As part of the Rhetoric department’s conference, “Theory/Post-theory,” I will be giving a talk entitled, “Anti-Primitivism and the Origins of the Dialectic: on an Anecdote from Colonial Guadalupe and its Philosophical Afterlife.” The talk argues for a geographic history of theory in the humanities, especially one that understands how certain theoretical concepts – including the dialectic – were in part constituted by colonial encounters. More info on the conference here.