News & Events
Admission Applications Now Open! Applications open October 1 and the deadline to apply is January 8, 2026.
Speaker Series presents Dr. Peter Szendy on "Pneumatopolitics: Respiring and Conspiring Conspiracy", Tuesday, October 21.
Dr. Lambert Zuidervaart on "The Best Defence: Rescuing Scientific Truth from Authoritarian Attacks and Academic Neglect." Thursday, November 13.
The Royal Society of Canada recognized seven Western scholars for their outstanding contributions to the arts, humanities and sciences, including our very own Dr. Joel Faflak.
New collaborative specialization! The Theory Centre has become a member of the Transitional Justice collaborative graduate specialization, and Theory students are now able to add this on to their program and degree. For information on the requirements and benefits, see tjcentre.uwo.ca.
Brendan Brown has published two papers, "A Democracy (Never) to Come: Fugitivity and Metaphysics in Afropessimism" and "Anarcho-Pacifism: Derrida, Benjamin, The General Strike and its Afterlife in Arnold Roller’s Der Generalstreik und die Soziale Revolution."
Recent books by alumni:
Megan Sherritt’s Dancing an Embodied Sinthome: Beyond Phallic Jouissance, Palgrave, 2024.
Jeremy Smith’s translation of François Laruelle, Theory of Strangers: Science of People, Democracy, Non-Psychoanalysis, Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Dates & Deadlines
- Admission Applications Now Open!
- October 16
Workshop on podcasting with David Guignion - October 21
Speaker Series: Peter Szendy on "Pneumatopolitics: Respiring and Conspiring Conspiracy" - October 24
Qualifying Examination info session - October 30
PhD Public Lecture: Douglas Ord - November 1
Call for Course Proposals deadline - November 3
PhD public Lecture: Alexandra Lepine - November 3-7
Fall Reading Week - November 13
Lambert Zuidervaart: "Rescuing Scientific Truth from Authoritarian Attacks and Academic Neglect"
- For other events see the Western Events Calendar
- For other deadlines see the Academic Calendar and Graduate Calendar