Foucault Across The Disciplines
March 1-2, 2008
University of California, Santa Cruz

'Foucault Across the Disciplines' will be a national conference
providing a forum for assessing and reassessing the tremendous impact of
Michel Foucault's thought across the disciplines over the past half
century. This conference will convene an interdisciplinary group of
scholars of world and national renown to explore the many ways in which
Foucault's work is being deployed across the disciplines. These
cross-disciplinary deployments assume at least two forms: they are
challenges to the disciplines that define our academic research
formations, and they are critiques of specific disciplinary apparatuses.
We hope to establish lines of engagement that will extend innovative
research paths beyond the current limits of inquiry.

Program & Schedule

Saturday March 1

9:30-9:45: Introduction and Welcome
Colin Koopman, Conference Welcome
David Hoy, "Introduction: Foucault, Twenty-Five Years Later"

9:45-11:30: Panel: Foucault, Science, Media
Karen Barad, "tba"
Mark Poster, "Foucault, Deleuze, and New Media"
Donna Haraway, moderator

11:45-1:00: Address
Paul Rabinow, "Untimely & Inconsiderate Observations: Toward an
Anthropology of Concepts, Practices and Venues"
James Clifford, moderator

1:00-2:00: Lunch Break

2:00-4:15: Panel: Foucault, Power, Politics
Hans Sluga, "Politics as Power Acting on Power"
Mark Bevir, "Anti-Foundational Approaches to Political Science"
James Ferguson, "Toward a Left Art of Government: From 'Foucauldian
Critique' to Foucauldian Politics"
Vanita Seth, moderator

4:30-5:45: Address
Arnold Davidson, "In Praise of Counter-Conduct"
Teresa De Lauretis, moderator

Sunday March 2

9:30-11:15: Panel: Foucault, Discourse, Body
Hayden White, "Foucault Historian?"
Mark Franko, "Archeological Choreographic Practices"
Tyrus Miller, moderator

11:30-1:15: Panel: Foucault, Visuality, Truth
Catherine Soussloff, "Foucault and the Point of Painting"
Martin Jay, "Visual Parrhesia? Foucault and the Truth of the Gaze"
David Hoy, moderator

1:15-2:15: Lunch Break

2:15-3:45: Panel: Foucault, Subjectivity, Ethics
Jana Sawicki, "Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Why Embrace an Ethics of
Pleasure?"
Amy Allen, "The Politics of Our Selves"
Carla Freccero, moderator

4:00-5:30: Address
Ian Hacking, "Déraison"
Paul Roth, moderator

Logistics & Information
The 'Foucault Across the Disciplines' conference will be free and open
to the public. Visitors are most welcome to attend and participate in
the conversations. Registration is not required.

The conference will take place from approximately 9:00am to 5:30pm on
Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2, 2008. This event will be held at the
new and spacious Humanities Lecture Center in the Humanities and Social
Science Facility near Cowell College on the UCSC campus (view a campus
map).

Additional information on local lodging including two conference rate
hotels is available on the Foucault Across the Disciplines Conference
Blog ¹. Please check
the blog for additional information on local dining and to organize
carpools to the conference.

Please contact the conference organizer, Colin Koopman (UCSC Humanities
Research Fellow), at cwkoopmangmail.com for more information or with
questions.

This event has been made possible by the generous sponsorship of the
following campus units: The Center for Cultural Studies, The Philosophy
Department, The Institute for Humanities Research, and the Literature,
Feminist Studies, History of Art & Visual Culture, Film & Digital
Media,
Digital Arts & New Media, Anthropology, Psychology, History of
Consciousness, American Studies, Community Studies, Sociology, and
Politics Departments and Programs. This event was organized by the UCSC
Foucault Across the Disciplines Research Cluster.

Website: http://foucaultacrossthedisciplines.googlepages.com/foucault.html