Critical Theory Workshop: Online & In-Person Summer Program

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Dates: June 27 – July 15, 2022

Partner Institution: Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain (CNRS/EHESS)

Location (for in-person program): École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 105 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris

Invited Speakers: Jacques Pauwels*, Mary Louise Pratt*, Radhika Desai and others TBA (* confirmed)

Founder and Director: Gabriel Rockhill

Associate Director: Jennifer Ponce de León

Program Administrator and Primary Contact: Rosa Dolet

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.
Nota bene: proceeds from the workshop will contribute to supporting the work of radical scholars around the world who are suffering from direct repression, economic precarity and/or political exile.

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.
Nota bene: proceeds from the workshop will contribute to supporting the work of radical scholars around the world who are suffering from direct repression, economic precarity and/or political exile.

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, Geneviève Fraisse, Pierre Macherey, Jacques Rancière, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Amy Allen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Bernard Stiegler). Special attention is paid to traditions of thought that have been excluded from the academy, including Marxism, the black radical tradition, anticolonial theory, anti-capitalist feminism, materialist queer theory and radical ecological thought.

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.