Lacan Toronto Short Session

Sunday, 05 January, 12:15-1:00 p.m. EST

Join us on Sunday for the second FREE event leading up to our new series on TELEVISION!

This one will be hosted by Lacan Toronto and oriented around several key themes, including strategies for reading Lacan.

Here are all the key details, complements of the Lacan Toronto crew:

Lacan Toronto Short Session: Samuel McCormick, “Lectures on Lacan”

Sunday 05 January 2025 from 12:15-1pm EST (Toronto)

The session will be held online via Zoom free of charge and open to all with no registration required:

Zoom Login: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87011464628
Zoom Meeting ID: 870 1146 4628

Samuel McCormick (PhD) is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. He earned his doctorate in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and served as an Assistant Professor and Co-director of the Philosophy & Communication doctoral program at Purdue University. McCormick was awarded the European Institutes for Advanced Studies (EURIAS) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. He is the host of Lectures on Lacan an online platform committed to the detailed exegesis of Lacan's writings, seminars, and interviews. The series has become a vibrant community of students, academics, clinicians, analysts-in-training, and self-learners. An extensive archive of videos and resource materials is available on Seminars 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, L’étourdit, écrits such as “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire,” lesser known writings, and concepts such as the drive. The forthcoming series on Lacan's “Television” (1973) begins on 10 January 2025 at 10am PST.

Session Format:

McCormick will outline the history and project of Lectures on Lacan then address strategies for reading Lacan’s diverse texts in a conversational setting.