Speakers Series 1998 - 2009
Speakers Series 2008-2009
Fall Term Speakers
October 9, 2008 (postponed until January)
Charles Shepherdson
Department of English, SUNY Albany
"Rethinking Pity and Fear in Tragic Catharsis: The Place of Emotion between Ethics and Esthetics "
October 16, 2008
Hans-Georg Moeller
Department of Philosophy, Brock University
"From Necessity to Contingency: Niklas Luhmann's Carnivalization of
Philosophy"
November 6, 2008
Jasbir Puar
Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and graduate faculty in the Department of Geography, Rutgers University
"Prognosis Time: Pathologies of Terror"
(The Politically Queer/Queerly Political Series)
Novmeber 20, 2008
Feyzi Baban
Department of Politics, Trent University
"Multiple Modernities and the Headscarf Affair in Turkey and France"
Winter Term Speakers
January 15, 2009
Charles Shepherdson
Department of English, SUNY Albany
"Rethinking Pity and Fear in Tragic Catharsis: The Place of Emotion between Ethics and Esthetics "
February 12, 2009
Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
University of Toronto
"Benjamin Britten's Late Style"
March 5, 2009
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
CRC in Culture and Sustainability
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
"Acts of Nature: Literature and the Green Public Sphere"
March 12, 2009
Neville Hoad
Department of English Studies, Center for Asian American Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin
"Transnational Sexuality Studies Then and Now"
(The Politically Queer/Queerly Political Series)
Speakers Series 2007-2008
Fall Term Speakers
October 11, 2007
John Drabinski
Department of Philosophy, Hampshire College
"Godard's Cinematic Empiricism"
Monday, October 15, 2007
Marc Shell
Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English, Harvard University
"Talking the Walk and Walking the Talk: Moses and Marilyn Monroe"
Co-sponsored by TCP and the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies
November 5-8, 2007 - The Ryle Lectures
Nancy Fraser
Departments of Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research
The Ryle Lectures, sponsored by the Department of Philosohy
Novmeber 15, 2007
Michael Lucey
Departments of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
"Simone de Beauvoir and Sexuality in the Third Person"
Politically Queer/Queerly Political
November 29, 2007
Ihor Junyk
Cultural Studies Program, Trent University
"Erroneous Representations": Trauma, Nostalgia, and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Winter Term Speakers
January 24, 2008
Erin Manning
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and Studio Arts, Concordia University
"Constituting Facts - or, Dorothy Napangardi Dances the Dreaming"
February 28, 2008
Charmaine Eddy
Department of English, Trent University
"Coetzee and the Scene of Writing: The Psycho-Landscape of Race in Disgrace"
March 13, 2008 (CANCELLED)
Sue-Ellen Case
School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles
"Grassroots Performances of Science: from UFOs to Channeling"
Politically Queer/Queerly Political
Speakers Series 2006-2007
Fall Term Speakers
September 14, 2006
Kenneth Reinhard
English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
“Political Theology and Love: Paul, Lacan, Badiou”
Co-sponsored by TCP, the Cultural Studies Program and the Department of Philosophy
October 5, 2006
Gary Genosko
Canada Research Chair in Technoculture Studies, Lakehead University
“Canadian Cultural Theory since the 70s --
Editorial Assemblages and Splinter Groups”
Co-sponsored by TCP and the Cultural Studies Program
(Cultural Studies in Canada Speakers’ Series)
October 19, 2006
Frances Ferguson
Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
“Education and Liberalism: What Children Taught Political Philosophy.”
November 9, 2006
Andra McCartney
Communication Studies, Concordia University
"In and Out of the Sound Studio: gender and sound technologies in Canada"
Co-sponsored by TCP and the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies
November 23, 2006
David Holdsworth
Environmental Studies, Trent University
“(Inter)disciplinary Practice at the End of Modernity: Reading Heidegger through the Italian Post-structuralists”
Winter Term Speakers
January 25, 2007
Imre Szeman
Globalization and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
(Cultural Studies in Canada Speakers’ Series)
February 8, 2007
Jodi Dean
Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
"Popular Credibility: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Certain Knowledge"
March 1, 2007
Douglas Torgerson
Cultural Studies Program, Trent University
“Misdirection in the Mystery: The Case of Chandler’s Hammett”
March 15, 2007
Richard Fung
Faculty of Art, Ontario College of Art and Design
"Continental Drift: The Imaging of AIDS"
(The Politically Queer/Queerly Political Series)
March 22, 2007
Arthur Kroker, CRC in Technology, Culture & Theory
University of Victoria
"Born Again Ideology"
(Cultural Studies in Canada Speakers’ Series)
March 26-29, 2007 - The Ryle Lectures
Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
“Pragmatism, Minimalism, and Common-Sense”
Speakers Series 2005-2006
Fall Term
October 13, 2005
Tim Dean , Literary & Cultural Theory, SUNY Buffalo
"Breeding Culture: Barebacking, Bugchasing, Gift-giving"
(The Politically Queer/Queerly Political Series)
November 3, 2005- The Ryle Lectures
Evelyn Fox Keller, Program in Science, Technology and Society,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Evolving Function, Purpose, and Agency"
This is the last of four talks presented by Professor Keller as part of
this year's Ryle Lectures.
