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Theory Sessions presents Dr. Allan Pero on "Squirming Facts, Squamous Minds: Psychoanalysis and Chance", Friday October 10.


Speaker Series presents Dr. Peter Szendy on "Pneumatopolitics: Respiring and Conspiring Conspiracy", Tuesday, October 21.


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.