Dear Friends and Colleagues,

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/

Please help us by circulating this notice as widely as possible amongst friends, colleagues and students.

With best wishes,

Maria Drakopoulou and Connal Parsley​

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Dr Connal Parsley | Senior Lecturer in Law | Kent Law School

University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NS | United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)1227 823193 | E: C.Parsley@Kent.ac.uk 

ART-AND-LAW mailing list:www.jiscmail.ac.uk/art-and-law 

Apply now: Kent Summer School in Critical Theory

Paris / Seminars 1-12 July 2019 / Graduate Research Day 29 June

2-week intensive seminars by:

Alain Pottage: ‘An Anthropogeology of Law’

Sigrid Weigel: ‘Towards a Political Theology of Images’

Information and application details at https://research.kent.ac.uk/kssct/

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To test your critical thinking, please show the logical error of Mark Francois below and then email him some help. He obviously needs it.

Philosophy Film Screening

Jean-Paul Sartre

A film

All Welcome!

Thursday 14th March 2019, 4.00–4:55pm, BSTC B.32

Contact: Michael Lewis (Philosophical Studies). Michael.lewis@newcastle.ac.uk

Philosophy Film Screening

Concerning Violence

(Around the work of Frantz Fanon)

All Welcome!

An account of the relations of violence between coloniser and colonised, principally in Africa, based on Frantz Fanon’s posthumous text, The Wretched of the Earth.

Cf. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/-sp-frantz-fanon-documentary-concerning-violence

Thursday 7th March 2019, 1pm–2:30pm, Room BSTC 1.46 (90 minutes)

Contact: Michael Lewis (Philosophical Studies). Michael.lewis@newcastle.ac.uk

“Philosophy across Disciplines” is a student conference that runs annually at Newcastle University. We are now accepting invite submissions from all students at an undergraduate and pre-doctoral postgraduate students (e.g. MA, MLitt or MPhil).

Our aim is to explore philosophical research incorporated within other subjects, so it is geared towards both philosophy students as well as any student from a humanities or social sciences background. If you have any research where philosophy is applied to another topic, you may already have the groundwork for your paper! For Newcastle University philosophy students, this is an ideal opportunity to present your research undertaken for the Project module.

Presenting at the conference is an invaluable opportunity for any student desiring to refine their public speaking and presenting skills, which can be later evidenced within your CV to any future employer or role that may necessitate such proficiencies (such as teaching, academia, public relations, research role etc.). Moreover, this is a chance to further these skills in a much more relaxed and student-led environment.

Students will be expected to present their research within a 10-minute time frame, followed by a 5 minute Q & A session. Alternatively, a 20-minute time frame can be requested.

To apply, we require a 300-word abstract describing the research you desire to present. Please include information on your discipline, the scholars you engaged with and a short bio featuring your name, institution, and level of study.

The conference will be on the 5^th of June 2019 and is free to attend.

Submissions must be sent to nclphilosconference@gmail.com by the 1^st of May 2019.