[ANPPOM-Lista] submit your papers! egaging foucault conference

[Carlos Palombini]

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 Foucault
News <http://foucaultnews.com/2014/06/27/engaging-foucault/>.

*Engaging Foucault* <http://instifdt.bg.ac.rs/fuko_e.html>

*Conference*
* December 5-7, 2014*
* Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade*

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.

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.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

-          Public Engagement and the (Im)possibility of Political
Emancipation

-          Foucault and Intellectuals

-          Foucault and the Micromechanics of Power

-          Discursive Orders and Orders of Power

-          Embodied Engagement

-          Foucault and Feminism

-          Foucault and Queer Activism

-          Foucault (against) Identity Politics, and Social Movements

-          Foucauldian Techniques of the Self

-          Microphysics of Resistance and Structural Emancipation

-          Economy and Bio-politics

-          Foucauldian Approach to Security: Discipline, Control,
Surveillance

-          (Auto-Regulated) Censorship and Engagement

-          (Dis-)engaged History of the Present

-          Heterotopias and Distopias

-          Sovereign Engagement and War



*Organization of the conference*

 The official languages of the conference are *BHS and English*.

Conference *applications* should be sent only via e-mail to the following
address: conference em instifdt.bg.ac.rs. We kindly ask you to put in your
email subject the following title: ’Application: title of the paper’.

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.

Click here for registration form.
<https://foucaultnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/belgrade-registration-form.docx>

Presentations should not exceed *15 minutes*.

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).

There will be *no registration fees*. Conference organisers will provide
lunch and beverage refreshments during the conference program. Participants
are kindly requested to make their own accommodation and travel
arrangements.

*Important dates*

Application deadline: *15 September 2014*

Notification of acceptance: *1 October 2014*

Conference dates: *5-7 December 2014*

Submission deadline for the collection of papers: *1 February 2015*

Publication of the collection: *June 2015*

*Conference organizer*

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.

*Program Committee *

Čarna Brković, Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU

Hajrudin Hromadžić, University of Rijeka

Peter Klepec, Institute of Philosophy, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and
Arts

Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje

Vjollca Krasniqi, University of Prishtina

Ivan Milenković, Treći program Radio Beograda

Sanja Milutinović Bojanić, Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka

Ugo Vlaisavljević, University of Sarajevo

[H/T Foucault News <http://foucaultnews.com/2014/06/27/engaging-foucault/>]

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carlos palombini
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