September 30–October 14, 2025, 1:30pm
Having completed its Summer Session in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, the program in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought now heads toward its third 2025 session in Malta.
The exciting line-up of seminars is in keeping with its outstanding tradition and features the following offerings:
September 30–October 5: Mladen Dolar “The End of the Age of Irony” / Joan Copjec “Biology and the Unconscious: On Canguilhem and the Concept of Life”
October 8–13: Aïcha Liviana Messina “Emmanuel Levinas: On Freedom and Corporality” / Judith Butler “New Authoritarianisms and Beyond”
It is not too late to join the PACT MA and PhD degree programs for the 2025 academic year. Students may still enjoy a broad range of elective opportunities, available online or in person. They may also audit the upcoming seminars, be this in the live, intimate settings or via a full online experience.
Many students wonder if they are qualified for entry into EGS programs, but the EGS does not define qualification in standard academic terms. It seeks to support a community of individuals who think independently and show a strong measure of curiosity—individuals with a capacity to open to challenging thought and an interest in shared creative encounter. With its celebrated professorial cohort, it has built a rich and diverse community of scholars. Some follow a normal academic progression, some come from various professional backgrounds. Many who join the EGS have testified that their experience has changed their lives, and all have found inspiration.
The growing importance of Advanced Study at the EGS
At no time in our recent history has philosophically-informed critical thought been more urgently needed. In response to the rise of authoritarian and socially regressive movements, along with an ever-increasing volume of distraction and even menace, the EGS works to retain its seriousness of purpose, its creative impetus, its rigour, and its edge. It also maintains an unqualified commitment to academic freedom and integrity. Its role and purpose has never been more clear, and it is thus confident that the exceptional quality of its offerings will be of interest to a very broad range of participants. The celebrated professors of the EGS present current research that is both responsive to our moment, and genuinely accessible.
We want to underscore that the exceptionally beautiful locations in which the EGS community takes form are also sites in which open thought and exchange are possible. At a time when study in the U.S., for example, can carry risk, and when research in the humanities is under threat, the EGS offers an alternative that is not only flexible and affordable, but of the very highest quality.
For a statement on academic freedom at the EGS, see the recent address by Christopher Fynsk: “Study at the EGS in 2025: Inspiration and Critical Freedom in Dark Times.”
All seminars are open to auditing, with the following fees: 600 dollars (in-person auditing); 400 dollars (online auditing). To inquire about auditing any of our seminars, please contact Dr. Nemanja Mitrović (nemanja.mitrovic@egs.edu) or Carole Salzmann (admissions@egs.edu). For information on applying for MA or PhD studies at the EGS, please visit here.
