大象传媒

Samir Gandesha

Samir Gandesha / CV

Dr. Samir Gandesha

Associate Professor
Department of Humanities

大象传媒
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
V6B 5K3

604-726-6704
gandesha@sfu.ca

Index

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees and Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Political Science, York University, 1996
    Dissertation: 鈥淭ragedy and Enlightenment: Tragedy and Ethics from Plato to Adorno and Beyond鈥
  • M.A.,   Political Science, York University, 1988
  • B.A.,     International Relations, University of British Columbia, 1987
  • Junior Year Abroad, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1985-86

Employment

  • 2010鈥損resent    Director, Institute for the Humanities, 大象传媒
  • 2009鈥損resent    Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, 大象传媒
  • Feb, 2019    Visiting Lecturer, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ci锚ncias Humanas-FFLCH-USP, Universidade de S茫o Paulo
  • Jan, 2019    Visiting Scholar, Staatliche Hochschule f眉r Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • April, 2017    Liu Boming Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University, People鈥檚 Republic of China
  • April, 2017    Visiting Professor, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, People鈥檚 Republic of China
  • 2003鈥2009    Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, 大象传媒
  • 1999鈥2003    Full-time Instructor, School of Academic Studies, Centennial College, Toronto
  • 1998鈥1999    Part-time Instructor, School of Academic Studies, Centennial College, Toronto
  • 1988鈥1994    Teaching Assistant, York University, Department of Political Science

Academic Awards

  • 2005鈥2008    SSHRC, Standard Research Grant.
    Project Title: 鈥淟eaving Home: Adorno, Heidegger and the Experience of Exile鈥
  • 2003    President鈥檚 Research Grant, 大象传媒
  • 2003    Shortlist, SSHRC Canada Research Chair, Trent University
  • 2002    Shortlist, Canada Research Chair, Tier I, Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
  • 2001鈥2004    SSHRC, Standard Research Grant, Co-investigator (with Dr. Gary Genosko)
    Project Title: 鈥淭he Role of Journals (defunct) and Splinter Groups (disbanded) in the Institutionalization of Critical and Post-modern Theory in Canada鈥
  • 2001鈥2002    Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Universit盲t Potsdam
    Host: Professor Christoph Menke 
  • 1999    Writer鈥檚 Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
  • 1999    Shortlist, Queen鈥檚 University Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 1998    Writer鈥檚 Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
  • 1997    Writer鈥檚 Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
  • 1995鈥1997    SSHRC, Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of History, UC Berkeley, 1995-97
    Host: Professor Martin Jay
  • 1995    Nomination, York University, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dissertation Prize
  • 1993    Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • 1990鈥1993    SSHRC, Doctoral Fellowship
  • 1990    Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
  • 1988    York University Dean鈥檚 Scholarship
  • 1986    British Columbia Government Scholarship

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Publications

Books

  • Gandesha, Samir (ed.), Spectres of Fascism: History and Theory in Global Perspective (Pluto Press, 2020)
  • Gandesha, Samir and Peyman Vahabzadeh (eds.), Crossing Borders: Essays Beyond Phenomenology and Critique for Ian Angus (Arbeiter Ring Press. 2020)
  • Gandesha, Samir, Stefano Marino, Colin Campbell (eds.), Adorno and Popular Culture (Mimesis Press, 2019). 
  • Gandesha, Samir and Hartle, Johan (eds.), Aesthetic Marx (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
  • Gandesha, Samir and Hartle, Johan (eds.), Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2017).
  • Rensmann, Lars and Gandesha, Samir (eds.), Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012).
  • Gandesha, Samir, Identifying with the Aggressor: The Neo-Liberal Personality (in progress).
  • Gandesha, Samir. Homeless Philosophy: The Problem of Dwelling in Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt and Adorno (in progress).

Extended Discussions of My Books

  • Forum on Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle (eds.) Aesthetic Marx in Lebenswelt (13) 2018 

Refereed Articles

  • 鈥淥n the Deconstructive Logic of Populism.鈥 Scenari: Revista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea 11 (December 2019): 396鈥415.
  • 鈥淭he Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered: Adorno, Marcuse and the Phantom of 鈥楲eft Fascism.鈥欌 The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2019).
  • 鈥淎dorno, Ferenczi and A New 鈥楥ategorical Imperative After Auschwitz.鈥欌 International Forum of Psychoanalysis, October 12, 2019.
  • 鈥淐ritique and Crisis,鈥 Special Issue on 鈥淪ocializing Violence and Authoritarian Dynamics on The Horizon of the Crisis鈥 of Constelaciones: Revista de Teoria Critica10 (2018): 429-37. 
  • 鈥淭he Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered: Adorno, Marcuse and the Spectre of 鈥楲eft Fascism,鈥 The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (forthcoming). 
  • 鈥淎dorno, Ferenczi and A New 鈥淐ategorical Imperative After Auschwitz,鈥 International Forum of Psychoanalysis (forthcoming)
  • 鈥淭he Aesthetic Politics of Hegemony,鈥 Studi di estectica, anno XLVI, IV serie, 3/2018. 
  • 鈥淟eft Versus Right Populism,鈥 Zeitschrift f眉r Kritische Theorie 46/47 (2018): 214-235.
  • 鈥淚dentifying with the Aggressor: From the 鈥楢uthoritarian鈥 to the 鈥楴eo-Liberal鈥 Personality,鈥 Constellations (25) 2018: 147-164. 
  • 鈥淒e la personalidad autoritaria a la personalidad neo-liberal,鈥 Estudios Politcos Numero 41 (Mayo-Agosto, 2017): 127-155.
  • 鈥淚n Sympathy with the Ephemeral Life: Adorno鈥檚 Reading of Beckett鈥檚 Endgame鈥 Special Issue of Discipline Filosofiche XXVI, 2, 2016, On Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectical Thinking and the Enigma of Truth, Giovanni Matteccui and Stefano Marino (eds.), XXVI (2) 2016, 99-214.
  • "Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno on Kant鈥檚 Third Critique,鈥 Recht und Frieden, Kant Studien (2009): Nr. 335, Bd. 5, 567鈥575.
  • 鈥淭he 鈥楢esthetic Dignity of Words鈥: On Adorno鈥檚 Philosophy of Language,鈥 New German Critique, Special Issue on Adorno, No. 97 (Winter, 2006): 137-58.
  • 鈥淎dorno, Arendt and the Chiasmus of Natural History,鈥 Philosophy and Social Criticism 30, 4 (2004): 445-475.
  • 鈥淎 Crucible of Critical Interdisciplinarity: The Toronto TelosGroup,鈥  (with Gary Genosko and Kristinia Marcellus) Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 8 (2002): 1-18.
  • 鈥淓nlightenment as Tragedy: Reflections on Adorno鈥檚 Ethics,鈥 Thesis Eleven 65 (May 2001): 109-30. 
  • 鈥淣eo-Conservatism: A 鈥楾hird Way鈥 for Canada?鈥 The European Legacy: Special Issue鈥擨s There a Third Way? 5, 6 (2000): 187-193.
  • 鈥淣ietzsche and the 鈥楽elf-Mockery鈥 of Reason,鈥 The European Legacy, 3, 4 (1998): 98-108.
  • 鈥淭he Theatre of the 鈥極ther鈥: Adorno, Post-structuralism and the Critique of Identity,鈥 Philosophy and Social Criticism, 3 (1991): 243-63. 

