The 8th Annual

GCAS Summer Institute

June 10-23, 2023

“Transgressive Thought and the Counterfeits of Creativity”

Prague Modern Gallery (Výstaviště 188, 170 00 Praha 7-Bubeneč, Czechia) and Online.

Free to the public in Prague while space is available. Register at contact@gcas.ie.

 

«I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation». ― Mikhail Bakunin

 

All persons attending the Summer Institute including the conference, seminars, meals, and all other activities hosted by GCAS agree to attend at their own risk.

Conference: June 9-11

10:30 am - 5pm (Saturday & Sunday)

at Prague Modern Gallery

The purpose of this conference is to propose new ways of connecting and accelerating critical thinking, philosophy, the humanities, the arts, social sciences and non-western knowledge as a way to build different kinds of institutions, de-centralized economies, bold thinking and artistic creations; indeed it is time to rethink the building of educational contexts in which bolder, riskier, and innovative critical thinking is supported, nurtured, and materialized. Our future depends on this.

GCAS is calling for a world-conference in which intellectuals, writers, film-makers, researchers and artists come together to re-think the value and transgressive logic of thinking in order to develop strategies in which freedom is redefined for humanity and all living beings for our fragile climate, future democracies, and economic fairness.

Keynote speaker

William Desmond

Transgressive Thought and the Counterfeits of Creativity

Václav Janoščík

Trauma and Ontology, How dystopianism changed contemporary philosophy and gaming

Kevin Boileau

Freedom’s Struggle with Logos

Conference Threads

  • Philosophy as transgression

  • The Limits of the Arts

  • Neoliberalism and the Rise of Authoritarianism

  • Liberation and Pedagogy (Critical Pedagogy)

  • Psychoanalysis and Emancipation

  • Radical Theology and the Political 

  • Debt and Higher Education

  • Decentralization, Democracy and Social Institutions 

  • Literature and the Imagination

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Energy

GCAS Seminars

at Prague Modern Gallery

Seminar Week I (Tuesday-Friday 13th-16th June)

Prague time

Creston Davis, “Philosophical Theology” (1pm - 3pm)

Barry Taylor, “Radical Theology” (3pm-5pm)

Seminar Week II (M-F 19th-23rd June)

Rocky Gangle, “Critical Paradigms” (1pm-3pm)

Nina Power, PhD “Bataille Against the Machine” (3pm-4pm)

 

GCAS 4th Commencement June 18th

3pm Prague time

GCAS is proud to celebrate our graduates from the BA, MA, and PhD programmes.