We are pleased to announce that the University of Kent Alumni association has created a University of Kent France Alumni Association, which will be based in Paris.
If you are a Kent Paris alumnus or alumna, and would like to become involved, please get in touch via our new Facebook Group: Unversity of Kent France Alumni.
Kent’s new MA in European Culture makes it possible to study the history, literature, and political philosophies of the continent while based in Paris, Europe’s cultural capital.
Europe is at the heart of many contemporary political debates, and is a geographically, linguistically and culturally diverse continent with a rich history. From the French Revolution to the European Union, Europe has long been a placeholder for any number of utopian, internationalist aspirations. To trace the history of the cultural constructions of Europe is to hold a mirror up to its changing intellectual faces.
The programme is offered by the Department of Modern Languages, and benefits from staff expertise in a variety of disciplines across the School of European Culture and Languages. The MA offers you the chance to immerse yourself fully in European culture in order to enhance your linguistic skills and cultural understanding. Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture is based at Reid Hall, where authors and philosophers such as Barthes, Beauvoir and Derrida have lectured, and in the heart of historic Montparnasse, where Picasso and Modigliani had their studios.
The programme consists of one core module, ‘The Idea of Europe’, and three further taught modules, followed by a final dissertation. All modules are taught in English.
This is an ideal programme for anyone with an interest in the rapidly changing political history of Europe, in its diverse literature, or in the experience and independence gained from living and studying overseas for an extended period of time.
(Photo credit: @colleensparis and @tremblay_p)
The University of London Institute in Paris and the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture are joining forces to bring the Being Human Festival to Paris with a roundtable event. This evening will be an opportunity to discuss the importance of literature and the Humanities in the wake of the attacks in Paris one year ago. After these events which turned spaces of festivity into targets for acts of terror, people laid copies of Hemingway’s Moveable Feast on the improvised shrines dotted around the areas affected. The title in French – Paris est une fête – stood out as a defiant refusal of the terror that had been unleashed on the city. What does this turn to literature, and to a text written by an American about the expatriate community in the Années Folles of the interwar era, tell us about why literature remains a vital response to violent ideologies? We will address this question and the importance of writing and translation in the heart of Hemingway’s old stamping ground of Montparnasse, bringing French and British perspectives to the question of why the Humanities help us be human better.
Featuring contemporary British writer Joanna Walsh, recently described by Deborah Levy as “fast becoming one of our most important writers,” and Professor Claire Joubert, who leads the “Poétique de l’étranger” programme and is author of numerous studies of English and Anglophone literature at the intersection between poetics and politics.
The event will feature contemporary British writer Joanna Walsh, recently described by Deborah Levy as “fast becoming one of our most important writers,” and Professor Claire Joubert, who leads the “Poétique de l’étranger” programme and is author of numerous studies of English and Anglophone literature at the intersection between poetics and politics.
This panel is organised by Dr Anna-Louise Milne (ULIP) and will be chaired by Professor Peter Brown (Kent).
The event is free but numbers are limited; please register in advance to reserve your place.
We host regular open events throughout the year for prospective students. If you are interested in, or have applied for, any undergraduate and postgraduate degree that Kent offers at its locations in the UK or Europe, our open events are a great opportunity to find out more information about our programmes and studying at the University of Kent.
The events are held at Reid Hall, University of Kent, 4 rue Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
It’s a great opportunity to find out more about all the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that Kent offers, entry requirements, admissions procedures and graduate prospects. Current students will be on hand to tell you about life as a Kent student and we can also help with your fees and funding questions.
If you are considering postgraduate study at the University’s Paris Centre, you will be able to talk to specialist academics and current students about the wide range of year-long and split-site programmes available.
If you have any queries regarding our postgraduate programmes in Paris, or would like to visit the Centre before the open event then please contact them directly.
The Department for Education has just issued a press release to announce that EU students applying for a place at an English university in the 2017 to 2018 academic year will continue to be eligible for student loans and grants:
‘The government has today (11 October 2016) announced that EU students applying for a place at an English university or further education institution in the 2017 to 2018 academic year will continue to be eligible for student loans and grants – and will be for the duration of their course. The decision will mean that students applying to study from 2017 to 2018 will not only be eligible for the same funding and support as they are now, but that their eligibility will continue throughout their course, even if the UK exits the European Union during that period.’