Book Chapters

  • 鈥淢arcuse, Adorno and the Problem of 鈥楲eft Fascism.鈥欌 In Dialectics of Liberation in a Post- Neoliberal World, edited by Terry Maley, Sarah Surak, Robert Kirsch, Peter-Erwin Jansen and Taylor Hines. Publisher tbd.
  • 鈥淭he 鈥楥onscious Pariah鈥: Beyond Identity and Difference.鈥 In Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Yasemin Sari and Peter Gratton. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
  • 鈥Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman: An 鈥楢lternative Genealogy of Modernity.鈥欌 In Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Yasemin Sari and Peter Gratton. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
  • 鈥淪tatelessness: The Logic of the Camp.鈥 In Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Yasemin Sari and Peter Gratton. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
  • 鈥淥n the Deconstructive Logic of Hegemony.鈥 In Populism and its Limits: After Articulation, edited by Prasanta Chakravarty. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
  • 鈥淚dentity and Injustice.鈥 In Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus, edited by Samir Gandesha and Peyman Vahabzadeh. Winnipeg, MB: Arbeiter Ring Press, 2020.
  • 鈥淎 Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber: Revisiting Adorno鈥檚 鈥淔reudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.鈥 In Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Current Moment, New Library of Psychoanalysis Series, edited by Donald Moss and Lynne Zavin. New York: Routledge: forthcoming.
  • 鈥淭he Spectre of the 1930s.鈥 In Back to the 30s? Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism and Democracy, edited by Jeremy Rayner, Susan Falls, George Souvlis, and Taylor Nelms. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
  • 鈥淪pectacle of Terror.鈥 In Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community: The Crises in Everyday Life, edited by Saswat Das. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, under review.鈥淒ictatorship Contra Critique.鈥 In The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Responses to the Contemporary Left, edited by Elena Louisa Lange and Joshua Depaolis-Pickett. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, under review.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction.鈥 In Spectres of Fascism: Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives, edited by Samir Gandesha, 1鈥26. London: Pluto, Press, 2020.
  • 鈥淎 Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber: Revisiting Adorno鈥檚 鈥楩reudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.鈥欌 In Spectres of Fascism: Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives, edited by Samir Gandesha, 120鈥141. London: Pluto Press, 2020.
  • 鈥淭.W. Adorno: Education for Autonomy.鈥 In Perfektionismus der Autonomie, edited by Douglas Moggach, Nadine Moorem, and Michael Quante, 371鈥399. Paderborn, Germany: Fink Verlag, 2019.
  • 鈥淕har Wapsi or Reconversion?鈥 In Secular Sectarianism: Limits of Subaltern Politics, edited by Ajay Gudavarty, 105鈥122. New Delhi: Sage, 2019.
  • 鈥淯nderstanding Right and Left Populism.鈥 In Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, edited by Jeremiah Morelock, 49鈥70. London: University of Westminster Press, 2018.
  • 鈥淪ociology.鈥 In Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, edited by Imre Szeman, Jeff Diamanti, and Andrew Pendakis, 613鈥620. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
  • 鈥淛acques Derrida and J眉rgen Habermas as Good Europeans.鈥 In Philosophy, Language and the Political: Critical Writings Since Poststructuralism, edited by Franson Manjali and Marc Cr茅pon, 61鈥76. New Delhi: Aakar Press, 2017.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction.鈥 With Johan Hartle. In Aesthetic Marx, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, x鈥搇viii. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017.
  • 鈥淭hree Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx.鈥 In Aesthetic Marx, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 3鈥22. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction.鈥 With Johan Hartle. In Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 9鈥20. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2017.
  • 鈥溾楻eification鈥 Between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience.鈥 In Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 37鈥51. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
  • "The Colour of Adorno's Thought: On Hito Steyerl鈥檚 Adorno鈥檚 Grey" in Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis, Stefano Giachetti (ed.), (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2014): 189-204.
  • "The Point of No Return: On Adorno's Philosophy of Language" in De Kunst van Kritiek: Adorno in Context, Johan Hartle and Thijs Lijster (eds.), (Amsterdam: Octavo, 2014).
  • 鈥淗omeless Philosophy: The Philosophy of Exile and the Exile of Philosophy,鈥 in Arendt and Adorno鈥 in Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations, Samir Gandesha and Lars Rensmann (eds.), (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012): 246-279.
  • 鈥淯nderstanding Political Modernity: Rereading Arendt and Adorno in Comparative Perspective鈥 (with Lars Rensmann) Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations, Samir Gandesha and Lars Rensmann (eds.), (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012):  1-30. 
  • 鈥淪olidarity with Metaphysics at the Time of its Downfall鈥: Adorno Contra Heidegger鈥 in Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future, Stefano Giacchetti (ed.), (University of Delaware Press: 2009).
  • 鈥淭he 鈥楢esthetic Dignity of Words鈥: On Adorno鈥檚 Philosophy of Language鈥 in Adorno and the Need in Thinking, Donald Burke et. al. (eds.), (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007): 78-102.
  • 鈥淥ntological Insecurity and the Politics of Fear鈥 in In/Security: Canada in the Post-9/11 World, A. Netherton, A.Seager, and K.Froschauer (eds.), (Burnaby, BC: Centre for Canadian Studies, 2005): 99-124.
  • 鈥淟eaving Home: On Adorno and Heidegger鈥 in Cambridge Companion to Adorno, Thomas Huhn (ed.), (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 101-28.
  • 鈥淢arcuse, Habermas and the Critique of Technology鈥 in Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, John Abromeit and W. Mark Cobb (eds.), (NY: Routledge, 2004): 188-208.
  • 鈥淪chreiben und Urteilen: Adorno and Arendt und der Chiasmus der Naturgeschichte,鈥 in Arendt und Adorno, Dirk Auer, Lars Rensmann, and Julia Schulze Wessel (eds.), (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003): 199-233.
  • 鈥淪afe Streets鈥 in Crime and Ornament: The Arts and Popular Culture in the Shadow of Adolf Loos, Bernie Miller and Melony Ward (eds.), (Toronto: YYZ Press, 2002): 134-144.
  • 鈥淧unk Multiculturalism鈥 in Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom, Amitava Kumar (ed.), (New York: St. Martin鈥檚 Press, 2000): 245-60.

Encyclopedia/Handbook Entries

  • 鈥淜arl Marx.鈥 In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, 562鈥63. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
  • 鈥淭otality and Technological Form.鈥 In Sage Handbook on Frankfurt School Critical Theory, edited by Werner Bonefeld, Beverley Best, and Chris O鈥橩ane, 642鈥660. London: Sage Press, 2018.
  • 鈥淭he Frankfurt School.鈥 In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Michael Gibbon. Oxford: Blackwell, 2014.
  • 鈥淪tuart Hall.鈥 In The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, edited by John C. Hawley, 221鈥225. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Book Reviews

  • 鈥淚ndia After the 鈥楪reat Little Man.鈥欌 Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5, no.1 (2020): 2鈥12.
  • 鈥淚nsurgent Universality: Review of Asad Haider鈥檚 Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Radical Philosophy 2.04 (Spring 2019). 
  • 鈥淭he Experience of Identity: Review of Asad Haider鈥檚 Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age Of Trump, Radical Philosophy (forthcoming). 
  • 鈥淐onstructions of Mass Utopia: Review of Susan Buck-Morss鈥 Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West鈥 in European Journal of Social Theory 9, 3 (2006): 234-40.
  • 鈥淭he Nature of the Future Human: Habermas鈥檚 The Future of Human Nature鈥 in Theory, Culture and Society 23 (2006): 151-54.
  • 鈥淩eview of G. Borradori鈥檚 (ed.) Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with J眉rgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida鈥 in Political Theory 34(2006): 269-73.
  • 鈥淩eview of Doug Moggach鈥檚 The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer鈥 in Philosophy in Review 24, 5 (2004): 349-51. 
  • 鈥淭he Political Semiosis of Populism鈥 in The Semiotic Review of Books 13, 3(2003): 1-7.
  • 鈥淧hilosophizing Refuge: Review of Giorgio Agamben鈥檚 Means without End: Notes on Politics鈥 in The Semiotic Review of Books Vol. 12, 2 (2002): 5-6.
  • 鈥淩eview of Amitava Kumar鈥檚 Passport Photos鈥 in Politics and Culture 2 (2000).
  • 鈥淩eview of Asha Varadharajan鈥檚 Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno Said, Spivak (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)鈥 in Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory 27, 1(1998): 140-46.
  • 鈥淟ondon鈥檚 Burning: Review of Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture In the City鈥 in Borderlines Magazine 43 (1997): 45-47.
  • 鈥淲ither(ing) Community?: Review of Jean-Luc Nancy鈥檚 The Inoperative Community and Community at Loose Ends鈥 in Borderlines Magazine 42 (1997): 47-50.
  • 鈥Safe European Home: Notes on and from Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco鈥 in Borderlines Magazine 41 (1996): 34-38.
  • 鈥淒ear Theo: Review of Fredric Jameson鈥檚 Late Marxism, or, Adorno and the Persistence of the Dialectic鈥 in Borderlines Magazine 22 (Summer, 1991): 42-43.

Translations

  • Jean Baudrillard, 鈥淚nterview with Der Spiegel: 鈥楾his is the Fourth World War鈥欌 in International Review of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 1, No.1 (January 2004).
  • Reprint: 鈥淭his is the Fourth World War." In Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance, Uncollected Interviews. Eds. RG Smith and DB Clarke, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pp. 171-78.
  • Theodor W. Adorno, 鈥淭heses on the Language of the Philosopher鈥 Samir Gandesha and Michael Palamarek trans. in Adorno and the Need in Thinking (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007): 35-40. 

