The University of Kent, Paris is pleased to announce the final approval of the School of Arts’ MA in Film, taught exclusively in Paris. Please click here for further information.

The University of Kent, Paris is pleased to announce a scholarship fund worth £25,000 for taught Master’s students studying during the academic year 2016–17. Please find below the conditions and criteria of the scholarship fund and how to apply.

Conditions and Criteria
•  The scholarship fund is open to applicants who have been offered a place on any of the Kent, Paris MA programmes for the academic year starting in September 2016, whether split-site (Canterbury and Paris) or Paris only.
• It is open only to applicants intending to study full-time.
• UK, EU and overseas fee paying students are all eligible.
• Candidates will be assessed on academic excellence, and will usually hold by July 2016 a first-class Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject, or hold by July 2016 an equivalent non-UK qualification or a Master’s degree at merit or distinction in a relevant subject or equivalent.
• Paris Scholarships to the value of £5,000 will be awarded to outstanding applicants able to demonstrate a high level of academic achievement, clear intellectual ambition and the potential to make a strong contribution to their chosen MA programme.

How to apply
• Candidates must have received a conditional or unconditional offer of a place on one of the Kent, Paris programmes.
• Candidates must send a letter of motivation, not exceeding 500 words, stating why they wish to join their chosen Kent, Paris MA programme and how this fits into their longer term plans.
• The letter of motivation should be saved with the following file name: “FirstnameSURNAME_application number_letter of motivation”, for example:
CatherineWOOD_123456789_letter of motivation.doc
• The letter should be addressed to the Academic Director of Paris programmes and sent by email to paris@kent.ac.uk with the subject line: “Scholarship application Firstname SURNAME application number”, for example:
Scholarship application Catherine WOOD 123456789
• The opening date for accepting applications is Friday 1 April 2016. Please do not send scholarship applications before this date.

Deadline
The deadline for applications is midnight, Friday 27 May 2016.

Please address any enquires to paris@kent.ac.uk.

The School of European Language and Culture has recently announced a new PhD in Comparative Literature featuring study at both the University of Kent’s Canterbury Campus and our Paris Centre located in the city’s Montparnasse district.

Over the duration of the PhD, students produce an original piece of research of up to 100,000 words. Previous and ongoing doctoral projects in Comparative Literature with a French component include: ‘Representations of the Jew in the Nineteenth-Century Novel in France, Germany, and England’, ‘Sleep and States of Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century British and French Gothic Literature’, and ‘Comedy and the Spirit of Contingence: The Comic as Theorised in Modern Philosophy, and its Realisation in Post-War British and French Drama’.

The Department of Comparative Literature offers supervision from world-class academics with expertise in a wide range of disciplines, who are able to support and guide students through your research. Progress is carefully monitored to ensure that you are on track to produce a thesis to be valued by the academic community. Throughout the programme, PhD students are able to attend and contribute to research seminars, workshops, and research and transferable skills training courses.

More information about this specific PhD programme and how to apply can be found here.

Come and talk to specialist academics and admissions staff about postgraduate study at our campuses in the UK and specialist centres in Tonbridge and across Europe.

Canterbury campus:

• Tuesday 1 March 2016, 5-7pm. For information about all our postgraduate programmes in Canterbury, Medway, Tonbridge, Paris, Brussels, Athens and Rome. Book your place ^[5]

Kent’s open events give you the chance to:

• Find out more about Kent’s £9m postgraduate scholarship fund
• Get all the latest information about the new £10,000 loans for Master’s students
• Get answers to your questions about postgraduate taught and research opportunities at Kent
• Meet current postgraduate students
• Speak to staff for expert advice about the application process, funding, accommodation and future career options
• Talk to the Graduate School about how they support all Kent’s postgraduate students with additional training, study facilities and social events

Alternatively, our Canterbury and Medway campuses are open for informal and guided visits, we hold open events in Paris and Brussels, or you can make an appointment to visit an academic school or our European centres.

The University’s School of History is proud to announce that it will be organising a colloquium on European history in the post-Napoléon age in August 2016 at the University’s Paris Centre.

This conference will revolve around the provocative historiographical issue of whether the post-Napoleonic order represented an attempt to reconcile the heritage of the ancien régime with a deeply transformed world. A number of themes will be explored by panels of invited experts from across Europe.

Please visit the conference website for more details and contact information of the conference organisers.

cordially invites students and guests to its

Spring Seminar Series
featuring the theme
Politics of Translation — Translation of Cultures
in conjunction with its partner institutions

Thursday evenings at 6.30 p.m. in the Grande Salle at Reid Hall unless otherwise stated

Free and open to the public

For speakers, topics and further details please visit our events page.