Foucault’s Confessions (2021) :: Schedule

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

The full calendar follows here, with links to register for each talk. 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