Events

Deadline notice for applications for Kent Summer School in Critical Theory. 

The deadline for applications to this year’s Kent Summer School in Critical Theory is approaching, on 25 March 2019.

The KSSCT will be held in Paris, 1-12 July 2019. We invite you to pay a visit to our website, and lodge your application, at: https://research.kent.ac.uk/kssct/. All instructions, deadlines, further information, and FAQs can be found there.

The KSSCT is a summer school for early career researchers and doctoral students from all disciplines. It aims to create a unique pedagogical experience, enabling leading critical thinkers to conduct an intensive 2-week seminar with a new generation of critical scholars.

The teachers of the intensive seminars in 2019 will be:

• Professor Alain Pottage, LSE, UK) – “An Anthropogeology of Law”, and
• Professor Sigrid Weigel (ZfL, Berlin) – “Towards a Political Theology of Images”.

An outline of each 2-week seminar, together with an indicative reading list, is now available on the website. Details of evening lectures and other events will be added as we confirm the full schedule for this year’s meeting.

We are also delighted to announce that in 2019, the KSSCT seminar programme will be preceded by a Graduate Research Day, in Paris on 29 June. We encourage all applicants to consider joining us for this one-day event, and we also welcome applications to the graduate research day from those who are not able to apply to attend a KSSCT seminar this year. For details and further information, please visit the website at: https://research.kent.ac.uk/kssct/graduate-research-day/