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The European Graduate School (EGS) in Switzerland is a privately-funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies (EGIS). Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien (EUFIS). The European Graduate School is governed by a Presidential Board that includes a representative of the accrediting state ( Swiss canton of Valais).The EGS was established in 1994 for the purpose of providing continuing education for professionals. The EGS is a graduate and postgraduate degree-granting University of Wallis with three divisions: Media and Communications; Science, Technology and Society; and Arts, Health and Society.
The faculty includes, Giorgio Agamben, Chantal AkermanChantal Akerman (born June 6 1950) is a belgian filmmaker and director based in Paris, who is known for her deconstructive style and pessimistic humor. Her films are based on her observations of identity, sexuality, and politics. Chantal Akerman is a prof, Pierre Aubenque , Alain BadiouAlain Badiou (born 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent French left-wing philosopher who is currently the chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Badiou was trained formally as a mathematician as a student at the Ecole Normale Superieure ( 19, Lewis BaltzLewis Baltz (born 1945 in Newport Beach, California) is a visual artist, philosopher, and well known photographer who became an icon of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s. Baltz graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and holds a Ma, Jean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard (born 1929) is a cultural theorist and philosopher. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism. Jean Baudrillard is famous for his investigations into hyperreality, and in particular hyperreality in Americ, Yve-Alain Bois , Catherine BreillatCatherine Breillat (born July 13, 1948) is a filmmaker and director based in Paris. She is known not only for her documentary filmwork focusing on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry, but also for her best-selling novels. Catherine Breillat is a, Victor BurginVictor Burgin (born 1941) is an artist. Burgin was born in Sheffield in England. He studied art at the Royal College of Art, in London from 1962 to 1965 (A. 1st Class, 1965) before going to the United States to study at Yale University (M. He lives and wo, Judith ButlerJudith Butler (b. 1956) is a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the post-feminist acade, Sophie CalleSophie Calle is a French photographer, installation and conceptual artist. She was born in 1953. Much of Sophie Calle’s work is inspired by the use of arbitrary sets of constraints, much like the French literary movement from the 1960s called Oulipo., Diane Davis , Michel Deguy , Manuel De Landa, Claire Denis, Jacques Derrida, Tracey Emin, Chris Fynsk , Peter Greenaway, Durs Grünbein , Werner Hamacher, Donna Haraway, Martin Hielscher , Michel Houellebecq, Shelley Jackson , Claude Lanzmann, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Carl Mitcham , Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Luc Nancy, Klaus Ottmann , Hans Ulrich Obrist , Cornelia Parker , Avital Ronell , Wolfgang Schirmacher, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Schmidt , Hendrik Speck , Bruce Sterling, Sandy Stone , Fred Ulfers , Gregory Ulmer , Agnès Varda, Victor J. Vitanza , Hubertus von Amelunxen, John Waters, Samuel Weber , Krzysztof Zanussi, Siegfried Zielinski and Slavoj Zizek. Jean-François Lyotard was a guiding spirit during the founding phase.
In recognition of the benefits of international scientific exchange the EGS has established a curricular cooperation with the Graduate School of Music and Theater, Hamburg, Germany. The EGS is accredited by permission of the State Council (Staatsrat) of the Canton Valais, Switzerland, to award recognized Master (M.A.) and Ph.D. (Dr.phil.) degrees which are co-signed by the Valais Minister of Education.
