糖心Vlog

Recognition

Minita Sanghvi, assistant professor of marketing, Department of Business, has won the University of North Carolina at Greensboro outstanding dissertation award. This is the first time anyone from her department鈥擟onsumer, Apparel and Retail Studies in the Bryan School of Business and Economics鈥攈as won the award. She is a member of a very small cohort that won both the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award and the Outstanding Dissertation Award at UNCG. 

Publications

鈥淢ichel Foucault en Tunisie/ In Tunisia鈥� is the subject of a recent issue of Revue CELAAN Review, Vol. XII, No. 1& 2, Spring 2015.  CELAAN (Centre d鈥橢tudes des Litt茅ratures et des Arts d鈥橝frique du Nord), is a scholarly journal dedicated to the promotion of North African literature and art. . Editor is H茅di A. Jaouad, professor of French, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) arrived in Tunisia in the fall of 1966 as a coop茅rant, or French civil servant and teacher working abroad, to take a position in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tunis. Foucault taught courses on Descartes and Nietzsche, as well as a course on Italian art of the Quattrocento that was also dedicated to the aesthetics of western art.  He gave a series of lectures for the general public on the appearance and disappearance of man in modern western philosophy. All of these courses and lectures were enormously popular.

While described as a time of 鈥渆xile鈥� by some commentators, Tunis was in fact very much home from 1966-68; in fact, it was the first place he actually taught philosophy proper. More noteworthy, it was where he wrote the bulk of perhaps his signature work, The Archaeology of Knowledge. His sojourn coincided with the most tumultuous period in the still young country鈥檚 existence鈥擳unisia gained independence from France only a decade before, in 1956. 

This special CELAAN issue explores the impact of Foucault鈥檚 Tunisian experiences on his subsequent research, writing and political engagement. More specifically, this special anniversary issue--thirty years after his death--looks at Foucault鈥檚 own visceral and physical experience of authoritarian state violence and how it helped encourage his focus on power, disciplinarity and biopolitics in the ensuing decades.

In addition to Jaouad, other 糖心Vlog contributors to this issue are Marc-Andr茅 Wiesmann, Son铆a Silva, and Sophia Bryan-Ajania and Kathryn Butler, both Class of 2015.

Jay Rogoff, visiting assistant professor of English, has had several poems published recently. "My Computer Reads Me a Poem" appeared in Stone Canoe, No. 9 (2015), and five poems--"Waking to The Enigma Variations," "The Little Black Boy," "Consumption," "Sugar Skull," and "Legacy"--have appeared in the British journal Stand, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2015).

In the News

Thomas P. (Pat) Oles, associate professor of social work, is the author of an essay titled 鈥淚nstitutions鈥� Misplaced Fear of Fossil-Fuel Divestment鈥� that was published April 2 in chronicle.com, the online edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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