Strategies of Critique 13: Superstition
Conference Programme and Schedule
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"Strategies of Critique" is a conference hosted by graduate students in the Graduate
Programme in Social & Political Thought at York
University. The Superstition
"Call for Papers" remains available.
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Abstracts page.
* All sessions take place in
The Harry Crowe Room
Room 109 Atkinson College,
Main Floor
York University, 4700 Keele
Street,
Toronto, Ontario
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1999
9.00 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Rob Heynen, Social & Political
Thought, York University
9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Religious Resurrections
Moderator: Dart Hsid,
Social & Political Thought, York University
"Theophobia: The
Secular Fear of God"
Mark Cauchi, Social and Political
Thought, York University
"Crucifixation:
Inevitable Possessions"
John L. Meeks, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
"Revelation,
Conversion and the Hegelian
Dialectic of Consciousness: Religion and Modernism"
Chris Irwin Anderson, Social & Political Thought, York University
11.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Morning break
11.15 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. The De-Possessed Body
Moderator: Karen
Ruddy, Social & Political Thought, York University
"The Paranoid is Out
There: Scapegoats
and Projectiles"
Jack Bratich, Institute
of Communications Research, Univeristy of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
"The Abject
Junky: Death, Masochism,
and the Desubjectified Body"
Jeffrey Falla, Comparative
Literature, University of Minnesota
12.15 p.m. - 1.15 p.m. Lunch break
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1.15 p.m. - 2.45 p.m. Conjuring Communities
Moderator: Victoria
Tahmasebi-Birgani, Social & Political Thought, York University
"Socialism as
Superstition"
J.J. McMurtry, Social & Political Thought, York University
"Enlightened Superstition?
Althusser's Imaginary Relation"
Jon Short, Social & Political Thought, York University
"Superstition and
Uncertainty: An Epistemology of Community"
Joseph Rosen, Social & Political Thought, York University
2.45 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Afternoon break
3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Haunted Texts
Moderator: M. Michael
Schiff, Social & Political Thought, York University
"Between
the Dream and the
Dialectical: A Journey into Freudian Theory's Liberatory Space"
John Bracken, Annenberg
School of Communication Studies, University of
Pennsylvania
"On Repetition
and the Spectre
of Gender"
Andrew Paravantes, Sociology, York
University
"Adorno
and the Muse of the
Dialectic"
Chris McCutcheon, Social & Political Thought, York University
5.00 p.m. Reception
Room 430 (Fourth Floor)
Students Centre
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SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1999
10.00 a.m. -11.30 a.m. Totem, Totality, and Transaction
Moderator: Laura
Suski, Social & Political Thought, York University
"Technological Prophet"
Marionne Cronin, Philosophy,
York University
"The Mystical
Kernel Within the
Rational Shell: Althusser and the Magical Moment of Supersession in Overdetermined
Contradiction"
Guy Kirby Letts, Sociology, York
University
"Mondex, Gambling,
and the Price of Money"
Michael Palamarek, Social & Political Thought, York University
11.30 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Morning break
11.45 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Spectres of the Political
Moderator: Rosa
Berland, Social & Political Thought, York University
"Hobbes on
Superstition and the English
Civil War"
Simon Kow, Political Science,
University of Toronto
"Dialectics and Idealism:
Adorno's Critique of Hegel"
Mark Hiller, Philosophy, York University
12.45 p.m. - 1.45 p.m. Lunch break
1.45 p.m. - 3.15 p.m. Rites of the Aesthetic
Moderator: Tess
Chakkalakal, English, York University
"Knowing on
Film"
Roberta Morris, Philosophy, York University
"The Dancing
Men and the Question
of Code"
Steve Hayward, English, York University
"Superstitions of
Modern Art"
Pierre Ouellet, Social & Political Thought, York University
3.15 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. Afternoon break
3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Plenary Session
Moderator: Rosa
Berland, Social & Political Thought, York University
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An open forum for the collective discussion of themes, questions,
concerns, and conclusions arising from the presented papers and the conference
topic.
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Abstracts page.
Review the previous three Strategies' conference programmes:
Strategies of Critique X: The New Right
(1996) with abstracts.
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Strategies of Critique XI: Ends of Knowledge or the Knowledge of
Ends (1997)
Strategies of Critique xii: (in)justiced subjects
(1998)
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