A particularly packed spring conference season recently wound up for me, having attended four conferences over the course of about a month and a half. Two of these stood out for the contrast of the approaches to the human, personhood and the self and the questions they raised for the study of each. What was most interesting, was the relative …
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CfP: ‘French Theory’ in circulation, AAA 2010 — deadline (28 Feb)
Foucault et al. from Paris to California and Back Again: The Creolisation of “French Theory”
In this call for papers for the 2010 AAA meetings in New Orleans (17-21 November) we seek contributions from individuals who not only draw on French theorists, but who examine the ways in which “French Theory” travels, circulates and is re-imagined. Further, we particularly welcome …
Field notes from Paris: social pathology and the globalization of sentiments
My institutional homes keep me crossing the Atlantic, between Montreal and Paris. During my current stay in Paris I’m concentrating on one of the stickiest questions in my research on social phobia, or social anxiety disorder, which has recently been imported into France. I am pre-occupied with the question: why here, why now? Basically: why it is that people in …