SPT Colloquium

The colloquium is organized to be both your home base and to expose you to the diversity of theoretical research in the program and beyond. In addition to hosting a number of local, regional and international speakers, the faculty of Acadia’s SPT program attends the research talks to showcase interdisciplinary interactions and questioning.  The colloquium also acts as an introduction to graduate studies, grant writing, conference preparation and thesis development.  First year students are expected to present a thesis proposal at the end of the SPT colloquium in consultation with their co-supervisors (upper level students are expected to present thesis updates in the fall of each colloquium year). Students are expected to maintain attendance throughout the duration of the program.

 

2020-2021

The Colloquium is held via Microsoft TEAMS

October:

2 Dr. Simon KowChina in Enlightenment political thought,” Early Modern Studies Program, University of King's College, Halifax. 

9"Dr. Heghameh SaroukhaniMaterial Culture and Black British Writing in the Twenty-First Century," Department of English Language and Literature, Saint Mary's University, Halifax. 

16 - SPT Faculty Meeting (2:30 - 3:30)

23 Colloquium Students’ Thesis Progress Presentations (2:30-3:30)

November:

6Dr. Rohan KalyanEventocracy and the Crisis of Global Media, School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 

13 - Reading Week

20 Dr. Emile Fromet de Rosnay “Bridging Posthuman Anarchy/ies and Infinite Love,” Department of French, Director of CSPT, UVIC, Victoria. 

27 – Dr. Natalie Ann Ghosn, Esq. "Religious Law as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Canada and the United States" Department of International Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. 

December:

4 –  Dr. Charmaine Chua “The Counter-Revolution in Logistics: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence and Decolonial Struggle along the Transpacific Supply Chain,” Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 

January 2021:

8 - SPT Faculty Meeting (2:30 - 3:30)

29 –  Everyday Life in a Pandemic research group “Everyday Life in a Pandemic” Depts. of Sociology and Politics, Acadia University. 

February:

26 –  Dr. Stephanie Kapusta “TBA” Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax.  

March:

12 –  Dr. Copen Rose, “From Rockets to Roti: Ashwin Singh’s Critique of Regional Unity and Rainbow Nationalism in Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice,"  Department of English and Theatre, Acadia University 

19 - Dr.  tobias c. van Veen  “TBA” ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) Lakehead University

April:

5 – First Year Student Thesis Proposal Presentations

2019-2020

The Colloquium is located in BAC 325 from 2:30-4:30 on the following dates:

(Students arrive at 1:30pm)

October 18 – Dr. Mark Franke  “The Movement of Being Political;  the Right to Impose”  Dept. of Global Studies, Huron University College

November 8 –  Dr. David Black “Parsing Partnership in the Politics of International Development” Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University

January 31 - Dr. Azar Masoumi “States of "Protection": Rightlessness and Violence in Refugee Regulation” Department of Sociology, Acadia University  

March 13 –  Dr. Carrie Dawson “Reading, Writing, Refugees: the Refugee Storyteller in Contemporary Canadian Literature and Culture” Department of English, Dalhousie University

March 20 –  Dr. J. Coplen Rose “From Rockets to Roti: Ashwin Singh’s Critique of Regional Unity and Rainbow Nationalism in Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice”  Department of English and Theatre, Acadia University

March 27 – Dr. Henghameh Saroukhani “Objects, Things and Cosmopolitanism: Writing Black Britain” Department of English Language and Literature, Saint Mary’s University

 

2018-2019

The Colloquiium is located in BAC 325 from 2:30-4:30 on the following dates:

(Students arrive at 1:30pm)

September:

7 – Student Orientation (1:30-4:00) and Student/Faculty Reception 4:00-5:00 (BAC 325)

14 – Student Writing Workshop (BAC 210)

21 – Student Skill Workshop: (BAC 210)
SSHRC Grant Writing (1:30-2:30), Library Research Skills (2:30-3:30)

28 – Dr. Inna Viriasova “At the Limits of the Political” and “Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy” Book Release and Celebration. Department of Politics, Acadia University. (BAC325)


