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

The Histories of Theory

Friday April 17
Morning Schedule

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Concurrent Sessions (3.1-3.3)

3.1 Theory at the Millenium. Chair: Daniel Vaillancourt (Western Ontario)

1. Damon Marcel DeCoste (Regina): "The Millenarian Malaise of (Post) Modernity: Twentieth-Century Anti-Liberalism and the Dread of History."
2. David R. Jarraway (Ottawa), "`Beginning in the Middle': Queer Diaspora."
3. Lorelee Kippen (Calgary), "Stylizing the Real: The Ends of Trauma Theory at the Fin de Siècle."

3.2 Pedagogies, Subjects, Practices. Moderator: TBA

1. Daniel O'Quinn (Guelph), "The Education of Boys in Large Numbers: Historical Transitions in the Theorization of Governmentality."
2. Adriana Benzaquén (York), "Children's Progress; A Historical Look at Theories of Childhood." 
3. Steven Weiland (Michigan State), "Rhetorical Identity and Intellectual Careers: The Example of Clifford Geertz."

3.3 Writing/Thinking (Intellectual) History. Chair: Nandita Biswas (Toronto)

1. David Bockoven (Oregon), "Radical Temporality in Derrida and Benjamin."
2. John Hunter (Toronto), "Escaping the Sepulchre: Epistemology, Theory, and Memory in the Postmodern Age."
3. Jacob Fisher (Berkeley), "What is an Oeuvre? Foucault and Literature."

10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Plenary Speaker

Rodolphe Gasché (Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY-Buffalo), "Theatrum Theoreticum." Moderator: Calin Mihailescu (Western Ontario).

12:00-1:15 Lunch