The Fifth Annual SOCIAL THEORY FORUM
April 16 and 17, 2008
University of Massachusetts, Boston
How relevant is Foucault’s social thought to the world we inhabit today? A two day conference promotes dialogue from across the disciplines on the relevance of one of the 20th Century’s most provocative thinkers to the dilemmas we confront in the 21st.
Keynote Speakers
Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University)
James Bernauer (Boston College)
Margaret McClaren (Rollins College)
Barbara Cruikshank (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Panel Topics
Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity
The Arts of Living and the Ethics of the Self
The Conduct of Neoliberal Conduct
Education and Pedagogy
Queer Dialogues: Pleasures and Bodies
Incarceration and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Economy, State and the Government of Populations
Security, War and Terror
Consumption as a Way of Life
The Power to Make Live and Let Die
Feminist Dialogues: Gender and Resistance
Religion and Political Spirituality
Subjects of Biopower
Racialized Life
Genetics and Molecular Life
Marxian Dialogues: Capitalism and the Left
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