So Michel Foucault and Gary Becker Walk into a Bar… A Lecture and Conversation with Bernard Harcourt on Punishment, Sexual Capital, and Neoliberalism

Event time: 
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 4:15pm
Location: 
Yale Law School, Room 122 See map
Event description: 

So Michel Foucault and Gary Becker Walk into a Bar…
A Lecture and Conversation with Bernard Harcourt on Punishment, Sexual Capital, and Neoliberalism

Yale Law School, Room 122
Thursday, November 21
4:15 pm

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Chicago and has just been elected directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. During 2013-14, he is the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University. He is the author of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard University Press 2011) and the editor of Michel Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures at the Collège de France, La Société punitive (Gallimard 2013). Most recently, he published with Michael Taussig and W.J.T. Mitchell, Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience (University of Chicago Press 2013). He is also the author of Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press 2007), which won the Gordon J. Laing Prize in 2009, Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press 2005), and Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press 2001) and the co-editor of Foucault’s Mal faire, dire vrai: Fonction de l’aveu en justice (Presses Universitaires de Louvain and University of Chicago Press).

Sponsored by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies; Yale Law School; Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; and the Political Theory Workshop