Reprints

  • 鈥淭he 鈥楢esthetic Dignity of Words鈥: On Adorno鈥檚 Philosophy of Language鈥 in The New Adorno, Donald Burke Et. Al. (eds.) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007): 78-102.
  • 鈥淣ew York City Man鈥 in Changing Identities: Reading and Writing Ourselves ,Stan Fogel and Lynette Thoman (eds.), (Toronto: Scholars/Women鈥檚 Press, 2002).
  • 鈥淔lowers in the Dustbin, or, Requiem for Punk鈥 in Canadian Communications: Issues in Contemporary Media and Culture, B. Szuchwycz (ed.), (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc.: 2001).
  • 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of the Squeegee Kids?鈥 in Canadian Communications: Issues in Contemporary Media and Culture, B. Szuchwycz (ed.), (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc.: 2001).

Exhibition Reviews

  • 鈥淚an Wallace, Catriona Jeffries Gallery鈥 in Art Papers (March/April, 2008).
  • 鈥淩oy Arden, Vancouver Art Gallery鈥 in Art Papers (Nov/Dec, 2007).
  • 鈥淭he Divine Comedy, Vancouver Art Gallery鈥 in Art Papers (May/June, 2004): 60.
  • 鈥淒an Graham, Contemporary Art Gallery,鈥 Vancouver, in Art Papers (Jan/Feb, 2004):
  • 鈥淚 Sell Security, Catriona Jeffries Gallery鈥 in Art Papers (Nov/December, 2003): 64.
  • 鈥淛ulian Rosefeld: Asylum, Museum f眉r Gegenwart,鈥 Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, in Art Papers, Vol. 27.No. 2 (March/April 2003): 52.
  • 鈥淗arun Farocki: I Thought I was Seeing Convicts, Art Gallery of Ontario鈥 in Art Papers (July/Aug 2003): 54.

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Interviews, presentations and addresses

Interviews

  • 鈥淭he Brazilian Matrix: Between Fascism and Neoliberalism: A Conversation Between Samir Gandesha Vladimir Safatle.鈥 Krisis (forthcoming).
  • 鈥淗e Who Eats from the State, Will Die From it: A Conversation with Anselm Jappe, Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle.鈥 Contours 9 (Summer 2019). http://www.sfu.ca/humanitiesinstitute/contours/issue9.html. 
  • 鈥淚nterview with Zachary Formwalt.鈥 With Johan Hartle. Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 181鈥201. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 
  • 鈥Telos in Canada: Interview with Paul Piccone.鈥 With Gary Genosko. Telos 131 (Summer 2005): 152鈥166.

Invited Addresses

  • 鈥淎cademic Freedom in Global Perspective.鈥 The Chris and John Furedy Lecture on the Contemporary University, June 5, 2020.
  • 鈥淚s Academic Freedom in Crisis in the Canadian University?鈥 Keynote Address for the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, June 6, 2020.
  • 鈥淭he Actuality of Authoritarianism: Conceptualizing Democracies in Between Psychoanalysis Social Theory.鈥 Institute for Cultural Inquiry and Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany, December 11鈥12, 2019.
  • Keynote, 鈥淎dorno and the Media Conference.鈥 Hochschule f眉r Gestaltung. Karlsruhe: December 13鈥14, 2019. Lecture, 鈥淭he Institute for the Humanities in History and the Present.鈥 Akademie der bildenden K眉nst, Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2019.
  • 鈥淚s Difference Central to a Left Politics?鈥 Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin, Germany, December 10, 2019.
  • Commentator, 鈥淭he Settlers Town is a Strongly Built Town鈥擣anon in Palestine.鈥 Birkbeck College, December 8, 2019.
  • 鈥淚dentity Politics: A Fanonian Critique.鈥 University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, November 2019.
  • 鈥淭he Political Rhetoric and Social Psychology of the Authoritarian Populist: 鈥楢 Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber.鈥欌 University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, November 2019.
  • 鈥淔ree Speech and its Discontents on Campus.鈥 University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, November 2019.
  • 鈥淭he Use and Abuse of Identity for (Public) Life,鈥 South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, 大象传媒, August 17th, 2019. 
  • 鈥溾楢 Composite of King Kong and the Suburban Barber鈥: Revisiting Adorno鈥檚 鈥淔reudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda鈥 in an Era of Resurgent Populism,鈥 Institute for Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, June 19th, 2019. 
  • 鈥淯nderstanding Authoritarian Populism Today: Samir Gandesha and John Abromeit in Conversation,鈥 Institute for Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, June 3rd, 2019. 
  • 鈥淭he New Authoritarianism and Digital Populism,鈥 Workshop on 鈥淲hat鈥檚 New in the New Authoritarianism,鈥 Department of the Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden, March 21-22, 2019.
  • Panelist, 鈥淔reedom of Speech and the Arts: Voices from the Left,鈥 BMO Theatre Centre, Feb 18, 2019.
  • Panelist, 鈥淔ree Speech and Academic Freedom鈥 CAUT Harry Crowe Foundation Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, February 22-23, 2019.
  • 鈥淚dentity Politics: A Fanonian Critique,鈥 Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, Paris, France, January 26th, 2019.
  • 鈥淪pectre of Fascism,鈥 Department of European and International Studies, King鈥檚 College London, January 23, 2019.
  • 鈥淚dentity Politics: A Fanonian Critique,鈥 Hochschule f眉r Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, January 22, 2019.
  • Panelist, Book Launch: Asad Haider鈥檚 Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in an Era of Trump (Verso, 2018). Historical Materialism, London, November 9th, 2018. 
  • 鈥淪ocial Media and its Discontents,鈥 Indian Institute for Technology, Kharagpur, India, October 24, 2018. 
  • 鈥淟eft and Right Populisms,鈥 University of Mumbai, India, October 22, 2018. 
  • 鈥淭he Crisis of Democracy,鈥 Vancouver Senior Jewish Men鈥檚 Group, Jewish Community Centre, September 17th, 2018.
  • 鈥淭he Rise of Authoritarian Populism: Is Left Populism the Answer?鈥 Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, September 11th, 2018
  • Symposium: Knowledge and Place in the Humanities,鈥 University of Victoria, September 10, 2018.
  • 鈥淲eaponizing Words: The Dilemmas of Free Speech,鈥 BC Humanist Association, Oakridge Mall, Vancouver, June 25th, 2018.
  • 鈥淭he Spectre of Left Fascism: Adorno鈥檚 Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered,鈥 British Institute for Psychoanalysis, London, England, 2018. 
  • 鈥淭he Spectre of Left Fascism: Adorno鈥檚 Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered,鈥 The Sandor Ferenczi Center, New School for research, New York City, April, 2018.  
  • Keynote Address: 鈥淩eflections on Left  Fascism,鈥 Marxism and Psychoanalysis Conference, Department of Humanities, 大象传媒, December 2nd, 2017. 
  • 鈥淩evisiting the Frankfurt School鈥檚 Critique of Authoritarianism,鈥 World Peace Forum, Vancouver, B.C., November 18.
  • 鈥淩evisiting Adorno鈥檚 Concept of Natural-history in the Anthropocene,鈥 Adorno and the Anthropocene Conference, University of Sunsdvall, Sweden, October 5-6th, 2017. 
  • 鈥淲hat is a 鈥楪ood European鈥?鈥 Keynote Address, English Graduate Student Conference, 大象传媒, Jul 2016.  
  • 鈥淚dentifying with the Aggressor: From the 鈥楢uthoritarian鈥 to the 鈥楴eo-Liberal鈥 Personality,鈥 Vancouver Institute for Social Research, OR Gallery, May 2016.
  • 鈥淣ihilism and Terror,鈥 BC Humanists Association, Vancouver, BC, Mar 2016. 
  • 鈥淪hort Remarks on the Democratic Legacy of B.R. Ambedkar,鈥 Indian Consulate, Vancouver, BC, Mar 2016.
  • 鈥淔rom the 鈥楢uthoritarian鈥 to the 鈥楴eo-Liberal鈥 Personality,鈥 Der Aufrechte Gang im Windschiefen Kapitalismus Conference, Nietzsche Kolleg, Weimar, Germany, Jan 2016.
  • 鈥淔rom the 鈥楢uthoritarian鈥 to the 鈥楴eo-Liberal鈥 Personality鈥 Freud Museum, London, Jan 2016.
  • 鈥淲hat is the State of Extraction?鈥 Program in Political Ecology, University of Vienna, Jan 2016.
  • 鈥淭hree Logics of the Aesthetic,鈥 Center for the Study of Marxist Social Theory, University of Nanjing, China, May 2014. 
  • 鈥淭he Concept of Left and Right,鈥 Platypus Affiliated Society International Convention, School of Art Institute, Chicago, Ill., Apr 2014.
  • 鈥淭he Aesthetic Politics of Hegemony,鈥 Cultural, Social and Political Thought Program, University of Victoria, Feb 2014. 
  • 鈥淭he Colour of Adorno鈥檚 Thought,鈥 Audain Gallery, 大象传媒, Oct 2013. 
  • 鈥淭hree Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx,鈥 Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY at Buffalo, Oct 2012. 
  • 鈥淗omeless Philosophy: Hegel, Negativity and Critical Theory,鈥 5thAnnual Critical Theory Conference, Rome, May 2012. 
  • 鈥淧lenary Address: Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx,鈥 presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Continental philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alt., Oct 2010.
  • 鈥淭houghts on Language and Citizenship,鈥 Citizenship without the Nation Conference, University of British Columbia, Oct 2010. 
  • Participant, Roundtable on the Legacy of Hannah Arendt, Joint Session Canadian Society for Continental philosophy and the Canadian Philosophy Association, University of Saskatchewan, Jun 2007.
  • 鈥淒econstruction and Critical Theory,鈥 Symposium: Legacy of Jacques Derrida, Institute for the Humanities, 大象传媒, Oct 2005. 
  • 鈥淐itizenship and the Avant-garde,鈥 Roundtable on Citizenship, 大象传媒, Mar 2004.
  • 鈥淪trangers into Enemies: On the Logic of Populism,鈥 Research Seminar Centre for the Study of Theory Culture and Politics, Trent University, Jan 2003.
  • 鈥淎dorno and Arendt on Writing and Judging,鈥 Institut f眉r Philosophie, Universit盲t Potsdam, Jul 2002.
  • 鈥淎dorno and Arendt on Heidegger,鈥 Philosopher鈥檚 Meeting, Annual Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Jun 2002.
  • 鈥淢arcuse, Technology, and Fear,鈥 The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse Conference, UC Berkeley, Nov 1998.

