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London Critical Theory Summer School 2012

11th June - 22nd June

The deadline for applications has now passed.

The 2012 London Critical Theory Summer School will take place at Birkbeck from 11th June - 22nd June. This unique opportunity is for graduate students and academics to follow a course of study and to foster exchange and debate. It will consist of at least 6 modules over the two weeks, each convened by one of the participating academics.
This course does not offer transfer of credits.

Participating Academics will include:

  • Etienne Balibar - Europe’s Crisis, Europe’s Reconstruction?
  • Wendy Brown -  Homo Oeconomicus, Democracy, Sacrifice
  • Costas Douzinas - Radical Philosophy of Law
  • Drucilla Cornell -  Constituting a Revolutionary Government Part 2: Africana and Afro-Caribbean Thinking of Revolution
  • Stephen Frosh - Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions
  • Esther Leslie -  The Politics of Flow; The Politics of Glow
  • Gayatri Spivak - Writing the Social Text
  • Slavoj Zizek - Event in Philosophy, Art, and Politics