Kent Summer School in Critical Theory
29 June to 10 July 2015 at the University of Kent’s centre in Paris (4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris).
An initiative of the University of Kent, the Kent Summer School in Critical Theory is supported by the Kent Law School and its interdisciplinary Centre for Critical Thought.
We are excited to announce that the school will run for the first time in 2015, from 29 June to 10 July at the University of Kent’s centre in Paris.
The Kent Summer School in Critical Theory was created to offer a unique intellectual experience to early career academics and research students – as well as to the scholars invited to lead seminars in a particular year.
We are honoured that Professor Peter Goodrich (Cardozo, USA) and Professor Davide Tarizzo (Salerno, Italy) will be the inaugural teachers. We are also delighted to welcome distinguished guests, Professor Davina Cooper, Professor Roberto Esposito and Professor Geoffrey Bennington, who will present lectures to the 2015 participants.
We believe it is increasingly important to proliferate and defend spaces for critical thinking in the contemporary academy. Equally important is the maintenance of spaces within the PhD and early career calendar to pursue the kind of academic practice that engenders genuine and sustained intellectual activity.
For two weeks in Paris in June-July, a small group of junior scholars will work intensively with thinkers carefully selected from year to year, for the contemporary significance of their work and their ability to enrich the ethos of the school. The school has been arranged to create the conditions for an intimate and intensive collaboration between students and teachers, outside the formal institutional frame, so as to bring together participants who may not otherwise encounter each other.
Successful applicants will work with just one of the seminar teachers for the duration of the school, but will also have the opportunity to hear lectures by each of the seminar teachers, in addition to other invited guests. Participants will of course also be able to make the most of the school’s location in Paris.
For more information, please visit our website:
Dates and deadlines: the deadline for applications is 28 Feb, 2015.
Successful applicants will be notified by 3 March.
Please direct all general and administrative enquiries to kssct2015@kent.ac.uk