Dr. Thomas Biebricher

Vorträge / Talks / Lectures

• The Practices of Theorists: Habermas and Foucault as Public Intellectuals (Paper presented at the Association for Political Theory Conference in London, Ontario, 13/10/2007)


• Governmentality and State Theory (Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Conference in Las Vegas, 08/03/2007)


• Law, Discipline, Governmentality: Taking a Revisionist Look at Foucauldian Power (Talk given at the Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, 11/08/2006)


• Discipline, Domination, Security: The Problem of Power in Foucault's Lectures 1972-76 (Paper presented at the Critical Theory Roundtable in Windsor, 22/10/2006)


• Habermas, the European Constitution, and Core Europe (Paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference in Pittsburgh, 01/10/2006)


• Normalization or Polarization? Germany's Mixed-Member System in a Changing Electoral Environment (Paper presented with Bryon Moraski at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago, 22/04/2006)


• Große Koalition oder Große Konfusion: Deutschland nach den Wahlen (Lecture given at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, 21/10/2005)


• Elections in Times of 'Crisis': Germany at the Polls (Talk given at the Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, 21/09/2005)


• Deliberative Democracy and Strategic State Analysis (Paper presented at Western Political Science Association Conference in Oakland, 17/03/2005)


• Habermas, Foucault and Rorty: Giving a Pragmatist Meaning to Poststructuralist Ethics and Modern Morality (Paper presented at SWPSA in New Orleans, March 24th 2005)
  
  
  
• Habermas und Foucault - ein Theorievergleich (Vortrag am Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research), Frankfurt/M. Germany, 13. Dezember 2004)
  
  
• Transformation and Fragmentation: The American Public Sphere in an Election Year. (Paper given at the International Conference on Social Science Research in New Orleans, November 12th 2004 and at the SWPSA Conference in New Orleans March 25th 2005).
  
  
• Deliberative Democracy or Strategic State Analysis: Towards a Dialogue between Habermas and Foucault (Paper presented at DAAD-Conference on "Democracy and Democratization" at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 08.05.2004)
  
  
• Foucault's Genealogy and Habermas' Critique - Differing Ways out of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (Paper given at MPSA in Chicago, 15.04.2004)
  
  
• Germany Today. The Red-Green Coalition and Reformstau (Lecture given at the Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, 05.03.2004)
  
  
• Deliberative Democracy or Strategic State Analysis. Towards a Dialogue between Habermas and Foucault (Talk given at the Institute of European Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, 01.03.2004)
  
  
• Dual Passports. The Troubled Modernization of German Citizenship Law (Talk given at the Conference of DAAD-Professors in North America, York University, Toronto, 22.11.2003)
  
  
• Habermas and Foucault. Differing Ways out of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (Talk given at the Department of Sociology, Rice University, Houton, 24.10.2003)
  
  
• Politik im Anschluss an Foucault (Vortrag im Rahmen der Graduiertenkonferenz "PostModerne Praktiken" an der Universität Erlangen, 23.11. 2001)