Conferences, Workshops, and Presentations

  • 鈥淭he Spectre of the 1930s,鈥 Historical Materialism, Athens, Greece, May 3-6, 2019. 
  • 鈥淪pectre of Fascism,鈥 Historical Materialism, London, UK, November 8-11, 2018. 
  • 鈥淭he Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered: Adorno, Marcuse and the Spectre of 鈥楲eft Fascism,鈥 1stCritical Theory Roundtable: The Frankfurt School, Radical Political Economy & Critiques of Fascism, Gonzaga University, February 16-17, 2018.
  • 鈥淩eflections on Left Fascism,鈥 Biennial Meeting of the International Herbert Marcuse Association, Toronto, October 27th, 2017. 
  • 鈥淧opulism Left and Right,鈥 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco,  September 1, 2017. 
  • Chair, Academic Panel, The End of Life: Dying Suicide and Death Conference, 大象传媒, November 3rd, 2016. 
  • Panelist, 鈥淚ntersections of Indigeneity, Refugees, Affect and Trauma,鈥 Panel Discussion, 大象传媒, Aug 2016. 
  • Participant, Roundtable on 鈥淧sychoanalysis and the Trump Phenomenon,鈥 with presentations by John Abromeit (via Skype), Jay Frankel, Hilda Fernandez, Samir Gandesha, and Jerry Zaslove, May 2016.
  • Moderator, 鈥淭argeting Universities in Authoritarian India,鈥 Panel Discussion, with presentations by Ajay Bhardwaj, Dionne Bunsha, and Gurpreet Singh, Apr 2016.
  • Presenter, Panel discussion on 鈥淲hat is the State of Bill C-51 Today?鈥 with presentations by Michael Vonn, Samir Gandesha, and Charles Boylan. Part of the 鈥淩epeal Bill C-51 Conference,鈥 Feb 2016.
  • Presenter, 鈥淲hat is a 鈥楪ood European鈥?鈥 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, New York City, Jan 2016.
  • Panelist, 鈥淲hat Does Climate Change?鈥 Panel Discussion, University of Alberta, Feb 2016.
  • Respondent, Lecture by Ferenc Er艖son 鈥淧sychoanalysis Behind Iron Curtains,鈥 with Hilda Fernandez, Endre Koritar, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 2015.
  • Panelist, 鈥淭he Canadian Election and the Politics of Fear,鈥 Adel Iskandar, and Fiona Jeffries (via Skype), Oct 2015.
  • Moderator, 鈥淐-51 The Anti-Terror Bill,鈥 Panel discussion with Craig Forcese, Margot Young, Micheal Vonn, Max Cameron, and Zool Suleman on Mar 2015.
  • Presenter, Symposium on 鈥淭heodor Adorno: Music, Language, Authenticity,鈥 with presentations by Shierry Nicholsen, Jeremy Shapiro, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 2014.
  • Panelist, 鈥淭he Theoretical legacy of Stuart Hall,鈥 Panel Discussion on The Stuart Hall Project, Institute for the Humanities, Feb 2014.
  • Presenter, 鈥淐an There be Politics without Reification?," Commodity, Reification and Spectacle Conference, University of Amsterdam, Dec 2013. 
  • Presenter, 鈥淭he Neo-Liberal Personality,鈥 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory Conference, Institute for the Humanities, 大象传媒 Vancouver, Nov 2013.
  • Panelist, 鈥淭he Recent Election: Our Canadian Political Landscape Canada Under a Harper Majority,鈥 Panel Discussion with presentations by Michael Byers, and David Beers, and Reilly Yeo, Jun 2011.
  • Presenter, 鈥淗egel鈥檚 Homecoming of Spirit,鈥 Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: Place and Dis-Placement, Bowen Island, BC, Oct 2012. 
  • Presenter, 鈥淗egel鈥檚 Homecoming of Spirit,鈥 Radical Philosophy Association Annual Conference, Canisius College, Oct 2012. 
  • Presenter, 鈥淭hree Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx,鈥 Marx and the Aesthetic Conference, University of Amsterdam, May 2012.
  • Presenter, 鈥淢arx, Benjamin and the 18thBrumaire,鈥 Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London, Nov 2011. 
  • Presenter, 鈥淎dorno and Cavell on Beckett鈥檚 Endgame,鈥 Annual Meeting of the Society for European philosophy, Loyola University, Rome, Jun 2010.
  • Presenter, 鈥淢arx, Modernization and Modernism,鈥 Social Philosophy Conference, Prague, May 2008.
  • Presenter, 鈥淢arx, Reification and Aesthetic Negativity,鈥 Reification and the Challenge of Praxis Conference,鈥 JCU, Rome, May 2008.
  • Respondent, 鈥淩esponse to William Paulson,鈥 Joanne Brown Symposium, Michel Serres鈥 Natural Contract, Feb 2008.
  • Presenter, 鈥淪olidarity with Metaphysics at the Time of its Downfall,鈥 Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future Conference, JCU, Rome, Apr 2007.
  • Presenter, 鈥淢arx and the Modernist Future of Democratic Communication,鈥 UDC Conference, 大象传媒, Oct 2007.
  • Presenter, 鈥漇olidarity with Metaphysics at the Time of its Downfall,鈥 Association for Political Thought Conference, UWO, London, Ontario, Oct 2007. 
  • Presenter, 鈥淭he 鈥楢esthetic Dignity of Words鈥: On Adorno鈥檚 Materialist Philosophy of Language,鈥 Critical Aesthetics Conference, Cornell University, Apr 2006.
  • Respondent, 鈥淩esponse to Sekyi-Otu,鈥 Joanne Brown Symposium, Mar 2006. 
  • Presenter, 鈥淎dorno and Arendt on Kant鈥檚 Third Critique,鈥 10thKant Congress, Sa玫 Paulo Brazil, Sep 2006. 
  • Panelist, 鈥淒errida and His Legacy,鈥 Panel Discussion with presentations by Ian Angus, Lorraine Weir, and Alessandra Capperdoni, Oct 2005.
  • Participant, 鈥淐itizen: Imagination and Agency,鈥 Roundtable discussion for 大象传媒鈥檚 Writer-in-Residence Colloquium and Reading with Larissa Lai, Fred Wah, Wayde Compton and Sophie McCall, Mar 2005.
  • Presenter, 鈥淩ight-wing Populism and the Politics of Fear,鈥 Canadian Political Science Association, Halifax, May 2003.
  • Presenter,  鈥淎dorno, Arendt and the Chiasmus of Natural History,鈥 Canadian Political Science Association, Halifax, Jun 2003
  • Presenter, 鈥淩ight-wing Populism and the Politics of Fear,鈥 Inaugural Meeting of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Jan 2003.
  • Presenter, 鈥淟eaving Home: On Adorno and Heidegger,鈥 Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference,鈥 Institute for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Prague, May 2002.
  • Presenter, 鈥淪ocial Democracy, Right-wing Populism and Sovereignty,鈥 In/Security: Canada in an International World Conference, 大象传媒 Vancouver, Nov 2002.
  • Presenter, 鈥淥n the Ruins of Philosophy: Architecture, Deconstruction and Social Theory,鈥 Lecture for Queen鈥檚 University Humanities Post-doctoral Fellowship, Apr 1999.
  • Presenter, 鈥淩ecognizing the Limits of Recognition: A Critique of Multicultural Politics,鈥 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Jun 1998.
  • Presenter, 鈥淩ecognizing the Limits of Recognition: A Critique of Multicultural Politics,鈥 Toronto Conference for the study of Political Thought, Toronto, Mar 1998.
  • Presenter, 鈥淔ood as Metaphor: Is Diversity the 鈥楽pice鈥 of Life?,鈥 Desh Pardesh: Festival of South Asian Arts, Toronto, Jun 1997.
  • Presenter, 鈥淭ragedy as Enlightenment: Reflections on Adorno鈥檚 Ethics,鈥 Actuality of Adorno: A Symposium, UC Berkeley, Mar 1997.
  • Presenter, 鈥淧lato and the Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry,鈥 Strategies of Critique Graduate Students鈥 Conference, York University, Toronto, Apr 1995.
  • Presenter, 鈥淗egel, Nietzsche and the 鈥楧ialectic of Enlightenment,鈥欌 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, Ontario, 1993.
  • Presenter, 鈥淐ritical Theory, Post-structuralism and the Subject,鈥 Passion, Powers, Persons Conference, UC Berkeley, Apr 1992.
  • Presenter, 鈥淎dorno and the Primacy of the Object,鈥 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Kingston, Ontario, 1991.
  • Presenter, 鈥淏urke, Hegel and the 鈥楧ouble Possibility鈥 of Hermeneutics,鈥 Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Montreal, 1991. 

