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.

British Ambassador to France Sir Peter Ricketts, GCMG GCVO paid a visit to the University of Kent’s Paris Centre on Wednesday, 1 October. An honorary graduate of the University of Kent, he enjoyed speaking with newly-inducted Paris MA students who will be spending their entire year at the University’s Postgraduate Centre in Paris. He was treated to lunch in the company of staff and students.

On hand to welcome the Ambassador to our Paris Centre was Dean for Europe Professor Roger Vickerman, Paris Academic Director Professor Peter Brown, Dr Carine Fréville, lecturer in Comparative Literature and Dr Alex Preston, lecturer in Creative Writing.

The University of Kent, Paris, the University of London Institute in Paris and the American University of Paris are pleased to announce the 2015-2016 Paris Seminar Series:

Politics of Translation – Translation of Cultures

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:

• How do the modalities of funding and distribution of translations shape the production of culture?
• How are the formal characteristics of contemporary cultural artefacts – texts, audio-visual production, exhibitions – shaped by questions of translatability?
• What are the spaces of translation today, and how do they function?
• What are the temporalities of translations and how has that changed?
• What in translation is irreducible to a politics of translation?
• Is translation excessive?
• What is the vitality of translation?

Papers will be delivered in English. The autumn term sessions will be held at the University of London institute in Paris, 9-11 rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris; the spring sessions will be held at The American University in Paris and University of Kent in Paris (Reid Hall). They will take place on Thursdays at 5.30pm. They are open to the public, if you have any questions about access, please write to anna-louise.milne@ulip.lon.ac.uk.

Autumn term dates are available here.

The Times Higher Education’s University of the Year Award, which is open to all higher education institutions in the UK, celebrates exceptional performance in the past academic year and in particular those ‘bold, imaginative and innovative initiatives that have advanced an institution’s reputation’.

This nomination comes towards the end of Kent’s golden jubilee year and during one of the most successful periods in its history – one that has been characterised by its ability to combine excellence in research and teaching, whilst developing the collegiate environment for which it has long held reputation.

The winners will be announced on 26 November 2015.