Monthly Archives: February 2017

Film Screening this Thursday: Frantz Fanon, Existentialist philosopher of race

‘Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask’: Film Screening

Thursday 2nd March 4pm-c. 5:20pm. Room BSTC (Barbara Strange Teaching Centre, Bedson Building) 1.46

As part of the extra-curricular philosophy activities we’ve been organising, I’m showing a film on the 20th Century existentialist and philosopher of colonialism and race, Frantz Fanon, called ‘Black Skin, White Mask’ (after his book, entitled, Black Skin, White Masks. You might also know his work entitled, The Wretched of the Earth).

Everyone of whatever discipline who’s interested is more than welcome, and if you want to talk about it afterwards, I’m very happy to go to the pub and be bought drinks until I make sense.

It should interest everyone, but particularly those who want to find out about how existentialism and phenomenology were developed so as to address questions of race, colonialism, empire, exploitation, etc.

It’s a documentary, I should say, with some half-dramatic reconstructions.

The details:

Thursday 2nd March 4pm-c. 5:20pm. Room BSTC (Barbara Strange Teaching Centre, Bedson Building) 1.46

Yours,

Mike

More PG opportunities

MA SCHOLARSHIPS:

– One £5,000 competitive scholarships for non-UK & non-EU students to study on MA Contemporary European Philosophy, 2017/18 start: a unique, 18-month programme jointly run and awarded with the Philosophy Department at the University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis. A good reading knowledge of French is a requirement for admission to the programme. Language support is offered in London in semester 1. Details: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/postgraduate-course/contemporary-european-philosophy-ma/

DEADLINE for applications: 24 April 2017

 

 

 

– Four £2,000 scholarships open to all applicants: one for each of our four taught MA/MPhilStud programmes:

  • MA Aesthetics and Art Theory,
  • MA Modern European Philosophy
  • MA Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory
  • MPhilStud in Philosophy (2-year taught MPhil programme in Modern European Philosophy with 25,000-30,000 word dissertation. Only full time applicants are eligible for the scholarship, £2000.00 in each of the 2 years of the programme.)

DEADLINE for applications: 24 April 2017

All applications to these MAs and to the MPhilStud received by these dates will automatically be considered for these scholarships. For further details of the MAs go to: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/crmep/taught-courses/

The MA teaching team in CRMEP includes Professors:

Éric Alliez
Étienne Balibar
Andrew Benjamin
Howard Caygill
Peter Hallward
Catherine Malabou
Lucie Mercier
Peter Osborne
Stella Sandford

PHD SCHOLARSHIP:

PhD Studentship Competition for autumn 2017 start. The competition for these prestigious research studentships is open to students who wish to study for a full-time PhD at Kingston University. Funding of fees is at UK/EU level. The doctoral stipend for 2017/18 has been confirmed as £16,553 (three years full time). More details can be found here: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/funding/phd-studentships-2017/

DEADLINE for applications: 3 March 2017

MA/MPhilStud enquiries: S.Sandford@kingston.ac.uk
PhD enquiries: P.Osborne@kingston.ac.uk

Kind regards, Stella Sandford

Professor Stella Sandford
Head of Department of Philosophy
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road Campus
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2EE
+44 (0)20 8417 2088
www.kingston.ac.uk/crmep

HASS Faculty’s Postgraduate Excellence Scholarships, Newcastle University & PG Open Day Tomorrow

HASS Faculty’s Postgraduate Excellence Scholarships
Full details of the scholarships are available at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/hes17.html 
To see what Newcastle offers, there is also a Postgraduate Open Day tomorrow in the Lindisfarne Room, from 1pm.  
 

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The funded MA at the University of Florida—still time to apply for Fall 2017

If some of you are thinking about an MA and fancy something different, how about…
I’m writing to seek assistance in spreading the word about the MA program in Philosophy at the University of Florida. If you know a student who is thinking about graduate work in philosophy next year, you should let them know that there is still time to apply for Fall 2017 admission to the MA program at the University of Florida. The deadline for application with full consideration for funding is February 28, 2017.

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