Applications are now open for the second interdisciplinary Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT) to be held at the University of Kent’s centre in Paris.
The Summer School, which will run from the 13 June to 24 June 2016, offers a unique intellectual experience to early career academics and research students. It is supported by Kent Law School and its Centre for Critical Thought and has been jointly organised by Professor in Law, Maria Drakopoulou and Law Lecturer Connal Parsley.
Seminars will be led by three academics; Professor Samantha Frost (who teaches political and feminist theory at the University of Illinois); Professor James Martel (who teaches political theory at San Francisco State University); and Bernard Stiegler (Professor at the University of Technology of Compiegne where he teaches philosophy, and Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris).
Last year’s inaugural Summer School enabled 40 selected early career researchers and doctoral candidates from around the world to undertake intensive study with leading figures in critical thought. Contributors included Professor Peter Goodrich (Professor of Law at Cardozo School in the USA) and Professor Davide Tarizzo (an Italian philosopher who teaches at the University of Salerno), each of whom led a two week intensive seminar programme.
Professor Drakapoulou said: ‘All the students agreed that their sustained and vigorous participation in a small group led by a scholar with whom they would not otherwise have had the opportunity to study, had been a unique transformative intellectual experience. And all participants, invited scholars and students alike, found the event a highly stimulating and worthwhile exchange; a unique pedagogical journey.’
Last year’s attendees said of the event;
‘[The KSSCT] broke me out of my academic/institutional shell, and re-energised my interest in academia and my doctoral studies’
‘An intense and amazing experience of interdisciplinary formation’
The tuition fee for this year’s Summer School is £850. Applicants are required to submit a letter outlining their research and intellectual interests, together with a CV, no later than 14 March 2016.
Further details, including information about access to limited financial assistance, are available on the Kent Summer School in Critical Theory website.
All enquiries should be directed to kssct2016@kent.ac.uk.