Foucault / Merleau-Ponty / Latour
24-27 April 2023, Manchester
MARG, University of Manchester – Humanities Bridgeford Steet Building (HBS)
1st floor, room HBS 1.69/1.70
Monday 24th April
14.00 – 16.00h Welcome and introduction to the event. Presentations of the participants [2 slides] and the convenors
16.00 – 16:30h – Break
16:30h Keynote Lecture 1 – Professor Albena Yaneva: “Technical Mediation and Creative Process: Thinking with Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Bruno Latour”
18.00h – Welcome drinks reception
Tuesday 25th April – Rooms: HBS 1.27, HBS 1.69/1.70 and ALB G035/36
9.30 – 11.00h – Thinkers’ session 1 “Master Class on thinker 1”
11.00 – 11.30h Coffee in HBS 1.69/1.70
11.30 – 13:00h – Thinkers’ session 2 “Master Class on thinker 2”
13.00 – 14.30h Lunch in HBS 1.69/1.70
14.30 – 16.00h– Thinkers’ session 3 “Master Class on thinker 3”
16.30 – 17:00h Break
17:00 – 18.30h Keynote Lecture 2 – Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti: “Embodiment, Power and Networks and their Relation to Space and Urbanism: Theorising with Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour”
19:00h Conference Dinner
(Each master class will focus on one thinker and will set the ground for dialogue. Participants will be split into 3 groups and will rotate)
Wednesday 26th April – Room HBS 1.69/1.70
9.30 – 11.00h Keynote Lecture 3 – Professor Jonathan Hale: “Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and Latour: The Technological Subject, From the Prehuman to the Posthuman”
11.00 – 11.30h Coffee in HBS 1.69/1.70
11.30 – 13:00h – “Thinkers Dialogue Session I: Technology/Design/Urbanism” (Chaired by Albena Yaneva)
13:00 –14:00h Lunch in HBS 1.69/1.70
14 – 15.30h – “Thinkers Dialogue Session 2: Body/Apparatus/Network” (Chaired by Jonathan Hale)
(From 15.30 onwards participants will have time to work individually to prepare final
presentations [2 slides] and update the paper proposal in the light of the Dialogue discussions from the past 3 days)
Thursday 27th of April
9:30-1:00h – Closing Panel and Presentations – Room HBS 1.69/1.70
Thinkers for Architecture 