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Monthly Archives: July 2008

2008-2009 Teaching

I’ve finally finished drafts of my course outlines for the coming academic year. FYSM 1502 is a brand new course, part of the ArtsOne program for incoming first year students; LAWS 3005 has undergone slight revisions; and LAWS 3305 is rather revamped – a whole section on state theory and a greater focus on the [...]

Worth Reading

I’d like to draw the readership’s attention to two recent and excellent articles (note: all three authors are on my supervisory committee):
Brian Singer and Lorna Weir “Sovereignty, Governance and the Political: The Problematic of Foucault” Thesis Eleven 94: 49-71. This is a companion article to their “Politics and Sovereign Power: Considerations on Foucault” European Journal [...]

Intermediary thoughts Francione’s Animals as Persons

I’ve been reading Gary Francione’s collection of essays, Animals as Persons, at before going to bed for the past week. Because it is bedtime reading, I haven’t been rushing through and have only read about a third of the book. As readers likely know, my “animal turn” is of rather recent vintage and only goes [...]

Animal Law

From the Globe and Mail today:
Animal law classes are the hot new offering at Canadian law schools. The University of Toronto and Queen’s University will both start teaching animal law this fall, joining at least six other Canadian universities where dogs and cats are already on the curriculum.
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Some experts compare animal law today to environmental [...]

CFP: Crime, Law and the Disciplines

Crime, Law and the Disciplines: A Graduate Student Conference
November 6-7, 2008, University of Toronto
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Centre of Criminology Graduate Student Association invites all graduate students working on criminological, sociological, socio-legal and/or other research to participate in an upcoming conference entitled ‘Crime, Law and Disciplines’. We welcome papers that explore this theme from a variety [...]

More Collegiality

This summer I am participating in a reading group with some doctoral students in geography at the University of Toronto, most of whom are students of Sue Ruddick. We’re working on two things: (1) Spinoza’s Ethics and (2) some of the major texts in the resurgence of Spinozism (e.g., Balibar, Althusser, Negri, Virno, Montag, etc). [...]

Question

Why is it that a significant proportion of professional philosophers with blogs are giant jackasses? I won’t name names, but three individuals – incidentally, all men – come to mind.

CFP: Zombies

Call for Papers: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on the Zombie
We are seeking proposals for an interdisciplinary edited volume discussing the zombie from a wide variety of perspectives and within a wide range of contexts. We encourage submissions from any discipline, including but not limited to English literature, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, gender [...]

Remembering Minnie (July 5, 2007)

Minnie

Why sociology?

Recently I asked the contributors to An und für sich to recommend some theology books to non-theologians that would give us an idea of what is going on in contemporary theology, why theology should matter to non-theologians, and how to make sense of the “theological turn” in contemporary social and political theory. (It seems to [...]