IKA lecture series: Architecture History after Foucault
Montag, 14. Mai 2012 - 19:00 Uhr
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Born 1956 in Basel, Switzerland; Professor for Modern History at the History Department, research unit for social and economic history, University of Zurich. Fields and topics of research: History of knowledge, theory of historiography, urban history, cold war history, history of the body and history of sexuality.
Key publications: Darwin und Foucault. Genealogie und Geschichte im Zeitalter der Biologie, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2009; (ed. with S. Berger et. al.).: Bakteriologie und Moderne. Studien zur Biopolitik des Unsichtbaren, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2007; Anthrax. Bioterror as fact and fantasy, Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press 2006 (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2004); Michel Foucault zur Einführung, Junius Verlag, Hamburg, 2005, 4th edition 2010; Geschichts¬wissen¬schaft und Diskursanalyse, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2003; Reizbare Maschinen. Eine Geschichte des Körpers 1765-1914, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2001; (ed. with J. Tanner): Physiologie und industrielle Gesellschaft. Studien zur Verwissenschaftlichung des Körpers im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 1998; Stadt der Bürger. Bürgerliche Macht und städtische Gesellschaft, Basel 1846-1914 (2nd edition), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1997 (Paris: L'Harmattan 1998).
The lecture series 2011/2012 addresses the question: Is there architecture history after Foucault? The IKA invites historians, scientists and architecture theorists from various fields and disciplines to discuss more fundamental issues of the practices of a historian which are diversely effected by the major impact of Michel Foucault's writings. However, the main focus of the lectures is rather generally on methodo-logical approaches of subsequent historical research and knowledge. The lectures will help to redefine architecture history's position today.