Échos et rencontres en Europe centrale et orientale
Ce colloque est coorganisé par l’Institut de philosophie de l’Académie tchèque des sciences, le Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales en Prague (CEFRES) et le Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones en Pologne (CCFEF)
Dates et lieux : Bibliothèque de l’université de Varsovie, room 256, Dobra 56
28–29 mai 2026
Académie tchèque des sciences, Národní 3, Prague 1, salles 205/206
1 juin 2026
Langue : anglais
Comité d’organisation : Mateusz CHMURSKI, Isabel JACOBS, Jiří RŮŽIČKA, Radosław SZYMAŃSKI, Laurent TATARENKO
Programme à Varsovie
Jeudi 28 mai
9h30 Discours inauguraux
9h45-10h45 Panel 1: Foucault, Communism(s) and CEE (part I)
Chair: Laurent Tatarenko (CNRS / University of Warsaw)
Bartłomiej Błesznowski (University of Warsaw) & Radek Szymanski (University of Warsaw)
Foucault’s Reception in Poland: From an Obscure Historian to a Staple of Humanities
Adam Takács (Eötvös Loránd University)
Faces of Foucault under Hungarian State Socialism: From Distrusted Ideologue to Critical Catalyst
10h45-11h00 Pause café
11h00-12h30 Foucault, Communism(s) and CEE (part II)
Jan Bierhanzl (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Pastoral Power and Marxism. Foucault and CEE
Ralf Gisinger (University of Vienna)
The Problem of Naturalization. Double Transference in Marx/Engels and Foucault
Discussion
12h30-13h00 Pause déjeuner
14h00-15h00 Panel 2: Foucauldian Prisms (part I)
Chair: Isabel Jacobs (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Joanna Maria Szumańska (The Royal Lazienki Museum)
The Royal Łazienki – The Other Spaces
Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak (University of Łódź)
Between Truth-Telling and Pseudo-Parrhēsia: The Case of Krzysztof Stanowski and the 2025 Polish Presidential Campaign
15h00-15h15 Pause café
15h15-16h45 Foucauldian Prisms (part II)
Krešimir Petković (Zagreb University)
Whither Foucault? Experiences of a Croatian Political Scientist
Kamil Lipiński (University of Warsaw)
Building an archive and subjectification in Hungarian prison. The case of Court Record – In Memoriam Péter Mansfeld
Discussion
Vendredi 29 mai
9h30-10h30 Panel 3: Biopolitics, power and the state (part I)
chair: Radek Szymanski (University of Warsaw)
Danube Johnson (Independent)
Understanding Poststructural Principles through Foucault’s Evaluation of Soviet Biopolitics
Mikołaj Ratajczak (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Instituting Biopolitics in Central Europe: The Dissemination of the Idea of « Biopolitics » in Germany and former Austro-Hungary in the Interwar Period
10h30-10h45 Pause café
10h45-12h15 Biopolitics, power and the state (part II)
Philipp Kender (University of Kent)
Cold War Theory? Historicising Foucault’s Analysis of Power
Aziz Ishler (University of Tübingen)
Conceptual Travel and Epistemic Asymmetry: Foucault in Central/Eastern Europe and the Modern Arab World
Discussion
12h15-13h30 Pause déjeuner
14h00-16h00 Panel 4: Methodological heritages
chair: Jiří Růžička (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Esteban Arellano (Universidad de Guadalajara/ITESO)
Rethinking Foucauldian Methodology through the Politics of Disappearance: From Mexico to Central and Eastern Europe
Krzysztof Tarkowski (CEFRES, Prague)
Foucault’s Early Material Genealogies: Money and the American Turn
Jakub Krzeski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Foucault–Kula (Mis)Encounter: Revisiting Historical Metrology through a Genealogical Lens
Discussion
16h00-16h15 Pause café
16h15-16h45 Table ronde et discours de clôture
Programme à Prague
Lundi 1er juin
10h00 – Discours inauguraux
10h15-12h00 Political Poetics: Foucault and Literature
chair: Laurent Tatarenko
Josef Fulka (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Infamia: On the Margins of Czech Literature
Lenka Vojtíšková (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Episteme and Ideologeme: Distance of Vision, Intimacy of Gesture
Jovan Bukumira (Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade)
Early Avant-Garde and Late Foucault
12h00-13h00 Pause déjeuner
13h00-14h45 Archaeologies of Socialism
chair: Isabel Jacobs
Maria Chehonadskih (Queen Mary University of London)
Archaeology of Socialism After Foucault
Jiří Růžička (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
From Avant-Garde Aesthetics to Historical Epistemes: Structuralism and Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge
Alexei Penzin (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
The Post-Soviet Foucault: On Valery Podoroga’s Archaeology of Modernity
14h45-15h00 Pause café
15h00-16h45 Historical Epistemology after Foucault
chair: Jiří Růžička
Ladislav Kvasz (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Foucault and Kuhn: Deep Similarities and Superficial Differences
Matteo Polleri (Paris Nanterre University)
Foucault with Lukács? History and Class Subjectivation
16h45-17h00 Pause café
17h00-18h30 Conférence plénière – Didier ERIBON
chair: Mateusz Chmurski
18h Projection du film Retour à Reims à Kino 35, Prague 1
Mardi 2 juin
9h00-10h45 Histories of Sexuality & Body Politics
chair: Radoslaw Szymanski
Agnieszka Laddach (University of Warsaw)
Revolt in Historical Research?: Michel Foucault’s Methodological Postulates and Sexual History of the Catholic Church in Poland
Tomáš Hříbek (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Foucault’s Legacy and Contemporary Social Ontology
Rustam Burnashev (Kazakh-German University) and Irina Chernykh (Kazakh-German University)
Michel Foucault’s Dispositif of Security: Quasi-neoliberal States
12h00-13h00 Pause déjeuner
14h00-15h45 Foucault’s « Eastern » Encounters
chiar: Jan Mervart
Laura Kladeková (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
How Slovak Philosophy ‘Became Different’ Thanks To Foucault »
Yue Li (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Karel Bartošek and Foucault: Encountering in Exile
Zafar Iqbal (University of Karachi)
Silence and Ajz: Translating Foucault’s Madness and Civilization through Islamic Ontology and CEE Phenomenology
14h45-15h00 Pause café
15h00-16h30 Foucault and Patočka
chair: Jan Bierhanzl
Ekaterina Shashlova (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University) Phenomenology against Archaeology of Knowledge: Jan Patočka’s Reading of Michel Foucault
Saverio Alessandro Matrangolo (University of Bergamo)
Caring for the Truth. A Comparison between Michel Foucault and Jan Patočka
18 h Grand entretien avec Didier ERIBON à Kino 35, Prague 1
Classes, identités, trajectoires : écriture sociobiographique et théorie politique
Modération : Josef ŠEBEK (Université Charles / CEFRES)