Lady Eaton College Lecture Hall (ECC 201) 8:00 p.m.
December 1 , 2005
Bonnie Honig, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
"The Time of Rights: Emergent Thoughts in an Emergency Setting"
Winter Term
January 26, 2006
James Penney, Cultural Studies Program, Trent University
"Loving the 'terrorist': Genet among the Palestinians"
February 9, 2006
Chris Hables Gray, Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate College ,
The Union Institute and University; Interdisciplinary Studies, Goddard College
"Information, Culture, Politics"
March 2, 2006
Morton Schoolman, Department of Political Science, SUNY Albany
"Another Enlightenment? Rethinking Mass Culture"
March 9, 2006
Elizabeth Harvey, Department of English, University of Toronto
"Of Sex and Souls"
(The Politically Queer/Queerly Political Series)
Speakers Series 2004-2005
September 16, 2004
Paul Jones, University of New South Wales, Australia
“Raymond Williams’ Last Keyword: ‘Modern’”
September 30, 2004
Richard Rambuss, Emory Emory
“The Passion of the Magdalene”
November 3, 2004
Andrew Jamison
“The Making of Green Knowledge”
November 4, 2004
Susan Fast, School of Art, Drama and Music, McMaster University
Ellen Waterman, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph
Veronica Hollinger, Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University
"Performance Anxiety"
November 25, 2004
Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
“Where the mountain men meet the Lesbian rangers: Gender, nation and nature in Canada’s Rocky Mountain parks”
Winter Term
January 13, 2005
Film: Tommy: A Family Portrait and Panel Discussion
Joint Session with Frost Centre
March 3, 2005
Jodie Medd, Carleton University
“Queer (Modernist) Temporalities”
Speakers Series 2003-2004
Theme for 2003-2004 - 'Culture and the Political'
September 18, 2003
Jocelyn Létourneau, Départment d’histoire et CELAT, Université Laval
“Remembering the Past: An Examination of Young Québecois’ History Memory”
October 30, 2003
Davide Panagia, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
“The Beautiful and the Sublime in Contemporary Political Argument”
November 13, 2003
Rebecca Kukla, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins (on leave from Carleton)
“Mass Hysteria: The Uterus as Public Theatre”
November 20, 2003
Terry Goldie, Department of English, York University
"The Queer Zeitgeist and the Canadian Experience".
Winter Term
January 15, 2004
Zsuzsa Baross, Cultural Studies Program, Trent University
“’Remember to remember the future’…”
February 26, 2004
Andrew Wernick, Cultural Studies Program, Trent University
"Is Nothing Sacred? Reflections on a Berlin Monument”
March 4, 2004
David Holdsworth, ERS, Trent University
“Ideology, Discursive Formation, and the 'Science Problem' in Post-Marxist Thought”
March 15-18 - The Ryle Lectures
Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago, Ryle Lecturer
“Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice”
Speakers Series 2002-2003
Theme for 2002-2003 - 'Borders and Boundaries'
September 27, 2002
***Please note this is a Friday evening - not our usual Thursday***
W.J.T. (Tom) Mitchell, English and Art History, University of Chicago
'Country Matters: How Landscapes Talk Back'
Speaker in "Critical Topographies"
November 21, 2002
Keith Nurse, University of the West Indies
'Globalization, Carnival and the Black Atlantic'
Speaker in Crossing Borders Project
Winter Term
January 16, 2003
Danielle Egan, Department of Sociology, St. Lawrence University
'Irigaray Makes Me Sex: Nude Female Bodies and Suburban Mimesis'
Speaker in Crossing Borders Project
February 6, 2003
Margaret Olin,
'Touching Photographs'
Speaker in "Critical Topographies"
Speakers Series 2001-2002
Theme for 2001-2002 - 'Borders and Boundaries'
October 18, 2001
Peter Schwenger, English, Mount St.Vincent's University
The Dream Narratives of Debris
November 8, 2001
Michael Dorland, Journalism, Carleton University
'Cherchez le juif': French Antisemitism, the Shoah, and French Psychoanalysis
January 24, 2002
Nicola Nixon, Concordia University and Harvard University
"Between Money and Meaning in Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'"
March 14, 2002
Anne Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas
"Remembering AIDS Activism: Mourning and Militancy Revisited"
(part of the Politically Queer/Queerly Political series)
Speakers Series 2000-2001
Theme for 2000-2001 - 'Borders and Boundaries'
September 28, 2000
Michael Titlestad, English and African Studies, University of South Africa (Pretoria)
“Contesting Maps: Musical Improvisation and Narrative”
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
October 5, 2000
Mark Jordan, Religious Studies, Emory University
