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.
Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University, Toronto
S714A Ross Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
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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