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Curriculum Vitae

Degrees and Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Political Science, York University, 1996
  Dissertation: “Tragedy and Enlightenment: Tragedy and Ethics from Plato to Adorno and Beyond”
• M.A.,   Political Science, York University, 1988
• B.A.,     International Relations, University of British Columbia, 1987
• Junior Year Abroad, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1985-86

Employment

• 2010–present    Director, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University
• 2009–present    Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Simon Fraser University
• Feb, 2019    Visiting Lecturer, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas-FFLCH-USP, Universidade de São Paulo
• Jan, 2019    Visiting Scholar, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
• April, 2017    Liu Boming Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University, People’s Republic of China
• April, 2017    Visiting Professor, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China
• 2003–2009    Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, Simon Fraser University
• 1999–2003    Full-time Instructor, School of Academic Studies, Centennial College, Toronto
• 1998–1999    Part-time Instructor, School of Academic Studies, Centennial College, Toronto
• 1988–1994    Teaching Assistant, York University, Department of Political Science

Academic Awards

• 2005–2008    SSHRC, Standard Research Grant.
  Project Title: “Leaving Home: Adorno, Heidegger and the Experience of Exile”
• 2003    President’s Research Grant, Simon Fraser University
• 2003    Shortlist, SSHRC Canada Research Chair, Trent University
• 2002    Shortlist, Canada Research Chair, Tier I, Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
• 2001–2004    SSHRC, Standard Research Grant, Co-investigator (with Dr. Gary Genosko)
  Project Title: “The Role of Journals (defunct) and Splinter Groups (disbanded) in the Institutionalization of Critical and Post-modern Theory in Canada”
• 2001–2002    Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Universität Potsdam
  Host: Professor Christoph Menke 
• 1999    Writer’s Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
• 1999    Shortlist, Queen’s University Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1998    Writer’s Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
• 1997    Writer’s Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
• 1995–1997    SSHRC, Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of History, UC Berkeley, 1995-97
  Host: Professor Martin Jay
• 1995    Nomination, York University, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dissertation Prize
• 1993    Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• 1990–1993    SSHRC, Doctoral Fellowship
• 1990    Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
• 1988    York University Dean’s Scholarship
• 1986    British Columbia Government Scholarship

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Publications

Books

• Gandesha, Samir (ed.), Spectres of Fascism: History and Theory in Global Perspective (Pluto Press, 2020)
• Gandesha, Samir and Peyman Vahabzadeh (eds.), Crossing Borders: Essays Beyond Phenomenology and Critique for Ian Angus (Arbeiter Ring Press. 2020)
• Gandesha, Samir, Stefano Marino, Colin Campbell (eds.), Adorno and Popular Culture (Mimesis Press, 2019). 
• Gandesha, Samir and Hartle, Johan (eds.), Aesthetic Marx (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
• Gandesha, Samir and Hartle, Johan (eds.), Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2017).
• Rensmann, Lars and Gandesha, Samir (eds.), Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012).
• Gandesha, Samir, Identifying with the Aggressor: The Neo-Liberal Personality (in progress).
• Gandesha, Samir. Homeless Philosophy: The Problem of Dwelling in Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt and Adorno (in progress).

Extended Discussions of My Books

• Forum on Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle (eds.) Aesthetic Marx in Lebenswelt (13) 2018 https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/Lebenswelt/article/view/11104/10522

Refereed Articles

• “On the Deconstructive Logic of Populism.” Scenari: Revista semestrale di filosofia contemporanea 11 (December 2019): 396–415.
• “The Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered: Adorno, Marcuse and the Phantom of ‘Left Fascism.’” The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2019).
• “Adorno, Ferenczi and A New ‘Categorical Imperative After Auschwitz.’” International Forum of Psychoanalysis, October 12, 2019.
• “Critique and Crisis,” Special Issue on “Socializing Violence and Authoritarian Dynamics on The Horizon of the Crisis” of Constelaciones: Revista de Teoria Critica10 (2018): 429-37. 
• “The Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered: Adorno, Marcuse and the Spectre of ‘Left Fascism,” The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (forthcoming). 
• “Adorno, Ferenczi and A New “Categorical Imperative After Auschwitz,” International Forum of Psychoanalysis (forthcoming)
• “The Aesthetic Politics of Hegemony,” Studi di estectica, anno XLVI, IV serie, 3/2018. 
• “Left Versus Right Populism,” Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie 46/47 (2018): 214-235.
• “Identifying with the Aggressor: From the ‘Authoritarian’ to the ‘Neo-Liberal’ Personality,” Constellations (25) 2018: 147-164. 
• “De la personalidad autoritaria a la personalidad neo-liberal,” Estudios Politcos Numero 41 (Mayo-Agosto, 2017): 127-155.
• “In Sympathy with the Ephemeral Life: Adorno’s Reading of Beckett’s Endgame” Special Issue of Discipline Filosofiche XXVI, 2, 2016, On Theodor W. Adorno: Dialectical Thinking and the Enigma of Truth, Giovanni Matteccui and Stefano Marino (eds.), XXVI (2) 2016, 99-214.
• "Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno on Kant’s Third Critique,” Recht und Frieden, Kant Studien (2009): Nr. 335, Bd. 5, 567–575.
• “The ‘Aesthetic Dignity of Words’: On Adorno’s Philosophy of Language,” New German Critique, Special Issue on Adorno, No. 97 (Winter, 2006): 137-58.
• “Adorno, Arendt and the Chiasmus of Natural History,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 30, 4 (2004): 445-475.
• “A Crucible of Critical Interdisciplinarity: The Toronto TelosGroup,”  (with Gary Genosko and Kristinia Marcellus) Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 8 (2002): 1-18.
• “Enlightenment as Tragedy: Reflections on Adorno’s Ethics,” Thesis Eleven 65 (May 2001): 109-30. 
• “Neo-Conservatism: A ‘Third Way’ for Canada?” The European Legacy: Special Issue—Is There a Third Way? 5, 6 (2000): 187-193.
• “Nietzsche and the ‘Self-Mockery’ of Reason,” The European Legacy, 3, 4 (1998): 98-108.
• “The Theatre of the ‘Other’: Adorno, Post-structuralism and the Critique of Identity,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 3 (1991): 243-63. 

