COLLOQUIUM: Foucault and/in the Social Sciences
12th-13th of November 2007
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Churchill Victoria
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The work of Michel Foucault is being employed in exciting ways across
the social sciences. The concepts of governmentality, technologies of
the self, power/knowledge, discursive practices, bio-power,
genealogy, subjectivation, amongst others, are prompting new
questions and new methodologies. The key objective of this colloquium
is to bring together Australian and New Zealand social science
researchers who engage with and apply Foucault's thought in their own
empirical investigations. We wish to provide a space for mutual
inspiration and challenge. What does Foucauldian social science look
like and what does it do?
Confirmed key-note speakers are:
Professor Mitchell Dean, Division of Society, Culture, Media and
Philosophy, Macquarie University
Professor Carol Bacchi, School of History and Politics, The
University of Adelaide
Dr Joanne Ailwood, Centre for Learning Innivation, School of Early
Childhood, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Lynda Cheshire, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
Participants will present papers of 20 minutes duration during
workshops organised around key Foucauldian concepts. Interested
researchers and postgraduate students are invited to submit an
abstract of 200 words (please include: name and institution of
author(s), contact details, title of paper, abstract, and 1-3 key
Foucauldian concepts around which the paper revolves). There will be
a limit of 50 participants, who will be selected based on the
relevance of their papers to the objectives of the colloquium.
Please submit the abstract to Foucault.Colloquium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
by June 1, 2007.
Upon acceptance of abstract participants will be asked to pay a
registration fee of $80, which covers registration and morning and
afternoon tea for the two days. An invitation to the colloquium
dinner on Monday night will also be issued, as will accomodation and
transport details.
Please forward any enquiries to
Foucault.Colloquium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or to the organisers below.
Best wishes
Dr Eva Bendix Petersen & Dr Vaughan Higgins
School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Churchill Victoria 3842
Eva.Petersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ph 03 5122 6559
Vaughan.Higgins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ph 03 5122 6327
This event is sponsored by the School of Humanities, Communications
and Social Sciences and the Office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor
(Gippsland), Monash University
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Clare
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Clare O'Farrell
email: c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx
website:
http://www.michel-foucault.com
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