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

The Histories of Theory

Friday April 17
Afternoon Schedule

1:15-2:45 Concurrent Sessions (4.1-4.3)

4.1 The Rhetoric of Theory. Moderator: TBA.

1. Marcus Coelen (SUNY-Buffalo), "Theoria and Theosis: On a Thin Layer of Purity in the History of Theory."
2. Rebecca Comay (Toronto), "The Trauma of Theory."
3. Victor Li (Dalhousie), "The Pre-Modern Condition: Neo-Primitivism in Baudrillard and Lyotard."

4.2 Histories and Philosophies of Narrative. Moderator: TBA.

1. Mikko Keskinen (Jyväskylä, Finland), "The Rhetoric of Speech, Gender, and `Race' in Narratology: Tracing Phono-, Andro-, and Ethnocentric Presuppositions."
2. Tomislav Longinovic (Wisconsin), "Ordering Chaos: Theories of Narrative from Propp to Pavic."
3. Nikita Nankov (Indiana), "The Narrative of a Philosophy of Narrative: Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative."

4.3 Theoretical Transfers

1. Lesley Higgins (York) and Marie-Christine Leps (York), "Theory, Writing, History: Foucault and Woolf on Governmentality."
2. Tracy Davis (Northwestern), "Theatricality."
3. Robert Barsky (Western Ontario) , "Zellig Harris as Precursor: Language Studies, Discourse Analysis, Cultural Studies."

2:45-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Concurrent Sessions (5.1-5.3)

5.1 Theory: Figures, Mutations. Moderator: TBA

1. Arkady Plotnitsky (Duke), "Geometries of Reflection: Plato's Diagonals, Leibniz's Curves, Hegel's Spirals, and Irigaray's Multifolds."

Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario), "The Double Detour: Sartre, Heidegger and the Genealogy of Deconstruction."

Orrin N.C.Wang (Maryland), "Jameson, De Man, Marx and the Machine"

5.2 Aesthetics and Politics: Kant to Bourdieu. Moderator: TBA.

1. Michael Conlon (Victoria), "The Politics of Distinction: Politics, Judgement and Aesthetics in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu."
2. Edward Curthoys (Sydney), "Rethinking Formalism: Paul de Man and the Jena Romantics."
3. Jeff Derksen (Calgary), "Good Enemies and Related Influences: Russian Formalism and Cultural Studies."
4. Luis Costa-Lima (Rio de Janeiro), "Re-enacting the Debate of Kant and Schlegel."

5.3 Ethics: Variations and Continuances. Chair: Angela Cozea (Western Ontario).

1. Iddo Landau (Haifa), "Can Justice Ethics and Care Ethics Converge?"
2. Gregory J. Wilsbacher (Indiana), "The Limits of Historicism: Ethics and Reading in Medieaval Studies."
3. Anne-Marie Picard (Western Ontario), "Arts of Reading (1880-1914): Ethics of Pleasure, Foundations of Knowledge."
4. Elias Polizoes (Toronto), "The Rhythm of Allegory: Emmanuel Levinas and the Poetics of Radical Particularity."

4:45-5:15 Break
5:15-6:30 Plenary Speaker

Peter Dews (Essex), "Autonomy and Interpellation: Histories of the Subject from Fichte to Levinas." Moderator: Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario).