Scholarships for certificate programs
The scholarship applications for The New Centre for Research & Practice’s 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 the scholarships. Half of the full scholarship recipients are from the Global South, and half are women.
Building on The New Centre for Research & Practice’s successful fundraising campaigns that supported Ukrainian and Iranian students in 2022 and 2023, they are introducing a project-based initiative in response to the Gaza-Israel conflict and in support of an immediate ceasefire. The Centre is granting two joint scholarships to two applicants with Palestinian and Israeli backgrounds. They will collaborate on two research projects involving the 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 The New Centre for Research & Practice fund this initiative, please donate to the campaign.
Program
The 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 the seminars page.
Following the success of the workshops, The New Centre for Research & Practice is 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. The Centre is 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, 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, The Centre 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.
About The New Centre for Research & Practice
The New Centre for Research & Practice is conceived upon the idea that the space of knowledge is a laboratory for navigating the links between thought and action. The pedagogical approach bootstraps the conventional role of the Arts and Sciences to construct new forms of research and practice alongside, within, and between the existing disciplines and technologies. The New Centre’s aim is a constructivist one, to assemble an environment, both virtual and actual, that inspires members to invent alternate understandings that can be put into collective practice.
The New Centre is a non-profit, higher education institute offering graduate-level certificate programs, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, residencies, and conferences in Critical Philosophy, Social & Political Thought, Curatorial Practice, and Transdisciplinary Research & Practice. The Centre’s carefully selected network of thinkers and scholars advise and assist those seeking to make the transition between undergraduate and graduate schools, as well as from graduate school to the professions. Through studying at the New Centre, students practice graduate level research in a manner that does not interrupt their existing academic aspirations, but instead complements, enhances, and intensifies them.