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Media Interviews颅颅颅颅颅颅颅颅颅

  • 2020    鈥淔ascist Epistemology鈥: A discussion with Stuart Parker and Eileen Wennekers, CFUR 88.7.
  • 2020    Wet鈥檚uwe鈥檛en Land Rights. The Early Edition (with Stephen Quinn).
  • 2020    Discussion of Spectres of Fascism. Sputnik, with George Galloway on RT.
  • 2019    鈥淭he Neo-Liberal Personality.鈥 Interview with Am Johal, Below the Radar podcast.
  • 2018    Interview for Documentary on Spirituality and Consumerism Beyond Vanity
  • 2018    Oats for Breakfast Podcast Episode on 鈥淔ree Speech鈥
  • 2018    Well-Reds: A Left Books Podcast, Episode 13 with Charles Demers for Ricochet on Communism for Kids (MIT Press, 2018) by Bini Adamczak, March.
  • 2018    Interview with Imtiaz Popat on Bulland Awaaz Co-op Radio on Electoral Reform
  • 2016    Interview with Minelle Mahtani on Europe Referendum Vote on Sense of Place Show, Roundhouse Radio FM 98.3, June.
  • 2016    Interview with Mr. Gurpreet Singh on Indian universities on Spice Radio AM 1200, April.
  • 2016    Interview with Ms. Hilda Fernandez and Professor Minelle Mahtani on Social Psychology and Donald Trump, on Sense of Place Show, Roundhouse Radio FM 98.3, May. 
  • 2016    Interview with Professor Adel Iskandar and Professor Minelle Mahtani on Finance and Terror on Sense of Place Show, Roundhouse Radio FM 98.3, March. 
  • 2016    Interview with the Peak Newspaperon Indian Universities under fire, March.
  • 2015    Interview with Charles Boylan and Irwin Oostindie on Bill C51 on W2 Morning Show, Co-op Radio 100.5.
  • 2015    Interview on SLAPP Suits with CFAX Radio, December.
  • 2015    Interview with Irwin Oostindie on Bill C51 on W2 Morning Radio Show Co-op Radio 100.5, December.
  • 2015    Interview with Peak Newspaperon the Politics of Fear, October.
  • 2009    Interview with Professor Vaclav Cilek on Czech Radio on Regionalism and Globalization, June.

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Supervision of Research Personnel

  • 2017-present Maxwell Kristen
  • 2006鈥2007    Natalie Wing
  • 2006鈥2007    Andrew Bingham
  • 2005鈥2006    Dennis Nattkemper
  • 2005鈥2006    Adela Muchova
  • 2005鈥2006    Daniel Harris

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Graduate Supervision

In Progress

  • Senior Supervisor, Andrew Czink, PhD in Liberal Studies: 鈥淧hilosophy of Embodied Musical Practices.鈥
  • Senior Supervisor, Duane Fontaine, PhD in Liberal Studies: 鈥淭ransformations of Work in Neo-Liberal Capitalism.鈥
  • Senior Supervisor, Sobhi al-Zobaidi, PhD by Special Arrangement: 鈥淐olonial Spaces, Postcolonial Times: Dispossession, Resistance and Identity in an Age of Digital Reproduction.鈥
  • Senior Supervisor, Christopher Hardcastle, MA in Humanities: 鈥淐orporations are Not People.鈥
  • Senior Supervisor, Morgan Young, MA in Humanities: 鈥淭oward a Critical Theory of Fantasy.鈥
  • Supervisor, Eugenia Bertulis, PhD in Liberal Studies: 鈥淭he Product, Mass Culture and Object Agency.鈥
  • Supervisor, J.J. Hill, PhD in Liberal Studies: 鈥淎rchives of the Schizophrenic and the Ownership of the Self.鈥

Completed

  • Senior Supervisor, Alexis Tia Wolfe, MA in Humanities: 鈥淪ymbolic Collisions: Short-Circuits in
  • the Libidinal Economy Fall 2019.
  • Senior Supervisor, Kavita Reddy, MA in Humanities: 鈥淭he Negativity of Place: Capital Accumulation and Ecological Limits.鈥 Spring 2016.
  • Senior Supervisor. Huyen Pham, MA in Humanities: 鈥淏reaking the Gaze: Ressentiment, Bad Faith, and the Struggle for Individual Freedom.鈥 Fall 2013.
  • Senior Supervisor. Michael Thoma, MA in Liberal Studies: 鈥淐inema and Marxist Aesthetics: Lukacs, Benjamin and Adorno.鈥 Summer 2009.
  • Supervisor, Susan Pell, PhD by Special Arrangements: 鈥淧ublics in Formation: An Analysis of Woodwards Contentious Redevelopment 1995-2002.鈥 Fall 2010.
  • Senior Supervisor, Adela Muchova, MA by Special Arrangement Thesis: 鈥淭he Experience of Czech Exile Writers.鈥 Winter 2006.

Graduate Examination

  • Kurt Pabst, 鈥淐lass Struggle in Theory,鈥 Ph.D. Committee Member, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, April, 2019.
  • Graham Lyons, 鈥淢odernist Angels of History: Reading the Politics of the Historical Self in Walter Benjamin, Katherine Mansfield, Gertrude Stein and Laura (Riding) Jackson,鈥 Ph.D. Defence internal-external Examiner, Department of English, 大象传媒, Aug 2015.
  • Roy Bendor, New Media and the Turn to Experience in Environmental Communication,鈥 School of Communications, Ph.D. Defence internal-external examiner, Oct 2013.
  • Saladdin Ahmed, A Philosophical Theory of the Politics of Space: Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Spatial Aura, Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, Ph.D. Defence external examiner, Apr 2013. 
  • Karen Asp, 鈥淎dorno: Interpretation, Dialectics and the Indissoluble 鈥楽omething,鈥欌 Political Science, Acadia University, M.A. Defence external examiner, Jan 2013.
  • Shab Shafarkah, 鈥淪HEEVAN/CRIES: Ten Paintings,鈥 M.A. Defence, internal-external examiner Graduate Liberal Studies, Apr 2010.
  • Roger Leroux, MA in Graduate Liberal Studies. Defence internal-external Extended essays: 鈥淒eath in Venice: Britten鈥檚 Operatic Triumph;鈥 鈥淭he Allegorical Schoenberg: Twelve Tone Music in Thomas Mann鈥檚 Dr. Faustus.鈥 Completed, Mar 2008.
  • Richard Soyka, MA in Graduate Liberal Studies. Defence internal-external Extended essays: 鈥淗egel, Marx and the Self;鈥 鈥淗eidegger, Eastern Philosophy and Ecology.鈥 Completed, Feb 2008.

