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Stéphane

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  1. Hi! So I'm not studying at Sciences Po my but I live in Paris and I have many friends there (in Journalism, History, Geography and Political Studies that is, so my input might not be as valuable as you'd hope). All I know is that the 'Sciences Po' isn't everything : for example the journalism department is not really recognised by employers, contrary to much cheaper and more selective programmes. There's also a rather shared belief around here that it's easier for international students to get in because Sciences Po sees them as cash machines. However, I heard the same thing about the University of Edinburgh and it doesn't mean that it's true or that international students don't get extremely valuable degrees there. Anywho, what I'm saying is that you should look into the specific programme you're after carefully, in terms of reputation, sure, but also in terms of content. Also, since money is an important factor, don't forget that Paris is quite expensive. What makes it cheaper than, say, London for students is usually low tuition fees, which clearly is not the case for your specific programme. I'm sorry that's everything I can tell you, I hope it helps a little.
  2. Dear all, So I got an offer from the Department of Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, which I firmed. My main supervisor (A. Goffey) is head of the department and the other one (J. Marks) is part of the department of French and francophone studies. Is there anyone applying/going to a UK university for Cultural Studies? On a different note, has anyone heard good/bad things about UoN Critical Theory?
  3. Dear all, Last October, after I realised I was less and less fond of Phenomenology (which I wrote a dissertation about during my MA at the Sorbonne), I started working on a thesis project inspired by the Frankfurt School and examining the 'academisation' of desire in today's French philosophy. I decided to send it directly to the Critical Theory's head of department at the University of Nottingham and I have to say his reaction exceeded my expectations. I told everything to my former supervisor; with whom I was supposed to do my PhD in the first place, and he was very understanding and kind enough to write me a good reference letter. It all went faster than I thought and I am now officially accepted for a PhD at UoN starting next september. I was quite taken short on that one and did not have time to ask anyone on this forum or elsewhere if they had heard about UoN's centre for critical theory. I had a few chats with the head of department (my soon-to-be supervisor) and we kind of clicked : he sounds like a very interesting fellow and I find his research to be very close to that which I want to achieve in terms of thoroughness and intention. But I would like to know more about their placement record, or at least their reputation in the US/Canada, since this is mostly a north American forum. I hope my question doesn't sound too weird and pretentious to you (it does to me) : I am very aware of how lucky I am to hold an offer. I just want to make sure I am not giving away the shop to make a sixpence. Thank you in advance!
  4. Here I go! As those who read my 'Joint Phd' post may remember, I just finished my MA at the Sorbonne and will be taking the 'agrégation de philosophie', a French competitive examination for professorship positions, next year. I wrote a dissertation about Mikel Dufrenne's metaphysics and political thinking emphasizing on the link between description and prescription his works carry : roughly, how does he jump from trying to describe the social world we live in as well as certain types of limit-experiences (such as orgasms or riots) to actually prescribing what should be? Apart from that, I'm considering doing my PhD either in North America or the UK - if not at the Sorbonne, it all depends on the funding available - in continental philosophy, but also using Spinoza, focusing on the concept of desire and the strategies it deploys in the creation or discovery of the desired object. I think this is it.
  5. Wow, I must admit I didn't think anything was still going to happen on this thread after two weeks of nothingness. It seems I couldn't have been more wrong! Thank you all for answering - Megs80 included, since she didn't mean any harm. She tried to warn me in a clumsy fashion about what she felt was true about DePaul. I have no idea whether this is true or not, this is for DePaulians to confirm or infirm. Anyway, I feel kind of guilty I didn't come back on this forum before, but that final dissertation though... Following Jailbreak's and Jabberwock's advice, I'll apply to the Sorbonne and others (including Chicago indeed!) and see which offers the most interesting programme and possibly funding. And maybe spend a year at the Sorbonne as a visiting researcher... This is what Warwick's admissions office advised me to do anyway.
  6. Thank you so much, that may be of great help.
  7. Hi everyone, So this is my first topic and post here. I've been exploring the forums for a while now, and I did not find anything on joint PhDs, so I sincerely apologize if this kind of concern was brought up and dealt with before. Just be assured it wasn't for lack of trying. I'm specifically interested in potential conventions between la Sorbonne and anglo-americain graduate schools. Here's the situation : I'll be achieving an MA in "contintental" philosophy at la Sorbonne (Paris I) this year, writing a dissertation on an obscure French phenomenologist called Mikel Dufrenne. My supervisor is Renaud Barbaras - for those who might have heard of him -, and he promised me that he was going to supervise my PhD in two years - which hopefully will leave me enough time to pass the "agrégation de philosophie" (French very competitive examination to teach at college level). He's too precious a supervisor for me to let go of him, but I also want to have a broader point of view on phenomenology and French contemporary philosophy as a whole. So I started looking into American and British graduate programmes. I found a lot of good stuff here too. I guess my top choices would be Loyola, Toronto, DePaul, PennState and Boston College - I'm not the original type. I also stumbled on Warwick, which looks philosophically awesome. I emailed one of their Professors this week - Miguel Beistegui, who happens to be French too - and he replied today saying he was intersted in supervising my work as long as I was okay paying quite high tuition fee (which would mean getting funding from la Sorbonne and then use it one semester a year to pay for Warwick graduate school I guess). Here's my question : what's up with that? Does that mean that doing a joint PhD implies using the funding you get from one uni to pay for the other? Doesn't that practically mean giving up the funding at all? Also, what do you guys know about the universities I just mentioned and their relation to the sole idea of joint PhDs? I hope this is not too confusing... Thank you in advance for your help
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