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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. Speakers at previous
Centre conferences have included Mieke Bal, Linda Hutcheon, Bill Readings,
Alexander Gelley, Dominick La Capra, Christopher Norris, Michael Fried,
Martin Jay, Vincent Leitch, Bruce Robbins. Proceedings of both previous
conferences ("Theory Between the Disciplines" and "The Human Sciences in
the Age of Theory") have now appeared in book form.
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:
"The Histories of Theory"
Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism
Labatt Visual Arts Centre, 200F
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
Tel: (519) 661 3442 Fax: (519) 661 2020
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