Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH)
Description
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities was established in 2004 to stimulate research, public debate and collaboration among academics and intellectuals on important public issues of today.
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities continues to support interdisciplinary research and engagement among colleagues across Birkbeck, University of London and beyond, and regularly collaborates with UK-based and international academics, researchers and activists.
Key to the Institute's mission is the promotion of new ideas and forms of understanding in the humanities and beyond. To facilitate this, the Institute organises and supports lectures, conferences, discussion panels, masterclasses and film screenings. Many of these are free and open to the public.
The London Critical Theory Summer School is a major annual event in the calendar of activities for the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. It was established by Professor Costas Douzinas, founder of BIH and a professor in Birkbeck's Department of Law, in 2010.
Since that time, it has become one of the world's leading summer schools, combining theoretical thought at an advanced critical level with a sense of the political urgency of the times. Now under the directorship of Professor Jacqueline Rose and Professor Esther Leslie, it provides an intensive two-week programme of study for an international group of students and early career academics with acclaimed critical thinkers from around the world. Past tutors have included: Etienne Balibar, Susan Buck-Morss, Drucilla Cornell, Costas Douzinas, Stephen Frosh, David Harvey, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Jacqueline Rose and Slavoj Žižek. Bursaries are available for international and Birkbeck students.
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities also provides short-term non-stipendiary fellowships for a small number of scholars from Britain and overseas, who wish to collaborate with colleagues at Birkbeck. These are chosen yearly through an open competition.
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Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
26 Russell Sq
London WC1B 5DT
United Kingdom
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2004
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2025-03-07 14:53:57