Tilottama Rajan & The Thought from Outside

This two-day colloquium will honour the work of Tilottama Rajan, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada Research Chair, Distinguished University Professor, and Past Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism.

Schedule of Presenters

8:30 – 9:00 Morning Coffee

9:00 – 10:30 Moderator: Ileana Gonzalez Zavala

"Destroying Diseases of Imagination: Scientific Decisions and a Reading of the World"
  Raj Bannerjee (Western University)

“Rajan, Schelling, and Shelley’s Epipsychidion”
  Monika Lee (Western University)

10:45 – 12:15 Moderator: Matthew Rowlinson

“The Frankfurt School as Romantic Afterimage”
  Jeremy Arnott (Western University)

“Fascistic Aspirations of Promethean Work: Rethinking Prometheus Unbound’s Revolution on a Plane of Immanence”
  Adam Nadir Mohamed (Western University)

12:15 – 2:15 LUNCH (The Wave or The Grad Pub)

2:15 – 3:45 Moderator: Christopher Bundock

“Life at sea: art, science and ‘ecologies of understanding’”
  Susan Oliver (University of Essex)

“Life on the Moon: Imagining the Future of Romanticism”
  Julia M. Wright (Dalhousie University)

4:00 – 5:30 Moderator: Allan Pero

“Restless Self-Examination: Tilottama Rajan’s Psychoanalysis”
  Joel Faflak (Western University)

“Tilottama Rajan: Mining the Borders of Disciplines and the Generation of Philosophy”
  Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at UWO)

5:30 – 6:00 Closing Remarks

Sponsored by:
Department of English and Writing Studies
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Romanticism @Western
The Ross & Marion Woodman Speaker Series in Romanticism