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Languages

  • German: Fluent
  • French: Reading knowledge
  • Gujarati: Basic

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Professional/University Service

Active Service to the Department of Humanities 

Departmental Committees
  • Regular participation on normal departmental committees. 
Other Service to the Department
  • 2019    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester
  • 2009    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester
  • 2006    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester
  • 2005    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester

Active Service to 大象传媒

  • 2010-present    Director, Institute for the Humanities
  • 2016-present    Refugee Working Group, 大象传媒
  • 2015-present    Member, 大象传媒 Galleries, Advisory Committee
  • 2004鈥損resent    Chair, J.S. Woodsworth Advisory Committee, Institute for the Humanities
  • 2004鈥損resent    Member Steering Committee, Institute for the Humanities
  • 2009鈥2010    Chair, Graduate Program Committee
  • 2007鈥2008    Chair, 鈥淐itizenship and Modernity鈥 Committee, Institute for the Humanities
  • 2005鈥2006    Chair, 鈥淐itizenship and Modernity鈥 Committee, Institute for the Humanities
  • 2003鈥2004    Faculty Associate, Institute for the Humanities

Active Service to the Academic Community

  • 2019鈥損resent Manuscript Assessor, Review of Politics
  • 2019-present    Research Grant Assessor, American University Sharjah, UAE
  • 2018-present    Manuscript Assessor, Adorno Studies Journal
  • 2018-present    Manuscript Assessor, University of Toronto Press
  • 2015-present    Manuscript Assessor, MIT Press
  • 2014-present    Manuscript Assessor, American Political Science Review
  • 2012鈥損resent    Manuscript Assessor, Theory, Culture and Society.
  • 2007鈥損resent    Manuscript Assessor, Pluto Press
  • 2005鈥損resent    Manuscript Assessor, Cambridge University Press
  • 2001鈥損resent    Associate Editor, Semiotic Review of Books
  • 1998鈥損resent    Manuscript Assessor, Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • 2012    Co-convener (with Ian Angus) Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: Place and Dis-Placement, Bowen Island, BC, October.
  • 2012    Co-convener (with Johan Hartle), Marx and the Aesthetic Conference, University of Amsterdam, May.
  • 2009鈥2010    Member, Selection Committee #5, National Doctoral Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
  • 2007鈥2008    Member, Selection Committee #5, National Doctoral Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
  • 2008    Convener, 鈥淐ritical Theory and Metaphysics: A Symposium,鈥 大象传媒, March.
  • 2006    Convener, Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: Multiculturalism and its Limits, Bowen Island, BC, March.
  • 2005    ACTC Conference Organizing Committee
  • 2000    Co-author, Position Paper on Applied Arts Degrees, Office of the Vice President Academic, Centennial College
  • 1997    Co-convenor (with Dr. Martin Jay) 鈥淎ctuality of Adorno鈥 Symposium, UC Berkeley 
  • 1994    Chair, Organizing Committee, 鈥淩epresenting the Political鈥 Conference, York University. Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Wolin
  • 1990鈥1994    Associate Editor, Borderlines Magazine

Active Service to the Community as Director of the Institute for the Humanities, 大象传媒

