Jeremy Carrette is Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Culture and Dean for Europe at the University of Kent, UK. He works in the area of the philosophy of religion and is author of Foucault and Religion (Routledge, 2000), editor of Religion and Culture by Michel Foucault (Routledge 1999), and, with James Bernauer, edited Foucault and Theology (Ashgate, 2004), in addition to numerous essays and papers on Foucault. As well as working on Foucault he has undertaken work on the philosophy of William James, including editing William James and the Varieties of Religious Experience (Routledge, 2005) and author of William James’s Hidden Religious Imagination: A Universe of Relations (Routledge, 2013). He is also joint author, with Richard King, of Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion (Routledge, 2005). Between 2009 and 2014 he directed an AHRC/ESRC research project on the United Nations with Professor Hugh Miall and a team of researchers, published as Religion and the United Nations: Visible and Invisible Actors in Power (Bloomsbury, 2017). As Dean for Europe at the University of Kent, he is responsible for European strategic planning at the University of Kent – the UK’s European university - and for the management of the four University European Centres in Brussels, Paris, Rome and Athens. His work involves developing European partnerships and enhancing postgraduate studies in the European Centres, working alongside the International Partnership office at the University of Kent. 

Jeremy Carrette's keynote speech will draw upon Foucault’s relationship to the May 1968 student protests in Paris and will explore how the events influenced and shaped Foucault’s work in years following the protests.