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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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