FOT2 – Schedule – seismopoetics

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Friday, October 31st, 2025: 5:00 pm

Keynote Lecture

Dr. Geoffrey Whitehall

Department of Politics, Acadia University (former CSPT Fellow at UVic, graduate of CSPT)

Falling for Kant: On the Impossibility of Global Resistance

Description: In this presentation, Geoffrey explores the impossibility of global resistance as a guide to rethinking the concept of resistance itself. He looks at the problem of limits and its relationship to the global and to resistance. We are indebted to Kant for this problematic. Geoffrey concludes by inviting a discussion about some alternatives that resist traditional state centric forms of resistance.

Bio: Geoffrey Whitehall is Professor in the Department of Politics and is faculty in the Social and Political Thought Graduate program at Acadia University where he teaches at the crossroads of Political Theory and International Relations. His research covers the general topics of Sovereignty, Resistance, and Aesthetics. He has published on diverse topics like Transversality and Movement, Science Fiction and Political Imaginaries, Music as Political Theory, Sovereignty and Pre-emption, Bio-politics and Pandemics, Animal Resistance, and Indifference and Migration.

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