Birkbeck Critical Theory Summer School

The Critical Theory Summer School at the University of London Birkbeck Institute for Humanites enabled students and academics to engage in a two-week course of study with acclaimed critical thinkers.

The School combined critical theoretical thought with a sense of the political urgency of the times. The key to the Summer School was that theory is engaged theory, that is, it pursues, elucidates, and complicates its own genealogy and intellectual elaboration at the same time as attempting to show how theory, and the necessity of sustained reflection that it demands and enacts, can contribute to progressive, dissident thought and being in the modern world.