Courses
Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Associate faculty members at 深夜福利站, as
Master's students are required to
Enrolment requests are submitted to the Program Coordinator. Approval from the instructor does not guarantee that enrolment will be granted.
2026 - 2027 Course Offerings*
| TERM | COURSE TITLE | INSTRUCTOR | CATEGORY |
| Fall 2026 | Bergson - CinePerception | Janelle Blankenship | A |
| Fall 2026 | 20th Century Communist Theories of Revolution and State-Building | Oleksa Drachewych | B |
| Fall 2026 | An Anatomy of Compulsive Leucocholy: Late Lacan, Love, Bondage, and the Other | Allan Pero | A |
| Fall 2026 | Life, Science, and the Autobiography of Philosophy in German Idealism | Tilottama Rajan | A |
| Winter 2027 | The Frankfurt School and the Constellation of Critical Theory | Jeremy Arnott | C |
| Winter 2027 | Feminist Continental Philosophy | Helen Fielding | A |
| Winter 2027 | Women in Philosophy: Early Modernity | Mary Helen McMurran | A |
| Winter 2027 | Social Theory in an Age of Austerity | Matt Stahl | B |
*contact the program for course location and times
Group A: aesthetics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, language theory
Group B: social, cultural and political theory
Group C: topical focus covering theorist(s) from the above areas, as well as 19th-century, modern, and contemporary theory
More information on Course Requirements can be found here.
Course Enrolment Forms can be found here.
Historical course offerings:
2025-26
9100 - What Is a Critical Theorist? Methods and Skills - Joshua Schuster [C]
9128 - Allegory and Time - Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman [A]
9156 - On Being: Theory and the Ancestor - Ruramisai Charumbira [B]
9323 - The Politics of Third Spaces: Alterity, Spatiality, and the Social - Augusto Riveros [B]
9551 - “Emancipation” and the Afterlife of Slavery - Erica S. Lawson [B]
9212 - Architecture and the Socio-Political Imagination at The End of The World - Benjamin Muller [B]
9425 - Psychoanalysis and Indigenous Critical Theory - Megan Sherritt [A]
POLISCI 9504 - Critical Political Theory - Nandita Biswas Mellamphy [B]
2024-25
9130 - - Matt Stahl [B]
9148 - Earth Aesthetics in the Information Age - Russell Duvernoy [C]
9211 - - Julian J. Haladyn [C]
9346 - Agamben’s Philosophical Archeology - Ed Matthews [C]
9639 - Deleuze and Psychoanalysis - John Vanderheide [C]
2023-24
9151 - The Frankfurt School: The “Origins” of Critical Theory - Jeremy Arnott [C]
9154 - The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9202 - Bergson – Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9224 - Cosmovisions from the South: Decolonial epistemologies and the praxis of decolonization - Lucas Savino [B]
9324 - Aliens in Theory - Joshua Schuster [A]
9524 - Feminist and Gender Perspectives on/in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts - Erica Lawson [C]
9653 - Queer Temporalities - Chris Roulston [B]
9540 - Species-Beings: Young Marx in the Post-Anthropocene - Nick Witheford [B]
9656 - Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2022-23
9149 - Ecological Conversion: From Critique to Creation - Russell Duvernoy [C]
9155 - The Waning of Philosophies of Difference and the Rise of the New Universalism - Antonio Calcagno [A]
9207 - Life: The Impact of the Life Sciences on Philosophy and Other Philosophical Domains, from Kant to Esposito - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9223 - Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9325 - Finitude and Plentitude - Joshua Schuster [C]
9421 - The Benjamin Constellation - John Vanderheide [A]
9440 - “A Vermilioned Nothingness”: Late Lacan, Sexuation, Sinthome, and the Prosdiorism - Allan Pero [C]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9659 - Theorizing Care in an Uneven World - Kate Lawless [B]
2021-22
9150A Disability, Ability and the Idea of Self - Jeremy Colangelo [B]
9202A Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9206B Instrumentality - Jonathan De Souza [C]
9222A Anti-Psychoanalyses: A (Short and Incomplete) History of Confluences and Conflicts - Cristina Ionica [A]
9229B Biopolitics and the Unconscious - Matthew Rowlinson [B]
9244B Postcolonial Theory at the Limits of the Animal - Jason Sandhar [B]
9326B Ways of Seeing, Ways of Listening - Sharon Sliwinski [A]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9637A Questioning Aesthetics - Julian Haladyn [A]
9656A Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2020-21
9154A The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9203B Land, Language, Locatives - Regna Darnell [B]
9223B Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9246A Schoenberg/Wittgenstein - Kevin Mooney [C]
9329B Teasing the dainty rods of vision: Imaginary/Imagination/Semblance - Allan Pero [A]
9422Y Translating Theory - Jan Plug [C]
9460B The Arts and Politics of the Situationist International (1957-1972) - Ed Matthews [A]
9614Y Idealism and the Margins of Philosophy: (Inter)Disciplinarity in Kant, Hegel, Schelling - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9655A Theorizing Environmental Subjectivity - David Janzen [C]
