News & Events

Admission Applications Now Open! Applications open October 1 and the deadline to apply is January 8, 2026. 

Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University.

Monday, December 8: Public Lecture from doctoral candidate Thomas Wormald on "Inside, Outside, and Otherwise than Catherine Malabou's Thought: An Epigenesis of Plasticity."

Annual Theory Conference 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP) "Raising a Mirror to the University: Theory and the Canadian Institution."

Recent books by alumni: Andrew Woods has a book forthcoming called "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West." See more here.

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. 

Current student 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."