Konferencja międzynarodowa “Foucault at 100” | 28.05.2026

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 28.5

9:30h – Opening remarks

9:45-10:45h Foucault, Communism(s) and CEE (part I)

moderator: Laurent Tatarenko (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique-University of Warsaw)

Bartłomiej Błesznowski (University of Warsaw) & 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”

 

10:45-11:00h coffee break

 

11:00-12:30h 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”

panel discussion

 

12:30-13:30h lunch

 

14-15h Foucauldian Prisms (part I)

moderator: Isabel Jacobs (Czech Academy of Sciences)

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”

 

15-15:15h 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 a Hungarian prison. The case of Court Record – In Memoriam Péter Mansfeld”