Professor Marita Rainsborough of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany, will be at the UFMG School of Philosophy and Human Sciences (Fafich) during the third week of September to give a lecture and a short course on the philosophy of Michel Foucault. The event is sponsored by the UFMG Graduate Program in Philosophy and is supported by the FUNDEP/IEAT Chairs program.

On September 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Marita Rainsborough will teach the short course “Rethinking Foucault: Experiences and Experiments in Philosophy.” Divided into three sessions, the course will cover the following topics: Criticism, Parrhesia, and Philosophy in Foucault; Language, Literature, and Art in Michel Foucault’s Philosophy; and History, Revolution, Progress, and the Concept of Power in Foucault. Classes will take place in Room 4094 at Fafich. Registration for the mini-course must be done through the Even3 platform and will entitle you to a certificate of participation.

On September 25th, at 2:00 pm, Marita Rainsborough will give the lecture “Sexuality, Truth, and Power in the Philosophy of Michel Foucault” in the Baesse Auditorium at Fafich. To participate, you must register for free via the Even3 platform.

In a submitted abstract, Marita Rainsborough explains that examining the genealogy of sexuality is a central concern of Foucault’s philosophy. Foucault observes a growing discursiveness of sexuality, which constitutes the subject’s sexuality, creating and intensifying desires. In doing so, he radically criticizes Freud’s thesis of repression. In his works “Sexuality and Truth I-IV,” he analyzes the development of the dispositif of sexuality from Antiquity to the 20th century. Based on these works, Marita Rainsborough will attempt to answer: What conclusions can be drawn from Foucault’s reflections for today?

About the Professor

Marita Rainsborough is an Associate Professor (PD) at the Institute of Philosophy and Art History at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Kiel, Germany. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Center for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon (CFUL) in Portugal and co-editor of the journal Estudos Kantianos (Brazil).