Book Chapters

• “Marcuse, Adorno and the Problem of ‘Left Fascism.’” In Dialectics of Liberation in a Post- Neoliberal World, edited by Terry Maley, Sarah Surak, Robert Kirsch, Peter-Erwin Jansen and Taylor Hines. Publisher tbd.
• “The ‘Conscious Pariah’: Beyond Identity and Difference.” In Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Yasemin Sari and Peter Gratton. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
• “Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman: An ‘Alternative Genealogy of Modernity.’” In Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Yasemin Sari and Peter Gratton. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
• “Statelessness: The Logic of the Camp.” In Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Yasemin Sari and Peter Gratton. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
• “On the Deconstructive Logic of Hegemony.” In Populism and its Limits: After Articulation, edited by Prasanta Chakravarty. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
• “Identity and Injustice.” In Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus, edited by Samir Gandesha and Peyman Vahabzadeh. Winnipeg, MB: Arbeiter Ring Press, 2020.
• “A Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber: Revisiting Adorno’s “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.” In Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Current Moment, New Library of Psychoanalysis Series, edited by Donald Moss and Lynne Zavin. New York: Routledge: forthcoming.
• “The Spectre of the 1930s.” In Back to the 30s? Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism and Democracy, edited by Jeremy Rayner, Susan Falls, George Souvlis, and Taylor Nelms. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
• “Spectacle of Terror.” In Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community: The Crises in Everyday Life, edited by Saswat Das. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, under review.“Dictatorship Contra Critique.” In The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Responses to the Contemporary Left, edited by Elena Louisa Lange and Joshua Depaolis-Pickett. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, under review.
• “Introduction.” In Spectres of Fascism: Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives, edited by Samir Gandesha, 1–26. London: Pluto, Press, 2020.
• “A Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber: Revisiting Adorno’s ‘Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.’” In Spectres of Fascism: Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives, edited by Samir Gandesha, 120–141. London: Pluto Press, 2020.
• “T.W. Adorno: Education for Autonomy.” In Perfektionismus der Autonomie, edited by Douglas Moggach, Nadine Moorem, and Michael Quante, 371–399. Paderborn, Germany: Fink Verlag, 2019.
• “Ghar Wapsi or Reconversion?” In Secular Sectarianism: Limits of Subaltern Politics, edited by Ajay Gudavarty, 105–122. New Delhi: Sage, 2019.
• “Understanding Right and Left Populism.” In Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, edited by Jeremiah Morelock, 49–70. London: University of Westminster Press, 2018.
• “Sociology.” In Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, edited by Imre Szeman, Jeff Diamanti, and Andrew Pendakis, 613–620. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
• “Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas as Good Europeans.” In Philosophy, Language and the Political: Critical Writings Since Poststructuralism, edited by Franson Manjali and Marc Crépon, 61–76. New Delhi: Aakar Press, 2017.
• “Introduction.” With Johan Hartle. In Aesthetic Marx, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, x–lviii. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017.
• “Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx.” In Aesthetic Marx, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 3–22. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017.
• “Introduction.” With Johan Hartle. In Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 9–20. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2017.
• “‘Reification’ Between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno on Musical Experience.” In Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 37–51. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
• "The Colour of Adorno's Thought: On Hito Steyerl’s Adorno’s Grey" in Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis, Stefano Giachetti (ed.), (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2014): 189-204.
• "The Point of No Return: On Adorno's Philosophy of Language" in De Kunst van Kritiek: Adorno in Context, Johan Hartle and Thijs Lijster (eds.), (Amsterdam: Octavo, 2014).
• “Homeless Philosophy: The Philosophy of Exile and the Exile of Philosophy,” in Arendt and Adorno” in Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations, Samir Gandesha and Lars Rensmann (eds.), (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012): 246-279.
• “Understanding Political Modernity: Rereading Arendt and Adorno in Comparative Perspective” (with Lars Rensmann) Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations, Samir Gandesha and Lars Rensmann (eds.), (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012):  1-30. 
• “Solidarity with Metaphysics at the Time of its Downfall’: Adorno Contra Heidegger” in Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future, Stefano Giacchetti (ed.), (University of Delaware Press: 2009).
• “The ‘Aesthetic Dignity of Words’: On Adorno’s Philosophy of Language” in Adorno and the Need in Thinking, Donald Burke et. al. (eds.), (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007): 78-102.
• “Ontological Insecurity and the Politics of Fear” in In/Security: Canada in the Post-9/11 World, A. Netherton, A.Seager, and K.Froschauer (eds.), (Burnaby, BC: Centre for Canadian Studies, 2005): 99-124.
• “Leaving Home: On Adorno and Heidegger” in Cambridge Companion to Adorno, Thomas Huhn (ed.), (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 101-28.
• “Marcuse, Habermas and the Critique of Technology” in Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, John Abromeit and W. Mark Cobb (eds.), (NY: Routledge, 2004): 188-208.
• “Schreiben und Urteilen: Adorno and Arendt und der Chiasmus der Naturgeschichte,” in Arendt und Adorno, Dirk Auer, Lars Rensmann, and Julia Schulze Wessel (eds.), (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2003): 199-233.
• “Safe Streets” in Crime and Ornament: The Arts and Popular Culture in the Shadow of Adolf Loos, Bernie Miller and Melony Ward (eds.), (Toronto: YYZ Press, 2002): 134-144.
• “Punk Multiculturalism” in Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom, Amitava Kumar (ed.), (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000): 245-60.

Encyclopedia/Handbook Entries

• “Karl Marx.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, 562–63. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
• “Totality and Technological Form.” In Sage Handbook on Frankfurt School Critical Theory, edited by Werner Bonefeld, Beverley Best, and Chris O’Kane, 642–660. London: Sage Press, 2018.
• “The Frankfurt School.” In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Michael Gibbon. Oxford: Blackwell, 2014.
• “Stuart Hall.” In The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, edited by John C. Hawley, 221–225. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Book Reviews

• “India After the ‘Great Little Man.’” Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5, no.1 (2020): 2–12.
• “Insurgent Universality: Review of Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.” Radical Philosophy 2.04 (Spring 2019). 
• “The Experience of Identity: Review of Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age Of Trump, Radical Philosophy (forthcoming). 
• “Constructions of Mass Utopia: Review of Susan Buck-Morss’ Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West” in European Journal of Social Theory 9, 3 (2006): 234-40.
• “The Nature of the Future Human: Habermas’s The Future of Human Nature” in Theory, Culture and Society 23 (2006): 151-54.
• “Review of G. Borradori’s (ed.) Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida” in Political Theory 34(2006): 269-73.
• “Review of Doug Moggach’s The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer” in Philosophy in Review 24, 5 (2004): 349-51. 
• “The Political Semiosis of Populism” in The Semiotic Review of Books 13, 3(2003): 1-7.
• “Philosophizing Refuge: Review of Giorgio Agamben’s Means without End: Notes on Politics” in The Semiotic Review of Books Vol. 12, 2 (2002): 5-6.
• “Review of Amitava Kumar’s Passport Photos” in Politics and Culture 2 (2000).
• “Review of Asha Varadharajan’s Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno Said, Spivak (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)” in Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory 27, 1(1998): 140-46.
• “London’s Burning: Review of Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture In the City” in Borderlines Magazine 43 (1997): 45-47.
• “Wither(ing) Community?: Review of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Inoperative Community and Community at Loose Ends” in Borderlines Magazine 42 (1997): 47-50.
• “Safe European Home: Notes on and from Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco” in Borderlines Magazine 41 (1996): 34-38.
• “Dear Theo: Review of Fredric Jameson’s Late Marxism, or, Adorno and the Persistence of the Dialectic” in Borderlines Magazine 22 (Summer, 1991): 42-43.

Translations

• Jean Baudrillard, “Interview with Der Spiegel: ‘This is the Fourth World War’” in International Review of Baudrillard Studies, Vol. 1, No.1 (January 2004).
• Reprint: “This is the Fourth World War." In Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance, Uncollected Interviews. Eds. RG Smith and DB Clarke, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pp. 171-78.
• Theodor W. Adorno, “Theses on the Language of the Philosopher” Samir Gandesha and Michael Palamarek trans. in Adorno and the Need in Thinking (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007): 35-40. 

Reprints

• “The ‘Aesthetic Dignity of Words’: On Adorno’s Philosophy of Language” in The New Adorno, Donald Burke Et. Al. (eds.) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007): 78-102.
• “New York City Man” in Changing Identities: Reading and Writing Ourselves ,Stan Fogel and Lynette Thoman (eds.), (Toronto: Scholars/Women’s Press, 2002).
• “Flowers in the Dustbin, or, Requiem for Punk” in Canadian Communications: Issues in Contemporary Media and Culture, B. Szuchwycz (ed.), (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc.: 2001).
• “Who’s Afraid of the Squeegee Kids?” in Canadian Communications: Issues in Contemporary Media and Culture, B. Szuchwycz (ed.), (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada Inc.: 2001).

