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Real experiences from our global community of scholars, researchers, and graduates who are part of the GCAS movement.
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The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) is a massive movement that unites common forces deprived of any illusions and ready to take matters into their own hands. It is an experiment, initiated over a decade ago, and has already brought to collaboration more than 10K people including the world’s most well-known intellectuals, activists, artists, startuppers and hackers.
Julie Reshe, PhD
GCAS Faculty
GCAS has found a way to return to the model of university learning — guidance and tutelage of students by intellectuals and researchers in the fields they are pursuing — without incurring long-time crippling debt for the costly frills of sports and campus-related social activities.
Sandra Gangle, JD
Retired Lawyer
GCAS is a paradigm that seeks to restore the emancipative character of education by opening up the space for critical, rigorous and profound ways of thinking that is free from the economic, cultural and geographic restrictions imposed by the present neoliberal global order. It is not only the paradigm of education in our current times; but it is a paradigm of hope that knows no borders.
Daryl
Philippines
GCAS has the general, almost nomadic theme of research as a mode of movement and thinking. It’s an effort to re-search the possibility of moving through the surrounded economic, environmental, educational, artistic and political topology in order to introduce a counter model and insist on what can be done differently.
Ilya V. Abulkhanov
Los Angeles, California
Pursuing my PhD at GCAS College Dublin has meant, for the first time, inhabiting a true space for intellectual development — a space where growth is not delayed until recognition, where free research is encouraged, and where learning happens in genuine community.
PhD Researcher
GCAS College Dublin
It is impossible to capture the experience of being in Paris wandering the cobbled streets, chewing on the stimulating daily seminars. To be able to experience a philosophy, delivered straight from a philosopher who’s dedicated her whole life and reputation to developing an alternative approach to our understanding of reality and the impact we can have on interpersonal social evolution was an overwhelming privilege. Mornings were filled with a tailored lecture from Luce Irigaray, easing us into each layer of her development and evenings were free space to explore both the city’s delicious foods, inviting culture and endlessly fascinating people.
Jennifer Merrihue
Los Angeles, California — Paris Seminar Participant
“We value above all freedom. The freedom to create, explore, and innovate new concepts, ideas, and practices within our community.”
— GCAS College Dublin, Mission Statement
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