October:

5 – Dr. Jim Brittain “Atrophying Masculinity within Professional Road Cycling: Contesting ‘the male’ through a (re)scripting of the anti-male” Department of Sociology, Acadia University (BAC325)

12 – Upper-level Student Thesis Proposal Presentations/Updates (i.e., all students who have not defended) (KCIC Auditorium)

19 – SPT Faculty Meeting (2:30-3:30) (BAC325)

26 – Dr. Andrew March: “What is Post-Utopian Islamist Political Thought? Pluralism and Consensus in ‘Muslim Democracy.’”  Berggruen Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (BAC325)


November:

9 – Jon Saklofske “This Game has to be Made” Department of English Acadia University (BAC325)

23 – SPT Review Faculty Student Conversation (BAC 325)

30 – Dr. Chike Jeffers "The Social and Political Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois" Department of Philosophy Dalhousie University. (BAC325)


January:

11 – Dr. David Black “Parsing Partnership in the Politics of International Development” Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University (BAC325)

18 – SPT Faculty Meeting (2:30-3:30) (BAC325)

25 – Dr. Mike Bennet “Three Perspectives on Evolution: Deleuze, Arendt, Habermas” Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, University of Kings College, Halifax (BAC325)


February:

1 – Dr. Susan Franceschet, “Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender.” Department of Political Science, University of Calgary (BAC325)

8 – Karen Asp “Critical Theory and the Concept of the Anthropocene” PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University (BAC325)

15 – Dr. Kait Pinder “Our Many-sided Attachments: Care, Taste, and Family” Department of English and Theatre, Acadia University (BAC325)

March:

1 – Dr. Tasia Alexopoulous, "Politico-Somatic Projects: Polygamy and the Construction of the Normative, Monogamous Body" Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Mount Saint Allison University (BAC325)

15– SPT Faculty/Student Conversation (BAC 325)

April:

5 – First Year Student Thesis Proposal Presentations (KCIC Auditorium)

2017-2018

Colloquium is located in BAC 325 from 2:30 - 4:30 on the following dates:

(Students arrive at 1:30 pm)

September 2017:

8  – Student Orientation (BAC 325)

15 – Writing Workshop (BAC 325)

22 – SSHRC Grant Writing and Library Research Skills - Students bring your computers – BAC 210

29 – Dr. Rachel Brickner “Two Ways of Thinking about Labour Organizing” Department of Politics, Acadia University (BAC 325)

October 2017:

13 – Upper-level Student Thesis Proposal Presentations/Updates (i.e., all students who have not defended)  (BAC325)

27 – Dr. Paul Abela “Atheism, Naturalism and Modernity” Department of Philosophy, Acadia University (BAC 325)

November 2017:

10 – Dr. Sam Opondo “Colonialism, Race and the Mediation of Estrangement” Department of Politics and African Studies, Vassar College (BAC 325)

17– Dr. Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Are Alternative Modernities Possible? Reflections from the Ground" Department of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University (BAC 325)

24 – SPT Review Faculty Student Conversation (BAC 325)

January 2018:

19 – Dr. Can Mutlu “Architecture, Design and Security” Department of Politics, Acadia University (BAC 325)

February 2018:

2 – Dr. Brenda Trofanenko “TBA” Department of Education, Acadia University (BAC 325)

23 – Dr. Yasser Abdel Ramin, “Conflict, Violence, and Visual Methodologies: framing and discourse analyses of photo-albums of Egyptian revolutions and ISIS digital magazines” Visual Communication, Department of Mass Communication and Media, The Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait. (BAC 325)

March 2018:

2 – Dr. Loralea Michaelis “Temporality and the Failing Revolution in Horkheimer's Critical Theory” Department of Politics, Mount Allison University (BAC 325)

9 – SPT Review Faculty Student Conversation (BAC 325)

16– Dr. Gamal Abdel-Shehid “Franz Fanon's Theory of Psychiatry: The Promise and the Paradox” School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University (BAC 325)