Exhibition Reviews

• “Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries Gallery” in Art Papers (March/April, 2008).
• “Roy Arden, Vancouver Art Gallery” in Art Papers (Nov/Dec, 2007).
• “The Divine Comedy, Vancouver Art Gallery” in Art Papers (May/June, 2004): 60.
• “Dan Graham, Contemporary Art Gallery,” Vancouver, in Art Papers (Jan/Feb, 2004):
• “I Sell Security, Catriona Jeffries Gallery” in Art Papers (Nov/December, 2003): 64.
• “Julian Rosefeld: Asylum, Museum für Gegenwart,” Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, in Art Papers, Vol. 27.No. 2 (March/April 2003): 52.
• “Harun Farocki: I Thought I was Seeing Convicts, Art Gallery of Ontario” in Art Papers (July/Aug 2003): 54.

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Interviews, presentations and addresses

Interviews

• “The Brazilian Matrix: Between Fascism and Neoliberalism: A Conversation Between Samir Gandesha Vladimir Safatle.” Krisis (forthcoming).
• “He Who Eats from the State, Will Die From it: A Conversation with Anselm Jappe, Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle.” Contours 9 (Summer 2019). http://www.sfu.ca/humanitiesinstitute/contours/issue9.html. 
• “Interview with Zachary Formwalt.” With Johan Hartle. Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle, edited by Samir Gandesha and Johan Hartle, 181–201. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 
• “Telos in Canada: Interview with Paul Piccone.” With Gary Genosko. Telos 131 (Summer 2005): 152–166.

Invited Addresses

• “Academic Freedom in Global Perspective.” The Chris and John Furedy Lecture on the Contemporary University, June 5, 2020.
• “Is Academic Freedom in Crisis in the Canadian University?” Keynote Address for the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, June 6, 2020.
• “The Actuality of Authoritarianism: Conceptualizing Democracies in Between Psychoanalysis Social Theory.” Institute for Cultural Inquiry and Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany, December 11–12, 2019.
• Keynote, “Adorno and the Media Conference.” Hochschule für Gestaltung. Karlsruhe: December 13–14, 2019. Lecture, “The Institute for the Humanities in History and the Present.” Akademie der bildenden Künst, Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2019.
• “Is Difference Central to a Left Politics?” Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin, Germany, December 10, 2019.
• Commentator, “The Settlers Town is a Strongly Built Town—Fanon in Palestine.” Birkbeck College, December 8, 2019.
• “Identity Politics: A Fanonian Critique.” University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, November 2019.
• “The Political Rhetoric and Social Psychology of the Authoritarian Populist: ‘A Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber.’” University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, November 2019.
• “Free Speech and its Discontents on Campus.” University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, November 2019.
• “The Use and Abuse of Identity for (Public) Life,” South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Simon Fraser University, August 17^th, 2019. 
• “‘A Composite of King Kong and the Suburban Barber’: Revisiting Adorno’s “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” in an Era of Resurgent Populism,” Institute for Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, June 19^th, 2019. 
• “Understanding Authoritarian Populism Today: Samir Gandesha and John Abromeit in Conversation,” Institute for Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, June 3^rd, 2019. 
• “The New Authoritarianism and Digital Populism,” Workshop on “What’s New in the New Authoritarianism,” Department of the Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden, March 21-22, 2019.
• Panelist, “Freedom of Speech and the Arts: Voices from the Left,” BMO Theatre Centre, Feb 18, 2019.
• Panelist, “Free Speech and Academic Freedom” CAUT Harry Crowe Foundation Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, February 22-23, 2019.
• “Identity Politics: A Fanonian Critique,” Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, Paris, France, January 26^th, 2019.
• “Spectre of Fascism,” Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London, January 23, 2019.
• “Identity Politics: A Fanonian Critique,” Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, January 22, 2019.
• Panelist, Book Launch: Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in an Era of Trump (Verso, 2018). Historical Materialism, London, November 9th, 2018. 
• “Social Media and its Discontents,” Indian Institute for Technology, Kharagpur, India, October 24, 2018. 
• “Left and Right Populisms,” University of Mumbai, India, October 22, 2018. 
• “The Crisis of Democracy,” Vancouver Senior Jewish Men’s Group, Jewish Community Centre, September 17^th, 2018.
• “The Rise of Authoritarian Populism: Is Left Populism the Answer?” Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, September 11^th, 2018
• Symposium: Knowledge and Place in the Humanities,” University of Victoria, September 10, 2018.
• “Weaponizing Words: The Dilemmas of Free Speech,” BC Humanist Association, Oakridge Mall, Vancouver, June 25^th, 2018.
• “The Spectre of Left Fascism: Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered,” British Institute for Psychoanalysis, London, England, 2018. 
• “The Spectre of Left Fascism: Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered,” The Sandor Ferenczi Center, New School for research, New York City, April, 2018.  
• Keynote Address: “Reflections on Left  Fascism,” Marxism and Psychoanalysis Conference, Department of Humanities, Simon Fraser University, December 2^nd, 2017. 
• “Revisiting the Frankfurt School’s Critique of Authoritarianism,” World Peace Forum, Vancouver, B.C., November 18.
• “Revisiting Adorno’s Concept of Natural-history in the Anthropocene,” Adorno and the Anthropocene Conference, University of Sunsdvall, Sweden, October 5-6^th, 2017. 
• “What is a ‘Good European’?” Keynote Address, English Graduate Student Conference, Simon Fraser University, Jul 2016.  
• “Identifying with the Aggressor: From the ‘Authoritarian’ to the ‘Neo-Liberal’ Personality,” Vancouver Institute for Social Research, OR Gallery, May 2016.
• “Nihilism and Terror,” BC Humanists Association, Vancouver, BC, Mar 2016. 
• “Short Remarks on the Democratic Legacy of B.R. Ambedkar,” Indian Consulate, Vancouver, BC, Mar 2016.
• “From the ‘Authoritarian’ to the ‘Neo-Liberal’ Personality,” Der Aufrechte Gang im Windschiefen Kapitalismus Conference, Nietzsche Kolleg, Weimar, Germany, Jan 2016.
• “From the ‘Authoritarian’ to the ‘Neo-Liberal’ Personality” Freud Museum, London, Jan 2016.
• “What is the State of Extraction?” Program in Political Ecology, University of Vienna, Jan 2016.
• “Three Logics of the Aesthetic,” Center for the Study of Marxist Social Theory, University of Nanjing, China, May 2014. 
• “The Concept of Left and Right,” Platypus Affiliated Society International Convention, School of Art Institute, Chicago, Ill., Apr 2014.
• “The Aesthetic Politics of Hegemony,” Cultural, Social and Political Thought Program, University of Victoria, Feb 2014. 
• “The Colour of Adorno’s Thought,” Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Oct 2013. 
• “Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx,” Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY at Buffalo, Oct 2012. 
• “Homeless Philosophy: Hegel, Negativity and Critical Theory,” 5^thAnnual Critical Theory Conference, Rome, May 2012. 
• “Plenary Address: Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx,” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Continental philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alt., Oct 2010.
• “Thoughts on Language and Citizenship,” Citizenship without the Nation Conference, University of British Columbia, Oct 2010. 
• Participant, Roundtable on the Legacy of Hannah Arendt, Joint Session Canadian Society for Continental philosophy and the Canadian Philosophy Association, University of Saskatchewan, Jun 2007.
• “Deconstruction and Critical Theory,” Symposium: Legacy of Jacques Derrida, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Oct 2005. 
• “Citizenship and the Avant-garde,” Roundtable on Citizenship, SFU, Mar 2004.
• “Strangers into Enemies: On the Logic of Populism,” Research Seminar Centre for the Study of Theory Culture and Politics, Trent University, Jan 2003.
• “Adorno and Arendt on Writing and Judging,” Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam, Jul 2002.
• “Adorno and Arendt on Heidegger,” Philosopher’s Meeting, Annual Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Jun 2002.
• “Marcuse, Technology, and Fear,” The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse Conference, UC Berkeley, Nov 1998.

