Strategies of Critique

Strategies of Critique XII: (in)justiced subjects

April 24 and 25, ninety-eight

Conference Programme [Revised]

"Strategies of Critique" is a conference hosted by graduate students in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought at York University. The "Call for Papers": Strategies of Critique XII: (in)justiced subjects. For directions, go to York maps / a picture and map of the Ross Building / or MAPQUEST. All paper presentations, the round table discussion and the panel discussion were held in N940 Ross Building (the Senate Chamber).

 

Friday April 24

10:00 - 10:15 am Introductory Remarks

Christine Ramsay, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

10:15 am - 12:15 pm Subject to Identity: Roundtable Discussion

Gerry Butts, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

Nadia Habib, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

Niamh Hennessy, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

Mike Palamarek, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

12:15 - 1:00 pm Lunch

 

1:00 - 3:00 pm Slash, Crash and Hash

moderator: Joseph Rosen, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

"Saying No to Sex: Representations of Sexuality and Power in Cronenberg's Crash"

Ross Prinzo, State University of New York, Albany

 

"Slashing the Borders of Patriarchy: Slash Fiction and its Challenge to Hegemonic Society"

Kelly Boyd, Simon Fraser University

 

 

 

"The Perception of Marijuana Possession in Canada: 1960 - 1998"

Alexandra Flynn, Simon Fraser University

 

3:00 - 3:15 pm Coffee Break

 

3:15 - 5:30 pm Politogany and Social Change

moderator: Jeremy Stolow, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

"In/Justice as the Metaphorization of the Body: Re-Considering Augustine and Kant"

Mark Cauchi, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

 

"Rationalities in Philosophy and the Possibility for Social Change"

G.E. Dann, University of Notre Dame

 

"The Hegelian Trinitarian Politogany: Can We Change the World Without it?"

John Duncan, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

Saturday April 25th

10:00 - 12:15 pm The Subject of Unconscious Justice: Panel Discussion

moderator: Gregory Cameron, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

Sean Armstrong, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

Joanne Cohen, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

Jen Gilbert, Graduate Programme in Education, York University

Pierre Ouellet, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

12:15 - 1:00 pm Lunch

 

1:00 - 2:45 pm Legislations and Emigrations

moderator: Ayesha Hameed, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

"Hamilton Plastimet Fire: A Political Anatomy"

Cheryl Lousley, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

 

"The Emigration of West Indians and Their Subjective Racial Experiences"

Jerome Teelucksingh, Graduate Programme in History, York University

 

CANCELLED: "The Role of the Rwandese Catholic Church in the 1994 Genocide: A History of Collaboration, Contradiction and Collapse"

Lisa Bournelis, University of Toronto

 

2:45 - 3:00 pm Coffee Break

 

3:00 - 5:00 pm Subjections and Resurrections

moderator: M. Michael Schiff, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

"The Subjection of the Poor: Poverty and the Political Philosophy of ‘Personal Responsibility'"

Steve D'Arcy, University of Toronto

 

"Subjectivity Crossing Time: Finding a Feminist History in Hélène Cixous"

Ilya Parkins, York University

 

 

CANCELLED:  "‘We're on a Road to Nowhere'": Space, Community, Utopia and the Contradictions of Burning Man"

Hans Sagan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

 

5:00 - 6:00 pm CANCELLED: Concluding Discussion

facilitator: Robert Heynen, Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University

 

A reception will be held Friday evening, beginning at six o'clock in Room 430 of the Student Centre.

 

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phone: (416) 736-5320

fax: (416) 650-8075

 

 

Review the previous two Strategies' conference programmes:


Strategies of Critique X: The New Right (1996) with abstracts.


Strategies of Critique XI: Ends of Knowledge or the Knowledge of Ends (1997)

 

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