Events

This article develops a diagnostic lens to make sense of the still baffling development of a ‘humanitarian marketplace’. Ambivalently hybrid initiatives such as volunteer tourism, corporate social responsibility or even fair trade do not strictly obey a distributive logic of market exchange, social reciprocity or philanthropic giving. They engender a type of ‘economy’ that must […]

We are delighted to invite you to the first season of the series “State of exception-exception of the State: conversations about the social revolt and the pandemic”, organized by the Centre of Studies of Applied Ethics (CEDEA) of the Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile, supported by IIPSS. The first session will […]

Panel: Biopolitics, ECPR General Conference, Universität Hamburg, Universität Hamburg, August 22-25, 2018 

The Ends of Democracy: Populist Strategies, Skepticism about Democracy, and the Quest for Popular Sovereignty, November 7-9, 2017, SESC Unidade Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil

This symposium (25-26 October) will revisit themes and theoretical perspectives in Roger Cotterrell’s now canonical work in the field of trusts law, 30 years after the publication of this ground-breaking article. The symposium is organised by Nick Piška and Hayley Gibson as part of the Equity & Trusts Research Network and is sponsored by the SLSA, KLS Research Group Social Critiques of Law and KLS Workshop Fund.

Colloque organisé par Marie Goupy (Maitre de conférences (ICP) et directrice de programme au Collège International de philosophie), et Yann Rivière (Directeur d’études à l’EHESS), avec le soutien de l’IEA de Paris, du Collège International de philosophie et de l’EHESS (Programme de recherche interdisciplinaire “Terrains du droit”).

International Conference on New Italian Thought: Challenges and Responses, 24/26 Marzo 2017, London, Ontario, Canada

Curso “Michel Foucault. Un diagnóstico crítico del presente”, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, académicas Ana Laura García y Senda Sferco.

International Conference “Quarante ans de Surveiller et punir”, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne, May 26,27,28.

Symposium: Immunity, Health and the Body Politic, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, 30th April, 2016, Bramber House, University of Sussex

“…there are no witnesses to changes of epoch. The epochal turning is an imperceptible frontier, bound to no crucial date or event.” The present is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Are we living at a decisive turning point for global and European history, politics and law? Are we witnesses to a new epoch? Or perhaps we just […]

Discussion around two major paradigms of contemporary French thought, the “deconstruction” and “biopolitics”, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Symposium at Johns Hopkins University, became a posteriori the founding event of the cultural movement called French Theory. The conference is a time for reflection on the relationship between the French and the Italian Theory.

“Control: European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference”, Stockholm University; Estocolmo, Suecia; Aula Magna * ubicada en el Campus Frescati. La décima conferencia de la Sociedad Europea para la Literatura, la Ciencia y las Artes.

This symposium is interested in pursuing some of the implications of the “biological turn” in the human and social sciences as they touch upon jurisprudence and legal theory. Many studies show that with the increasing use of biological markers of identity (genetic, biometric, etc.), the traditional category of the legal (and moral) person is increasingly becoming unable to articulate or track the new interfaces between life and law. This symposium thematizes the empirical and normative transformations in the ideas of legal personhood, legal form, and subjective rights caused or motivated by the biologization of law and politics.

The University of New South Wales will host the 2015 Australasian Society for Continental Philosophyconference at its Kensington Campus, in Sydney. The ASCP aims to provide a broad intellectual forum for academics and postgraduates working in the European tradition, and its annual conference is the largest such event devoted to philosophy in Australia.

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.

Talking about Walter Benjamin in today’s Palestine is a political act. This project is part of the attempt to break the de facto cultural and academic boycott of Palestine, implemented and enforced by the occupation regime and its multi-layered web of checkpoints, territorial zones and other juridical-administrative measures. The project is comprised of three events: an opening event on Benjamin’s thought and life (Dec. 6), a workshop on key texts of Benjamin (Dec. 7-9), and an international conference (Dec. 10/11).

The Foucault Madness Conference is back for a second year! This year’s theme brings into critical light how current norms of cyber-based speech-acts create new technologies of selfhood.  Many early, and utopian, post-structural theorists of cyberspace, such as Donna Haraway (“A Cyborg Manifesto”), surmised that digital disembodiment might mean greater liberation from the categorizing limits of race, class, and gender.

El Coloquio Internacional sobre Gubernamentalidad y Biopolítica a realizarse en la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Salta, es en gran medida el corolario de las tres Jornadas sobre la temática que fueron realizadas entre los años 2012 y 2014. Con este evento académico se procura establecer un espacio de diálogo entre investigadores que han tomado las nociones las nociones de gubernamentalidad y de biopolítica como eje de su trabajo con el fin de interpelar las categorías clásicas del pensamiento filosófico político, y de aportar nuevas perspectivas a la teoría social.