Conferences, Workshops, and Presentations

• “The Spectre of the 1930s,” Historical Materialism, Athens, Greece, May 3-6, 2019. 
• “Spectre of Fascism,” Historical Materialism, London, UK, November 8-11, 2018. 
• “The Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered: Adorno, Marcuse and the Spectre of ‘Left Fascism,’ 1^stCritical Theory Roundtable: The Frankfurt School, Radical Political Economy & Critiques of Fascism, Gonzaga University, February 16-17, 2018.
• “Reflections on Left Fascism,” Biennial Meeting of the International Herbert Marcuse Association, Toronto, October 27^th, 2017. 
• “Populism Left and Right,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco,  September 1, 2017. 
• Chair, Academic Panel, The End of Life: Dying Suicide and Death Conference, Simon Fraser University, November 3^rd, 2016. 
• Panelist, “Intersections of Indigeneity, Refugees, Affect and Trauma,” Panel Discussion, Simon Fraser University, Aug 2016. 
• Participant, Roundtable on “Psychoanalysis and the Trump Phenomenon,” with presentations by John Abromeit (via Skype), Jay Frankel, Hilda Fernandez, Samir Gandesha, and Jerry Zaslove, May 2016.
• Moderator, “Targeting Universities in Authoritarian India,” Panel Discussion, with presentations by Ajay Bhardwaj, Dionne Bunsha, and Gurpreet Singh, Apr 2016.
• Presenter, Panel discussion on “What is the State of Bill C-51 Today?” with presentations by Michael Vonn, Samir Gandesha, and Charles Boylan. Part of the “Repeal Bill C-51 Conference,” Feb 2016.
• Presenter, “What is a ‘Good European’?” Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, New York City, Jan 2016.
• Panelist, “What Does Climate Change?” Panel Discussion, University of Alberta, Feb 2016.
• Respondent, Lecture by Ferenc Erőson “Psychoanalysis Behind Iron Curtains,” with Hilda Fernandez, Endre Koritar, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 2015.
• Panelist, “The Canadian Election and the Politics of Fear,” Adel Iskandar, and Fiona Jeffries (via Skype), Oct 2015.
• Moderator, “C-51 The Anti-Terror Bill,” Panel discussion with Craig Forcese, Margot Young, Micheal Vonn, Max Cameron, and Zool Suleman on Mar 2015.
• Presenter, Symposium on “Theodor Adorno: Music, Language, Authenticity,” with presentations by Shierry Nicholsen, Jeremy Shapiro, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 2014.
• Panelist, “The Theoretical legacy of Stuart Hall,” Panel Discussion on The Stuart Hall Project, Institute for the Humanities, Feb 2014.
• Presenter, “Can There be Politics without Reification?," Commodity, Reification and Spectacle Conference, University of Amsterdam, Dec 2013. 
• Presenter, “The Neo-Liberal Personality,” Psychoanalysis and Social Theory Conference, Institute for the Humanities, SFU Vancouver, Nov 2013.
• Panelist, “The Recent Election: Our Canadian Political Landscape Canada Under a Harper Majority,” Panel Discussion with presentations by Michael Byers, and David Beers, and Reilly Yeo, Jun 2011.
• Presenter, “Hegel’s Homecoming of Spirit,” Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: Place and Dis-Placement, Bowen Island, BC, Oct 2012. 
• Presenter, “Hegel’s Homecoming of Spirit,” Radical Philosophy Association Annual Conference, Canisius College, Oct 2012. 
• Presenter, “Three Logics of the Aesthetic in Marx,” Marx and the Aesthetic Conference, University of Amsterdam, May 2012.
• Presenter, “Marx, Benjamin and the 18^thBrumaire,” Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, University of London, Nov 2011. 
• Presenter, “Adorno and Cavell on Beckett’s Endgame,” Annual Meeting of the Society for European philosophy, Loyola University, Rome, Jun 2010.
• Presenter, “Marx, Modernization and Modernism,” Social Philosophy Conference, Prague, May 2008.
• Presenter, “Marx, Reification and Aesthetic Negativity,” Reification and the Challenge of Praxis Conference,” JCU, Rome, May 2008.
• Respondent, “Response to William Paulson,” Joanne Brown Symposium, Michel Serres’ Natural Contract, Feb 2008.
• Presenter, “Solidarity with Metaphysics at the Time of its Downfall,” Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future Conference, JCU, Rome, Apr 2007.
• Presenter, “Marx and the Modernist Future of Democratic Communication,” UDC Conference, SFU, Oct 2007.
• Presenter, ”Solidarity with Metaphysics at the Time of its Downfall,” Association for Political Thought Conference, UWO, London, Ontario, Oct 2007. 
• Presenter, “The ‘Aesthetic Dignity of Words’: On Adorno’s Materialist Philosophy of Language,” Critical Aesthetics Conference, Cornell University, Apr 2006.
• Respondent, “Response to Sekyi-Otu,” Joanne Brown Symposium, Mar 2006. 
• Presenter, “Adorno and Arendt on Kant’s Third Critique,” 10^thKant Congress, Saõ Paulo Brazil, Sep 2006. 
• Panelist, “Derrida and His Legacy,” Panel Discussion with presentations by Ian Angus, Lorraine Weir, and Alessandra Capperdoni, Oct 2005.
• Participant, “Citizen: Imagination and Agency,” Roundtable discussion for SFU’s Writer-in-Residence Colloquium and Reading with Larissa Lai, Fred Wah, Wayde Compton and Sophie McCall, Mar 2005.
• Presenter, “Right-wing Populism and the Politics of Fear,” Canadian Political Science Association, Halifax, May 2003.
• Presenter,  “Adorno, Arendt and the Chiasmus of Natural History,” Canadian Political Science Association, Halifax, Jun 2003
• Presenter, “Right-wing Populism and the Politics of Fear,” Inaugural Meeting of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Jan 2003.
• Presenter, “Leaving Home: On Adorno and Heidegger,” Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference,” Institute for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Prague, May 2002.
• Presenter, “Social Democracy, Right-wing Populism and Sovereignty,” In/Security: Canada in an International World Conference, SFU Vancouver, Nov 2002.
• Presenter, “On the Ruins of Philosophy: Architecture, Deconstruction and Social Theory,” Lecture for Queen’s University Humanities Post-doctoral Fellowship, Apr 1999.
• Presenter, “Recognizing the Limits of Recognition: A Critique of Multicultural Politics,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Jun 1998.
• Presenter, “Recognizing the Limits of Recognition: A Critique of Multicultural Politics,” Toronto Conference for the study of Political Thought, Toronto, Mar 1998.
• Presenter, “Food as Metaphor: Is Diversity the ‘Spice’ of Life?,” Desh Pardesh: Festival of South Asian Arts, Toronto, Jun 1997.
• Presenter, “Tragedy as Enlightenment: Reflections on Adorno’s Ethics,” Actuality of Adorno: A Symposium, UC Berkeley, Mar 1997.
• Presenter, “Plato and the Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry,” Strategies of Critique Graduate Students’ Conference, York University, Toronto, Apr 1995.
• Presenter, “Hegel, Nietzsche and the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment,’” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, Ontario, 1993.
• Presenter, “Critical Theory, Post-structuralism and the Subject,” Passion, Powers, Persons Conference, UC Berkeley, Apr 1992.
• Presenter, “Adorno and the Primacy of the Object,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Kingston, Ontario, 1991.
• Presenter, “Burke, Hegel and the ‘Double Possibility’ of Hermeneutics,” Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Montreal, 1991. 