American University of Paris – University of Kent, Paris – University of London Institute in Paris
The terrain and processes of translation are changing faster than ever before. New technologies, greater competition and connection between spaces of editorial decision, shifting interfaces between places of textual production: the range of forces at play in the geopolitics of translation is vast and complex, implicating ever more zones and expressions of culture. This seminar series will explore specific instances of transformation and broader trends across this terrain, inviting speakers and their audiences to consider some of the following questions:
Papers will be delivered in English. They are open to the public, if you have any questions about access, please write to anna-louise.milne@ulip.lon.ac.uk
Emeute/Grève: The Language of Riot
Joshua Clover, University of California, Davis
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Friday 23 September – ULIP, 6.00pm
Under the pavés of Parisian History – ULIP
On his collection of poems “Through”: five extended texts addressing the ways in which contemporary public language has been rendered officially hostile.
David Herd, University of Kent
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Hannah Arendt and refugee rights
Lyndsey Stonebridge, University of East Anglia
More information to come
In association with Being Human, we mark the anniversary of the November 13 2015 Paris attacks, when copies of Hemingway’s Moveable Feast were left at memorials around the city
Sarah Churchwell, University of East Anglia
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University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture is excited to announce our Creative Writing Reading Series for the Autumn Term!
All readings are at 6.30pm at Reid Hall,
4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (métro: Vavin)
Simon Smith Thursday 6 October Maison verte
Simon Smith in the Paris launch of his new work: ‘More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry: Selected Poems 1989 – 2012’, edited by poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky.
David Herd Thursday 20 October Salle de conférence
Poet, critic and teacher, David Herd’s works include ‘All Just’ (2012), ‘Outwith’ (2012). He will be reading from his latest work ‘Through’, published by Carcanet in 2016, which addresses the language that surrounds the reception of people seeking asylum in the UK.
Jon Thompson Thursday 17 November Grande salle
Professor of English at North Carolina State University, Jon Thompson is a poet, critic and editor with a particular interest in Twentieth Century and Contemporary American and British Literature. He will be reading from his latest poetry collection ‘Strange Country’ (2016).
Ali Smith Thursday 1 December Salle de conférence
***CANCELLED*** Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled. We look forward to seeing you at our Spring term series in 2017
Ali Smith is an award-winning Scottish novelist and Man Booker Prize nominee. Her latest works include novels ‘Autumn’ (2016), ‘How to be Both’ (2015), and short story collections ‘Public Library and Other Stories’ (2016) and ‘The Whole Story and Other Stories’ (2015).
The European Summer Schools at the University’s centres in Paris and Brussels have just taken place for the fourth time since they were first created in 2013 as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations.
Scholarships were awarded to Kent Undergraduate students and external applicants to spend a fortnight participating in academic sessions and cultural activities in these two major European capital cities.
Students in Brussels studied on the theme of ‘Europe and the World’ benefitting from dynamic sessions including those on International Migration, European Neighbourhood Policy and a discussion with a member of the British Embassy on the EU referendum result and the future of the EU.
Students also had the chance to visit the European Parliament to discuss the EU with a current MEP, as well as to take part in an all-day guided tour of the battlefields of WW1 in Ypres, Flanders. Here, students learned about the human cost and political impact of the First World War and discovered how it helped to shape today’s Europe.
Students in Paris studied on the theme of ‘Revolutions’ immersing themselves in French culture by exploring the city’s art, architecture, film, drama, writing and philosophy. Through a series of interconnected lectures and excursions guided by academic specialists, students visited a wide range of culturally and historically significant sites including the Pompidou centre, Versailles and Picasso Museum.
At the end of the Summer School, the students had developed close friendships with each other and had gained analytical and intercultural skills that they can take with them into their studies and out into the job market. The programme has also helped to promote Kent’s European Centres.
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the generosity of the programme’s sponsors, including Student Project Funds.
Sophie Punt, Academic Division
We will continue to accept applications for the academic year 2016-17 until the end of August 2016.
The 6th edition of the The Menteur literary magazine was launched during the Paris postgraduate festival and conference, which took place between 6th and 10th June 2016.
An online copy has also been published as a Flipbook.
The Menteur is an arts and literary magazine written, edited and produced by the University of Kent’s Humanities MA students in Paris.
