Departments of Political Science and History: 23rd Annual Critical Theory Roundtable.

Event time: 
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 1:30pm
Location: 
Luce Hall, Auditorium See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Departments of Political Science and History, the Edward J. & Dorothy Clark Memorial Kempf Fund, the Whitney & Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the European Studies Council, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, and the Whitney Humanities Center present:

The 23rd Annual Critical Theory Roundtable.

This three day conference brings together a diverse group of academics, including faculty and graduate students, working in the tradition of critical theory broadly understood, and spanning the academic disciplines of Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, History, Literary Studies, Law, and European Studies.

This year, in conjunction with a symposium hosted by Yale’s History Department marking the 20th anniversary of Strange Multiplicity, our conference will kick off at 5pm on Thursday, October 1st with a lecture entitled “A View of Transformative Reconciliation” by Dr. James Tully, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy, University of Victoria. The lecture and attending discussion will take stock of the book’s legacy and of the trajectory of its major themes into the twenty-first century, and look forward to future opportunities for interdisciplinary developments across the fields of political theory, indigenous studies, and intellectual history. A welcome reception will follow.

1:30 p.m. – 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall Room 203

  • Alessandro Ferrara: “Constitutional Narratives and the Future of Europe”

5:00 p.m. – 53 Wall Street, Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), Auditorium

  • James Tully, University of Victoria:  Opening Lecture,  “A View of Transformative Reconciliation

6:30pm – Wine reception, Whitney Humanities Center, Room 108

Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
General Public