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Media Interviews­­­­­­­­­

• 2020    “Fascist Epistemology”: A discussion with Stuart Parker and Eileen Wennekers, CFUR 88.7.
• 2020    Wet’suwe’ten Land Rights. The Early Edition (with Stephen Quinn).
• 2020    Discussion of Spectres of Fascism. Sputnik, with George Galloway on RT.
• 2019    “The Neo-Liberal Personality.” Interview with Am Johal, Below the Radar podcast.
• 2018    Interview for Documentary on Spirituality and Consumerism Beyond Vanity
• 2018    Oats for Breakfast Podcast Episode on “Free Speech”
• 2018    Well-Reds: A Left Books Podcast, Episode 13 with Charles Demers for Ricochet on Communism for Kids (MIT Press, 2018) by Bini Adamczak, March. https://www.spreaker.com/user/well_reds/xwell-reds-ep13-final-edits
• 2018    Interview with Imtiaz Popat on Bulland Awaaz Co-op Radio on Electoral Reform http://coopradio.org/content/bulland-awaaz-48
• 2016    Interview with Minelle Mahtani on Europe Referendum Vote on Sense of Place Show, Roundhouse Radio FM 98.3, June.
• 2016    Interview with Mr. Gurpreet Singh on Indian universities on Spice Radio AM 1200, April.
• 2016    Interview with Ms. Hilda Fernandez and Professor Minelle Mahtani on Social Psychology and Donald Trump, on Sense of Place Show, Roundhouse Radio FM 98.3, May. 
• 2016    Interview with Professor Adel Iskandar and Professor Minelle Mahtani on Finance and Terror on Sense of Place Show, Roundhouse Radio FM 98.3, March. 
• 2016    Interview with the Peak Newspaperon Indian Universities under fire, March.
• 2015    Interview with Charles Boylan and Irwin Oostindie on Bill C51 on W2 Morning Show, Co-op Radio 100.5.
• 2015    Interview on SLAPP Suits with CFAX Radio, December.
• 2015    Interview with Irwin Oostindie on Bill C51 on W2 Morning Radio Show Co-op Radio 100.5, December.
• 2015    Interview with Peak Newspaperon the Politics of Fear, October.
• 2009    Interview with Professor Vaclav Cilek on Czech Radio on Regionalism and Globalization, June.

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Supervision of Research Personnel

• 2017-present Maxwell Kristen
• 2006–2007    Natalie Wing
• 2006–2007    Andrew Bingham
• 2005–2006    Dennis Nattkemper
• 2005–2006    Adela Muchova
• 2005–2006    Daniel Harris

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Graduate Supervision

In Progress

• Senior Supervisor, Andrew Czink, PhD in Liberal Studies: “Philosophy of Embodied Musical Practices.”
• Senior Supervisor, Duane Fontaine, PhD in Liberal Studies: “Transformations of Work in Neo-Liberal Capitalism.”
• Senior Supervisor, Sobhi al-Zobaidi, PhD by Special Arrangement: “Colonial Spaces, Postcolonial Times: Dispossession, Resistance and Identity in an Age of Digital Reproduction.”
• Senior Supervisor, Christopher Hardcastle, MA in Humanities: “Corporations are Not People.”
• Senior Supervisor, Morgan Young, MA in Humanities: “Toward a Critical Theory of Fantasy.”
• Supervisor, Eugenia Bertulis, PhD in Liberal Studies: “The Product, Mass Culture and Object Agency.”
• Supervisor, J.J. Hill, PhD in Liberal Studies: “Archives of the Schizophrenic and the Ownership of the Self.”

Completed

• Senior Supervisor, Alexis Tia Wolfe, MA in Humanities: “Symbolic Collisions: Short-Circuits in
• the Libidinal Economy Fall 2019.
• Senior Supervisor, Kavita Reddy, MA in Humanities: “The Negativity of Place: Capital Accumulation and Ecological Limits.” Spring 2016.
• Senior Supervisor. Huyen Pham, MA in Humanities: “Breaking the Gaze: Ressentiment, Bad Faith, and the Struggle for Individual Freedom.” Fall 2013.
• Senior Supervisor. Michael Thoma, MA in Liberal Studies: “Cinema and Marxist Aesthetics: Lukacs, Benjamin and Adorno.” Summer 2009.
• Supervisor, Susan Pell, PhD by Special Arrangements: “Publics in Formation: An Analysis of Woodwards Contentious Redevelopment 1995-2002.” Fall 2010.
• Senior Supervisor, Adela Muchova, MA by Special Arrangement Thesis: “The Experience of Czech Exile Writers.” Winter 2006.

Graduate Examination

• Kurt Pabst, “Class Struggle in Theory,” Ph.D. Committee Member, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, April, 2019.
• Graham Lyons, “Modernist Angels of History: Reading the Politics of the Historical Self in Walter Benjamin, Katherine Mansfield, Gertrude Stein and Laura (Riding) Jackson,” Ph.D. Defence internal-external Examiner, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Aug 2015.
• Roy Bendor, New Media and the Turn to Experience in Environmental Communication,” School of Communications, Ph.D. Defence internal-external examiner, Oct 2013.
• Saladdin Ahmed, A Philosophical Theory of the Politics of Space: Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Spatial Aura, Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, Ph.D. Defence external examiner, Apr 2013. 
• Karen Asp, “Adorno: Interpretation, Dialectics and the Indissoluble ‘Something,’” Political Science, Acadia University, M.A. Defence external examiner, Jan 2013.
• Shab Shafarkah, “SHEEVAN/CRIES: Ten Paintings,” M.A. Defence, internal-external examiner Graduate Liberal Studies, Apr 2010.
• Roger Leroux, MA in Graduate Liberal Studies. Defence internal-external Extended essays: “Death in Venice: Britten’s Operatic Triumph;” “The Allegorical Schoenberg: Twelve Tone Music in Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus.” Completed, Mar 2008.
• Richard Soyka, MA in Graduate Liberal Studies. Defence internal-external Extended essays: “Hegel, Marx and the Self;” “Heidegger, Eastern Philosophy and Ecology.” Completed, Feb 2008.

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Languages

• German: Fluent
• French: Reading knowledge
• Gujarati: Basic

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Professional/University Service

Active Service to the Department of Humanities 

Departmental Committees

• Regular participation on normal departmental committees. 

Other Service to the Department

• 2019    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester
• 2009    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester
• 2006    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester
• 2005    Director, Prague Field School, Summer Semester

Active Service to Simon Fraser University

• 2010-present    Director, Institute for the Humanities
• 2016-present    Refugee Working Group, SFU
• 2015-present    Member, SFU Galleries, Advisory Committee
• 2004–present    Chair, J.S. Woodsworth Advisory Committee, Institute for the Humanities
• 2004–present    Member Steering Committee, Institute for the Humanities
• 2009–2010    Chair, Graduate Program Committee
• 2007–2008    Chair, “Citizenship and Modernity” Committee, Institute for the Humanities
• 2005–2006    Chair, “Citizenship and Modernity” Committee, Institute for the Humanities
• 2003–2004    Faculty Associate, Institute for the Humanities

