Conferences

The Centre sponsors a variety of seminars, conferences, publications and an active program of lectures and colloquia by both internal and external faculty.

 Graduate Student Conference 2026

Raising a Mirror to the University:
Theory and the Canadian Institution

CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP)

CFP poster

 

Past Conferences and Workshops:

 1988: Theory Between the Disciplines (C)

1998: The Histories of Theory International Conference (C)

2003: On Distortion (C)

2004: Gambling Theory (C)

2006: Dark Matters: Obscured Thinking and Shadowed Language (C)

2006: Illusions of Identity: Resisting (Beyond) Identity Politics (C)

2007: Tactics of Resistance: Limitations & Possibilities (C)

2009: Artfulness of Play: Bridging Creative & Theoretical Discourses (C)

2012: Aftermaths: Revolution & Recovery (C)

2013: Apps and Affect (C)

2014: Gashka’oode (Entanglement: A Symposium)

2015: Trans- and Trance (C) 

2016: No-fly Zones and Molotov Cocktails (C)

2017: 'Toxic/city' (C)

2019: CODING-DECODING-RECODING (C)

2020: Camp/camp: a collision of style and biopolitics (C)

2022: Social and Political Phenomenology (W)

2023: Travel Light: Apprehending Being on the Move (C)

2024: Reapproaching Walter Benjamin: The Task of Theory Today (C)

2024: Accelerated Ad(E)vent: Subjectivity and Aesthetics Approaching the Singularity (W)

2025: Worlding Beyond The End Of The World (C)

2025: Affects and Worlds (W)

 

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