Theory Conference (Canada) CFP

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

    CALL FOR PAPERS

The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University
of Western Ontario plans a major international conference on THE
HISTORIES OF THEORY, to be held from April 16th-19th, 1998. This is
the third international conference hosted by the Centre.
Proceedings of both previous conferences ("Theory Between the
Disciplines" and "The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory") have
now appeared in book form. Plenary speakers will be: Judith Butler,
Peter Dews, Rodolphe Gasche and Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

We are seeking papers from a variety of (inter)disciplinary
perspectives, on any aspect of the conference topic, including the
following:

--the histories and genealogies of particular theoretical schools:
trajectories, hybridities, crossings
--the rhetoric of particular theoretical discourses and the
"history" (material or psychic) underlying that rhetoric
--connections between contemporary theory and earlier
philosophy/social theory
--the histories of theory within a particular discipline
--the genealogy of particular theorists' careers: hybridities,
crossings, missed encounters
--the genealogies of "theory" itself; the history of its
constitution as an (inter)discipline; versions of
interdisiplinarity in earlier periods; ways in which histories of
theory have been narrativized; the possibly gendered basis of these
(his)tories etc.
--rewriting the history of theory: forgotten pasts, neglected
histories, and missed encounters
--the tyranny of history; theory in the age of historicism
--modernity and postmodernity
--poststructuralism after the "academic postmodern"
--the end(s) of theory and theory at the fin de siecle

Please send papers or detailed abstracts (750 words) by Oct. 1st,
1997 to Tilottama Rajan, at

"The Histories of Theory"
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
Labatt Visual Arts Centre, Room 200f
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6A 5B7
CANADA
Eric Alan Weinstein
University of London
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk