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)
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: (C)
2014: Gashka’oode (Entanglement: A Symposium)
2015: (C)
2016: (C)
2017: 'Toxic/city' (C)
2019: (C)
2020: (C)
2022: Social and Political Phenomenology (W)
2023: (C)
2024: Reapproaching Walter Benjamin: The Task of Theory Today (C)
2024: Accelerated Ad(E)vent: Subjectivity and Aesthetics Approaching the Singularity (W)
2025: (C)
2025: Affects and Worlds (W)
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W=workshop
