Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-eighth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]
Latest Issue of Foucault Studies Is Out!
The Fall 2025 issue of Foucault Studies has been published today. You can find the issue here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55841 Foucault Studies is the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of Michel Foucault. Since its inception in 2004, it has been publishing top-rate research on or inspired by Foucault entirely open […]
A Feminist Re-Reading of Foucault Through the Apparatus of Disability/A Feminist Re-Reading of the Apparatus of Disability Through Foucault, Sciences Po/Paris, Nov. 7, 2025
The writing below is the text of my (online) keynote presentation to FEMINIST RE-READINGS OF FOUCAULT, Sciences Po, Paris, November 7, 2025. _____________________________________________________________________________________ A Feminist Re-Reading of Foucault Through the Apparatus of Disability/A Feminist Re-Reading of the Apparatus of Disability Through Foucault SECTION I: Why Foucault? My philosophical work is centrally concentrated in philosophy of […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
Poster for Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Paris, 7–8 Nov 2025, Hybrid
Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands. At the bottom of the poster, my name as the keynote speaker and the address of the venue and institutional supporters. The conference program can be found here: https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/10/20/feminist-re-readings-of-michel-foucault-hybrid-7-8-nov-2025-sciences-po/
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po
Reviewers for “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I am guest editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” which will commemorate the one hundred-year anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Late in September, I will begin to receive the […]
Call for Participants: Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Workshop (Reading Foucault), Online, Nov. 4-7, 2025 (deadline: Sept. 1, 2025)
Decolonizing Knowledge and Power WorkshopFigure of Study: Michel Foucault https://forms.gle/3ApXDiWEZpiZHDGC7 We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2025 Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Workshop. This is an informal initiative led by a group of scholars passionate about critical theory and its relevance in the world today. The workshop will take place online via Google […]
REMINDER: CFP: Feminist Re-readings of Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7, 2025 (deadline: Jun. 18, 2025)
Since the 1980s, Michel Foucault’s legacy in feminist theory and practice has been the subject of sustained and critical debate. His analyses of power, subjectivation, biopolitics, and governmentality have opened up fertile conceptual avenues for thinking about gender, sex, and sexuality. Yet they have also prompted significant critique: the absence of a theory of patriarchy, […]
CFP: Feminist Re-readings of Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7, 2025 (deadline: Jun. 18, 2025)
Since the 1980s, Michel Foucault’s legacy in feminist theory and practice has been the subject of sustained and critical debate. His analyses of power, subjectivation, biopolitics, and governmentality have opened up fertile conceptual avenues for thinking about gender, sex, and sexuality. Yet they have also prompted significant critique: the absence of a theory of patriarchy, […]
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