Intensive Course: Problemas contemporáneos en Europa

Description of the course Problemas contemporáneos en Europa is an intensive Master’s course taught in Spanish and organised around three interconnected themes: Democracy and the far right Migrations Ecological transition The course brings together different perspectives from the social sciences and humanities to examine major contemporary European challenges. The programme combines online learning with an […]

Research-Creation Methodologies: Interdisciplinarity, Societal Impact, and Co-Production of Knowledge

From 1 – 5 June 2026, Paris 8 University will host a five-day intensive course, with 2 on-line sessions, titled “Research-Creation Methodologies: Interdisciplinarity, Societal Impact, and Co-Production of Knowledge” offering ERUA PhD candidates an immersive exploration of the research-creation field and practices. Description of the course This intensive doctoral seminar (20 hours) offers a comprehensive […]

Intensive Course: Justice and inequalities

Description of the Intensive course The course presents an analysis of the various theoretical models of distributive justice that have been developed in political philosophy since the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice in 1971. This analysis will pay particular attention to how these different models interpret the notion of individual desert, and […]

Intensive Course: Art in public spaces

Dates: 18 – 22 May 2026 Location: Paris, France Format: on-site From 18 – 22 May 2026, Paris 8 University will host a five-day intensive course titled “Art in Public Spaces,” offering ERUA students a rigorous and immersive exploration of the relationship between art and the urban environment. By situating artistic inquiry directly within the […]

Intensive Course: Gender and Politics

Description of the Intensive course The course on “Gender and Politics” will start from current anti-gender campaigns throughout the world and then examine : 1. theories and concepts (eg gender and intersectionality; biopolitics and sexual democracy); 2. academic debates (eg sexual nationalisms; the sexual politics of neoliberalism); 3. social controversies (eg MeToo, the Islamic veil, […]

Intensive Course: Otherness and ethnicities

Dates: 19 – 23 of January 2026 Location: Paris, France Description of the Intensive course The course consists of mapping the multiple facets of otherness as a common, singular and plural, multifaceted and tangible experience that shapes modes of existence. The exploration of these modes of existence and expression, their variations, connotations and degree of […]

Intensive Course: “Semiotics of interface and devices”

Description of the course  This workshop explores interfaces and devices. It focuses on both their graphical and technical dimensions: from user interfaces and screens to sensors, recognizers, and speculative design. From a theoretical perspective, the workshop interrogates the meaning and communicative values of interfaces, artefacts, and devices. From a practical standpoint, it adopts a research-creation […]

Intensive course: Another Version of Myself

Dates: 9 -14 June 2025 Location: Paris, France   ERUA and Paris 8 University are announcing an intensive course “Another Version of Myself” that will take place in Paris 8 University, between the 9th  and the 15th of June. Stepping aside from oneself also allows us to be another version of ourselves – which opens […]

Intensive course: Art in public spaces

Dates: 19th – 23th May 2025 Location: Paris, France   ERUA and Paris 8 University are announcing an intensive course “Art in public spaces” that will take place in Paris 8 University, between the 19th and the 23th of May. In this course, students will have the chance to study the relationship between artworks and […]