{"id":744,"date":"2019-05-16T19:11:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/?p=744"},"modified":"2019-05-16T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:11:54","slug":"philosophy-summer-school-in-ljubljana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/2019\/05\/16\/philosophy-summer-school-in-ljubljana\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Summer School in Ljubljana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5144867459ydpac35b10ayiv1544024937ydp30865e8aMsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">FAIL BETTER!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5144867459ydpac35b10ayiv1544024937ydp30865e8aMsoNormal\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Philosophy Summer School (26-30<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>August 2019)<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5144867459ydpac35b10ayiv1544024937ydp30865e8aMsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5144867459ydpac35b10ayiv1544024937ydp30865e8aMsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">As part of the activities marking the centenary\u00a0 of the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Arts is organising the Philosophy Summer School\u00a0<\/span>\u2018<strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fail\u00a0better!<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2019\u00a0led by the internationally renowned scholars known as \u2018the Ljubljana School\u2019,\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Mladen Dolar,\u00a0<\/strong>who will each\u00a0give three extensive lectures and present their latest work. The programme will be concluded by a common session.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The title of the Summer School is taken from the famous quote by Samuel Beckett, \u2018Try again. Fail again. Fail better.\u2019 (Worstward Ho), and refers to a stark sense of failure of critical thought and of emancipatory politics, the rise of new populism, the emergence of previously unthinkable leaders, the looming social and economic contradictions, and the apocalyptic perspectives of global and ecological catastrophes.\u00a0<span lang=\"sl\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Such failure, however, is a starting point that instigates new intellectual engagement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv5144867459ydpac35b10ayiv1544024937ydp30865e8aMsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For more information on the Summer School which will take place at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in English, please click on the following link:\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/failbetter.ff.uni-lj.si\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/failbetter.ff.uni-lj.si\/<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv5144867459ydpac35b10ayiv1544024937ydp30865e8aMsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The number of participants is limited to 120.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"yiv5144867459ydpac35b10ayiv1544024937ydp30865e8aMsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Early bird fee registration is extended until 31 May.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIL BETTER! Philosophy Summer School (26-30\u00a0August 2019) Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia As part of the activities marking the centenary\u00a0 of the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Arts is organising the Philosophy Summer School\u00a0\u2018Fail\u00a0better!\u2019\u00a0led by the internationally renowned scholars known as \u2018the Ljubljana School\u2019,\u00a0\u00a0Slavoj \u017di\u017eek,\u00a0Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d\u00a0and\u00a0Mladen Dolar,\u00a0who will each\u00a0give three extensive lectures and present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/2019\/05\/16\/philosophy-summer-school-in-ljubljana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy Summer School in Ljubljana<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}