Kent Law School’s Centre for Critical Thought (CCT) has launched a new Postgraduate Seminar Series.
The fortnightly seminars provide an opportunity for postgraduate students from across the University (and beyond) to present their research on political, critical and theoretical questions.
The series began with a seminar on ‘Stupidity and Study in the Contemporary University’ last month by Conor Heaney from the School of Politics and International Relations at Kent. It continued this month with a seminar by Swastee Ranjan from the University of Sussex on ‘Considering Immaterialism: Revisiting Materialism for Critical Legal Engagements’.
The next seminar will be held at 2pm on Wednesday 6 December in Templeman Seminar Room 2 with a talk by Paolo Santori from the University of Rome Lumsa on ‘Gift, Trade and Common Good in Aquinas. The Dawn of Civil Economy’.
Further events in the series planned for next term include seminars led by: Kent Philosophy PhD student James William Hoctor on Wednesday 31 January; Kent Law School PhD student Gian Giacomo Fusco on Wednesday 14 February 2018; and Kent Law School PhD student Ed Fairhead on Wednesday 28 February 2018.
The CCT aims to consolidate, sustain and develop cutting-edge research on critically-oriented theory within the humanities and social sciences. Research within the CCT focuses on the nature and scope of critical thought from an intrinsically interdisciplinary perspective.
Founded on a shared interest in contemporary continental thought by staff at Kent Law School, the School of Politics and International Relations, and the School of European Culture and Languages (Italian), the CCT provides a platform for seminars, workshops and lectures that explore the frontiers of, among other disciplines, modern European philosophy, critical legal theory, political and social thought, psychoanalytic theory, theatre studies, film studies, and social anthropology.