Active Service to the Academic Community

• 2019–present Manuscript Assessor, Review of Politics
• 2019-present    Research Grant Assessor, American University Sharjah, UAE
• 2018-present    Manuscript Assessor, Adorno Studies Journal
• 2018-present    Manuscript Assessor, University of Toronto Press
• 2015-present    Manuscript Assessor, MIT Press
• 2014-present    Manuscript Assessor, American Political Science Review
• 2012–present    Manuscript Assessor, Theory, Culture and Society.
• 2007–present    Manuscript Assessor, Pluto Press
• 2005–present    Manuscript Assessor, Cambridge University Press
• 2001–present    Associate Editor, Semiotic Review of Books
• 1998–present    Manuscript Assessor, Canadian Journal of Political Science
• 2012    Co-convener (with Ian Angus) Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: Place and Dis-Placement, Bowen Island, BC, October.
• 2012    Co-convener (with Johan Hartle), Marx and the Aesthetic Conference, University of Amsterdam, May.
• 2009–2010    Member, Selection Committee #5, National Doctoral Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
• 2007–2008    Member, Selection Committee #5, National Doctoral Competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
• 2008    Convener, “Critical Theory and Metaphysics: A Symposium,” Simon Fraser University, March.
• 2006    Convener, Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: Multiculturalism and its Limits, Bowen Island, BC, March.
• 2005    ACTC Conference Organizing Committee
• 2000    Co-author, Position Paper on Applied Arts Degrees, Office of the Vice President Academic, Centennial College
• 1997    Co-convenor (with Dr. Martin Jay) “Actuality of Adorno” Symposium, UC Berkeley 
• 1994    Chair, Organizing Committee, “Representing the Political” Conference, York University. Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Wolin
• 1990–1994    Associate Editor, Borderlines Magazine

Active Service to the Community as Director of the Institute for the Humanities, SFU

