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After Biopolitics

The Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University will host the 29th Annual Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) Conference. The conference theme, “After Biopolitics,” seeks to reexamine the theoretical, cultural, social, and political underpinnings of the biopolitical paradigm and to explore conceptual resources (both within and outside of the biopolitical paradigm) for the possibility of thinking what has been called an “affirmative” biopolitics that views the intersection of “life” and the political as a potential space of affinity, community, and creativity, rather than the “thanatopolitics” that has dominated the biopolitical paradigm thus far.

  • What Four-day conference
  • When Thursday through Sunday, November 12–15, 2015
  • Where BioScience Research Collaborative, Houston Medical Center and Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Submissions Due April 1, 2015
  • More Information Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University