[Colloquium] Fwd: Workshop with Gary Becker & Francois Ewald: "Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment" -- Wednesday May 15 at noon Foster 505

[Ninfa Mayorga]

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> From: "Kimberly Schafer" <schaferk at uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Workshop with Gary Becker & Francois Ewald: "Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment" -- Wednesday May 15 at noon Foster 505
> Date: May 13, 2013 9:20:23 AM CDT
> To: <ninfa at uchicago.edu>
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> Please join us for an open seminar/workshop with
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> Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt
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>  discussing  
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>  “Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment”
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> (A Second Session)
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>  Wednesday, May 15
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> 12:00 – 1:20 pm
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> Foster Hall 505
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> In 1968, Gary Becker published a seminal article titled “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach” in the Journal of Political Economy, in which he set forth the contours of an economic perspective on the field of criminal law and punishment. Only a few years later, in his lectures on The Birth of Biopolitics at the Collège de France on March 21, 1979, Michel Foucault analyzed Gary Becker’s article in relationship to his own writings.
> In that virtual exchange, Foucault demonstrated a great interest in Becker’s approach. Was it an interest in the liberal economic analysis of crime or an interest in a pure theory of crime, conceived as pure struggle of power? Did Becker and Foucault share an interest in moving away from criminology and psychiatry? What would the encounter say about criminalization and efficiency? Did it have any implications for the death penalty? And how did it relate to Foucault’s intervening book, Discipline and Punish, published in 1975?
> This open seminar/workshop will address these questions. Copies of Gary Becker’s article and Michel Foucault lecture of March 21, 1979, can be obtained by e-mailing Katya Maslakowski at katya at uchicago.edu.
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> Gary Becker is a Nobel Laureate in economics and currently holds the position of University Professor in Economics, Booth School of Business, and Sociology at the University of Chicago and is the Chair of the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.
> François Ewald is titular professor of the chair of insurance studies at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam) and director of the Ecole nationale d'assurances. Professor Ewald was Michel Foucault’s primary assistant and interlocutor at the the Collège de France from 1976 to 1984, and is the founder of the Michel Foucault Centre. He is in charge of publication of Foucault's teaching works at the Collège de France.
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> Bernard E. Harcourt is the Julius Kreeger Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard 2011).
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> Sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the France Chicago Center,
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> the Computation Institute, and 3CT
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> The University of Chicago
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