The Application
Please complete the Application Form and submit it by March 31st before midnight EST.
Who Should Apply
While our target audience for the CPA Summer School at UCONN is graduate
students at all stages, advanced undergraduates, faculty, and independent
scholars are also very welcome to participate.
For members of the CPA, philosophy is conceived, not as an isolated academic
discipline, but as rigorous theoretical reflection about fundamental problems
faced by humanity. Understood in this way, Caribbean philosophy is a
transdisciplinary form of interrogation informed by scholarly knowledges as well
as by practices and artistic expressions that elucidate fundamental questions that
emerge in contexts of discovery,conquest, racial, gender, and sexual domination,
genocide, dependency, and exploitation as well as freedom, emancipation, and
decolonization. Reflection about these areas often appears in philosophical texts,
but also in a plethora of other genres such as literature, music, and historical
writings. The CPA invites theoretical engagements with all such questions,
thematic areas, and genres with emphasis on any given discipline or field, but
with a common interest in shifting the geography of reason,by which we mean
approaching the Caribbean and the Global South in general as zones of
sustainable practices and knowledges.
Logistics and Fees
May 31-June 6
Graduate Students:
Housing $305, meals $250, field trips/celebration $45, school fees $600
Advanced Undergraduates:
Housing $305, meals $250, field trips/celebration $45, school fees $600
Faculty:
Housing $305, meals $250, field trips/celebration $45, school fees $800
UCONN Graduate Students:
Housing $0, meals $0, field trips/celebration $30, school fees $15
UCONN Undergraduates:
Housing $0, meals $0, field trips/celebration $30, school fees $15
UCONN Faculty:
Housing $0, meals $0, field trips/celebration $45, school fees $30
If you will be flying to UCONN, you should fly into Hartford’s Bradley Airport on
May 31st by 2p.m. and fly from there on June 6th after 2p.m. We will arrange to
pick you up. You can also take the bus or train into Hartford’s Union Station.
The Certificate of Completion
Everyone who participates in the full week of the CPA Summer School at
UCONN will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the summer school.
Important Dates
Deadline to Apply: March 31, 2015 by midnight EST
Deadline for Summer School Deposit: April 30, 2015
Deadline for Remaining Summer School Fees: May 15, 2015