Courses
Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Associate faculty members at Western, as
Master's students are required to
Enrolment requests are submitted to the Program Coordinator. Approval from the instructor does not guarantee that enrolment will be granted.
2025-26 COURSES
Fall 2025
| Course # | Title | Instructor | Day & Time | Category |
| 9100 | What Is a Critical Theorist? Methods and Skills | Joshua Schuster | Tuesday | [C] |
| 9128 | Allegory and Time FULL YEAR 1.0 |
Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman | Wednesday | [A] |
| 9156 | On Being: Theory and the Ancestor | Ruramisai Charumbira | Wednesday | [B] |
| 9323 | The Politics of Third Spaces: Alterity, Spatiality, and the Social | Augusto Riveros | Thursday | [B] |
Winter 2026
| Course # | Title | Instructor | Day & Time | Category |
| 9551 | “Emancipation” and the Afterlife of Slavery | Erica S. Lawson | Monday UC 1105 |
[B] |
| 9128 | Allegory and Time FULL YEAR 1.0 |
Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman | Wednesday | [A] |
| POLISCI 9504 | Critical Political Theory | Nandita Biswas Mellamphy | Thursday SSC 7200 |
[B] |
| 9212 | Architecture and the Socio-Political Imagination at The End of The World | Benjamin Muller | Thursday | [B] |
| 9425 | Psychoanalysis and Indigenous Critical Theory | Megan Sherritt | Friday | [A] |
*contact the program for course location and times
Group A: aesthetics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, language theory
Group B: social, cultural and political theory
Group C: topical focus covering theorist(s) from the above areas, as well as 19th-century, modern, and contemporary theory
More information on Course Requirements can be found here.
Course Enrolment Forms can be found here.
Historical course offerings:
2024-25
9125 - Playing at the Absolute: On Games, Thought, Politics, and Time - M. Curtis Allen [A]
9130 - Capital & Ressentiment: Intersections of Marx and Nietzsche - Matt Stahl [B]
9148 - Earth Aesthetics in the Information Age - Russell Duvernoy [C]
9211 - Machiavelli and Us - Julian J. Haladyn [C]
9230 - Cybernetics, Complexity, Chaos and Critical Theory - Nick Witheford [B]
9326 - Ways of Seeing, Ways of Listening - Sharon Sliwinski [A]
9346 - Agamben’s Philosophical Archeology - Ed Matthews [C]
9501 - Theories, Practices, and Politics of Sound and Silence - Christof Migone [A]
9628 - What Is Philosophy? Philosophy and Theory from the Late 18th- to 20th Century - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9639 - Deleuze and Psychoanalysis - John Vanderheide [C]
2023-24
9151 - The Frankfurt School: The “Origins” of Critical Theory - Jeremy Arnott [C]
9154 - The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9202 - Bergson – Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9224 - Cosmovisions from the South: Decolonial epistemologies and the praxis of decolonization - Lucas Savino [B]
9324 - Aliens in Theory - Joshua Schuster [A]
9524 - Feminist and Gender Perspectives on/in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts - Erica Lawson [C]
9653 - Queer Temporalities - Chris Roulston [B]
9540 - Species-Beings: Young Marx in the Post-Anthropocene - Nick Witheford [B]
9656 - Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2022-23
9149 - Ecological Conversion: From Critique to Creation - Russell Duvernoy [C]
9155 - The Waning of Philosophies of Difference and the Rise of the New Universalism - Antonio Calcagno [A]
9207 - Life: The Impact of the Life Sciences on Philosophy and Other Philosophical Domains, from Kant to Esposito - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9223 - Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9325 - Finitude and Plentitude - Joshua Schuster [C]
9421 - The Benjamin Constellation - John Vanderheide [A]
9440 - “A Vermilioned Nothingness”: Late Lacan, Sexuation, Sinthome, and the Prosdiorism - Allan Pero [C]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9659 - Theorizing Care in an Uneven World - Kate Lawless [B]
2021-22
9150A Disability, Ability and the Idea of Self - Jeremy Colangelo [B]
9202A Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9206B Instrumentality - Jonathan De Souza [C]
9222A Anti-Psychoanalyses: A (Short and Incomplete) History of Confluences and Conflicts - Cristina Ionica [A]
9229B Biopolitics and the Unconscious - Matthew Rowlinson [B]
9244B Postcolonial Theory at the Limits of the Animal - Jason Sandhar [B]
9326B Ways of Seeing, Ways of Listening - Sharon Sliwinski [A]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9637A Questioning Aesthetics - Julian Haladyn [A]
9656A Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2020-21
9154A The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9203B Land, Language, Locatives - Regna Darnell [B]
9223B Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9246A Schoenberg/Wittgenstein - Kevin Mooney [C]
9329B Teasing the dainty rods of vision: Imaginary/Imagination/Semblance - Allan Pero [A]
9422Y Translating Theory - Jan Plug [C]
9460B The Arts and Politics of the Situationist International (1957-1972) - Ed Matthews [A]
9614Y Idealism and the Margins of Philosophy: (Inter)Disciplinarity in Kant, Hegel, Schelling - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9655A Theorizing Environmental Subjectivity - David Janzen [C]
