3 talks this spring

I have three talks this spring all dealing, directly or indirectly, with religion and Foucault.  First,  in March, a conference in Paris: “Who Cares? International Conference on History of Psychiatry in the English-speaking World”.  My paper is titled “
“The Inner Light of Christ and the Medical Personage: A Quaker Reading of the Birth of the Asylum”.  Like the paper I presented at the Psychology and the Other conference back in the Fall, this one is on the York Retreat, Quaker Religiosity, and how to rethink Foucault’s conclusion in History of Madness through the lens of a certain Christian ethics.  Next, in April I go to the Foucault Circle where I do a paper on Foucault’s Government of the Living lectures, and specifically the question of obedience. It is titled “What is Obedience? From Veridiction to Agape in the Direction of Conscience”.  I will give a version of this same paper in June in Lisbon at a conference called “AFTER THE DEATH OF THE HUMAN Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference”.  The rest of the summer will be spent recovering from all this conferencing.