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.
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”
SPRING 2025 JUST THEORY DATES
February 20
Romy Opperman, The New School
March 25-27
Donato Seminar
Kristina Mendocino, Brown Univeristy
April 3-5
Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable
April 23-25
“After Europe: Rodolphe Gasché and the Ends of an Idea” Conference
May 1
Simone Bignall, University of Technology Sydney