Just Theory Lecture Series
The Just Theory Lectures Series is an annual series of presentations hosted by and held within the Comparative Literature Department. These lectures bring some of the most well-known and influential thinkers working in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy to the department to present new research. These lectures are free and open to the public and bring together students and scholars from the larger UB community.
SPRING 2025 JUST THEORY DATES
February 20 at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Romy Opperman, The New School
“Revolting atmospheres and climate revolutions"
March 6 at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Daniela Vallega-Neu
"Rethinking the Body-Soul with Aristotle and Nancy."
March 13 at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Stuart Elden
“French Theory and the Indo-Europeans”
March 25-27 all events will be held at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Eugenio Donato Seminar
Kristina Mendocino, Brown Univeristy
"Logos: On Riddles, Gaps, and Remainders in Heraclitus, Heidegger, and Lacan"
-"On the Way to Logos: Heidegger’s secondary Revision"
-"The Significance of ‘Saying'(λέγειν, legen, léguer)"
-"Virtual Homologies: From the Hearing the Other to the Truth that will have been"
April 3-5 all events will start at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable
April 23-25 all events will be held from 9:00am-5:00pm room TBD
“After Europe: Rodolphe Gasché and the Ends of an Idea” Conference
Participants
-Simon Glendinning, European Institute, London School of Economics, London, England
-Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen, European Institute, London School of Economics, London, England
-Juan Manuel Garrido, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile
-Pablo Oyarzún, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
-Hans-Georg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
-Donald Cross, University of North Carolina, Charlotte USA
-David E Johnson, University at Buffalo, Buffalo USA
-Élise Lamy-Rested
-Myrto Drizou, Nord University, Norway
-Héctor González Castaño, Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
-Francesco Vitale, Università di Salerno, Italy (at Yale U, USA spring 2025)
-Aïcha Liviana Messina, Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
-Gerhard Richter, Brown University, USA
-Donatella Di Cesare, Università di Sapienza, Roma, Italy
-Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University, USA
-Piero Eyben, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
-Stephen Gingerich, Cleveland State University, USA
-Dennis Schmidt, University of Western Sydney, Australia
FALL 2024 JUST THEORY DATES
September 26 at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Gareth Williams, University of Michigan
"Politics and the Intolerability of Life: ‘Place,‘ Destitution, and the Spanish Republic in Peter Weiss‘ The Aesthetics of Resistance"
October 3 at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Katherine Davies, University of Texas at Dallas
“A Critical Temporal Phenomenology of Family Policing”
October 24 at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University
“The Retreat of the Political: What Is To Be Undone?”
Jorge Gracia Critical Race Theory/Critical Race Philosophy Seminar
All events will be held at 4:00pm in Clemens 708
Surya Parekh, Binghamton University
Wednesday, November 13
“The Black Subject and Kant”
Thursday, November 14
“Sitting with Wheatley”
Friday, November 15
“Swimming in the Mainstream: Black Studies at the turn of the 20th Century and the Learning of Languages”