CSPT Annual Graduate Student Conference
Each year a collective of CSPT students conspires to organize a graduate conference in line with a particular theme, movement, problematic, or impulse that they feel speaks to their particular moment and circumstance.
The Cultural, Social & Political Thought (CSPT) program at the 番茄社区, British Columbia, is pleased to announce that our annual graduate student conference will be held on May 10-11, 2024.
We would like to acknowledge that our conference will take place on the traditional territories of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, whose relationships to the land continue to this day.
This year’s conference will take on a hybrid format, accommodating both in-person and online presentations.
Dr. Gayatri Spivak speaking at 'Human Being Human'
The 2023 conference used a critical and interdisciplinary approach to explore the theme of Social Movements and Technology.
May 5th-6th, 2023
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The Alterity of Affliction / Afflictions of Alterity
September 25, 2020
This conference seeks to facilitate an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary discussion about the limitations and new horizons of discourse on pain. How do we come to know and recognize pain in the other? In the self? And, how might we reconstruct what is lost after pain?
Keynote speaker: Cindy Baker
Organized by Julie Funk (PhD, English), and Jonathan Nash (PhD, English).
Past Conferences
2018/19: 'Worlds Without Us'
Keynote Speaker: Rebekah Sheldon (Indiana University)
Organizers: Tyler Fontenot (MA, English) and Maya Cowan (MA, Anthropology).
2016/17: 'Indeterminacy: Un/knowing a Body in Space'
Keynote Speaker: Ivan Coyote
Organizers: Kira Boyko (MA, English), Rachel Lallouz (MA, English), Paige Thombs (MA, History), and Jonah Clifford (MA, Political Science)
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2015/16: 'Nihilism.Hope'
Keynote Speaker: Michael Truscello (Mount Royal University)
Endnote Speaker: Francis Abu-Febiri (Camosun College)
Organizers: Galina Scolnic (MA, Sociology), Russell Elliott (MA, Sociology), and Tim Charlebois (MA, Political Science)
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2014/15: 'Human Being Human'
Keynote speakers: Gayatri Spivak (Columbia U.) and Glen Coulthard (UBC)
Organizers: Philip Cox (MA, English); Susan Kim (MA, Political Science); Yusuf Saadi (MA, English)
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2013/14: 'Thinking as a Way of Life'
Keynote Speaker: Dalie Giroux (U. Ottawa)
Organizers: Julian Evans (MA, Political Science); Guillaume Filion (PhD, Political Science); Jasmine Liu (MA, Political Science); Nick Poole (MA, Political Science); Kim Smith (MA, Sociology)
Event Poster, Program, and Call for Proposals
2011/12: ‘In/Coherence: Expression, Translation, Violence’
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Braun (U. Minnesota)
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2010/11: ‘thinking politically’ (a workshop)
Pre-Seminar Facilitator: Timothy Murray (Cornell U.)
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2009/10: '(inter)disciplinarities: the “new relationality”?'
Keynote Speaker: Mark B. Salter (U. Ottawa)
Event Program and Call for Proposals
2008/09: ‘(inter)disciplinarities: theory & crisis’
Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Dominguez
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