The European Graduate School (EGS) in Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien ("European University for Interdisciplinary Studies"). It is governed by a presidential board that includes a representative of the Swiss canton of Valais. Instruction is in English. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Leuk (French Loèche) is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. ... Saas-Fee is a Swiss village and tourism centre in the Saas-Valley in the Wallis mountains. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible... The Valais (German:  ) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the south-western part of the country, in the Pennine Alps around the valley of the Rhone River from its springs to Lake Geneva. ...

History

EGS was established in 1994 as a postgraduate degree-granting school with two divisions: Media and Communications and Arts, Health and Society. Founding contributors include thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Francois Lyotard. Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Quaternary education or postgraduate education is the fourth-stage educational level which follows the completion of an undergraduate degree at a college or university. ...

It is a fully accredited school controlled by a school council ("Hochschulrat") in which the Canton of Wallis is represented with at least one member. The school is supervised by representatives of the education ministry of the Canton of Wallis, the Graduate School of Music and Theater, Hamburg, the Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. ^[1]

Faculty: Media and Communications Division

Jean-Luc Nancy and students at EGS, June 11, 2006

(Note: the Arts, Health and Society Division comprises a distinct faculty. The following faculty list is applicable to the Media and Communications Division only, with the exception of Sandy Stone who serves in both faculties). Image File history File links WikipediaCounterVandalism20060611. ... Image File history File links WikipediaCounterVandalism20060611. ... Jean-Luc Nancy. ...

Wolfgang Schirmacher was the founding Dean of the Media and Communications division (which confers Masters and Ph.D. degrees). Professor Schirmacher retired from that post in the Autumn of 2006 and now serves as the Program Director. The current (as of 15 March 2007) Dean of this division is Professor Friedrich Ulfers (also distinguished faculty at New York University). Visiting faculty typically come during the 3 week summer seminar to give a 1-6 day course. Visiting faculty have included Judith Butler,^[2] Jean Baudrillard,^[3] Yve-Alain Bois,^[4] DJ Spooky,^[5] Christian Marclay, Sandy Stone,^[6] Donna Haraway,^[7] Klaus Ottmann, Tracey Emin, ^[8], Christopher Fynsk^[9] John Waters,^[10] Jean-Luc Nancy,^[11] Avital Ronell,^[12] and Caveh Zahedi.^[13] Studies involve two years of coursework, including rigorous on-line writing requirements based upon a structured reading list, and two three-week summer seminars in Switzerland, during which students are evaluated for their active participation in approximately nine hours of seminars and lectures each day with visiting professors, philosophers, filmmakers, and artists^[14] and spend their final three years writing a thesis or dissertation, followed by a traditional oral defense. Wolfgang Schirmacher (born 1944) has taught philosophy at the University of Hamburg, is a former Core Faculty Member of the Media Studies Graduate Program, New School for Social Research, and Director of International Relations, Philosophy and Technology Studies Center, Polytechnic University, New York. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... Image:J Butler. ... Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) (IPA pronunciation: [1]) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. ... editing Yve-Alain Bois (born 1952) is an historian and critic of modern art. ... DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul D. Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called illbient or trip hop. He is a turntablist and producer. ... Christian Marclay (born 1955) is a visual artist and musical composer based in New York, who is exploring the pattern languages connecting sound, photography, video, and film. ... Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Sandy Stone) is an academic theorist and artist, currently Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. ... Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. ... Klaus Ottmann was born 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, and lives in New York as an independent scholar and curator. ... Front cover of Tracey Emins memoir, Strangeland, published in 2005. ... Christopher Fynsk (born 1952) is a Professor in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. ... John Waters (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. ... Jean-Luc Nancy. ... Avital Ronell is Professor and Chair of German and Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University, as well as a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School. ... Caveh Zahedi (born Robert Caveh Zahedi on April 29, 1960) is an American film director and actor. ...

Slavoj Žižek described his involvement in EGS in an interview with Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche: Slavoj Žižek (pronounced: ) (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. ... Die Weltwoche (The World Week) is a Swiss weekly magazine based in Zürich. ...

There is an international summer school, the European Graduate School. It's for professionals who only have a few weeks per year for their continued education. They go there for two or three seasons, pay and get a speedy certification, a master's or doctor's. What's interesting with this school is the selection of the lecturers – there are somewhat well-known philosophers and artists from the whole world, including the filmmakers Peter Greenaway and Volker Schlöndorff and the philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and I. We three are friends. We meet there each year, are engaged for three weeks. I can bring my wife, do a 90 minute lecture each morning and am free afterwards.^[15] Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway (b. ... Volker Schlondorff Volker Schlöndorff (born in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31, 1939) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. ... Giorgio Agamben (born 1942) is an Italian philosopher who teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Intercollegiate connections

EGS has established curricular cooperation with the Graduate School of Music and Theater, Hamburg as well as the Appalachian State University in Boone and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Location Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE6 First Mayor Ole von Beust (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 3 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  755 km² (292 sq mi) Population 1,754,317 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 2,324 /km² (6,018... The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private graduate school founded in 1968 and based in San Francisco, California with two main schools—the School of Professional Psychology and the School of Consciousness and Transformation. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

In addition, EGS is engaging in an international collaboration with Beit Berl College and Resling Publishing House for the publishing of the translation of the book “Stupidity” by Prof. Avital Ronell.

See also

• Media studies
• New media
• Film studies

Media studies concerns the study of media content, institutions, and its role in society. ... New media is a broad neologism usually referring to new technologies and communication methods in the context of their effects on the established mainstream media. ... Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art. ...

Notes and references

• European Graduate School
• Beit Berl Collaboration

External links

• Canton Du Valais | Kanton Wallis Department of Education
• Student website
• One student's blog entry about EGS
• EGS at gradschools.com
• Media and Communications Program Website
• Bruce Sterling's 2006 Summer Seminar Notes
• Jamming with Condoleezza. Interview with Greg Ulmer at EGS
• EGS Press: home of POIESIS journal, a forum for material emerging from EGS work