Bio-Politics Today (2): Race, Gender, Identity, Populations

How does power construct sex, gender, racial, and social identities? The first iterations of bio-politics have offered interpretations of this modern construction, the revolution of a power focused on Life, whose main objects have become the body and populations. Yet, don’t globalization and world migration renew this very question, as they redefine individual and political borders?

Faculty of Arts – Aula

Bio-Politics or Cosmopolitics?
Who: Étienne Balibar, Antonio Negri and Étienne Tassin
What: Debate
When: 7:15-9 PM
Language: French, with with simultaneous translation in Czech

The Philosophy of the Migrant Condition
Who: Étienne Tassin and Étienne Balibar
What: Big Lecture
When: 9:15-10:15 PM
Language: French, with simultaneous translation in Czech

Faculty of Arts – room 217

Performing Race. On the Representation and Under-Representation of Minorities
Who: Éric Fassin
What: Short Lecture
When: 7 PM
Language: English

The Ends of Multiculturalism
Who: Pavel Barša
What: Short Lecture
When: 7:30 PM
Language: Czech

In Search for Ethics in Times of Crises. The Attitudes Towards Others and Selves
Who: Monika Rogowska-Stangret
What: Short Lecture
When: 8 PM
Language: English

The Refugee and the Bare Life
Who: Jan Bierhanzl
What: Short Lecture
When: 8:30 PM
Language: Czech

Bio-Politics and Class Politics
Who: Tamás Gáspár Miklós
What: Short Lecture
When: 9 PM
Language: English

The Foreigner As a Need
Who: Petr Kouba
What: Short Lecture
When: 10:15 PM
Language: Czech

Eternal Nations
Who: Michał Łuczewski
What: Short Lecture
When: 10:45 PM
Language: English

Faculty of Arts – room 200

The Wound by Nicolas Klotz (2004)
Who: Étienne Tassin
What: Screening and Introduction
When: 11:45PM-3 AM
Language: French, with simultaneous translation in Czech

Faculty of Arts – History Cabinet

Can Women Save Us?
Who: Michał Kozłowski
What: Agora
Prepared by: Benjamin Kaiser et Alexander Berg (FHS UK)
When: 10:15 PM-11:15 PM
Language: English

Politics and Manifestation
Who: Étienne Tassin
What: Agora
Prepared by: Catarina di Fazio (FHS UK)
When: 0:30-1:30 AM
Language: French

The Trade Fair Palace – Korzo

Violence and Civility
Who: Étienne Balibar
What: Agora
Prepared by: Richard Cieslar (Praxis)
When: 11:15 PM-00:15 AM
Language: English

Bios and Politikos
Who: Judith Revel
What: Agora
Prepared by: Nicolas Garrera and Jan Bierhanzl (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Humanities of Charles University)
When: 0:15-1:15 AM
Language: French

Images, Sciences and Politics – Prague 2016

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