Events
Resistance & Pleasure in Foucault: Recovering a lost connection
This seminar is part of a global network commemorating the 40th anniversary of Michel Foucault’s legacy. As one of over 50 venues across five continents, we are proud to contribute to this.
World Congress in celebration of Foucault’s enduring influence on philosophy, political theory, and the humanities.
Speakers
Kane Race, University of Sydney — On Overdose of Pleasure
Oliver Davis, University College Cork — Pleasure in Parrhesia
Alex Dymock, Goldsmiths, University of London — Sex at the Edge: Risk, Consent, and the Politics of Erotic Breathplay
Elena Vasiliou, University of Warwick — Self-destruction, Resistance, and Pleasure
Perspectives on Self-Destruction in Prison and Beyond
This event explores questions of self-destruction from a non-pathologising perspective, using queer theory as a theoretical tool to examine the complex relationship between pain, self-inflicted harm, empowerment, and imprisonment. It centers the voices of individuals with lived experience of self-destruction, rather than focusing solely on professional discourses and practices.
Chair, Anastasia Chamberlen, Professor of Sociology
Speakers:
Sarah Huque, University of Edinburg — Suicide cultures and Scottish Prison Inquiries, Challenging narratives of absolution through the “unforeseeable” and “inevitable”
Christiane Jerkins, Creative arts and Research Lead, SUIT— Understanding self-destruction through lived experience
Elena Mylona, University of Warwick— Self-harm and Suicide in prisons: a quantitative analysis
Elena Vasiliou, University of Warwick — Queer Interventions on self-harm in prisons, final remarks
Zine-Making Workshop
Explore the themes of the seminar in a DIY zine-making workshop in a design studio. This informal, welcoming session offers a space to create artwork led by the artist and activist RTiiiKA
Zine-Making Workshop
In colloaboration with an artist, participants were invited to reflect on the seminar, and creatively interpret the themes.
