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

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. It is known for its seminars with the world's leading philosophers, journalists, artists, academics, and public figures. GCAS is governed by a board of directors.GCAS Organizing Body - Global Center for Advanced Studies
/ref> Later in 2017, GCAS incorporated as a private limited company GCAS College Dublin, Limited in order to create a co-owned college among faculty, staff, financial supporters, and graduates making GCAS College the first co-owned, accredited college in history.

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"
by George Elerick, '' Huffington Post'', 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

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.” Creston Davis hired Jason M. Adams on September 23, 2013 as a co-director,Inside the Global Center for Advanced Studies, a Chat with Creston Davis
May 13, 2013. later Adams withdrew from GCAS. The GCAS was subsequently relocated to Grand Rapids,

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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, PhD incorporated GCAS in Dublin, Ireland as GCAS Research Institute Ireland, and in 2018 as GCAS College Dublin, Limited. From 2014–15,

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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>Introducing the Democracy Rising World Conference - European Alternatives
/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, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs, assumed the role of Honorary President at GCAS. In 2017, The Global Center for Advanced Studies formally ended its academic partnership with Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor and ISH owing to ideological difference surrounding charging tuition and breaking with the GCAS model of debt-free education. The researchers, faculty, and staff of GCAS opted to found an independent research institute in

, Ireland, formally re-naming the institute GCAS-Research Institute, Ireland (GCAS-RII).GCAS Research Institute Ireland and Lewis Gordon
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Academics

After ending its academic partnership with Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor, the GCAS formally applied for accreditation with the Irish government. The institute's application for accreditation remains under review. The GCAS academic structure is divided into ten institutes:

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and

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, Critical

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and

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; 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
Bachelor of ArtsMaster of Arts (M.A.)
o
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
in Social and Political Thought. 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
program in Philosophy & Psychoanalysis. All degrees and certificates are conferred independently by GCAS from its Dublin Research Institute and subject to validation from the

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.GCAS Research Institute Ireland
/ref> The organization affiliates itself with some of the most prominent academic professors in the world including, among others, Joan Copjec,

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, Arif Dirlik, Bracha L. Ettinger,

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, Richard Kearney,

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, and

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,GCAS Faculty List Aug, 2016 - Global Center for Advanced Studies
/ref> while past faculty members include

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 are considered top tier representatives of their fields and support the GCAS mission.GCAS Core and Affiliate Faculty as of 2017
/ref> 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,

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; engaging with live lectures from Oliver Stone, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,

, Farhang Erfani,

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, Zoe Konstantopoulou,

, Bracha L. Ettinger, Eric Toussaint, Documenta’s

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, Azfar Hussain, Sigrid Hackenberg, Adrian Parr, Brad Evans, Clayton Crockett, John D. Caputo, Paul Mason,

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, Bruno Bosteels, Francesca Coin, Giovanni Tusa, Lori Marso, Pete Rollins, Agata Bielik-Robson, William Desmond, Fragkiska Megaloudi, Jeffrey Robbins, Catherine Keller, Carl Reschke,

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, Shon Meckfessel,

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, Debt-Strike’s Andrew Ross, Costas Lapavitsas, Astra Taylor, and via the Žižek Studies conference with forthcoming lectures by

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, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges,

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, and Richard D. Wolff, among others.The Global Center for Advanced Studies
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Notes and references

External links

GCAS websiteold website
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GCAS blogold blog

"What is the Global Center for Advanced Studies?"
by Creston Davis
GCAS Facebook page

GCAS - About Us
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GCAS Research Institute Ireland website
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History

Academics

See also

Notes and references

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