[Foucault-L] foucault workshop leicester

is there anyone who could afford to go to this event and is willing to 
share its gist with the rest of us? will anything come out of this 
workshop in print?

thanks,

arianna

RETHINKING FOUCAULT, RETHINKING POLITICAL ECONOMY

Two-Day Workshop, Thursday 17 – Friday 18 March 2005
Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester, UK


Workshop Theme
Foucault was clearly concerned with rethinking political economy.  This 
concern ranged from his direct engagement in The Order of Things with 
the formation of the economic subject in relation to political economy, 
and also involved him in all manner of debates throughout his life about 
how one might understand the political economy.  After his death these 
debates continued as his work has been extended in a variety of 
different attempts to rethink political economy both in general terms 
and also in terms of the analysis of specific politico-economic 
micro-practices and related technologies of subjectification.

Foucault’s work however, has not gone uncontested.  Disagreements have 
surrounded his work from the beginning, and in recent years the 
publication of, for example, his lectures at the Collège de France in 
the 1970s and his late writings and lectures on parrhesia open up 
possibilities for further rethinking Foucault’s work.  At the same time, 
a generation which has grown up with Foucault has proposed new readings 
that extend Foucault beyond Foucault, taking his work into new 
territories and inventing new concepts in so doing.

In addition to Foucault’s rethinking of political economy and efforts to 
rethink Foucault’s work, there is a third task of rethinking, relating 
to the ways that Foucault and political economy have been connected. 
Here are questions about the scholarship and politics of the first 
attempts to think political economy with Foucault, which have more than 
once produced statements that would certainly have invited Foucault’s 
famous laugh.  So we propose to rethink these first thinkings of 
Foucault and political economy, and to show how we can move beyond them.

We will therefore gather for two days of discussions which seek to 
rethink Foucault and to rethink political economy.  Foucault once said 
in relation to Deleuze: ‘new thought is possible; thought is again 
possible’.  We propose to say the same of both Foucault and of political 
economy.  New thinking is possible.  Thinking again is possible.

Speakers
Confirmed speakers include:
Ruud Kaulingfreks, University of Humanistics, the Netherlands
Alan McKinlay, University of St Andrews, UK
Rolland Munro, Keele University, UK
Damian O’Doherty, University of Manchester, UK
Bent Meier Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Akseli Virtanen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland