meeting report 5/6/09

chair/reporter: Shelley
present: Cheri, Susan, Nicol, Emily, Jay, Wang Ge, Issa
focused topic: Undressing Foucoult --- the power and subject

You may notice that this week, we have two new attendees, Susan Liang and Jay Park, welcome!!
Another quick note i'd like to draw your attention to, we had two members, Nicol and Cheri, who audio recorded the whole talk this time. Anyone who is interested but was not able to be present, you are welcome to contact them for the recording. We also discussed ways to make the recording more easily accessible, with minimum risk of provoking any ethical issues. No best way out yet, anyone who has good suggestion on this, pleast raise your hand!

Ok, about our talk today. As usual, we first exchanged our progress, mostly academic, made in the past week.
One note i jotted down. Issa recommended a book titled "Micheal Foucault: Personal Autonomy and Education", which makes an explicit link between Foucault and education. Nicol echoed that although education is not a major field in Foucault's works, but he did involve education somewhere~~

Then came the most wonderful talk on Foucoult, led by Cheri, and co-contributed by all of the other attendees with relevant topics on teachers' authority & vulnerability, voice vs silence, gender as performativity, educational policy as a discourse, etc, etc.
Jay, our new member, raised toward the end of the talk his concern of not going to the extreme, following and admiring Foucoult as an idol. Always keep critical and reflexive.
For more detailed and more accurate contents, go to Nicol or Cheri .....

--THE END.

Oh, right, finally, allow me to express my deep appreciation to Cheri, who agreed to chair our next meeting and thus helped me to finish my job as a chair for the first time.

a little bit more info. for the next meeting:
Time: 1:00 -2:00, 9 June (Tuesday)
Speaker: Aditi
Topic: on Bourdieu