Global Center for Advanced Studies

The Global Center for Advanced Studies was originally incorporated in the state of Colorado on August 22, 2013, by Creston C. Davis[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-elerick/something-radical_b_3991421.html "Something Radical: The Global Center for Advanced Studies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418160715/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-elerick/something-radical_b_3991421.html |date=2015-04-18 }} by George Elerick, Huffington Post, October 4, 2013.[http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/20139612255158332.html "It's the Faculty, Stupid!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418152835/http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/20139612255158332.html |date=2015-04-18 }} by Santiago Zabala, Al Jazeera, September 8, 2013. (currently Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis and Chancellor at GCAS College Dublin),[https://web.archive.org/web/20180115190043/https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/member/creston-davis/ Creston Davis - Global Center for Advanced Studies] 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.”[https://web.archive.org/web/20180826121040/https://gcasblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/gcas-e-school-orientation-live-tutorial/ GCAS E-School Orientation & Live Tutorial - GCAS blog] Creston Davis hired Jason M. Adams on September 23, 2013, as a co-director,[http://www.critical-theory.com/inside-the-global-center-for-advanced-studies-a-chat-with-creston-davis/ Inside the Global Center for Advanced Studies, a Chat with Creston Davis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404071419/http://www.critical-theory.com/inside-the-global-center-for-advanced-studies-a-chat-with-creston-davis/ |date=2015-04-04 }}, May 13, 2013. later Adams withdrew from GCAS.

The GCAS was subsequently relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan and incorporated in Michigan on November 27, 2013, as a non-profit organization. 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20171022085357/https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/member/alain-badiou/ Alain Badiou - Global Center for Advanced Studies] 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 Athens.[https://web.archive.org/web/20151208061047/http://www.transform-network.net/calendar/calendar-2015/news/detail/Calendar/-5ba2dfc47f.html Democracy Rising World Conference 2015 - Transform-network.net]{{Cite web |url=https://euroalter.com/2015/introducing-the-democracy-rising-world-conference |title=Introducing the Democracy Rising World Conference - European Alternatives |date=11 June 2015 |access-date=2015-11-28 |archive-date=2015-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150819192259/http://www.euroalter.com/2015/introducing-the-democracy-rising-world-conference |url-status=live }} In autumn 2015, GCAS partnered with two institutions of higher education in Europe, the Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor (AMEU-ECM)[https://web.archive.org/web/20160805180021/http://en.almamater.si/partnership-with-the-global-center-for-advanced-studies-gcas-n157 Partnership with The Global Center for Advanced Studies] and the [http://www.ish.si/ Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106144327/http://www.ish.si/ |date=2016-11-06 }}.[https://web.archive.org/web/20151208051306/https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/event/gcas-partners-with-a-european-university-and-research-institute/ "GCAS Partners with a European University and Research Institute" - Global Center for Advanced Studies] 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 Dublin, Ireland, renaming the institute GCAS-Research Institute, Ireland (GCAS-RII).{{Cite web |url=https://gcas.ie/ |title=GCAS Research Institute Ireland and Lewis Gordon |access-date=2017-10-21 |archive-date=2017-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022032853/https://gcas.ie/ |url-status=live }}

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After ending its academic partnership with Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor, the GCAS received accreditation in Malta in partnership with Woolf University.{{cite web |url=https://gcas.ie/academics/accreditation |website=gcas.ie|title=Accreditation |access-date=2024-10-17}}{{cite web |url=https://woolf.university/colleges |title=Discover Woolf colleges |website=woolf.university |access-date=2024-10-17}}

The GCAS academic structure is divided into ten institutes: Critical Philosophy, Critical Media and Cultural Studies, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Policy Studies, Critical Theology, Psychoanalysis, Global Studies, Political Economy and Critical Pedagogy; and a Forms and Formalization Research Group (FFRG) on Formal Ontology. 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 enrollment [https://gcas.matrixlms.eu/ E-School] that hosts a variety of eLearning courses in subjects associated with the institutes within the GCAS framework. In 2018, GCAS began offering a [https://thegcas.org/certificate-in-philosophy-psychoanalysis/ Certificate] in Philosophy & Psychoanalysis. All degrees and certificates are conferred by GCAS from its Dublin Research Institute.{{Cite web |url=https://gcas.ie/ |title=GCAS Research Institute Ireland |access-date=2017-10-21 |archive-date=2017-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022032853/https://gcas.ie/ |url-status=live }}

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,{{cite web |url=https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/about-us/organizers-of-gcas/ |website=globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822020709/https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/about-us/organizers-of-gcas/ |title=Meet the Organizers |archive-date=2016-08-22 |access-date=2024-10-17}} while past faculty members include Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek who remain as Affiliate Faculty.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150415191255/https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/faculty/ GCAS Faculty - Global Center for Advanced Studies] In addition to a Core Faculty, the GCAS includes a roster of international Affiliate Professors that support the GCAS mission.{{Cite web |url=https://thegcas.org/core-faculty-and-affiliate-professors/ |title=GCAS Core and Affiliate Faculty as of 2017 |access-date=2017-10-21 |archive-date=2018-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830005003/https://thegcas.org/core-faculty-and-affiliate-professors/ |url-status=dead }}

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 Paris to Berlin, New York, Athens, Grand Rapids, and Cincinnati; engaging with live lectures from Oliver Stone, 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, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, Lisa Duggan, and Richard D. Wolff, among others.{{Cite web |url=https://thegcas.org/ |title=The Global Center for Advanced Studies |access-date=2017-06-28 |archive-date=2017-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020005149/https://thegcas.org/ |url-status=live }}

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• [https://www.facebook.com/globalcenterforadvancedstudies GCAS Facebook page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301000124/https://www.facebook.com/globalcenterforadvancedstudies |date=2019-03-01 }}
• [https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/about-us/ GCAS - About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401144410/https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/about-us/ |date=2016-04-01 }}
• [https://gcas.ie/ GCAS Research Institute Ireland website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022032853/https://gcas.ie/ |date=2017-10-22 }}

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