Konferencja międzynarodowa “Foucault at 100” | 28–29.05.2026
Ośrodek Kultury Francuskiej i Studiów Frankofońskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego serdecznie zaprasza na międzynarodową konferencję Foucault at 100!
Szczegółowy program konferencji poniżej:
Venue: BUW (Library of the University of Warsaw), Room 256, Dobra 56, Warsaw.
Thursday, 28 May
9:30h Opening remarks
9:45-10:45 Panel 1: Foucault, Communism(s) and CEE (part I)
Radek Szymanski (University of Warsaw)
Foucault’s Reception in Poland: From an Obscure Historian to a Staple of Humanities
Adam Takács (Eötvös Loránd University)
Faces of Foucault under Hungarian State Socialism: From Distrusted Ideologue to Critical Catalyst
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Foucault, Communism(s) and CEE (part II)
Jan Bierhanzl (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Pastoral Power and Marxism. Foucault and CEE
Ralf Gisinger (University of Vienna)
The Problem of Naturalization. Double Transference in Marx/Engels and Foucault
12:30-13:30 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Panel 2: Foucauldian Prisms (part I)
Joanna Maria Szumańska (The Royal Lazienki Museum)
The Royal Łazienki – The Other Spaces
Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak (University of Łódź)
Between Truth-Telling and Pseudo-Parrhēsia: The Case of Krzysztof Stanowski and the 2025 Polish Presidential Campaign
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:45h Foucauldian Prisms (part II)
Krešimir Petković (Zagreb University)
Whither Foucault? Experiences of a Croatian Political Scientist
Kamil Lipiński (University of Warsaw)
Building an archive and subjectification in Hungarian prison. The case of Court Record – In Memoriam Péter Mansfeld
Friday, May 29
9:30-10:30 Panel 3: Biopolitics, power and the state (part I)
Danube Johnson (Independent)
Understanding Poststructural Principles through Foucault’s Evaluation of Soviet Biopolitics
Mikołaj Ratajczak (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Instituting Biopolitics in Central Europe: The Dissemination of the Idea of “Biopolitics” in Germany and former Austro-Hungary in the Interwar Period
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Biopolitics, power and the state (part II)
Philipp Kender (University of Kent)
Cold War Theory? Historicising Foucault’s Analysis of Power
Aziz Ishler (University of Tübingen)
Conceptual Travel and Epistemic Asymmetry: Foucault in Central/Eastern Europe and the Modern Arab World
2:15-13:30 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Panel 4: Methodological heritages
Esteban Arellano (Universidad de Guadalajara/ITESO)
Rethinking Foucauldian Methodology through the Politics of Disappearance: From Mexico to Central and Eastern Europe
Krzysztof Tarkowski (CEFRES, Prague)
Foucault’s Early Material Genealogies: Money and the American Turn
Jakub Krzeski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Foucault–Kula (Mis)Encounter: Revisiting Historical Metrology through a Genealogical Lens
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-16:45 Roundtable discussion and closing remarks