16, 2015, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Abnormal (1974-1975)
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University,
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France, Paris, and
Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Monday, November 23, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
“Society must be defended” (1975-1976)
Ann Stoler, The New School,
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, and
Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978)
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University,
Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University, and
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, January 28, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)
Nancy Fraser, The New School
and Kendall Thomas, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of the Living (1979-1980)
Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
Daniele Lorenzini, Université Paris-Est Créteil, and
Jean Cohen, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Subjectivity and Truth (1980-1981)
Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley,
Katherine Franke, Columbia University, and
Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, March 10, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982)
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University,
Paul Rabinow, University of California Berkeley, and
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of Self and Others (1982-1983)
Judith Revel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, and
John Rajchman, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Courage of Truth (1983-1984)
Frederic Gros, Sciences Po,
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Casa Hispánica
***
All sessions moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Reading the Foucault Collège de France Lectures with
Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul Rabinow, Judith Revel, Pierre Rosanvallon, Ann Stoler, and Linda Zerilli
in conversation with Columbia University colleagues
Etienne Balibar, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Katherine Franke, Robert Gooding-Williams, Stathis Gourgouris, Axel Honneth, Jeremy Kessler, Lydia Liu, Anna Lvovsky, Sharon Marcus, Alondra Nelson, John Rajchman, Emmanuelle Saada, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kendall Thomas, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati
Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Race war, biopolitics, the hermeneutics of the self, governmentality, the examination of one’s conscience, sécurité, the courage of truth, illégalismes, juridical forms, governing through truth, the “punitive society,” truth-telling, judicial apparatuses of repression, the Nu-pieds rebellions of 1639, parrhesia … Michel Foucault’s thirteen years of lectures at the Collège de France introduced us to new concepts and novel research avenues. For many of us, those avenues have been fertile ground for our own theorization, for others fertile ground for critique. They represent, as Foucault intended, rich and productive “pistes de recherches.”
With the publication of the entire series of lectures at the Collège de France—the last, Théories et institutions pénales (1971-1972) just released in May 2015—it is now time to read them chronologically: to grasp the overall project of those lectures at the Collège, to discuss the full trajectory, and to continue to excavate our own “pistes de recherche” building on Foucault’s.
The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and the Columbia Society of Fellows, with the support of the Maison Française, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, are delighted to host 13 seminars on the 13 courses. The seminar series—Foucault 13/13—will extend over the full 2015-2016 academic year at Columbia University. The seminar series will be open to Columbia faculty, fellows, and students, as well as faculty and students from other New York universities.
Each seminar will be led by distinguished scholars from different disciplines. The seminars will take place on Monday evenings in the Fall semester (2015) and Thursday evenings in the Spring semester (2016) from 6:15pm to 8:45pm.
The seminars will be open to students and faculty from Columbia University and other New York universities (please bring university ID). Please RSVP at [list from Sundial, CU event listing place]. If you are interested in attending and would like a place reserved at the seminar table, please send an e-mail explaining your interest to Claire Merrill at cm3325@columbia.edu.
Event locations vary — please see event location for each seminar. The Columbia Maison Française is located on the Columbia campus in Buell Hall next to Low Library. The Heyman Center Common Room is located in the Heyman Center (in East Campus) on the second floor. The Hispanic Institute for Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Casa Hispanica) is located at 612 West 116th Street. A campus map of Columbia University is here.
Seminar Series Schedule: Foucault 13/13
Monday, September 14, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Lessons on the Will to Know (1970-1971)
James Faubion, Rice University
and Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Maison Française
***
Monday, September 28, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)
Etienne Balibar, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & Columbia University
and François Ewald, Series Editor of Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures
Casa Hispánica
***
Monday, October 12, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Punitive Society (1972-1973)
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) & EHESS,
Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University, and
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Psychiatric Power (1973-1974)
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago,
Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University, and
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, November 16, 2015, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Abnormal (1974-1975)
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University,
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France, Paris, and
Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Monday, November 23, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
“Society must be defended” (1975-1976)
Ann Stoler, The New School,
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, and
Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978)
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University,
Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University, and
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, January 28, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)
Nancy Fraser, The New School
and Kendall Thomas, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of the Living (1979-1980)
Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
Daniele Lorenzini, Université Paris-Est Créteil, and
Jean Cohen, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Subjectivity and Truth (1980-1981)
Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley,
Katherine Franke, Columbia University, and
Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, March 10, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982)
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University,
Paul Rabinow, University of California Berkeley, and
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of Self and Others (1982-1983)
Judith Revel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, and
John Rajchman, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Courage of Truth (1983-1984)
Frederic Gros, Sciences Po,
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Casa Hispánica
***
All sessions moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Reading the Foucault Collège de France Lectures with
Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Veena Das, François Ewald, Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Nancy Fraser, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Nancy Luxon, Achille Mbembe, Paul Rabinow, Judith Revel, Pierre Rosanvallon, Ann Stoler, and Linda Zerilli
in conversation with Columbia University colleagues
Etienne Balibar, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Katherine Franke, Robert Gooding-Williams, Stathis Gourgouris, Axel Honneth, Jeremy Kessler, Lydia Liu, Anna Lvovsky, Sharon Marcus, Alondra Nelson, John Rajchman, Emmanuelle Saada, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Kendall Thomas, Adam Tooze, and Nadia Urbinati
Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Race war, biopolitics, the hermeneutics of the self, governmentality, the examination of one’s conscience, sécurité, the courage of truth, illégalismes, juridical forms, governing through truth, the “punitive society,” truth-telling, judicial apparatuses of repression, the Nu-pieds rebellions of 1639, parrhesia … Michel Foucault’s thirteen years of lectures at the Collège de France introduced us to new concepts and novel research avenues. For many of us, those avenues have been fertile ground for our own theorization, for others fertile ground for critique. They represent, as Foucault intended, rich and productive “pistes de recherches.”
