Application deadline: February 20, 2024
The scholarship applications for our certificate programs are open from January 11 to February 20. To apply, please complete the application form. Applicants must submit a writing sample and a cover letter detailing their intellectual interests and need for financial relief. Applicants from the Global South will be automatically considered for 50 percent of our scholarships. Half of our full scholarship recipients are from the Global South, and half are women.
Building on our successful fundraising campaigns that supported Ukrainian and Iranian students in 2022 and 2023, we are introducing a project-based initiative in response to the Gaza-Israel conflict and in support of an immediate ceasefire. We are granting two joint scholarships to two applicants with Palestinian and Israeli backgrounds. They will collaborate on two research projects involving our existing academic programs. Your support will also transform these scholarships into a recurring opportunity at The New Centre for applicants who have been displaced by war or economic and environmental crises. To help us fund this initiative, please donate to our campaign.
Our ongoing fall/winter 2023–24 season highlights the works of thinkers such as Gilles Châtelet, Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl, and Alfred Sohn-Rethel. The spring/summer 2024 season will feature seminars on Günther Anders, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, René Descartes, Gilbert Simondon, Karl Wittfogel, and Fernando Zalamea, as well as conceptual explorations of radical translation schemes, geoengineering, war strategies & geopolitics, autoethnography, secret societies, philosophy of biology, feminism, necropastoral, among others. It features seminars by J.-P. Caron, Luiza Crosman & José Antonio Magalhães, Colin Drumm, Kerstin Fuchs, Sam Forsythe, Magdalena Krysztoforska, Anna Longo, Cécile Malaspina, Joyelle McSweeney, Jason Mohaghegh, Reza Negarestani, Daniel Sacilotto, Will Scarlett, Moses Serubiri, and Ben Woodard. For more information, please visit our seminars page.
Following the success of our workshops, we are expanding these offerings in 2024. Valentin Golev will teach a workshop titled “GPT for Arts & Humanities,” focused on customizing AI tools for text-based research accessible to those without programming knowledge. We are also launching two workshops focused on writing. Liza Featherstone & Cécile Malaspina will conduct a Long Form Writing Laboratory to aid those undertaking long writing projects. Sean Tatol, editor of the Manhattan Art Journal, will teach a workshop titled “Short-form Criticism: The Conditions for Judgment,” focused on producing condensed forms of theory and criticism writing.
In 2023, our Programmers Jason Mohaghegh and Reza Negarestani hosted the first session of the Night School, a discreet, transdisciplinary, invitation-only program of after-dark gatherings that will continue in 2024 at the four junctures of spring and fall equinoxes as well as summer and winter solstices.
In April, we will host and broadcast the third edition of Hyper Annotations during the 60th Venice Biennale of Art opening days, featuring interviews with artists, curators and critics.
In June, The New Centre and The Centre for Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education in University College London will co-organize the conference “Marxism & the Pittsburgh School,” with Amanda Beech, Ray Brassier, and Vanessa Wills as keynote speakers. To participate, please submit a 500-word abstract by March 30th to submissions [at] marxismandpittsburgh.org.Our newly published book Phenomenon & Difference by François Laruelle, translated by Lindsay Lerman and with a foreword by Katerina Kolozova, is available for purchase. Model Is The Message a compilation of the proceedings from the “Incredible Machines 2022 Conference” featuring texts by Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Benjamin Bratton, Cécile Malaspina, Jason Mohaghegh, Reza Negarestani, Patricia Reed, and others, is also available for purchase.
In 2024, we will expand our publishing initiatives with the release of several publications: Art World 3000, a book featuring student contributions, Minor Bestiary: Time and Labyrinth in Contemporary Art by our Board Member Eduarda Neves, and the output from our roundtable “ChatGPT, Language, and The Future of Thinking & Writing,” co-organized with ESAP (Escola Superior de Arte do Porto).
Our &&& Platform continues to publish original texts and translations of important works in philosophy, art, technology, and social thought. To submit a text, please contact editors [at] thenewcentre.org.
You can now pay for seminar credits at reduced rates. These credits can be used towards upcoming seminars through the end of our forthcoming fall/winter 2024–25 season. You can also still enroll in our fall/winter 2023-24 season’s upcoming seminars by Joel White, Jason Mohaghegh, J.-P. Caron, Reza Negarestani, Alphabet Collection, Maria Ines Plaza Lazo, Ben Woodard, Franziska Aigner & Austin Gross, and Laurence Kent.
Become a New Centre Member and access our full archive featuring 2000+ hours of content delivered by internationally renowned thinkers. Members can also audit our upcoming seminars. You can still become a member for a special rate until March 23. Existing members can also take advantage of this offer and extend the expiration date of their current membership. Additionally, institutions can obtain an institutional membership for an annual fee of 500 USD, giving them an unlimited number of The New Centre memberships for their faculty, staff and students.
Lastly, we’d like to congratulate our Programmer, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, on the publication of Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception. We would also like to congratulate some of our researchers and students on their recent achievements: Katherine C. M. Adams for her appointment as assistant curator at EMPAC/Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Aladin Borioli for his first solo exhibition at C/O Berlin Foundation, Denise Luna for co-organizing the Planetary Frontlines series as a part of the CityX Venice Virtual Pavilion, Ivan Netkachev, and Anna Soz for their recent exhibitions.
