Courses

Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Associate faculty members at 深夜福利站, as well as visiting lecturers.

Master's students are required to fulfill a “breadth requirement” by taking at least one half course from each of groups A & B.

2025-26 COURSES

Fall 2025

Course # Title Instructor Day & Time Category
What Is a Critical Theorist? Methods and Skills Joshua Schuster Tuesday [C]
Allegory and Time Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman Wednesday [A
On Being: Theory and the Ancestor Ruramisai Charumbira Wednesday [B]
The Politics of Third Spaces: Alterity, Spatiality, and the Social Augusto Riveros Thursday [B]

Winter 2026

Course # Title Instructor Day & Time Category
“Emancipation” and the Afterlife of Slavery Erica S. Lawson Monday [B]
Allegory and Time Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman Wednesday [A]
Critical Political Theory Nandita Biswas Mellamphy Thursday [B]
Architecture and the Socio-Political Imagination at The End of The World Benjamin Muller Thursday [B]
Psychoanalysis and Indigenous Critical Theory Megan Sherritt Friday [A]

*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:

2024-25

9125 - - M. Curtis Allen [A]

9130 -  - Matt Stahl [B]

9148 - Earth Aesthetics in the Information Age - Russell Duvernoy [C]

9211 -  - Julian J. Haladyn [C]

9230 -  - Nick Witheford [B]

9326 -  - Sharon Sliwinski [A]

9346 - Agamben’s Philosophical Archeology - Ed Matthews [C]

9501 -  - Christof Migone [A]

9628 -  - Tilottama Rajan [A]

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]