David Armitage, is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an… Continue Reading
By Daniele Lorenzini I have followed with great interest, from Paris, the discussions which arose before, during, and after the first three meetings of the seminar “Foucault 13/13”, and I really look forward to “Foucault 4/14”, which is going to… Continue Reading
In preparation of the seminar, we encourage you to visit the Foucault 13/13 blog. You will find articles introducing and discussing Psychiatric Power (1973-1974), as well as reading suggestions. Please join in the conversation by commenting on the articles.This fourth session will take place… Continue Reading
Alondra Nelson is professor of sociology and gender studies and Dean of Social Science at Columbia University, where she has served as director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is Chair-elect of the American Sociological… Continue Reading
Anna Lvovsky (Ph.D., History of American Civilization, Harvard University; J.D., Harvard Law School) is a legal scholar and historian of gender and sexuality whose work focuses on the intersection of state regulation, morality, and the social sciences. She is currently an… Continue Reading
By Anna Lvovsky Psychiatric Power is an ambitious and provocative set of lectures, not least as a fulcrum between Foucault’s more famous published works: History of Madness, on the one hand, whose approach Foucault now partly derogates, and History of Sexuality, which will… Continue Reading
Linda M. G. Zerilli is a leading critical thinker and author in the areas of feminist theory, political theory, and Continental philosophy. She is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago,… Continue Reading
By Linda Zerilli Abstract At the seminar on Psychiatric Power, I plan to focus my remarks on this question: what does the figure of the hysteric do for Foucault’s (emergent) theory of disciplinary power? I will be looking at the way… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco General Michel Foucault, Le Pouvoir psychiatrique. Cours au Collège de France. 1973-1974, Jacques Lagrange, ed. (Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2003) ________________, Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974, Graham Burchell,… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt While the previous year’s lectures on The Punitive Society focused in large part on the birth of the penitentiary and were motivated by the question “why the prison one hundred and fifty years ago, and for one hundred… Continue Reading