PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Dates: July 4 – July 22, 2022
Partner Institution: Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain (CNRS/EHESS)
Location (for in-person program): École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Invited Speakers: Radhika Desai, Derek Ford, Alan Freeman, Georges Gastaud, Carlos Martinez, Jacques Pauwels, Jennifer Ponce de León, Mary Louise Pratt and Gabriel Rockhill.
Founder and Director: Gabriel Rockhill
Associate Director: Jennifer Ponce de León
Associate Director in Paris: Pierre-Antoine Chardel
Program Administrator and Primary Contact: Rosa Dolet <criticaltheoryworkshop@protonmail.com>
Languages: English and French (with summary English translations so knowledge of French is not a requirement)
Eligibility: Open to anyone with the requisite background, including advanced undergraduates, graduate students, autodidacts, faculty, writers and artists
Program Fees for In-Person Paris Program
$975 (tenure-track/tenured faculty or salaried worker)
$775 (anyone who is not tenure-track/tenured faculty or salaried worker)
$575 (reduced tuition in cases of clear economic need)
There is a sliding scale down to $0 to account for global economic inequality and support political exiles.
Program Fees for Online Program
$775 (tenure-track/tenured faculty or salaried worker)
$575 (anyone who is not tenure-track/tenured faculty or salaried worker)
$375 (reduced tuition in cases of clear economic need)
There is a sliding scale down to $0 to account for global economic inequality and support political exiles.
Lodging: Participants are welcome to make their own arrangements or reserve a room at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (approximately $900). In the past, most participants have succeeded in finding reasonably priced apartments via Airbnb.
Topics Covered: There is not a yearly theme because the goal is to develop a trans-disciplinary analysis of the social totality from a historical and internationalist perspective.
OVERVIEW
The Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique summer school is an intensive research program whose primary objective is to provide an international forum for trans-disciplinary and comparative work in critical social theory, in the most expansive sense of the term. Participants are exposed to the work of contemporary thinkers and engage with current debates in the Francophone world and beyond (past speakers have included Domenico Losurdo, Sophie Wahnich, Geneviève Fraisse, Pierre Macherey, Jacques Rancière, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Amy Allen, Bruno Karsenti, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Pierre-Antoine Chardel and Bernard Stiegler).
The summer program is organized around rigorous collective debates and theory in action. Our invited guests are asked to share work in progress and participate in discussions of their research. Participants in the program—unless they opt out—work on and present their own research projects in working groups. The overall objective is to bring together a diverse panoply of thinkers in order to cultivate productive, collaborative and transdisciplinary research.
FAQs
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APPLICATIONS
There is a rolling admissions policy and early applications are encouraged. The final deadline for the Paris program is April 30 for the upcoming summer (and June 15 for the online program, whose content is nearly identical). Click here and scroll down to find the application form.
