Foucault’s Confessions (2021) :: Schedule

We are honored and delighted to bring together this exceptional group of scholars.

The full calendar follows here; names link to speakers’ pages with their talk’s title, abstract, and a bio.

May 4, 2021, Tuesday
James Bernauer :: Fascinating Flesh: Revealing the Spiritual Foucault

May 6, 2021, Thursday
Peter Brown :: Journeys

May 11, 2021, Tuesday
Philippe Chevallier :: The Birth of Confessions of the Flesh

May 13, 2021, Thursday
Mark Jordan :: Lust in Paradise: On the Origin of Sexualized Selves

May 18, 2021, Tuesday
Lynne Huffer :: Foucault’s Queer Virgins

May 19, 2021, Wednesday
Niki Kasumi Clements :: Foucault’s Christianities

May 20, 2021, Thursday
Elizabeth A. Clark :: Contextualizing Foucault’s Augustine

May 25, 2021, Tuesday
Arianna Sforzini :: Rebellious Flesh: Virgins, Consecrated Women, and the Radicality of Conversion

May 27, 2021, Thursday
Daniele Lorenzini :: Foucault’s Genealogy of Modern Knowledge About Sexuality: From São Paulo to Confessions of the Flesh

June 1, 2021, Tuesday
Martina Tazzioli :: ‘If the Truth is Turned Against the Colonised’: Exhaustive Verbalisation and the Impossibility of Truth-Telling

June 3, 2021, Thursday
Achille Mbembe :: A Conversation
Followed by Series Commentary by James Faubion


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James D. Faubion

Niki Kasumi Clements