The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS ) is an educational and research institution located in

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and

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. It hosts seminars with philosophers, journalists, artists, academics, and public figures. GCAS is governed by a board of directors.GCAS Organizing Body - Global Center for Advanced Studies
/ref> In 2017, GCAS incorporated as a private limited company GCAS College Dublin, Limited, creating a co-owned college among faculty, staff, financial supporters, and graduates.

History

The Global Center for Advanced Studies was originally incorporated in the state of

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on August 22, 2013, by Creston C. Davis"Something Radical: The Global Center for Advanced Studies"
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'', October 4, 2013. (currently Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis and Chancellor at GCAS College Dublin), as an institute of higher learning based on critical theory, and on the concept of a "debt free education grounded in the principles of Democracy and the Commons.” Creston Davis hired Jason M. Adams on September 23, 2013, as a co-director, later Adams withdrew from GCAS. The GCAS was subsequently relocated to

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and incorporated in Michigan on November 27, 2013, as a

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. The Colorado corporation was voluntarily dissolved on February 26, 2014. In 2017 Creston Davis and Tere Vaden, incorporated GCAS in Dublin, Ireland as GCAS Research Institute Ireland, and in 2018 as GCAS College Dublin, Limited. From 2014–15, Alain Badiou assumed the role of Honorary President at GCAS.Alain Badiou - Global Center for Advanced Studies
/ref> Azfar Hussain joined GCAS as its Honorary Vice-President in 2013 and is still working in that capacity. On July 16–19, 2015, a GCAS conference called "Democracy Rising World Conference 2015" took place in

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.Democracy Rising World Conference 2015 - Transform-network.net
/ref> In autumn 2015, GCAS partnered with two institutions of higher education in Europe, the Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor (AMEU-ECM)Partnership with The Global Center for Advanced Studies
/ref> and th
Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH)
."GCAS Partners with a European University and Research Institute" - Global Center for Advanced Studies
/ref> In 2017, Lewis Gordon, Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs, assumed the role of Honorary President at GCAS. In 2017, The Global Center for Advanced Studies ended its academic partnership with Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor and ISH owing to differences surrounding charging tuition and GCAS's model of debt-free education. The researchers, faculty, and staff of GCAS opted to found an independent research institute in

, Ireland, renaming the institute GCAS-Research Institute, Ireland (GCAS-RII).

Academics

After ending its academic partnership with Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor, the GCAS received accreditation in

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in partnership with Woolf University.

Structure

The GCAS academic structure is divided into ten institutes: Critical

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, Critical

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, Arts,

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and

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, Policy Studies, Critical

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, Global Studies, Political Economy and Critical Pedagogy; and a Forms and Formalization Research Group (FFRG) on

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. The institute provides both online and in-residence courses that can be audited or taken towards earning a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy. In 2017, the institute launched an open enrollmen
E-School
that hosts a variety of eLearning courses in subjects associated with the institutes within the GCAS framework. In 2018, GCAS began offering
Certificate
in Philosophy & Psychoanalysis. All degrees and certificates are conferred by GCAS from its Dublin Research Institute.

Affiliations

The organization affiliates itself with academic professors including Joan Copjec, Simon Critchley, Enrique Dussel, Arif Dirlik, Bracha L. Ettinger, Henry Giroux, Richard Kearney, Antonio Negri, Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell, Gayatri Spivak, and Gianni Vattimo, while past faculty members include Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek who remain as Affiliate Faculty.GCAS Faculty - Global Center for Advanced Studies
/ref> In addition to a Core Faculty, the GCAS includes a roster of international Affiliate Professors that support the GCAS mission. Since its inception, GCAS held over 400 different meetings, classes, workshops and conferences, in which GCAS taught and engaged with over 100,000 people world-wide from more than 80 different countries. Events' locations range from The Centre Pompidou in

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, New York,

, and

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; engaging with live lectures from

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, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Alain Badiou, Farhang Erfani, Tariq Ali, Antonio Negri, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bracha L. Ettinger, Eric Toussaint, Documenta's Adam Szymczyk, Azfar Hussain, Sigrid Hackenberg, Adrian Parr, Brad Evans, Clayton Crockett, John D. Caputo, Paul Mason, Leo Panitch, Jodi Dean, Bruno Bosteels, Francesca Coin, Giovanni Tusa, Lori Marso, Pete Rollins, Agata Bielik-Robson, William Desmond, Fragkiska Megaloudi, Jeffrey Robbins, Catherine Keller, Carl Reschke, George Katsiaficas, Shon Meckfessel, Graham Priest, Michael Hardt, Henry Giroux, Debt-Strike's Andrew Ross, Costas Lapavitsas, Astra Taylor, and via the Žižek Studies conference with forthcoming lectures by Noam Chomsky,

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winner Chris Hedges, Lisa Duggan, and Richard D. Wolff, among others.

History

Academics

Structure

Affiliations

See also

Notes and references

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