Two day symposium - Situations of Theory - 29 & 30 October, 2021
SITUATIONS OF THEORY – 29 & 30 October 2021
**in person and via zoom**
Two day symposium hosted by College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Flinders University and the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide
How is theory situated today? ‘Theory’ is at once a genre of academic writing, a mode of analysis and a set of intellectual contestations, but where has it gone lately, or where is it going? From the extraordinary way in which structuralism was adopted by every discipline from the 1950s, to the high point of theory in the 80s and 90s, theory has diversified and in some places ceded to a renewed empiricism or pragmatism. Taking Donna Haraway’s (1988) point about ‘situated knowledges’, this symposium traces the powers of universalisation and the relevance of localisations as theory is deployed in a range of humanities disciplines today.
Speakers include: McKenzie Wark, Stephen Muecke, Achille Mbembe, Justin Clemen, Ben Madden, Meg Samuelson, Tully Barnett, Joe Hughes, Ghassan Hage, Margaret Davies, Maria Giannacopoulos, Stephen Zagala and Jana Norman, John Frow, Julian Murphet
Speaker details and registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/situations-of-theory-tickets-185296094607