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Admission applications are now closed. Interested candidates should contact the program to ask whether late applications will be accepted.

January 27: Melissa Adler on Walter Benjamin, Thomas Jefferson and the Angels of History

Graduate Donor Award applications are due January 31, 2026. Contact theory@uwo.ca for more details.

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."