2025 - 2026 Programme
Our courses run as seminars: Short lectures introduce the material, followed by close reading and sustained student discussion. They are not strictly divided into beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels, but are designed to welcome participants from all backgrounds.
Each course is structured to accommodate everyone, with explanations that build from the ground up - no prior knowledge is assumed, and key ideas are unpacked carefully to ensure the material is fully accessible, while still offering new perspectives and interpretive questions for those with more experience.
We read canonical texts alongside lesser-known figures who shaped them, tracing lines of influence that are often overlooked, and we incorporate current secondary literature to keep discussions connected to contemporary debates. To support this process, written summaries are provided after every three to four sessions, helping students follow the trajectory of the course and sharpen key points.
Michel Foucault: From Archaeology to Genealogy
18 November 2025 - 17 February 2026
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
This course traces the formation of Foucault’s method through his dialogue with Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, phenomenology, and structuralism - showing how his philosophy emerged from, and ultimately overturned, the traditions that shaped modern thought.
Language and Semiotics: Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Literature
3 March - 19 May 2026
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
This course examines how French continental thought brought psychoanalysis, structuralist linguistics, and literature into a shared exploration of language, its structures, limits, and transgressive powers in shaping meaning and subjectivity.
The Rise of the Machines: Thinking In The Age of AI
19 January - 9 March 2026
Mondays
12:00pm - 2:00pm
​This course explores technology as the human drive to build, measure, and extend ourselves into the world. Tracing this impulse into the age of AI, it asks how our creations now shape how we think, act, and live, and what responsibility and freedom mean in a world where the artificial and the natural intertwine.
Contemporary Political Philosophy: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj Žižek
2 June - 18 August 2026
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
This course explores how Derrida, Deleuze, and Žižek open new possibilities for imagining politics today through hospitality, micropolitics, and the psychoanalytic critique of ideology.
Past Courses
Experimentations with the History of Philosophy: Problems, Rhythms, and Encounters
This course offers a wide-angle introduction to how 20th-century French thinkers reimagined the history of philosophy - not as a static record of past ideas, but as a space for conceptual invention and experimentation. What is often treated as a rigid and remote tradition becomes, in their hands, a resource for creative and critical transformation. Taking a broad perspective, it invites participants to explore key shifts in Continental thought through a series of large brushstrokes.