“The Subculture Wars: Notes on the Wish for ‘Gay History’”
(Part of the Politically Queer/Queerly Political Series)
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
November 6, 2000
Mitchell Morris, Department of Musicology, UCLA
“Black masculinity and the sound of wealth: Barry White, the early 70s and the rise of disco”
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
November 23, 2000
Zsuzsa Baross, Cultural Studies, Trent University
“The Image as Witness, according to Godard”
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
November 30, 2000
Mark Kingwell, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
“Tables, Chairs, and Other Machines for Thinking”
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
January 11, 2001
Derrick de Kerckhove, McLuhan Program, University of Toronto
“Literacy and Cognigion in Networks”
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
February 13, 2001
Elaine Stavro, Political Studies, Trent University
'Communitarian Discourse and New Labour: Privileging the Nuclear Family'
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
March 7, 2001
Special Seminar with Gerald A. Cohen, Ryle Lecturer
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford University
“Why Not Socialism?”
PRC Senior Common Room
March 8, 2001
Elizabeth Povinelli, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
“The Subject of Risk: The Social Orderings of Sexuality and Psychoanalysis”
Part of the Politically Queer/Queerly Political Series
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
Speakers Series 1999-2000
Theme for 1999-2000 - 'Borders and Boundaries'
Thursday, September 30, 1999
Vicki Patraka
(Director, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University)
"Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence and Witness at U.S. Holocaust Museums"
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 14, 1999
Kathryn Bond Stockton
(Director of Graduate Studies in English at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City)
"Cloth Wounds: Saint Genet Among the Lesbians"
This lecture is part of the "Politically Queer/Queerly Political" series
PRC Lecture Hall 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 20, 1999
Mark Cheetham, Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario
"Plasmatics: Kant's 'Roman Period' and the Politics of Reception"
PRC Dining Hall 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 21, 1999
Robert Latham, English, University of Iowa
"The Cybernetic Vampire of Consumer Youth Culture"
PRC Lecture Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 18, 1999
Gad Horowitz, Political Science, University of Toronto
"Techniques of the Self -- With a Look Back at the General Semantics Movement"
PRC Lecture Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 25, 1999
Phillip Blond, Religious Studies, University of Exeter
"Thomas Aquinas' Refutation of Nominalism (or, Why only Theologians Care about
Appearances)"
Thursday, January 27, 2000
Shannon Bell, Political Science, York University
"Speed Politics: Fast Feminism"
Thursday, March 9, 2000
James Ellis, English, University of Calgary
"The Erotics of Citizenship: Derek Jarman's Jubilee and Isaac Julien's Young Soul Rebels"
Friday, March 31, 2000 - 11:00 a.m.
Rebecca Comay, Professor of Philosophy and Literary Studies, University of Toronto
"Between Melancholia and Fetishism: Benjamin's Losses"
co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department
Speakers Series 1998-1999
Theme for 1998-99 - 'Re-thinking the Political'
Thursday, September 24, 1998
Ann Kaplan (The Humanities Institute, SUNY, Stony Brook)
"Postmodernism, Imaging and the Millennium: From the Psychic and Political Crisis of Representation to the Crisis of Reproduction"
Thursday, October 15, 1998
Gerard Delanty (Sociology, University of Liverpool)
"Theorising Modernity"
Thursday, November 5, 1998
Teresa Mangum (English, University of Iowa)
"Old Bats; or, The Vampire, Degeneration, and Senescence.
Thursday, November 19, 1998
Zsuzsa Baross (Cultural Studies, Trent University)
"Deconstruction and Responsibility, after 'Bosnia'"
December 3, 1998
Peter Kulchyski (Native Studies, Trent University)
"Feminist Machiavelli reads Livy: Spectres of Lucretia"
January 14, 1999
David Holdsworth (Environmental Resource Studies, Trent University)
"Naturalized Epistemology and Political Reason"
January 28, 1999
Doug Torgerson (Politics, Trent University)
"The three faces of politics: thinking with and against Arendt"
February 1 - 4, 1999 - Ryle Lecture Series
Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)
March 4, 1999
Mark Cheetham (University of Western Ontario, Visual Arts)
"Plasmatics: Kant's 'Roman Period' and the Politics of Reception"