April 2018:

6 – First Year Student Thesis Proposal Presentations (KCIC Auditorium, 2:30-5:30 pm)

2016-2017

Colloquium is located in BAC 325 from 2:30 - 4:30 on the following dates:

(Students arrive at 1:30 pm)

September 2016:

9 – Student Orientation

16 – SSHRC Grant Writing and Library Research Skills (students only BAC 210)

23 – Dr. Andrew Biro “Bottled Water and the Cultivation of Taste” Department of Politics, Acadia University

October 2016:

7 – Dr. Julian Reid “The Indigenous Subject” Department of Politics, University of Lapland, Finland

14 – Upper-level Student Thesis Proposal Presentations (i.e., all students who have not defended)  (IN KCIC)

28 – Ajay Parasaram “Breaking the Colonial Dam: The coloniality of sovereignty and decolonial practices” Dept. of History and IDS, Dalhousie University

November 2016:

4 – Dr. Jean-Sebastian Guy “Exit structure/agency, enter metric/nonmetric: steps toward a new framework in social theory" Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dalhousie University

18 – Dr. Jesse Carlson “Deferred Maintenance: Tune-Ups for Practice Theory” Department of Sociology, Acadia University

25 – Dr. Letitia Meynell, “Feminist Philosophy of Science: The Role of Gender in Biology” Department of Philosophy and the Gender and Women’s Studies Programme, Dalhousie University

January 2017:

13 – Dr. Jobin M. Kanjirakkat “Linguistics in the History and Philosophy of Science” post-doctoral researcher in Philosophy at King's College and Dalhousie University

February 2017:

3 – Dr. Erin Wunker, “Uncomfortable Subjects: Poetics, Affect, & the Archive.” Department of English & Theatre, Acadia University

March 2017:

3 – Dr. Philip Homburg “Expounding Capitalism as a Culture: Walter Benjamin and Social Theory” Department of Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex.

17 – Dr. Sarah Rudrum “Unpacking maternity care in the global South:  The meaning of gifts, the applicability of socio-cultural risk theory, and ‘culture’ as a site of blame” Dept. of Sociology, Acadia University

April 2017:

7 – First Year Student Thesis Proposal Presentations (In KCIC)

2015-2016

Colloquium is located in BAC 325 from 2:30 - 4:30 on the following dates:

(Students arrive at 1:30 pm)

September:

4 – Student Orientation – followed by Wine and Cheese (4-6pm)

11 – Colloquium Skills and Grant Writing (students only BAC 210)

18 – Dr. Alice Cohen “Environmental spaces: Critique and beyond” (Acadia, ESST)

25 – Dr. Andy Scerri “Can critical political theory be ‘green’ and yet ‘keep it real’?” (Virginia Tech, Politics)

October:

2 – Upper-level Student Thesis Proposal Presentations (i.e., all students who have not defended)

9 –  Dr. David Tabachnick “Heidegger and the Philosophy of Technology” (Nippising University, Political Science)

23 – Dr. Saara Linamaa ‘Performing at the Shit Show’: The New Spirit of Creativity and the Neoliberal University (Acadia University, Sociology)

November:

6 – Dr. Inna Viriasova “Speculative Realism and Beyond” (Acadia University, Politics

20 – Dr. Jane Dryden “Vulnerability, Reconciliation and Embodiment” (Mount Allison, Philosophy)

December:

4 –  Dr. Anne Quema “Poiesis, Legitimacy, and Justice!” (Acadia University, English)

January:

8 – Dr. Donna Seamone “Religion, Ritual and Theory” (Acadia University, Comparative Religion)

22 – Dr. Steve Schiffer “The New Utopianism: Community-Building, Globalization, and the Limits of Imagination” (Cambridge University)

February:

5 – Mr. James Depew “Community as Anthropotechnics” (PhD. Candidate at Western, Theory and Criticism)

March:

4 -- Talk

April:

1 – First Year Student Thesis Proposal Presentations