In early 2014, the n-Category Café hosted the Kan Extension Seminar, a graduate reading course in category theory modeled after Daniel Kan’s eponymous reading course in algebraic topology at MIT. My experience with the seminar, described here: http://www.ams.org/notices/201411/rnoti-p1357.pdf <http://www.ams.org/notices/201411/rnoti-p1357.pdf> was overwhelming positive, so I’m delighted to announce that we’re back. Alexander Campbell, Brendan Fong, and I are organizing "Kan II" in early 2017 and we’re currently soliciting applications for seminar participants. Our plan is to read the following eight papers between mid January and mid May: * Hyland and Power, The category theoretic understanding of Universal Algebra: Lawvere Theories and Monads, * Freyd, Algebra valued functors in general and tensor products in particular * Beck, Distributive laws * Kelly, On the operads of J.P. May, * Kelly, Structures defined by finite limits in the enriched context, I * Kelly, On Clubs and Data-type Constructors * Lack and Rosicky, Notions of Lawvere Theory * Berger, Mellies, and Weber, Monads with arities and their associated theories We are seeking eight participants who will read and engage with all of the papers as well as prepare an oral presentation on one of them, followed by a blog post to be published on the n-Category Café. The course will conclude with a series of short public expository lectures given, by those able to attend, on July 16 in conjunction with the 2017 International Category Theory Conference at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. More details, including information about how to apply, can be found on the seminar website: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/kanII <http://www.math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/kanII> or by contacting any of the three of us. Applications are due November 30th. I hope you’ll help us spread the word by passing this message along to those who might be interested. On behalf of the organizers, Emily Riehl (eriehl@math.jhu.edu <mailto:eriehl@math.jhu.edu>) Alexander Campbell (alexanderpcampbell@gmail.com <mailto:alexanderpcampbell@gmail.com>) Brendan Fong (fo@seas.upenn.edu <mailto:fo@seas.upenn.edu>) — Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics Johns Hopkins University www.math.jhu.edu/~eriehl [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]