The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
University of Western Ontario


1998 CONFERENCE

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The Histories of Theory

Thursday April 16
Afternoon Schedule

12:00-1:00 Registration
1:00-2:30 Concurrent Sessions (1.1-1.2)

1.1 Gilles Deleuze: Histories, Extensions. Special session organized by Constantin Boundas (Trent). Moderator: Constantin Boundas

  1. Constantin Boundas, "Gilles Deleuze on Time, Gift and Exchange."
  2. Mani Haghighi (Trent), "Shards of the Past in the Body of the Present."
  3. Jay Lampert (Guelph), "In Place of History."
  4. John Welshman (California-San Diego), "Deleuze and Visual Cultures."

1.2 Postcolonial Reflections: Before and After. Moderator: Nandi Bhatia (Western Ontario).

  1. Dorothy Figueira (Illinois), "Myths of Identity in Post-colonial Criticism."
  2. Sherry Simon (Concordia), "After Translation: Theories of Cultural Exchange"
  3. Marilyn Urion (Michigan Technological University), "Fragmentation/ De-Modernization."

2:30-3:00 Registration
3:00-5:00 Concurrent Sessions (2.1-2.3)

2.1 Mikhail Bakhtin: Genealogies of History. Special session organized by Clive Thomson (Western Ontario). Moderator: Clive Thomson.

  1. Miha Javornik (Ljubljana), "The Cybernetic Subject as Anticipated Stage in the Development of Culture: The Psychogenesis of Cultural Heroes."
  2. Anthony Wall (Calgary/Konstanz), "Loopholes in a Theory of Time and History."
  3. Galin Tihanov (Oxford), "The Body as a Cultural Value: The History of the Idea and the Idea of History in Bakhtin's Writings."
  4. Peter Hitchcock (CUNY), "Discrepant Architectonics: A Materialist Genealogy of Bakhtin."

2.2 Subjects, Identities, Representations. Moderator: TBA

  1. Thomas Pfau (Duke), "Psyche as Form: Construction of Affect in Early Nineteenth-Century Theory."
  2. Mark Rozahegy (Concordia), "Derrida, Nietzsche, and the Politics of Eating"
  3. Eric Savoy (Calgary), "Judith Butler's Predications"
  4. Helen Murphy (North Carolina), "The Origins of Humanism in Poststructuralist Discourse."

2.3: The Frankfurt School: Inheritances, Legacies. Moderator: TBA

  1. Samir Gandesha, "Theodor W. Adorno: Between History and Historicity"
  2. Luke Carson (Victoria), "The Spectral Republic in Habermas' Reading of Mead and Arendt"
  3. Omid Payrow Shabani (Ottawa), "Are All Critiques of Reason Irrational? Foucault and Habermas."
  4. Natasha Hurley (Rutgers), "Embodying a Consciousness of Praxis: Political Phenomenologies of Music in Nietzsche, Bloch and Adorno."

5:00-5:30 Break
5:30-6:45 Plenary Speaker

Judith Butler (Chancellor's Professor, University of California at Berkeley), "Limits of the Symbolic." Moderator: Elizabeth Harvey (Western Ontario)
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