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<p>The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade is now
accepting submissions for their December, 2014 conference. The deadline
for submissions is September 15, 2014. Read the full CFP below,
reproduced from <a href="http://foucaultnews.com/2014/06/27/engaging-foucault/">Foucault News</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://instifdt.bg.ac.rs/fuko_e.html"><b><i>Engaging Foucault</i></b></a></p>
<p><b>Conference</b><br>
<b> December 5-7, 2014</b><br>
<b> Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade</b></p>
<p>June 25, 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of Michel
Foucault. During his lifetime, Foucault was, in his own words, described
as an anarchist and a leftist; a covert Marxist or an explicit or
covert anti-Marxist; a nihilist, a technocrat in the service of
Gaullism, and a neoliberal. In addition, Foucault can also be described
as an intellectual who cannot be aligned or positioned within the
existing matrices of thought and action, especially when defined
ideologically. How should one understand the societal and political
implications of Foucault’s work? These dilemmas remain very much
unresolved today.</p>
<p>The conference “Engaging Foucault” will gather international and
regional theorists who have engaged with Foucault’s work, either
endorsing or disputing the main premises of his work. The intended aim
of the conference is to open up space for a general discussion of the
actuality of Foucault’s work. Bearing in mind the specific political
economy of truth and power, about which Foucault wrote extensively, we
intend to examine the changes in scientific and theoretical discourses,
as well as the institutions that produce these changes. In what ways is
this production economically and politically initiated, expanded and
consumed? What is the form of control and dissemination of certain
regimes of truth through reforms and old and new ideological struggles
around them? Taking as our point of departure Foucault’s statement that
the role of the intellectual is not merely to criticize ideological
contents supposedly linked to science, or furnish him/herself with the
most appropriate ideology, we want to incite a debate on the
possibilities of “constituting new politics of truth”, advocated by
Foucault. Thus, central to this conference would be the investigation
into the possibilities for (re-)articulating public engagement today:
how to change political, economic, social and institutional regimes of
production of truths? The debate should, in that sense, critically
examine the meanings of emancipatory practices, social movements,
contemporary forms of innovative action and engaged theory through the
Foucauldian optic of bio-politics and ’thanato-politics’, sexuality and
(non)identity, resistance, ’counter-power’, ’techniques of the self’ and
the genealogies of societally engaged practices (e.g. insurrectionary
knowledge and action). In light of the uprisings that have in recent
years spread across the globe and are characterized by a variety of
causes and consequences, this conference should critically reflect on
the meaning of ’engagement’ – what is public engagement, who can be
called ’engaged’ and in what sense, what are the effects of engaged
thought and action – in the spirit of Foucault’s cues.</p>
<p>Possible topics include (but are not limited to):</p>
<p>- Public Engagement and the (Im)possibility of Political Emancipation</p>
<p>- Foucault and Intellectuals</p>
<p>- Foucault and the Micromechanics of Power</p>
<p>- Discursive Orders and Orders of Power</p>
<p>- Embodied Engagement</p>
<p>- Foucault and Feminism</p>
<p>- Foucault and Queer Activism</p>
<p>- Foucault (against) Identity Politics, and Social Movements</p>
<p>- Foucauldian Techniques of the Self</p>
<p>- Microphysics of Resistance and Structural Emancipation</p>
<p>- Economy and Bio-politics</p>
<p>- Foucauldian Approach to Security: Discipline, Control, Surveillance</p>
<p>- (Auto-Regulated) Censorship and Engagement</p>
<p>- (Dis-)engaged History of the Present</p>
<p>- Heterotopias and Distopias</p>
<p>- Sovereign Engagement and War</p>
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<p><b>Organization of the conference</b></p>
<p><b> </b>The official languages of the conference are <b>BHS and English</b>.</p>
<p>Conference <b>applications</b> should be sent only via e-mail to the following address: <a href="mailto:conference@instifdt.bg.ac.rs">conference@instifdt.bg.ac.rs</a>. We kindly ask you to put in your email subject the following title: ’Application: title of the paper’.</p>
<p>The complete application in the .doc, .docx or .pdf format must
contain: the title of the presentation, abstract of up to 250 words, key
words in the presenter’s mother tongue – BHS or English – and a short
biography.</p>
<p><a href="https://foucaultnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/belgrade-registration-form.docx">Click here for registration form.</a></p>
<p>Presentations should not exceed <b>15 minutes</b>.</p>
<p>The Program Committee of the conference will select the presenters
based on the submitted abstracts. The book of abstracts will be
published by the time of the conference, and a collection of conference
papers will be published in 2015. The papers submitted for the
collection should be in BHS or English (between 5000 and 7000 words).</p>
<p>There will be <b>no registration fees</b>. Conference
organisers will provide lunch and beverage refreshments during the
conference program. Participants are kindly requested to make their own
accommodation and travel arrangements.</p>
<p><b>Important dates</b></p>
<p>Application deadline: <b>15 September 2014</b></p>
<p>Notification of acceptance: <b>1 October 2014</b></p>
<p>Conference dates: <b>5-7 December 2014</b></p>
<p>Submission deadline for the collection of papers: <b>1 February 2015</b></p>
<p>Publication of the collection: <b>June 2015</b></p>
<p><b>Conference organizer</b></p>
<p>The conference is organized by the Group for the Study of Public
Engagement, part of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in
Belgrade, with the support of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science
and Technological Development.</p>
<p><b>Program Committee </b></p>
<p>Čarna Brković, Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU</p>
<p>Hajrudin Hromadžić, University of Rijeka</p>
<p>Peter Klepec, Institute of Philosophy, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts</p>
<p>Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje</p>
<p>Vjollca Krasniqi, University of Prishtina</p>
<p>Ivan Milenković, Treći program Radio Beograda</p>
<p>Sanja Milutinović Bojanić, Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka</p>
<p>Ugo Vlaisavljević, University of Sarajevo</p>
<p>[H/T <a href="http://foucaultnews.com/2014/06/27/engaging-foucault/">Foucault News</a>]</p><p><a href="http://goo.gl/7M6DAl">http://goo.gl/7M6DAl</a><br></p>
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