International Workshop Program Biopolitics, Bioscience and Governmentality

International Workshop Program

Biopolitics, Bioscience and Governmentality

November 19th, 2015

Room “auditorio DEC”,

Faculty of Engineering Diego Portales University (Vergara # 432, Santiago)

Panel 1 (14:00 a 15:45 hrs):

Claudio Maino and Álvaro Jiménez (Universidad Paris 5 (Descartes)): The challenges to think mental health in democratic societies: What can the biopolitical approaches offer?

 Mauricio Sepúlveda, Sebastían de la Fuente and Jorge Lucero (Universidad de Chile): The poppers as technology of the body in the sexual (counter) practices: Pleasure, counter-pratice and somatic fiction 

Jimena Carrasco (Universidad Austral de Chile) and Arthur Arruda (Universidade Federale Rio de Janeiro): Brazilian and Chilean psychiatric reforms and management for freedom – a history of the modes of governance in mental health practices.

Coffee Break

Panel 2 (16:00 a 17: 45):     

Jorge Castillo (Universidad de Santiago de Chile): Bio-governmentality: regimes of subjectification, embodiment and biosociality in GES: approach to expert repertoires

Sebastián Rojas (King’s College London): A biomedical hybridization of childhood? Modes of agency and flashes of will according to an ethnographic experience in a Chilean school of Santiago

Ricardo Camargo (Universidad de Talca) and Nicolás Ried (Universidad de Chile):

Biopolitics and Truth in the Chilean judicial apparatus: the case of the Marchiafava Bignami disease

Coffee Break 

Final Nikolas Rose's conference: “Biopolitics in the Twenty First Century” (18: 00 hrs)