International conference co-organized by the CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, France and the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault, Paris, France, with the support of IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil, le Centre d'études sur les conflits, Paris, France, et le Centre des Amériques de Sciences Po, Paris, France.

Programme

Monday, January 13th

09h15-09h30   Welcoming address and introduction

• Didier Bigo, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, France;
• Philippe Bonditti, IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil;
• Frédéric Gros, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France

09h30-12h30   Session 1 INTERNATIONAL ? IR and Security in light of Genealogy and Governmentality

Chair: Philippe Bonditti, IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil

09h30-10h15   Introductory Lecture

• Counter Concepts for the International: Political Spirituality, Insurrection and the Courage of Truth, Michael Dillon, University of Lancaster, UK

10h15-11h30   Roundtable

• Lives of Infamous Men in the 21st Century, Fabienne Brion, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique
• Foucault in IR. Is there anything left to say? Jef Huysmans, Open University, UK
• Decolonising critical security from IR: genealogy of (in)securities, Didier Bigo, CERI-Sciences Po, France

11h30-12h30   Discussion

14H00-17H30   Session 2 NEOLIBERAL ? Bureaucratisation, Management, Critique

Chair: Sandrine Revet, CERI-Sciences Po, France

14h30-15h30   Roundtable

• On neoliberal bureaucratization. Béatrice Hibou, CNRS/CERI Sciences Po, France
• A historical ontology of management. Luca Paltrinieri, CIRPP, CCI-Paris-Idf and Collège international de Philosophie
• Is there a critical liberalism? Frédéric Gros, UPEC, France

15h45-16h00   Coffee Break

16h00-16h45   Keynote address

• Foucault and Method. Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaï at Manoa, Untited-States

16h45-17h30   Discussion

Tuesday, January 14th

09h00-09h30   Participants welcoming

09H30-12H30   Session 3 GLOBAL ? Beyond (post-)colonialism and developmentalism

Chair: Didier Bigo, CERI-Sciences Po, France

09h30-10h15   Introductory Lecture

• Globally yours: globalization as regimes of subjectification. Jean-François Bayart, CNRS/ CERI Sciences Po Paris, France

10h15-11h30   Roundtable

• Foucault and the subject of the postcolonial international. Vivienne Jabri, Kings College London, UK
• Foucault and the colonial. Paulo Esteves and Marta Moreno, IRI/ PUC-Rio, Brazil
• Globalization , sovereignty and the politics of survival. Marc Abélès, LAIOS, CNRS/EHESS, France

11h30-12h30   Discussion

14H00-15H30   Session 4 MODERN ? Sovereignty, violence and power

Chair: Pierre Hassner, CERI-Sciences Po Paris, France

14h00-14h45   Introductory Lecture

• Power as sumbolon and signature: sovereignty, governmentality and the international. Mitchell Dean, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

14h45-15h30   Roundtable

• The invention of terrorism and the mutation of modernity. Philippe Bonditti, IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil
• Spatializing the international through governmentality, sovereignty and violence. Pierre Sauvêtre, Sciences Po, Paris, France
• Sovereign state and inward colonization: fiction about a Foucault/ Schmitt non-dialogue. Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc, Université Toulouse le Mirail, France

15h30-16h00   General discussion

15h45-16h00   Coffee Break

16h00-17h30   Session 5   CONCLUDING SESSION

16h00-16h45   Concluding lecture

• Which Foucault? Which International? RBJ Walker, University of Victoria, Canada

16h45-17h30   General discussion

Academic coordinators

• Didier Bigo, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, France
• Philippe Bonditti, IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil
• Frédéric Gros, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France