With the publication of the entire series of lectures at the Collège de France—the last, Théories et institutions pénales (1971-1972) just released in May 2015—it is now time to read them chronologically: to grasp the overall project of those lectures at the Collège, to discuss the full trajectory, and to continue to excavate our own “pistes de recherche” building on Foucault’s.
The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and the Columbia Society of Fellows, with the support of the Maison Française, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, are delighted to host 13 seminars on the 13 courses. The seminar series—Foucault 13/13—will extend over the full 2015-2016 academic year at Columbia University. The seminar series will be open to Columbia faculty, fellows, and students, as well as faculty and students from other New York universities.
Each seminar will be led by distinguished scholars from different disciplines. The seminars will take place on Monday evenings in the Fall semester (2015) and Thursday evenings in the Spring semester (2016) from 6:15pm to 8:45pm.
The seminars will be open to students and faculty from Columbia University and other New York universities (please bring university ID). Please RSVP at [list from Sundial, CU event listing place]. If you are interested in attending and would like a place reserved at the seminar table, please send an e-mail explaining your interest to Claire Merrill at cm3325@columbia.edu.
Event locations vary — please see event location for each seminar. The Columbia Maison Française is located on the Columbia campus in Buell Hall next to Low Library. The Heyman Center Common Room is located in the Heyman Center (in East Campus) on the second floor. The Hispanic Institute for Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Casa Hispanica) is located at 612 West 116th Street. A campus map of Columbia University is here.
Seminar Series Schedule: Foucault 13/13
Monday, September 14, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Lessons on the Will to Know (1970-1971)
James Faubion, Rice University
and Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Maison Française
***
Monday, September 28, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972)
Etienne Balibar, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & Columbia University
and François Ewald, Series Editor of Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures
Casa Hispánica
***
Monday, October 12, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Punitive Society (1972-1973)
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) & EHESS,
Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt & Columbia University, and
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Psychiatric Power (1973-1974)
Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago,
Anna Lvovsky, Columbia University, and
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, November 16, 2015, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Abnormal (1974-1975)
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University,
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France, Paris, and
Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Monday, November 23, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
“Society must be defended” (1975-1976)
Ann Stoler, The New School,
Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, and
Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Security, Territory, Population (1977-1978)
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University,
Jeremy Kessler, Columbia University, and
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, January 28, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)
Nancy Fraser, The New School
and Kendall Thomas, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of the Living (1979-1980)
Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand,
Daniele Lorenzini, Université Paris-Est Créteil, and
Jean Cohen, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
Subjectivity and Truth (1980-1981)
Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley,
Katherine Franke, Columbia University, and
Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University
Maison Française
***
Thursday, March 10, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982)
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University,
Paul Rabinow, University of California Berkeley, and
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Government of Self and Others (1982-1983)
Judith Revel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University, and
John Rajchman, Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
***
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:15 to 8:45pm
The Courage of Truth (1983-1984)
Frederic Gros, Sciences Po,
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University, and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Casa Hispánica
***
All sessions moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
Speakers:
Nicola Clayton, PhD, Professor of Comparative Cognition, Cambridge University
Additional speakers forthcoming.
This event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
This event is part of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800: The Philosophy Department and Center for Science and Society at Columbia University invite you to “Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800” (February 17-18). Distinguished historians will share recent scholarship on women and other understudied figures in the history of philosophy to encourage more accurate accounts of philosophy’s past and more inclusive teaching. Sessions rethink standard stories and offer practical ideas about to incorporate understudied figures in our philosophy courses, both historical and non-historical.
http://philosophy.columbia.edu/events/events/events/conferences
Embodied cognition theorists emphasize the role of the body and the environment in constituting mental processes. By examining how our brains interact with the rest of our bodies and how our entire bodies interact with the environment, we can learn much about human behavior and the human mind. Tools can be understood as extensions of the body, and in some cases as becoming part of the body. Does our mind extend to our tools? How does this change our world? How should we understand this relationship? In order to help us think through these fascinating questions, we will hear from an archaeologist who has theorized about the evolution of this human capacity, a biomedical engineer who uses computers to make robotic prostheses more fluidly extend human bodies, and a music theorist who shows how musical instruments become part of our bodies.
This event is free and open to the public, however, registration is required via Eventbrite.
Speakers:
— Lambros Malafouris (Johnson Research and Teaching Fellow in Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture; University of Oxford)
— Sunil Agrawal (Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Rehabilitation/Regenerative Medicine; Columbia University)
— Jonathan De Souza (Assistant Professor of Music Theory; University of Western Ontario)
Respondent:
— Lan Li (Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Center for Science & Society)
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Science and Society and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.
It is commonly claimed that mind-body dualism is entirely foreign to China—or “the East” more generally. This talk will explore how engaging with the cognitive sciences and digital humanities undermines claims such as this, and more broadly can help us to do our work as scholars of comparative philosophy. Embracing an embodied view of human cognition gets us beyond strong social constructivism and its accompanying cultural essentialism. In addition, new tools from the science and digital humanities can, in combination with traditional archaeological and textual evidence, allow us to more accurately and rigorously assess claims about the philosophical and religious historical record. Specifically, I will focus on novel large-scale textual analysis techniques, online databases for sharing scholarly knowledge, and work in contemporary evolutionary anthropology and cognitive science relevant to the mind-body issue. I will conclude by considering how early Chinese views of mind-body relations do, in fact, differ from some modern Western conceptions, and how taking a more reasonable view of cultural differences can allow us to genuinely learn from other cultures.
With a response from:
Paul Goldin (University of Pennsylvania)