Courses
Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Associate faculty members at ·ÛºìÅ®ÀÉ, as
Master's students are required to
Enrolment requests are submitted to the Program Coordinator. Approval from the instructor does not guarantee that enrolment will be granted.
2026 - 2027 Course Offerings*
| TERM | COURSE TITLE | INSTRUCTOR | CATEGORY |
| Fall 2026 | Bergson - CinePerception | Janelle Blankenship | A |
| Fall 2026 | 20th Century Communist Theories of Revolution and State-Building | Oleksa Drachewych | B |
| Fall 2026 | An Anatomy of Compulsive Leucocholy: Late Lacan, Love, Bondage, and the Other | Allan Pero | A |
| Fall 2026 | Life, Science, and the Autobiography of Philosophy in German Idealism | Tilottama Rajan | A |
| Winter 2027 | The Frankfurt School and the Constellation of Critical Theory | Jeremy Arnott | C |
| Winter 2027 | Feminist Continental Philosophy | Helen Fielding | A |
| Winter 2027 | Women in Philosophy: Early Modernity | Mary Helen McMurran | A |
| Winter 2027 | Social Theory in an Age of Austerity | Matt Stahl | B |
*contact the program for course location and times
Group A: aesthetics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, language theory
Group B: social, cultural and political theory
Group C: topical focus covering theorist(s) from the above areas, as well as 19th-century, modern, and contemporary theory
More information on Course Requirements can be found here.
Course Enrolment Forms can be found here.
Historical course offerings:
2025-26
9100 - What Is a Critical Theorist? Methods and Skills - Joshua Schuster [C]
9128 - Allegory and Time - Matthew Rowlinson and Anne Schuurman [A]
9156 - On Being: Theory and the Ancestor - Ruramisai Charumbira [B]
9323 - The Politics of Third Spaces: Alterity, Spatiality, and the Social - Augusto Riveros [B]
9551 - “Emancipation” and the Afterlife of Slavery - Erica S. Lawson [B]
9212 - Architecture and the Socio-Political Imagination at The End of The World - Benjamin Muller [B]
9425 - Psychoanalysis and Indigenous Critical Theory - Megan Sherritt [A]
POLISCI 9504 - Critical Political Theory - Nandita Biswas Mellamphy [B]
2024-25
9130 - - Matt Stahl [B]
9148 - Earth Aesthetics in the Information Age - Russell Duvernoy [C]
9211 - - Julian J. Haladyn [C]
9346 - Agamben’s Philosophical Archeology - Ed Matthews [C]
9639 - Deleuze and Psychoanalysis - John Vanderheide [C]
2023-24
9151 - The Frankfurt School: The “Origins” of Critical Theory - Jeremy Arnott [C]
9154 - The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9202 - Bergson – Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9224 - Cosmovisions from the South: Decolonial epistemologies and the praxis of decolonization - Lucas Savino [B]
9324 - Aliens in Theory - Joshua Schuster [A]
9524 - Feminist and Gender Perspectives on/in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts - Erica Lawson [C]
9653 - Queer Temporalities - Chris Roulston [B]
9540 - Species-Beings: Young Marx in the Post-Anthropocene - Nick Witheford [B]
9656 - Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2022-23
9149 - Ecological Conversion: From Critique to Creation - Russell Duvernoy [C]
9155 - The Waning of Philosophies of Difference and the Rise of the New Universalism - Antonio Calcagno [A]
9207 - Life: The Impact of the Life Sciences on Philosophy and Other Philosophical Domains, from Kant to Esposito - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9223 - Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9325 - Finitude and Plentitude - Joshua Schuster [C]
9421 - The Benjamin Constellation - John Vanderheide [A]
9440 - “A Vermilioned Nothingness”: Late Lacan, Sexuation, Sinthome, and the Prosdiorism - Allan Pero [C]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9659 - Theorizing Care in an Uneven World - Kate Lawless [B]
2021-22
9150A Disability, Ability and the Idea of Self - Jeremy Colangelo [B]
9202A Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9206B Instrumentality - Jonathan De Souza [C]
9222A Anti-Psychoanalyses: A (Short and Incomplete) History of Confluences and Conflicts - Cristina Ionica [A]
9229B Biopolitics and the Unconscious - Matthew Rowlinson [B]
9244B Postcolonial Theory at the Limits of the Animal - Jason Sandhar [B]
9326B Ways of Seeing, Ways of Listening - Sharon Sliwinski [A]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9637A Questioning Aesthetics - Julian Haladyn [A]
9656A Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2020-21
9154A The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9203B Land, Language, Locatives - Regna Darnell [B]
9223B Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9246A Schoenberg/Wittgenstein - Kevin Mooney [C]
9329B Teasing the dainty rods of vision: Imaginary/Imagination/Semblance - Allan Pero [A]
9422Y Translating Theory - Jan Plug [C]
9460B The Arts and Politics of the Situationist International (1957-1972) - Ed Matthews [A]
9614Y Idealism and the Margins of Philosophy: (Inter)Disciplinarity in Kant, Hegel, Schelling - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9655A Theorizing Environmental Subjectivity - David Janzen [C]
