Category Archives: Events

29 June – 10 July 2015 Kent Summer School in Critical Theory

We are excited to announce that Kent Law School will run for the first time in 2015, the Kent Summer School in Critical Theory, from 29 June to 10 July at the University of Kent’s centre in Paris, and 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 hope you will be able to join us in Paris this summer!

Maria Drakopoulou and Connal Parsley

Paris MA students Day trip to Paris 28 November

Next Friday 28 November, Humanities students who are studying one of the Paris suite of programmes, will join staff on a day trip to the city of Paris to visit the University’s Paris centre, to explore the city, and will also visit the Perugino exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André,

http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/

which is co-curated by Kent’s very own Professor Tom Henry, who will provide the guided tour on the day.

 

 

20 November 2014 – University of Kent, Paris Open Evening

When: 20 November 2014, 17:00 – 19:00

Where: Reid Hall, Rue de chevreuse, 75006, Paris

Kent’s Open Events give you a flavour of what it is like to be an undergraduate, postgraduate or part-time student at Kent. You will be able to meet Kent representatives and find out about all Kent’s great locations and the courses they offer as well as funding, accommodation, sports facilities, libraries, and teaching facilities and more.

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15-16 May – Amélie Nothomb, International Conference: Identity, Memory, Place – Past, Present and Future.

15th–16th May 2014 REID HALL, 4 RUE DE CHEVREUSE, 75006 PARIS

A two-day conference at Reid Hall, Paris 6e, sponsored by Mount Allison University (Canada), the University of Kent (UK) and Columbia University Undergraduate Programs in Paris (USA).

Belgian by origin, raised principally in the Far East and now splitting her time between Paris and Brussels, Amélie Nothomb, a self-described  ‘apatride belge’ questions the links between identity, memory and place not only in her autobiographically inspired works but also in her fictional writings.