European Graduate School

This opportunity is now closed for applications and the below is for information only

Locations:
August seminars – Saas-Fee, Switzerland (campus info)
October seminars – Valetta, Malta (campus info)

For the first time, we are offering three CHASE funded doctoral researchers a unique opportunity to take part in a series of seminar groups that brings together renowned philosophers, critical theorists, artists, and practitioners; offering seminars for students seeking a unique intellectual experience.

Established in the Swiss mountains in 1994 by a non-profit foundation, The European Graduate School was created to be an academic institution that would function beyond the many constraints of traditional disciplinary structure while stimulating work leading to respected and well-recognised academic degrees. It seeks to keep alive a spirit of free enquiry devoted to supporting creating practice as well as intellectual exchange of the highest level directed to the most pressing issues of our time.

CHASE funded students are invited to apply to attend one of the seminars listed below. Please select which location and which seminar you would lie to attend. Please use the form to demonstrate why you feel this would benefit both you and your research. The CHASE Training and Development Group will select the three best candidates to attend their chosen seminar.

A condition of attending a seminar is that you are required to produce a short paper and present at the Encounters conference, please consider this when you apply. Participation in a webinar for the nominated applicants will also be required. The webinar will enable candidates to find out more about EGS and ask questions of a regular attendee of EGS.

While there is a high degree of variation in the seminars depending on the thinker, EGS is a non-traditional educational experience that attracts world-leading, original thinkers to engage in intensive discussions about their research in progress. As a participant in the seminar, you are expected to be familiar with both the historical work of the thinker and more recent lines of inquiry, in order to get as much out of the interaction as possible. Rather than a typical teacher-student hierarchy guiding the seminar experience, a higher degree of independence is expected. You should be prepared to engage with the other thinkers in the seminar as peers, to participate in dialogue with all of the attendees about their work, including the seminar leader, and to bring your own work into the discussion.

Please note: The seminars are an opportunity to get an insider’s look, first-hand, at a thinker’s most recent work, around topics that are relevant and timely, rather than to review historical material that one can find elsewhere.

Once one has signed up for a seminar, there typically is a web platform that directs participants to relevant readings in preparation for the topic but this is likely to be ‘light touch’ and does not substitute for a researcher’s own investigation about how the thinker’s work connects with one’s own.

Saas-Fe, Switzerland
Switzerland, Saas-Fe, is a communal experience. The accommodation is booked centrally, all attendees stay in the same place and meals are taken as a group.

You can find out more about the campus here.

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Schedule*

Time	Seminar option 1	Seminar option 2
3-7 August	Fred Moten, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Manthia Diawara: Black Thought: Physics, Poetics, Sociology	–
7-11 August	Peter Szendy	Robert Brewer Young: The Thinking of Craft: Poiesis, Politics and Praxis
11-15 August	Karen Barad: Infinity, Nothingness, and the Undoing of the Self	Branislav Jakovljevic: Performance Apparatus
15-19 August	Terry Smith	Elie During
19-23 August	Catherine Malabou: Philosophy and Anarchy	Siegfried Zielinski: VARIATIONS ON MEDIA THINKING AnArchaeology – Deep Time – Expanded Hermeneutics Apparatus
23-26 August	Christopher Fynsk	Caveh Zahedi with guest TBA: How To Read a Film

Valletta, Malta
Malta is a more independent experience. Accommodation and meals will are organised separately by participants. CHASE will be able to assist with accommodation. You can find out more about the campus here.

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Schedule*

Time	Seminar option 1	Seminar option 2
8-12 October	Blockchain and Quantum Economy: Toward an Alternative Economic Thought Sha Xin Wei, Niklaus Dimitris, J.P. Huang, Christopher Fynsk, Natalie Smolenski, Elie During (and others to be announced)	Jean-Luc Nancy
12-15 October	Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Manthia Diawara: Black Thought	Terri Geis: Surrealism (Precise title to be announced)
16-20 October	Keller Easterling	TBA
20-24 October	TBA	TBA
24-28 October	Achille Mbembe / Sarah Nuttall	Christopher Fynsk: The Rhythmic Figure
28 Oct – 1 Nov	Thomas Keenan: Human Rights	Theatre Workshop and Event on Comino

Please note, only CHASE funded students are eligible to apply.

*Please note that seminar schedules and participants are subject to change and we will endeavor to keep this up to date but would invite you to refer to the EGS website for the most up to date source of information