How is Michel Foucault’s thought related to the tradition of phenomenology? Studies addressing this question have been overshadowed by scholarship that considers Foucault’s work in relation to other movements in continental philosophy such as critical theory, Marxism, structuralism, and post-structuralism. When the question has been broached, scholars have straightaway had to confront Foucault’s sometimes dismissive, if not hostile, attitude towards phenomenological approaches. The basis for well-founded replies to this question has very recently been significantly augmented by the publication of three early Foucault texts: Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle, ed. Elisabetta Basso, Seuil/Gallimard, 2021; Phénoménologie et psychologie, 1953-1954, ed. Philippe Sabot, Seuil/Gallimard, 2021; La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel, ed. Christophe Bouton, Vrin, 2024. These works represent Foucault’s richest engagement with this tradition and demonstrate a remarkable depth and precision to Foucault’s early study of phenomenology that were not apparent from his previously published work. The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop aims to provide a timely forum to examine these writings, with keynote addresses from the editors of these three volumes, and cultivate exchanges and dialogues that may have previously been stymied by the prominence of Foucault’s more pointed objections to phenomenological approaches.