  • 2020    Book launch and panel discussions on the historical, theoretical, and contemporary perspectives of 鈥淪pectres of Fascism,鈥 with presentations by Samir Gandesha, Ingo Schmidt, Jaleh Mansoor, Tamir Bar-On, Am Johal, Laura Marks, Hilda Fernandez, Ajay Gutavarthy, Helmut-Harry Loewen, Joan Braune, Patricia Barkaskas, and Vladimir Safatle, May 22, May 29, and June 5.
  • 2020    Seminar with Visiting Scholar Newton Duarte on 鈥淩elativism and Obscurantism vs Knowledge of Reality,鈥 March 12.
  • 2020    Panel discussion on 鈥淐yberwar and Revolution,鈥 with presentations by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Samir Gandesha, March 6.
  • 2020    Public lecture by Visiting Scholar Newton Duarte on 鈥淓ducation in Brazil: Beyond Neutrality and Indoctrination,鈥 March 5.
  • 2020    Public lecture by Douglas Moggach on 鈥淧erfecting Autonomy: Rethinking Perfectionist Ethics After Kant,鈥 January 30.
  • 2020    Book launch and panel discussion on 鈥淰iolence, Nonviolence, and Necessary Suffering,鈥 with author Peyman Vahabzadeh and Ian Angus, January 24.
  • 2019    Symposium on 鈥淭heodor W. Adorno: Fifty Years After His Death,鈥 with keynote by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, November 29.
  • 2019    Public dialogue between Samir Gandesha and Visiting Scholar Newton Duarte on 鈥淧ublic Education Under Attack in Brazil.鈥
  • 2019    Public dialogue between Samir Gandesha and Director Sanjay Kak on 鈥淜ashmir: Photography as Witness and Memory,鈥 November 16.
  • 2019    Film screening and panel discussion on 鈥淔anon: Yesterday, Today,鈥 with Q&A with director Hassane Mezine and responses by Glen Coulthard, Jaleh Mansoor, Sobhi al-Zobaidi, and Samir Gandesha, October 16.
  • 2019    Book launch and lecture by Suraj Yengde on 鈥淐aste Matters,鈥 with responses from members of the Ambedkar Reading Group, October 11.
  • 2019    Book launch and public lecture by Martin Lukacs on 鈥淭he Trudeau Formula,鈥 October 1.
  • 2019    Public lecture on 鈥淭he Use and Abuse of 鈥淚dentity鈥: A Fanonian Critique,鈥 August 17.
  • 2019    Public lecture by Svend Robinson on 鈥淧eople and the Planet Before Profits,鈥 April 24.
  • 2019    鈥淚n Conversation with Ian Angus,鈥 with interviewers Samir Gandesha and Peyman Vahabzadeh, April 6.
  • 2018    Public lecture by Olivier Remaud on 鈥淩eading Earth,鈥 August 29.
  • 2018    Public lecture by Andrew Czink on 鈥淭orrent, Trickle 鈥 The Exploratory and the Performative in Doing Music,鈥 July 7.
  • 2018    Panel discussion on 鈥淲eaponizing Words: The Dilemmas of Free Speech,鈥 with presentations by Samir Gandesha, Morgane Oger, and Josh Paterson, June 27.
  • 2018    Film screening of 鈥淒angerous Hope: Canada鈥檚 Betrayal of Democracy in Haiti,鈥 with Q&A with director Elaine Briere, David Putt, and Garry Auguste, June 14.
  • 2018    Film screening of 鈥淲innie Mandela: Under Apartheid,鈥 with Q&A with director Peter Davis, June 4.
  • 2018    Panel discussion on 鈥淭he Mountain of Everything Keeps on Giving,鈥 with presentations by Matt Hern and Sobhi al-Zobaidi, April 27.
  • 2018    Public lecture by Janine MacLeod on 鈥淗ydrologies of Transformation: Capitalism, Hegemony, and the Meanings of Water,鈥 April 10.
  • 2018    Public lecture by Saladdin Ahmed on 鈥淭he Revolution of the Hopeless Ones: Rojava鈥檚 Cosmopolitan Appeal,鈥 April 9.
  • 2018    Public lecture by William Leiss on 鈥淭he Threat of Superintelligence,鈥 March 29.
  • 2018    Symposium on 鈥淎rt, Labour and the Future of Work,鈥 with presentations by Mark Nowak, Alessandra Capperdoni, Johan Hartle, Duane Fontaine, Philip Wohlstetter, Samir Gandesha, Jaleh Mansoor, Andrew Czink, Morgan Young, Ed Graham, and Anita Chari, March 3鈥4.
  • 2018    Public lecture by John Clarke on 鈥淏asic Income: Progressive Hopes and Neoliberal Realities,鈥 with responses by Jenna van Draanen, Michal Rozworski, Trish Garner, and Duane Fontaine, February 27.
  • 2018    Panel discussion on 鈥淲hy Don鈥檛 the Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance,鈥 with presentations by Michael Truscello, Ajamu Nangwaya, John Clarke, Sara Sagaii, and Samir Gandesha, February 27.
  • 2017    Co-convenor (with S. Collis), Spectre of Fascism Free School
  • 2017    Chair, Organizing Committee, Spectacle of Fascism Conference 
  • 2016    Roundtable on 鈥淧sychoanalysis and the Trump Phenomenon,鈥 with presentations by John Abromeit (via Skype), Jay Frankel, Hilda Fernandez, Samir Gandesha, and Jerry Zaslove, May 27.
  • 2016    Public lecture by Maurizio Lazzarato on 鈥淔inancialization and War: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity,鈥 Apr 29.
  • 2016    Panel discussion on 鈥淭argeting Universities in Authoritarian India,鈥 with presentations by Ajay Bhardwaj, Dionne Bunsha, and Gurpreet Singh, Apr 15.
  • 2016    Workshop with Ian Angus on 鈥淗usserl and America: Reflections on the Limits of Europe as the Ground of Meaning and Value for Phenomenology,鈥 Mar 29.
  • 2016    Public lecture by David Yorke on 鈥淎 Story of Canadian Anti-Fascists in Spain: Ron Liversedge and the Publication of Mac-Pap,鈥 Mar 21.
  • 2016    Public lecture by Lorraine Weir, titled 鈥淥ral History as a Practice of Freedom: the Tsilhqot鈥檌n Title Case in Context,鈥 Mar 4.
  • 2016    Workshop with Sarah Deardorff-Miller on 鈥淩efugee Resilience: Resettlement Through a Human Rights Lens,鈥 Mar 3.
  • 2016    Panel discussion on 鈥淲hat is the State of Bill C-51 Today?鈥 with presentations by Michael Vonn, Samir Gandesha, and Charles Boylan. Part of the 鈥淩epeal Bill C-51 Conference,鈥 Feb 28.
  • 2016    Panel discussion on 鈥淎frican Refugees: A Panel Highlighting a Forgotten and Excluded People,鈥 with presentations by Juliane Okot Bitek, Josiane Anthony, Samson Nashon, and Daniel Tseghay, Feb 23.
  • 2016    Public lecture by Alessandra Capperdoni on 鈥淲hat Does the Unconscious Know About Capitalism?: One-Way Feminist Speculations on Affect, Anxiety, and Love in the Age of Neoliberalism,鈥 Feb 19.
  • 2016    Public lecture by Alexandru (Alec) Balasescu and Apurv Jain on 鈥淔inancial Bubbles and Their Magic: Asset Price as a Heroic Journey in the Financial Markets,鈥 Jan 26.
  • 2015    Workshop with Greg Feldman on 鈥淧olitics in Particular: From Primo Levi to Freedom and Being in the Works of Hannah Arendt and Baruch Spinoza,鈥 Nov 23.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Ferenc Er艖son 鈥淧sychoanalysis Behind Iron Curtains,鈥 with responses from Hilda Fernandez, Samir Gandesha, Endre Koritar, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 13.
  • 2015    Workshop with Yasmine Sari on 鈥淎rendt, Truth, and Epistemic Responsibility,鈥 Nov 10.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Heribert Adam on 鈥淐omparative Xenophobia: Fragile Solidarity or Enduring Humanitarianism in Germany?鈥 Nov 4.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on 鈥淪ettler-Colonialism and Genocide Policies in North America,鈥 Oct 27.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Richard Bullock on 鈥淭he Future of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), Climate Change, and Food Security,鈥 Oct 15.
  • 2015    Panel discussion on 鈥淭he Canadian Election and the Politics of Fear,鈥 with presentations by Samir Gandesha, Adel Iskandar, and Fiona Jeffries, Oct 6.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Michael Harris on 鈥淭he Rubicon Election of 2015,鈥 Oct 5.
  • 2015    Youth vote event for the Federal General Election, titled 鈥淣ot-a-Party Election Party,鈥 Oct 3.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Pam Palmater on 鈥淭aking Back Canada,鈥 Sep 24.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Donald Gutstein on 鈥淗arperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada,鈥 Sep 21.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Alex Neve on 鈥淏ill C-51: The Insecurity of Human Rights,鈥 Sep 17.
  • 2015    Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar lecture by Libby Davies on 鈥淕rassroots Politics in Parliament,鈥 Sep 14.
  • 2015    Panel discussion on 鈥淲omen Warriors of Kurdistan,鈥 with Hanna B枚hman and Nissy Koye, Sep 13.
  • 2015    Public lecture by R. Raj Singh, titled 鈥淒eath-Contemplation in Heidegger鈥檚 Early and Later Works,鈥 Jun 26.
  • 2015    Book launch and panel discussion of Fiona Jeffries鈥 Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: Resistance in Dangerous Times, with responses by Mike Ma and Davina Bhandar, May 12.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Shuyu Kong on 鈥淧opular Media and Cultural Public Sphere in Contemporary China,鈥 May 7.
  • 2015    Panel discussion by Jonathan Sklar and Jay Frankel on 鈥淧sychoanalyzing Authoritarianism: Trauma and the Difficult Question of Freedom,鈥 May 4.
  • 2015    Panel discussion with Riki Ott, Anita Burke, and Karen G. Wristen on 鈥淭oxic Oil Spill in English Bay: The Truth about Oil Recovery & Long-Term Effects on the Ecosystems,鈥 Apr 29.
  • 2015    Conference on 鈥淭he State of Extraction: Corporate Imperatives, Public Knowledge and Global Struggles for Alternatives,鈥 with keynotes by Chris Hedges, Glen Coulthard, and Aziz Choudry, Mar 27鈥29.
  • 2015    Panel discussion with Craig Forcese, Margot Young, Micheal Vonn, Max Cameron, and Zool Suleman on 鈥淐-51 The Anti-Terror Bill,鈥 Mar 24.
  • 2015    Seminar with Razmig Keucheyan on 鈥淐apitalism and the Environmental Crisis,鈥 Mar 18.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Razmig Keucheyan, titled 鈥淢apping Critical Theory Today,鈥 Mar 17.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Peyman Vahabzadeh on 鈥淎cts of Liberation: A Phenomenology of Violence and Nonviolence,鈥 March 13.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Marie Goupy on 鈥淭he State of Exception Theory by Carl Schmitt and the Ambivalent Criticism of Liberalism,鈥 Mar 4.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Davina Bhandar on 鈥淣eo-Liberal Forms of Dispossession and Democracy,鈥 Feb 17.
  • 2015    Public lecture by Karen Ferguson on 鈥淒omesticating Dissent in the Black Power Era: Tracing the Historical Roots of the Obama Presidency,鈥 Jan 29.
  • 2014    Public talk and performance by Ramy Essam on 鈥淩evolution and Performance,鈥 Nov 28.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Zoe Druick on 鈥淒atabase Documentaries: Orchestrated Voices and the Rhetoric of Listening,鈥 Nov 25.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Frances Dyson on 鈥淚nstitutionalized Sound,鈥 Nov 18.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Roy Bendor on 鈥淚nteractive World Disclosure (or, an Interface is Not a Hammer),鈥 Nov 12.
  • 2014    Symposium on 鈥淭heodor Adorno: Music, Language, Authenticity,鈥 with presentations by Shierry Nicholsen, Jeremy Shapiro, Samir Gandesha, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 8.
