We are pleased to announce the final program of the virtual conference “Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy”, which will take place on January 30–31, 2026.
The conference brings together scholars from more than 15 countries and offers a space for interdisciplinary and transhistorical dialogue on Michel Foucault’s intellectual legacy. The program features four thematic panels addressing issues of power, biopolitics, sexuality, resistance, and related topics, with contributions spanning philosophy, political theory, gender studies, law, and digital humanities.
A keynote lecture will be delivered by Paul Patton (UNSW Australia).
The conference is organized by a dedicated international team and is supported by the following institutional patrons:
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Anthropos – Doctoral School of the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPAN)
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Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN)
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Università di Pisa
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Ars RoSa – Centro Studi su Ragion di Stato e Democrazia
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Centro Studi Giovanni Botero, Bene Vagienna
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Museo Barracco of Rome
Participation in the conference is free of charge and open to the public. The event will be held online via Microsoft Teams.
🔗 The full conference program is available for download below.
Cover photo: Tom Fecht: Kaltes Quadrat (cold square) – Bonn – Installation in the entrance of the Federal art and exhibition hall in Bonn – paving stone in memory of Michel Foucault; CC BY-SA 2.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=782548
Conference program
