2025 - 2026 Programme
Our courses run as seminars: short lectures introduce the material, followed by close reading and sustained student discussion. We cover the core concepts and problems that drive continental thought and pose interpretive questions for advanced readers. 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.
Michel Foucault: From Archaeology to Genealogy
18 November 2025 - 3 February 2026
Tuesdays
6:00pm - 8:00pm
This course follows Foucault’s evolving methods and concepts from archaeology to genealogy to show how his influential work redefined knowledge, power, and subjectivity in contemporary thought and 21st century life.​
Contemporary Political Philosophy: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoz Žižek
19 May - 4 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.
Language and Semiotics: Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Literature
17 February - 5 May 2025
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.
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.