CRASSH

9.00 - 9.30am

Registration

9.30 - 9.45am

Welcome and Introduction

9.45 - 10.45am

Professor Remi Lenoir (Centre de Sociologie Européenne, Université Paris 1, France)
Foucault and the Family

Chair: Dr Deborah Thom (History, University of Cambridge)

10.45am - 12pm

Professor Valerie Walkerdine (School of Social Sciences, University of Cardiff, UK/Visiting Professor, University of Oslo, Norway)
From Political Economy to Advanced Liberalism: Foucault, Family and Generation

Response: Netta Chachamu (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University)

Chair: Dr Susan Walker (Child & Family Health, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

12 - 1.30pm

Break (Lunch in Town)

1.30 - 3pm

Malcolm Thompson (History, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Family, Economy and Governmentality: The Birth of the Chinese Population

Dialogue Paper: Dr Leon Rocha (History of Science, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge)
‘The Dark Side of Society’: Herbert Day Lamson and the Establishment of Social Sciences in China

Chair: Professor Terrell Carver (Politics, University of Bristol)

3 - 4pm

Break (Tea & Coffee)

4 - 5.30pm

Professor Vikki Bell (Sociology, University of London, Goldsmiths, UK)
Foucault’s Familial Scenes: Subjects of Critique

Associate Professor Gillian Harkins (English, University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Foucault and the Afterlife of Children

Chair: Robbie Duschinsky (Sociology, University of Cambridge)

5.30 - 6.30pm

Professor Veronique Mottier (Sociology, University of Lausanne/Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK) 
Gender, Sexuality and the State: Beyond Foucault

Chair: Dr Jean Khalfa (French, University of Cambridge)