• 2020    Book launch and panel discussions on the historical, theoretical, and contemporary perspectives of “Spectres of Fascism,” with presentations by Samir Gandesha, Ingo Schmidt, Jaleh Mansoor, Tamir Bar-On, Am Johal, Laura Marks, Hilda Fernandez, Ajay Gutavarthy, Helmut-Harry Loewen, Joan Braune, Patricia Barkaskas, and Vladimir Safatle, May 22, May 29, and June 5.
• 2020    Seminar with Visiting Scholar Newton Duarte on “Relativism and Obscurantism vs Knowledge of Reality,” March 12.
• 2020    Panel discussion on “Cyberwar and Revolution,” with presentations by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Samir Gandesha, March 6.
• 2020    Public lecture by Visiting Scholar Newton Duarte on “Education in Brazil: Beyond Neutrality and Indoctrination,” March 5.
• 2020    Public lecture by Douglas Moggach on “Perfecting Autonomy: Rethinking Perfectionist Ethics After Kant,” January 30.
• 2020    Book launch and panel discussion on “Violence, Nonviolence, and Necessary Suffering,” with author Peyman Vahabzadeh and Ian Angus, January 24.
• 2019    Symposium on “Theodor W. Adorno: Fifty Years After His Death,” with keynote by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, November 29.
• 2019    Public dialogue between Samir Gandesha and Visiting Scholar Newton Duarte on “Public Education Under Attack in Brazil.”
• 2019    Public dialogue between Samir Gandesha and Director Sanjay Kak on “Kashmir: Photography as Witness and Memory,” November 16.
• 2019    Film screening and panel discussion on “Fanon: Yesterday, Today,” with Q&A with director Hassane Mezine and responses by Glen Coulthard, Jaleh Mansoor, Sobhi al-Zobaidi, and Samir Gandesha, October 16.
• 2019    Book launch and lecture by Suraj Yengde on “Caste Matters,” with responses from members of the Ambedkar Reading Group, October 11.
• 2019    Book launch and public lecture by Martin Lukacs on “The Trudeau Formula,” October 1.
• 2019    Public lecture on “The Use and Abuse of “Identity”: A Fanonian Critique,” August 17.
• 2019    Public lecture by Svend Robinson on “People and the Planet Before Profits,” April 24.
• 2019    “In Conversation with Ian Angus,” with interviewers Samir Gandesha and Peyman Vahabzadeh, April 6.
• 2018    Public lecture by Olivier Remaud on “Reading Earth,” August 29.
• 2018    Public lecture by Andrew Czink on “Torrent, Trickle – The Exploratory and the Performative in Doing Music,” July 7.
• 2018    Panel discussion on “Weaponizing Words: The Dilemmas of Free Speech,” with presentations by Samir Gandesha, Morgane Oger, and Josh Paterson, June 27.
• 2018    Film screening of “Dangerous Hope: Canada’s Betrayal of Democracy in Haiti,” with Q&A with director Elaine Briere, David Putt, and Garry Auguste, June 14.
• 2018    Film screening of “Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid,” with Q&A with director Peter Davis, June 4.
• 2018    Panel discussion on “The Mountain of Everything Keeps on Giving,” with presentations by Matt Hern and Sobhi al-Zobaidi, April 27.
• 2018    Public lecture by Janine MacLeod on “Hydrologies of Transformation: Capitalism, Hegemony, and the Meanings of Water,” April 10.
• 2018    Public lecture by Saladdin Ahmed on “The Revolution of the Hopeless Ones: Rojava’s Cosmopolitan Appeal,” April 9.
• 2018    Public lecture by William Leiss on “The Threat of Superintelligence,” March 29.
• 2018    Symposium on “Art, Labour and the Future of Work,” with presentations by Mark Nowak, Alessandra Capperdoni, Johan Hartle, Duane Fontaine, Philip Wohlstetter, Samir Gandesha, Jaleh Mansoor, Andrew Czink, Morgan Young, Ed Graham, and Anita Chari, March 3–4.
• 2018    Public lecture by John Clarke on “Basic Income: Progressive Hopes and Neoliberal Realities,” with responses by Jenna van Draanen, Michal Rozworski, Trish Garner, and Duane Fontaine, February 27.
• 2018    Panel discussion on “Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance,” with presentations by Michael Truscello, Ajamu Nangwaya, John Clarke, Sara Sagaii, and Samir Gandesha, February 27.
• 2017    Co-convenor (with S. Collis), Spectre of Fascism Free School
• 2017    Chair, Organizing Committee, Spectacle of Fascism Conference 
• 2016    Roundtable on “Psychoanalysis and the Trump Phenomenon,” with presentations by John Abromeit (via Skype), Jay Frankel, Hilda Fernandez, Samir Gandesha, and Jerry Zaslove, May 27.
• 2016    Public lecture by Maurizio Lazzarato on “Financialization and War: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity,” Apr 29.
• 2016    Panel discussion on “Targeting Universities in Authoritarian India,” with presentations by Ajay Bhardwaj, Dionne Bunsha, and Gurpreet Singh, Apr 15.
• 2016    Workshop with Ian Angus on “Husserl and America: Reflections on the Limits of Europe as the Ground of Meaning and Value for Phenomenology,” Mar 29.
• 2016    Public lecture by David Yorke on “A Story of Canadian Anti-Fascists in Spain: Ron Liversedge and the Publication of Mac-Pap,” Mar 21.
• 2016    Public lecture by Lorraine Weir, titled “Oral History as a Practice of Freedom: the Tsilhqot’in Title Case in Context,” Mar 4.
• 2016    Workshop with Sarah Deardorff-Miller on “Refugee Resilience: Resettlement Through a Human Rights Lens,” Mar 3.
• 2016    Panel discussion on “What is the State of Bill C-51 Today?” with presentations by Michael Vonn, Samir Gandesha, and Charles Boylan. Part of the “Repeal Bill C-51 Conference,” Feb 28.
• 2016    Panel discussion on “African Refugees: A Panel Highlighting a Forgotten and Excluded People,” with presentations by Juliane Okot Bitek, Josiane Anthony, Samson Nashon, and Daniel Tseghay, Feb 23.
• 2016    Public lecture by Alessandra Capperdoni on “What Does the Unconscious Know About Capitalism?: One-Way Feminist Speculations on Affect, Anxiety, and Love in the Age of Neoliberalism,” Feb 19.
• 2016    Public lecture by Alexandru (Alec) Balasescu and Apurv Jain on “Financial Bubbles and Their Magic: Asset Price as a Heroic Journey in the Financial Markets,” Jan 26.
• 2015    Workshop with Greg Feldman on “Politics in Particular: From Primo Levi to Freedom and Being in the Works of Hannah Arendt and Baruch Spinoza,” Nov 23.
• 2015    Public lecture by Ferenc Erőson “Psychoanalysis Behind Iron Curtains,” with responses from Hilda Fernandez, Samir Gandesha, Endre Koritar, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 13.
• 2015    Workshop with Yasmine Sari on “Arendt, Truth, and Epistemic Responsibility,” Nov 10.
• 2015    Public lecture by Heribert Adam on “Comparative Xenophobia: Fragile Solidarity or Enduring Humanitarianism in Germany?” Nov 4.
• 2015    Public lecture by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on “Settler-Colonialism and Genocide Policies in North America,” Oct 27.
• 2015    Public lecture by Richard Bullock on “The Future of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), Climate Change, and Food Security,” Oct 15.
• 2015    Panel discussion on “The Canadian Election and the Politics of Fear,” with presentations by Samir Gandesha, Adel Iskandar, and Fiona Jeffries, Oct 6.
• 2015    Public lecture by Michael Harris on “The Rubicon Election of 2015,” Oct 5.
• 2015    Youth vote event for the Federal General Election, titled “Not-a-Party Election Party,” Oct 3.
• 2015    Public lecture by Pam Palmater on “Taking Back Canada,” Sep 24.
• 2015    Public lecture by Donald Gutstein on “Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada,” Sep 21.
• 2015    Public lecture by Alex Neve on “Bill C-51: The Insecurity of Human Rights,” Sep 17.
• 2015    Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar lecture by Libby Davies on “Grassroots Politics in Parliament,” Sep 14.
• 2015    Panel discussion on “Women Warriors of Kurdistan,” with Hanna Böhman and Nissy Koye, Sep 13.
• 2015    Public lecture by R. Raj Singh, titled “Death-Contemplation in Heidegger’s Early and Later Works,” Jun 26.
• 2015    Book launch and panel discussion of Fiona Jeffries’ Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: Resistance in Dangerous Times, with responses by Mike Ma and Davina Bhandar, May 12.
• 2015    Public lecture by Shuyu Kong on “Popular Media and Cultural Public Sphere in Contemporary China,” May 7.
• 2015    Panel discussion by Jonathan Sklar and Jay Frankel on “Psychoanalyzing Authoritarianism: Trauma and the Difficult Question of Freedom,” May 4.
• 2015    Panel discussion with Riki Ott, Anita Burke, and Karen G. Wristen on “Toxic Oil Spill in English Bay: The Truth about Oil Recovery & Long-Term Effects on the Ecosystems,” Apr 29.
• 2015    Conference on “The State of Extraction: Corporate Imperatives, Public Knowledge and Global Struggles for Alternatives,” with keynotes by Chris Hedges, Glen Coulthard, and Aziz Choudry, Mar 27–29.
• 2015    Panel discussion with Craig Forcese, Margot Young, Micheal Vonn, Max Cameron, and Zool Suleman on “C-51 The Anti-Terror Bill,” Mar 24.
• 2015    Seminar with Razmig Keucheyan on “Capitalism and the Environmental Crisis,” Mar 18.
• 2015    Public lecture by Razmig Keucheyan, titled “Mapping Critical Theory Today,” Mar 17.
• 2015    Public lecture by Peyman Vahabzadeh on “Acts of Liberation: A Phenomenology of Violence and Nonviolence,” March 13.
• 2015    Public lecture by Marie Goupy on “The State of Exception Theory by Carl Schmitt and the Ambivalent Criticism of Liberalism,” Mar 4.
• 2015    Public lecture by Davina Bhandar on “Neo-Liberal Forms of Dispossession and Democracy,” Feb 17.
• 2015    Public lecture by Karen Ferguson on “Domesticating Dissent in the Black Power Era: Tracing the Historical Roots of the Obama Presidency,” Jan 29.
• 2014    Public talk and performance by Ramy Essam on “Revolution and Performance,” Nov 28.
• 2014    Public lecture by Zoe Druick on “Database Documentaries: Orchestrated Voices and the Rhetoric of Listening,” Nov 25.
• 2014    Public lecture by Frances Dyson on “Institutionalized Sound,” Nov 18.
• 2014    Public lecture by Roy Bendor on “Interactive World Disclosure (or, an Interface is Not a Hammer),” Nov 12.
