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
(all sessions in the Good Room, University College 3105, except for the Keynote)

8:30 - 9:00 Morning Coffee

9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
  Manina Jones, Chair, Department of English and Writing Studies
  Jan Plug, Associate Dean, Academic, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

9:30 – 11:00 Moderator: Raj Bannerjee

“The Road of Excess: Exemplary Awkwardness and Intemperance in Blake’s Pioneering Critique of Positivism”
  Nigel Joseph (King’s College)

“The Will to System: The Problem of Genesis in Blake's Lambeth Books”
  John Vanderheide (Huron College)

11:15- 12:45 Moderator: Jan Plug

“What is Life? The Triumph of Life and Traumatic Vitality”
  Andrew Sargent (Western University)

“The Life That Does Not Live: Vitalism, Gothic Aesthetics, and the Legacies of Idealism”
  Christopher Bundock (University of Essex)

12:45 – 2:45 LUNCH

2:45 – 4:15 Moderator: Christopher Keep

“A Distorted Smile: Godwin, Mandeville, and Tilottama Rajan's "Disfiguring" Romanticism”
  Jared McGeough (Independent Scholar)

“The Supplement of Listening”
  Mike O’Driscoll (University of Alberta)

4:30 – 6:00 KEYNOTE (University College 1405)

“The Cut in the Image: The Discordant Subject of Caspar David Friedrich”
David Collings (Bowdoin College)

6:00 - 7:00 Reception (Good Room, University College 3105)

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