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May 26 & 27 "Affects and Worlds" Workshop with Radboud University 


June 5 & 6, 2025: two-day colloquium honouring the work of Tilottama Rajan: “Dark Interpretation: Tilottama Rajan and the Thought from Outside.” Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada Research Chair, Distinguished University Professor, and Past Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism


Doctoral Public Lecture: Avery Dawson on "French Philosophies of the Event in Mathematics and History", June 9 at 11:00 a.m.


Save the Date! Grant Writing Certificate. Two day workshop June 16 & 17.


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


NEW COURSES! 2025 - 2026 course listing now available. More information here


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.