Overview
The format of the PSL is designed to bring participants into meaningful contact with innovative critical thinkers and researchers, as well as with each other. We aim to create an atmosphere that is simultaneously intellectually rigorous and friendly, intense and chill: both an antidote from the stress we may carry with us from the normal academic semester and a platform for making unexpected connections and discovering new pathways for the research and writing we all hope to do in the future.
Our choice to use the term "summer lab", and not "summer school", is deliberate. PSL is part of our broader philosophy to bring the laboratory model into the humanities, blurring the borders and hierarchies between research and teaching, students (of different levels) and professors, the university and the local community. Toward this aim we aim to integrate as organically as we can the 'seminar' part of the summer school with the 'experimental' aspect, while placing emphasis on the creative intellectual production of the participants themselves.
More specifically, faculty seminars will be interwoven with screenings and performances, as participants engage in a methodological workshop to collaboratively produce and host an 'experiment' that will be presented in a public event on the last afternoon of the lab (and hopefully re-presented in other locations after that).
The core academic program is enriched by a number of other activities: hikes in the countryside, swimming at the gorgeous local beaches, visits to nearby villages, screenings and audio events, attendance of local cultural events (such as concerts or village festivals), eating adventures and, of course, open workshops.
The working language of the lab is English.
Our choice to use the term "summer lab", and not "summer school", is deliberate. PSL is part of our broader philosophy to bring the laboratory model into the humanities, blurring the borders and hierarchies between research and teaching, students (of different levels) and professors, the university and the local community. Toward this aim we aim to integrate as organically as we can the 'seminar' part of the summer school with the 'experimental' aspect, while placing emphasis on the creative intellectual production of the participants themselves.
More specifically, faculty seminars will be interwoven with screenings and performances, as participants engage in a methodological workshop to collaboratively produce and host an 'experiment' that will be presented in a public event on the last afternoon of the lab (and hopefully re-presented in other locations after that).
The core academic program is enriched by a number of other activities: hikes in the countryside, swimming at the gorgeous local beaches, visits to nearby villages, screenings and audio events, attendance of local cultural events (such as concerts or village festivals), eating adventures and, of course, open workshops.
The working language of the lab is English.