• 2014    Symposium on “Theodor Adorno: Music, Language, Authenticity,” with presentations by Shierry Nicholsen, Jeremy Shapiro, Samir Gandesha, and Jerry Zaslove, Nov 8.
• 2014    Seminar with Douglas Moggach on “Romantic Political Thought,” Oct 31.
• 2014    Public lecture by Byron Sheldrick on “Strategic Litigation and the Judicial Constraint of Public Engagement,” Oct 30.
• 2014    Public lecture by Chris Dixon on “Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements,” Oct 27.
• 2014    The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Congress, with keynote by Howard Caygill on “The Capacity to Resist,” Oct 2–4.
• 2014    Public lecture by Lawrence Weschler on “A Taxanomy of Convergences,” Sep 4.
• 2014    Panel discussion with Ama Biney, Binega Markos, and Harjap Grewal on “Africa––A New Frontier for Canadian Mineral Plunder?” Aug 28.
• 2014    Seminar with Am Johal on “Ecological Metapolitics,” Jul 28.
• 2014    Public conference on “The Frankfurt School: The Critique of Capitalist Culture,” with keynotes by Martin Jay, Andrew Feenberg, and Deborah Cook, Jul 17–19.
• 2014    Public lecture by Johan Hartle on “Social Housing Under Municipal Socialism,” Jul 16.
• 2014    Public lecture by Chris O’Kane on “The Process of Domination Spews Out Tatters of Subjugated Nature: Cultural and Capital in Adorno and the New German Reading of Marx,” Jun 30.
• 2014    Seminar with Franson Manjali on his book “Labyrinths of Language: Philosophical and Cultural Investigations,” Jun 25.
• 2014    Public lecture by Franson Manjali on “Nationalism, Colonialism and Modern Linguistics,” Jun 24.
• 2014    Panel discussion with Glenda Drew and Jesse Drew on “Stories of Solidarity: Social Media for Precarious Labour,” Jun 18.
• 2014    Film screening of documentary “Freedom Summer,” May 10.
• 2014    Public lecture by Erik Olin Wright on “Challenging Capitalism Through Real Utopias,” May 7.
• 2014    Public discussion by Cecily Nicholson, Jennifer Allan, Lorna Bird, Aiyanas Ormond, and William Damon, titled “Policing the Crisis in Vancouver,” Apr 29.
• 2014    Public lecture by Sut Jhally on “Advertising and the End of the World,” Apr 26.
• 2014    Public lecture by Kirsty Robertson on “Capitalist Cocktails and Moscow Mules: Activism in the Museum and Gallery,” Apr 16.
• 2014    Public lecture by David Barsamian on “Media, Capitalism and the Environment,” Mar 28.
• 2014    Public lecture by Richard Smith on “Green Capitalism: The God that Failed,” Mar 25.
• 2014    Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture by Natalie Fenton on “Pulling Punches: Media Power, People Power and This Thing Called Democracy,” Mar 24.
• 2014    Panel discussion with Frank Cunningham, Phil Resnick, Nick Blomley, and Ian Angus on “The Legacy of CB Macpherson,” Mar 18.
• 2014    Series of workshops on Marx’s “18^thBrumaire of Louis Bonaparte” by the Marx Research Group, Mar 13–28.
• 2014    Public lecture by Robert Gibbs on “An Epistemology for Urban Universities,” Mar 11.
• 2014    Film screening of “Blood in the Mobile,” Mar 6.
• 2014    Film screening of “Remember Mandela!” and lecture by filmmaker Peter Davis on “Madiba and Me,” Feb 27.
• 2014    Public lecture by Alessandro Delfanti on “Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science,” Feb 20.
• 2014    Symposium on “Peach and the Environment,” with Keynote by Jody Williams, Feb 6–7.
• 2014    Public lecture by Urban Subjects on “What Is Already Going On,” Feb 5.
• 2014    Film screening of John Akomfrah’s “The Stuart Hall Project,” Feb 5.
• 2014    Public lecture by Vivek Chibber on “The Promise and Perils of Postcolonial Theory,” Jan 30.
• 2014    Public lecture by John Holloway on “We are the Crisis of Capital, and Proud of It,” Jan 29.
• 2014    Public workshop on workshop “Mi’kmaq Warrior Society: Strategy Session,” Jan 24.
• 2014    Public lecture by Jonn Axsen on “Citizen Acceptance of New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure: Value Theory and Canada’s Northern Gateway Pipe,” Jan 21.
• 2014    Public lecture by Donia Mounsef, titled “Intermediality, Cross-mediality, Trans-mediality: Embodiment and the Mediated Turn in Contemporary Theatre and Performance,” Jan 16.
• 2013    Art presentation and discussion on “Technoscience and Participation: Art, Literature and the Social Web,” Dec 11.
• 2013    Film screening of “Far From Vietnam,” Dec 10.
• 2013    Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternative: “Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: From Clinical Practice to Social and Political Praxis,” Nov 15.
• 2013    Public lecture by Wolfgang Foerster, titled “The Vienna Model: Policy and Housing for the 21^st Century,” Nov 14.
• 2013    Public lecture by Donia Mounsef on “Spectacular Violence, Staging Torture After the Age of Sobriety in Punishment,” Nov 7.
• 2013    Public lecture by Kevin Anderson on “Casting a Critical Eye on the Foucauldian Concept of Resistance, in Light of Marcuse,” Oct 29.
• 2013    Public lecture by Rabbi Michael Lerner on “Embracing Israel-Palestine: Realities and Possibilities,” Oct 23.
• 2013    Public lecture by Huw Wahl on “On the Influence of Herbert Read,” Oct 9.
• 2013    Public lecture by Darin Barney on “Pipelines and the Politics of Sabotage,” Oct 4.
• 2013    Public lecture by Cary Nelson on “Resistance is Not Futile: The Future of Higher Education,” Sep 26.
• 2013    Public lecture by Han Dongfang on “The Fast-emerging Labour Movement in China and its Impact on the Country’s Future,” Sep 16.
• 2013    Public lecture by Fiona Jeffries on “Today We Are All Someone New: Re-appropriating the City of Fear,” Sep 12.
• 2013    Public lecture by Andres Dimitriu on “Resource Exploitation, Social Movements, and the Public Sphere in Patagonia,” Jul 17.
• 2013    Public lecture by Yildiz Atasoy on “Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalization in a Muslim State,” Jul 11.
• 2013    Panel discussion with Shierry Nicholsen, Coleen Gold, Janet Oakes, and Jerry Zaslove on “On Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics,” Apr 27.
• 2013    Public lecture by Robert Anderson on “Varieties of Democracy and New Conflicts in Myanmar,” Apr 9.
• 2013    Public lecture by Robyn Allan on “The Economics of Oil Pipelines and Tankers,” Mar 27.
• 2013    Public lecture by Tong Shijun on “Western Theories of Justice and Contemporary China,” Mar 19.
• 2013    Public lecture by Gordon Christie on “Indigenous Authority, Canadian Law, and Pipeline Proposals,” Feb 26.
• 2013    Public lecture by Frank Cunningham on “The Arcades of Paris and Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Cities,” Feb 12.
• 2012    Clinical seminar with Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes on “Psychoanalysis Vs. Therapy: on Two Contrasting Discursivities,” Dec 7.
• 2012    Seminar with Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes on “Is Trafficking a Particular Sort of Social Bond?” Dec 6.
• 2012    Public lecture by Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes on “Towards a Lacanian Analytic of Contemporary Social Bonds,” Dec 5.
• 2012    Open rehearsal of Molière’s “Don Juan” by Blackbird Theatre Company, Dec 4.
• 2012    Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternative: “Place and Dis-Placement,” Oct 19–21.
• 2012    Public lecture by Asha Varadharajan on “Subjects of Inquiry and Subjects of Injury,” Sep 20.
• 2011    Panel discussion on “Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Fear,” Oct 14.
• 2011    Public lecture by Peyman Vahabzadeh on “Iran: the Story of a Democratic Movement,” Jul 22.
• 2011    Public lecture by Charles Reeve on “Andy Warhol’s Deaths and the Assembly-line Autobiography,” Jul 21.
• 2011    Film screening of “Examined Life” with filmmaker Astra Taylor, Jul 12.
• 2011    Panel discussion on “The Recent Election: Our Canadian Political Landscape Canada Under a Harper Majority,” with presentations by Michael Byers, David Beers, and Samir Gandesha, Jun 29.
• 2011    Public lecture by Ashutosh Kalsi on “The Root of Sorrow,” May 24.
• 2011    Public lecture by Martin Jay on “Photography and the Event,” May 18.
• 2011    Public lecture by Michael Molloy on “Searching for Peace in Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Old City Initiative,” Mar 14.
• 2011    Public lecture by Frank Cunningham on “Philosophy and the City: Ruminations,” Mar 4.
• 2011    Seminar with Frank Cunningham on “Urban Aboriginal Sovereignty and Homefulness,” with response by Gordon Christie, Feb 28.
• 2011    Film screening of Dirt (2008) with Filmmaker Meghna Halder, Jan 28.
• 2010    Public lecture by Sherry Simon on “Cities in Translation, Dec 8.
• 2010    Film screening of Girlfriend Experience with Director Ileana Pietrobruno, Nov 26.
• 2010    Public lecture by Laura Marks on “Thinking Like a Carpet: Embodied Perception and Artificial Life,” Nov 17.
• 2010    Public lecture by Helena Reckitt on “Forgotten Relations: Feminist Activists and Relational Aesthetics,” Nov 16.
• 2010    Public lecture by Johan Hartle on “Free Association,” Oct 27.
• 2010    Public lecture by Jocelyn Létourneau on “What History for What Future of Quebec?” Sep 20.
• 2010    Conference on “Cosmopolis/Cosmopolitics: Humanities and Citizenship After Neo-liberalism,” with keynotes by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Wendy Brown, May 5–8.
• 2010    Book launch and panel discussion on Ian Angus’ “Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment,” with responses by Darin Barney, Adrienne Burk, and Claire Polster, Mar 19.
• 2005    Panel discussion on “Derrida and His Legacy,” with presentations by Ian Angus, Lorraine Weir, Samir Gandesha, and Alessandra Capperdoni, Oct 13.
• 2005    Roundtable discussion for SFU’s Writer-in-Residence Colloquium and Reading on “Citizen: Imagination and Agency,” with Larissa Lai, Fred Wah, Wayde Compton, Samir Gandesha, and Sophie McCall, Mar 9.

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