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Foucault on Neoliberalism: Race and the Re-Birth of Biopolitics

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

A lecture by Claire Blencowe, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick. 

Professor Blencowe is the author of Biopolitical Foucault Power & Positive Critique, which offers a critical account of the roles of values associated with evolution, creativity, and vitality in the constitution of European political power and its attendant racism. 

Lunch will be served. 

Event sponsored by the Morey Speakers Fund and the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.
Part of the Margaret Parkhurst Morey Lecture Series in French.