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
Afternoon Schedule

2:00-3:30 Concurrent Sessions (8.1-8.3)

8.1 Theoretical Freedom in Schelling: Absence, Politics, and Indifference: Special session organized by David Ferris (CUNY). Chair: David Ferris.

  1. David Clark (McMaster), "Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy."
  2. Jan Mieszkowski (Reed College), "History Dramas: Free Politics in Schelling and Schiller."
  3. David Ferris, "Indifferent Freedom."

8.2: Technologies: Past and Future. Moderator: Rodica Ieta (Western Ontario).

  1. Michael O'Driscoll (Alberta), "Material Theory: Poststructuralism in the Archive."
  2. Marcel O'Gorman (Florida), "Woodworm in the Post: Creeping Toward an Electronic Version of History."
  3. Margaret Toye (Western Ontario), "Theory and the Information Age: Interpretations of Michel Foucault and the Possibilities of Ethics."

8.3: Material Histories. Moderator: Peter Starr (University of Southern California)

  1. Reinhard Duessel (Taiwan), "Echoes of the MAoist Revolution in French Critical Thought."
  2. Laura Penny (Western), "Big Shots from a Loose Canon: Style and politics After May 1968"
  3. Michael Tratner (Bryn Mawr), "The Emergence of Deconstruction as an Event in the History of Economics."

3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 Concurrent Sessions (9.1-9.2)

9.1 Genealogies of Psychoanalysis . Chair: TBA.

  1. Peter Naccarato (Stony Brook), "From Therapeutic Method to Metadiscourse: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis."
  2. Joel Faflak (Western Ontario), "Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation and the Missed Encounter of Psychoanalysis."
  3. Nicholas Spencer (Nebraska), "Unifying the Fields: Wilhelm Reich and the Materialisms of Freudo-Marxist Critical Theory."
  4. Sean Desilets (Tufts), "The Real Argument: Lacan, Butler, and Zizek."

9.2 Theory: Inheritances, Borders, Futures . Moderator: TBA

  1. S. Sara Monoson (Northwestern), "Theory and Theatricality in Plato."
  2. Jan Plug (Western Ontario), "Forgetting Philosophy--or a New Meaning for Theory."
  3. Herman Rapaport (Wayne State/Cornell), "Monolinguism and Literature."

5:15-5:45 Break
5:45-7:00 Plenary Speaker

Geoffrey Galt Harpham (Tulane), "The History of `Ideology'." Moderator: Martin Kreiswirth (Western Ontario).
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