General Description
The Critical Theory Workshop is an international school for trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural and committed research. As a non-profit educational counter-institution, it seeks to bring affordable education with real use-value to a broad public by offering seminars and symposiums in Philadelphia, online courses, a summer workshop in Paris, as well as a video archive of select events as a free educational resource.

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Description of the Paris Summer Program
The summer workshop is an intensive research program that takes place in Paris, France. Its primary objective is to provide an international forum for transdisciplinary and comparative work in critical theory in the broadest sense of the term. Participants are exposed to the work of contemporary thinkers and engage with current debates in the Francophone world and beyond.

The Workshop, which takes place at the EHESS in central Paris and does not follow the
traditional structure of a course, is comprised of three interlocking components:

• Débats: invited speakers debate a common theme or current research projects.
• Rencontres: intellectuals are invited to participate in public interviews regarding their work to date and their current projects.
• Groupes de travail: the participants present their own research projects and workshop them with other participants.

The overall objective is to bring together a diverse panoply of thinkers in order to cultivate productive debates around work in progress and topical concerns for theory and practice today.

Although these activities are oriented toward a graduate level of education, anyone with the requisite background is welcome to apply. Participants come from around the globe and often include very advanced undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, autodidacts, artists, writers and independent researchers.

The primary language of discussion is English, but some of the activities take place in French with English summary translations that are projected on a screen. Therefore, it is beneficial, although not required, that applicants have a working knowledge of the French language.