Applications are now open for the inaugural Kent Summer School in Critical Theory to be held at the University of Kent’s centre in Paris.
The Summer School, supported by Kent Law School and its interdisciplinary Centre for Critical Thought, has been created to offer a unique intellectual experience to early career academics and research students and has been jointly organised by Reader in Law Maria Drakopoulou and Law Lecturer Connal Parsley.
It will run at Reid Hall, on Rue de Chevreuse (close to the Jardin de Luxembourg) from 29 June to 10 July 2015.
Maria Drakopoulou said: ‘This new summer school enables leading critical thinkers to conduct an intensive two-week seminar with members of a new generation of critical scholars.
‘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.’
Professor Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School in the USA, will lead a seminar entitled ‘Inventing Law’ and Professor Davide Tarizzo, an Italian philosopher, who teaches at the University of Salerno, will lead a seminar, entitled ‘From Democracy to Fascism: Freud, Lacan, and the Enigma of Modern Politics’. Additional lectures will be delivered by Professor Geoffrey Bennington, Professor Davina Cooper, and Professor Roberto Esposito.
Successful applicants will work with just one of the seminar teachers but will have the opportunity to hear lectures by all participating academics.
The cost for the school, (exclusive of travel, accommodation and subsistence fees), is £850. Applicants are required to submit a letter outlining their research and intellectual interests, together with a CV, no later than Saturday 28 February 2015.
Further details, including information about accommodation and access to limited financial assistance, is available on the Kent Summer School in Critical Theory website or via email from kssct2015@kent.ac.uk.