June 7 - July 16, 2027
All lectures open to the public!
Six-Week Program for Graduate Students and Faculty
In an intensive course of study, graduate students and faculty enroll in one of three seminars to explore recent developments in critical theory in exciting, multilayered discussions. The whole school comes together for lectures, workshops, and work-in-progress conversations.
NEW! Undergraduate Track
Undergraduates convene in small groups for a two-week mini-session and individual mentoring around research and theory: June 7-18.
Visit Undergraduate mini-seminar applications, tuition, and housing for more information.
Seminar Leaders
| Material Aesthetics - Denise Ferreira da SilvaProfessor of Spanish and Portuguese and Co-Director of the Critical Racial & Anti-Colonial Study Co-Lab (CRACS) at NYU. Author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007) and Unpayable Debt (2022), and maker of multiple collaborative films. |
| Existence and Subsistence - Fred MotenProfessor of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature, NYU. Author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003), Black and Blur (2017), Stolen Life (2018), and The Universal Machine (2018), and co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013). A Macarthur winner, Moten has also published several prize-winning volumes of poetry. |
| The Passenger: critical theory and creative practice for the twenty-first century. - McKenzie WarkProfessor of Culture & Media, The New School. Author of over 20 books that take up critical and media theory, the Situationists, and rave and trans culture, including A Hacker Manifesto (2004), Gamer Theory (2007), Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (2019), Reverse Cowgirl (2020), Philosophy for Spiders (2021), Raving (2023), and Love and Money, Sex and Death (2023). |
Faculty Director
| Caroline LevineDavid and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities, Cornell University. Author of The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (2003), Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007), Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015), and The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (2023). |
More Information
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