Theoria

Commonly known as the “Learneds” (as in, “Are you going to the Learneds?”), but likely better described as the “Stupids” (as in, “Are you going to the Stupids?”), the 2006 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences begins at the end of the month, running from May 27-June 3 at my own institution, York University in Toronto. The program for the entire Congress can be searched here.

The annual meeting of my own association, The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, begins May 30th and ends on June 2nd. The program of the meeting can be found here [doc]. The session I’ve organized, with the silly title “Pirate (And Other Nomad) Studies” is to take place on May 30, at 1:30PM in Vari Hall 3003. In addition to the awesome subject matter, the panel features a presentation by Jon of posthegemony. One plenary session, entitled “Global Justice and the Future of Human Rights in a Changing World”, features Fuyuki Kurasawa, Craig Calhoun, Nancy Fraser and Will Kymlicka. Other potentially interesting sessions include “Theorizing Nationalism” (May 30, 10:15 in Vari Hall 2016), and “Comparing European and North American Approaches to Social Theory” (June 1, 1:30 in Vari Hall 3004).

William Carroll is giving the keynote to the Society for Socialist Studies, entitled “Hegemony, Counter-Hegemony, Anti-Hegemony” on June 1 at 2:45. Their meeting features a number of papers on Latin America and some more on Hardt, Negri and the multitude.

Programs for other associations: Canadian Communication Association, Canadian Historical Association, Canadian Philosophical Association, Canadian Political Science Association, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture [pdf].

Other events: “Publishing Your Scholarly Book” put on by editors from Univeristy of Toronto Press, McGill-Queen’s Press, and the University of British Columbia Press on May 30 at 10:00 in the Underground (a restaurant/bar), Graduate student meet and greet on May 30 at 4:00 on the lawn in front of Vanier College (free food and people from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), the Canada Research Chairs reception is on June 1 at 4:00 in the TEL Building, and Terry Eagleton will lecture on “From Celts to Catastrophe” on June 2nd at 4:00 in the Computer Science and Engineering Building.