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IPP Workshop Series: Introduction to the Body and Power Relations

When

Nov 19, 2026 from 02:00 to 04:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

Where

SR 126

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// Luis Guillermo Zazueta Beltran 

 

This workshop will examine Foucault’s ideas about the body and power relations, focusing on how institutions discipline and regulate the body through power relations.
The aim is to provide an overview of how the body has been studied historically, define Foucault’s vision, and assess how it diverges from previous approaches.
Finally, we will explore its influence on contemporary scholarship. This will enable us to reflect on how the body can be understood in terms of experience, identity, gender, power, and embodiment. The workshop will demonstrate how the body has developed into its own subject of study.

At the beginning of the workshop the participants will be asked to discuss how the body has been studied historically, including in ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, or at the XX century, when the anthropology consolidates as a discipline itself. Participants will then be asked to arrange cards containing concepts and authors on a timeline. After that, some quotes, mostly from Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment: “The Birth of the Prison” (1977), and The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (1978), regarding the concepts of the body, and power relations will be examined. Finally, the participants will work on teams to summarize the influence of Foucault’s ideas on the study of the body in relation to identity, gender, experience, and so on. 

 

 

Please sign up here for the course! 

Please note that a minimum of five participants is needed for the workshop to be able to take place two weeks before taking place. Please sign up on Stud.IP well in advance and note that your attendance is binding. Should you not be able to attend last minute, please inform the IPP team and the workshop leader.