Courses
Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Non-core faculty at Western, as
Group A: aesthetics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, language theory
Group B: social, cultural and political theory
Group C: topical focus covering a variety of theorists from the above areas, as well as 19th-century, modern, and contemporary theory
More information on Course Requirements can be found here.
Required Course Forms can be found here.
2022-23 COURSES
Fall 2022
| Method of Delivery | Title | Instructor | Day & Time | Category |
| In Person* |
9155 - The Waning of Philosophies of Difference and the Rise of the New Universalism |
Antonio Calcagno | Wednesday 10am - 1:00pm |
[A] |
| In Person* | 9325 - Finitude and Plentitude | Joshua Schuster | Wednesday 3:30 - 6:30pm |
[C] |
| Online | 9223 - Climate Change | Michael Gardiner | Thursday 1:30 - 4:30pm |
[B] |
| Online | 9207 - Life: The Impact of the Life Sciences on Philosophy and Other Philosophical Domains, from Kant to Esposito | Tilottama Rajan | Friday 11:00am - 2:00pm |
[A] |
* Theory & Criticism courses take place in Stevenson Hall Rm. 3165 unless otherwise noted
Winter 2023
| Method of Delivery | Title | Instructor | Day & Time | Category |
| In Person* | 9421 - The Benjamin Constellation | John Vanderheide | Monday 10:00am - 1:00pm |
[A] |
| In Person* | 9659 - Theorizing Care in an Uneven World | Kate Lawless | Tuesday 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
[B] |
| In Person* | 9440 - “A Vermilioned Nothingness”: Late Lacan, Sexuation, Sinthome, and the Prosdiorism | Allan Pero | Wednesday 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
[C] |
| In Person* | Russell Duvernoy | Thursday 1:30 - 4:30pm |
[C] |
*Theory & Criticism courses take place in Stevenson Hall Rm. 3165 unless otherwise noted
Historical course offerings:
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]
2019-20
9153B The Avant-gardes as Anti-Culture: A History of “Radicalism” and “Excess” - Cristina Ionica [A]
9201B Cyberwar Theory - Nick Dyer Witheford [B]
9204A Immaterial - Mary Helen McMurran [B]
9327A Techniques of the Body in Greece, Rome, and the Modern Era - Charles Stocking [B]
9423A The Performance of Race - Nigel Joseph [C]
9449B Postwork Imaginaries - Michael Gardiner [B]
9501A Writing Aloud: Theories of Sound and Silence - Christof Migone [A]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9579B Why (and how) are things similar?: Analogy, Example, Metaphor, Taxonomy - Laurence de Looze [A]
9640B Existential Risk - Joshua Schuster [A]
9656A Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2018-19
9152A From Dada to Dank Memes: Revolt, Revulsion, and Discontent - Andrew Wenaus [C]
9210B Hantology, or Reading Byung-Chul Han - Julian Jason Haladyn [B]
9228B Keywords for the 21st Century - Regna Darnell [B]
9245A Zones of Entanglement: Philosophy, the Life Sciences and Medicine 1785-2012 - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9328A Reconciliation and its Discontents: Theory, Art, Critique - Pauline Wakeham [A]
9347B French Enlightenment Thought and the Rise of Materialism - Ed Matthews [A]
9436A The Subject of the Object - Peter Schwenger [C]
9449B Post-work Imaginaries - Michael Gardiner [B]
9500A Mimesis in Modernity - John Vanderheide [A]
9559B Under Elding Towers, Among Dimming Stars: The Spaces and Politics of Modernity - Allan Pero [A]
2017-18
9205A A Design for Life:
9424B Marx from Beginning to End: The 1844 Manuscripts Today - Nick Dyer Witheford [B]
9432B Contemporary theories of Fascism and Counter-Fascism - Mireya Folch Serra [B]
9440A Of the Mycelium and its Gravity: Late Lacan, Sexuation, Sinthome, and the Baroque - Allan Pero [C]
9458B Critical Race and Feminist Studies - Erica Lawson [C]
9503A Political Responses to Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9565B Imagining Community - Jan Plug [A]
9617A Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates - Pauline Wakeham [B]
9637A Questioning Aesthetics - Julian J. Haladyn [A]
9640B Existential Risk - Joshua Schuster [A]
9538B Feminist Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
