Global Center for Advanced Studies
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| Established | August 22, 2013 |
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| Location | Brooklyn, New York Wyoming, Michigan Maribor, Slovenia |
| Nickname | GCAS |
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globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org thegcas.org |
The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS /ˈdʒiːˌkɑːs/) is a non-profit educational and research institution located in Brooklyn, New York. 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, which consists of the founder/director, a vice-president, a treasurer, a researchers' union representative, and a director of student affairs.
The Global Center for Advanced Studies was originally incorporated in the state of Colorado on August 22, 2013, by Creston C. Davis (currently Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at GCAS), 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". Jason M. Adams joined GCAS on September 23, 2013 as co-director. Adams later 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 2014–15, Alain Badiou had the role of Honorary President at GCAS.Azfar Hussain joined GCAS as its 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. In autumn 2015, GCAS partnered with two institutions of higher education in Europe, the Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor (AMEU-ECM) and the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH).
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