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

1998 CONFERENCE

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The Histories of Theory

Saturday April 18
Morning Schedule

9:00-11:00 Concurrent Sessions (6.1-6.3)

6.1 After Paul de Man: Special session organized by David Clark (McMaster). Chair: David Clark.

  1. Ian Balfour (York), "The Sublime Between History and Theory: de Man and Beyond."
  2. Asha Varadharajan (Queen's), "The Rhetoric of Temporality and the Fate of History: Paul de Man Revisited."
  3. Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate University), "Apophrades: de Man Reads Harold Bloom."
    4. Stanley Corngold (Princeton), "Reading Hegel's Theory of Comedy in the Ästhetik in the Light of Paul de Man's Aesthetic Ideology."

6.2 Theory: Beginnings, Antecedents. Moderator: TBA.

  1. Linda Solomon (George Washington), "Theory avant la lettre: An Excavation in Early Modern England."
  2. Han-liang Chang (National Taiwan University), "The Rise of Semiotics and the Liberal Arts: Reading Martianus Capella's The Marriage of Philology and Mercury."
  3. Brian Fitch (Toronto), "An Eighteenth-Century Complement to Ricoeur's Account of Literary Appropriation: Johann Martin Chladenius (1710-59)."
  4. Laine Harrington (Berkeley), "The `Influence' of Gorgias' Helen upon Nietzsche: `Supposing Truth is a Woman--what Then?'"

6.3 Immanuel Kant and the Histories of Theory: Special session organized by Mark A. Cheetham (Western Ontario). Moderator: Mark A. Cheetham.

  1. Andrew Chignell (Yale), "The Problem of Particularity in Kant's Aesthetics."
  2. Karen Lang (California Institute of Technology), "The Veiled Goddess and the Connoisseur."
  3. Thierry de Duve (Pennsylvania), "Kant After Duchamp." Respondent: Mark A. Cheetham.

11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 Concurrent Sessions (7.1-7.3)

7.1 Legacies/Transgressions of Phenomenology. Moderator: TBA.

  1. Elena del Rio (Northern Colorado) : "The Metaphysical Tenets of Christian Metz' Theory of the Cinematic Apparatus: A Rhetoric of Visibility and Presence."
  2. Ian Gerrie (York), "Phenomenology, Language, and the Social Construction of Gender."
  3. Brian Wall (Western Ontario), "Written in the Sand: Bataille's Phenomenology of Transgression and the Transgression of Phenomenology."

7.2 Critical Theory and Technoscientific Postmodernity : Special session organized by Arkady Plotnitsky (Duke). Moderator: Arkady Plotnitsky.

  1. Silke Weineck (Pennsylvania), "Why It Is So Hard to Talk About Reproductive Technology."
  2. John Smyth (Northern Louisiana), "Fiction in Literature and Philosophy of Science."
  3. David Herman (North Carolina State), "Sciences of the Text."

7.3 Translating Theory.Moderator: TBA.

  1. Amir Ameri (Parsons School of Design), "On the Exorcise of Theory."
  2. Gregor Campbell (Guelph), "Is Space Portable? Trading Theory Between Disciplines"
  3. Scott Michaelson (Michigan State), "The Grounds and Limits of Hybridity."
  4. Imre Szeman (Duke), "The Solemn Geography of Human Limits: Theories of Space."

12:45-2:00 Lunch

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