  • 2014    Seminar with Douglas Moggach on 鈥淩omantic Political Thought,鈥 Oct 31.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Byron Sheldrick on 鈥淪trategic Litigation and the Judicial Constraint of Public Engagement,鈥 Oct 30.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Chris Dixon on 鈥淎nother Politics: Talking Across Today鈥檚 Transformative Movements,鈥 Oct 27.
  • 2014    The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Congress, with keynote by Howard Caygill on 鈥淭he Capacity to Resist,鈥 Oct 2鈥4.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Lawrence Weschler on 鈥淎 Taxanomy of Convergences,鈥 Sep 4.
  • 2014    Panel discussion with Ama Biney, Binega Markos, and Harjap Grewal on 鈥淎frica鈥撯揂 New Frontier for Canadian Mineral Plunder?鈥 Aug 28.
  • 2014    Seminar with Am Johal on 鈥淓cological Metapolitics,鈥 Jul 28.
  • 2014    Public conference on 鈥淭he Frankfurt School: The Critique of Capitalist Culture,鈥 with keynotes by Martin Jay, Andrew Feenberg, and Deborah Cook, Jul 17鈥19.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Johan Hartle on 鈥淪ocial Housing Under Municipal Socialism,鈥 Jul 16.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Chris O鈥橩ane on 鈥淭he Process of Domination Spews Out Tatters of Subjugated Nature: Cultural and Capital in Adorno and the New German Reading of Marx,鈥 Jun 30.
  • 2014    Seminar with Franson Manjali on his book 鈥淟abyrinths of Language: Philosophical and Cultural Investigations,鈥 Jun 25.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Franson Manjali on 鈥淣ationalism, Colonialism and Modern Linguistics,鈥 Jun 24.
  • 2014    Panel discussion with Glenda Drew and Jesse Drew on 鈥淪tories of Solidarity: Social Media for Precarious Labour,鈥 Jun 18.
  • 2014    Film screening of documentary 鈥淔reedom Summer,鈥 May 10.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Erik Olin Wright on 鈥淐hallenging Capitalism Through Real Utopias,鈥 May 7.
  • 2014    Public discussion by Cecily Nicholson, Jennifer Allan, Lorna Bird, Aiyanas Ormond, and William Damon, titled 鈥淧olicing the Crisis in Vancouver,鈥 Apr 29.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Sut Jhally on 鈥淎dvertising and the End of the World,鈥 Apr 26.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Kirsty Robertson on 鈥淐apitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules: Activism in the Museum and Gallery,鈥 Apr 16.
  • 2014    Public lecture by David Barsamian on 鈥淢edia, Capitalism and the Environment,鈥 Mar 28.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Richard Smith on 鈥淕reen Capitalism: The God that Failed,鈥 Mar 25.
  • 2014    Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture by Natalie Fenton on 鈥淧ulling Punches: Media Power, People Power and This Thing Called Democracy,鈥 Mar 24.
  • 2014    Panel discussion with Frank Cunningham, Phil Resnick, Nick Blomley, and Ian Angus on 鈥淭he Legacy of CB Macpherson,鈥 Mar 18.
  • 2014    Series of workshops on Marx鈥檚 鈥18thBrumaire of Louis Bonaparte鈥 by the Marx Research Group, Mar 13鈥28.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Robert Gibbs on 鈥淎n Epistemology for Urban Universities,鈥 Mar 11.
  • 2014    Film screening of 鈥淏lood in the Mobile,鈥 Mar 6.
  • 2014    Film screening of 鈥淩emember Mandela!鈥 and lecture by filmmaker Peter Davis on 鈥淢adiba and Me,鈥 Feb 27.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Alessandro Delfanti on 鈥淏iohackers: The Politics of Open Science,鈥 Feb 20.
  • 2014    Symposium on 鈥淧each and the Environment,鈥 with Keynote by Jody Williams, Feb 6鈥7.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Urban Subjects on 鈥淲hat Is Already Going On,鈥 Feb 5.
  • 2014    Film screening of John Akomfrah鈥檚 鈥淭he Stuart Hall Project,鈥 Feb 5.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Vivek Chibber on 鈥淭he Promise and Perils of Postcolonial Theory,鈥 Jan 30.
  • 2014    Public lecture by John Holloway on 鈥淲e are the Crisis of Capital, and Proud of It,鈥 Jan 29.
  • 2014    Public workshop on workshop 鈥淢i鈥檏maq Warrior Society: Strategy Session,鈥 Jan 24.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Jonn Axsen on 鈥淐itizen Acceptance of New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure: Value Theory and Canada鈥檚 Northern Gateway Pipe,鈥 Jan 21.
  • 2014    Public lecture by Donia Mounsef, titled 鈥淚ntermediality, Cross-mediality, Trans-mediality: Embodiment and the Mediated Turn in Contemporary Theatre and Performance,鈥 Jan 16.
  • 2013    Art presentation and discussion on 鈥淭echnoscience and Participation: Art, Literature and the Social Web,鈥 Dec 11.
  • 2013    Film screening of 鈥淔ar From Vietnam,鈥 Dec 10.
  • 2013    Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternative: 鈥淧sychoanalysis and Social Theory: From Clinical Practice to Social and Political Praxis,鈥 Nov 15.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Wolfgang Foerster, titled 鈥淭he Vienna Model: Policy and Housing for the 21st Century,鈥 Nov 14.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Donia Mounsef on 鈥淪pectacular Violence, Staging Torture After the Age of Sobriety in Punishment,鈥 Nov 7.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Kevin Anderson on 鈥淐asting a Critical Eye on the Foucauldian Concept of Resistance, in Light of Marcuse,鈥 Oct 29.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Rabbi Michael Lerner on 鈥淓mbracing Israel-Palestine: Realities and Possibilities,鈥 Oct 23.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Huw Wahl on 鈥淥n the Influence of Herbert Read,鈥 Oct 9.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Darin Barney on 鈥淧ipelines and the Politics of Sabotage,鈥 Oct 4.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Cary Nelson on 鈥淩esistance is Not Futile: The Future of Higher Education,鈥 Sep 26.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Han Dongfang on 鈥淭he Fast-emerging Labour Movement in China and its Impact on the Country鈥檚 Future,鈥 Sep 16.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Fiona Jeffries on 鈥淭oday We Are All Someone New: Re-appropriating the City of Fear,鈥 Sep 12.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Andres Dimitriu on 鈥淩esource Exploitation, Social Movements, and the Public Sphere in Patagonia,鈥 Jul 17.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Yildiz Atasoy on 鈥淭urkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalization in a Muslim State,鈥 Jul 11.
  • 2013    Panel discussion with Shierry Nicholsen, Coleen Gold, Janet Oakes, and Jerry Zaslove on 鈥淥n Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics,鈥 Apr 27.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Robert Anderson on 鈥淰arieties of Democracy and New Conflicts in Myanmar,鈥 Apr 9.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Robyn Allan on 鈥淭he Economics of Oil Pipelines and Tankers,鈥 Mar 27.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Tong Shijun on 鈥淲estern Theories of Justice and Contemporary China,鈥 Mar 19.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Gordon Christie on 鈥淚ndigenous Authority, Canadian Law, and Pipeline Proposals,鈥 Feb 26.
  • 2013    Public lecture by Frank Cunningham on 鈥淭he Arcades of Paris and Walter Benjamin鈥檚 Philosophy of Cities,鈥 Feb 12.
  • 2012    Clinical seminar with Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes on 鈥淧sychoanalysis Vs. Therapy: on Two Contrasting Discursivities,鈥 Dec 7.
  • 2012    Seminar with Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes on 鈥淚s Trafficking a Particular Sort of Social Bond?鈥 Dec 6.
  • 2012    Public lecture by Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes on 鈥淭owards a Lacanian Analytic of Contemporary Social Bonds,鈥 Dec 5.
  • 2012    Open rehearsal of Moli猫re鈥檚 鈥淒on Juan鈥 by Blackbird Theatre Company, Dec 4.
  • 2012    Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternative: 鈥淧lace and Dis-Placement,鈥 Oct 19鈥21.
  • 2012    Public lecture by Asha Varadharajan on 鈥淪ubjects of Inquiry and Subjects of Injury,鈥 Sep 20.
  • 2011    Panel discussion on 鈥淧sychoanalysis and the Politics of Fear,鈥 Oct 14.
  • 2011    Public lecture by Peyman Vahabzadeh on 鈥淚ran: the Story of a Democratic Movement,鈥 Jul 22.
  • 2011    Public lecture by Charles Reeve on 鈥淎ndy Warhol鈥檚 Deaths and the Assembly-line Autobiography,鈥 Jul 21.
  • 2011    Film screening of 鈥淓xamined Life鈥 with filmmaker Astra Taylor, Jul 12.
  • 2011    Panel discussion on 鈥淭he Recent Election: Our Canadian Political Landscape Canada Under a Harper Majority,鈥 with presentations by Michael Byers, David Beers, and Samir Gandesha, Jun 29.
  • 2011    Public lecture by Ashutosh Kalsi on 鈥淭he Root of Sorrow,鈥 May 24.
  • 2011    Public lecture by Martin Jay on 鈥淧hotography and the Event,鈥 May 18.
  • 2011    Public lecture by Michael Molloy on 鈥淪earching for Peace in Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Old City Initiative,鈥 Mar 14.
  • 2011    Public lecture by Frank Cunningham on 鈥淧hilosophy and the City: Ruminations,鈥 Mar 4.
  • 2011    Seminar with Frank Cunningham on 鈥淯rban Aboriginal Sovereignty and Homefulness,鈥 with response by Gordon Christie, Feb 28.
  • 2011    Film screening of Dirt (2008) with Filmmaker Meghna Halder, Jan 28.
  • 2010    Public lecture by Sherry Simon on 鈥淐ities in Translation, Dec 8.
  • 2010    Film screening of Girlfriend Experience with Director Ileana Pietrobruno, Nov 26.
  • 2010    Public lecture by Laura Marks on 鈥淭hinking Like a Carpet: Embodied Perception and Artificial Life,鈥 Nov 17.
  • 2010    Public lecture by Helena Reckitt on 鈥淔orgotten Relations: Feminist Activists and Relational Aesthetics,鈥 Nov 16.
  • 2010    Public lecture by Johan Hartle on 鈥淔ree Association,鈥 Oct 27.
  • 2010    Public lecture by Jocelyn L茅tourneau on 鈥淲hat History for What Future of Quebec?鈥 Sep 20.
  • 2010    Conference on 鈥淐osmopolis/Cosmopolitics: Humanities and Citizenship After Neo-liberalism,鈥 with keynotes by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Wendy Brown, May 5鈥8.
  • 2010    Book launch and panel discussion on Ian Angus鈥 鈥淟ove the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment,鈥 with responses by Darin Barney, Adrienne Burk, and Claire Polster, Mar 19.
  • 2005    Panel discussion on 鈥淒errida and His Legacy,鈥 with presentations by Ian Angus, Lorraine Weir, Samir Gandesha, and Alessandra Capperdoni, Oct 13.
  • 2005    Roundtable discussion for 大象传媒鈥檚 Writer-in-Residence Colloquium and Reading on 鈥淐itizen: Imagination and Agency,鈥 with Larissa Lai, Fred Wah, Wayde Compton, Samir Gandesha, and Sophie McCall, Mar 9.

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