On March 17-18, Duke’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory (CISSCT) is sponsoring a symposium on “Foucault, the Sciences and Humanities, and Critique.” The symposium will begin with a discussion with Rey Chow (Duke) about her recent book, A Face Drawn in the Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present (Columbia UP, 2021), and will also include discussions with Anna Auguscik (U Oldenburg), Nima Bassiri (Duke), Mark Hansen (Duke), Anton Kirchhofer (U Oldenburg), and Rob Mitchell (Duke). Topics to be discussed include the implications of Foucault’s work for critical studies of race, the sciences and the humanities, the university, media studies, and the concepts of the Anthropocene and technosphere.
The symposium will be held in the Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building) as an in-person event Thursday, March 17, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm and Friday, March 18, 9:00 - noon. Participants are asked to register in advance, and to read pre-circulated readings from several of the symposium events. (If the registration exceeds the room maximum, a Zoom option will be made available for additional participants.) To register and receive copies of this work and the final schedule, please email Quantá Holden at quanta.holden@duke.edu or click this link.
Please address questions about this event to Elizabeth Apple at elizabeth.apple@duke.edu.