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On 7th May 1981 André Berten, a lecturer at the University of Louvain, engaged a visiting professor, Michel Foucault in dialogue over his research method, genealogy. This dialogue provided Foucault with the opportunity to explain his approach when he analysed collections of texts, a process he called in their discussion, « la généalogie des problèmes ».