{"id":43,"date":"2013-06-25T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=43"},"modified":"2013-07-08T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:17:27","slug":"the-university-of-kents-paris-summer-school-has-left-scholars-pining-for-the-city-they-came-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2013\/06\/25\/the-university-of-kents-paris-summer-school-has-left-scholars-pining-for-the-city-they-came-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Kent\u2019s Paris Summer School has left scholars pining for the city they now love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the theme of \u2018revolutions\u2019, the two week Paris Summer School tackled a wide range of academic disciplines; from \u00a0avant-garde architecture, middle East uprisings and historical and political revolution to immigration to France, heritage management, self-expression and the use of new technologies to tell a story.<\/p>\n<p>Every day a different excursion complemented the day\u2019s learning. Highlights included a private opening of a philosophy cafe in the Marais for thought-provoking discussions, a guided tour of the castle and garden of Versailles and a peek at a hidden library with wondrous architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris Summer School\u2019s \u2018piece de resistance\u2019 was watching the sunset\u00a0 over Paris from the students\u2019 roof terrace then claiming a deckchair in the Roman Arena to enjoy the capital\u2019s <i>Festival des Nouveaux Cinemas<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ana de Medeiros, Academic Director of the University of Kent at Paris commented,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a wonderful opportunity for our very best students to learn something new and discover Paris. They gained confidence, opened their minds to new subjects, became comfortable in a whole new environment, made new friends and even tried out some French! I am sure that these extra skills will all be extremely valuable in their future careers.<b><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the theme of \u2018revolutions\u2019, the two week Paris Summer School tackled a wide range of academic disciplines; from \u00a0avant-garde architecture, middle East uprisings and historical and political revolution to immigration to France, heritage management, self-expression and the use of new technologies to tell a story. Every day a different excursion complemented the day\u2019s learning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[9658,51879,10469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}