Next System Studies Association initiative

We are working to make possible the formation of a Next System Studies Association (NSSA), a global professional association of next system scholars.

Coordinated by a committee drawing from two dozen academic institutions and civil society organizations, this global network of academic and community-based scholars is building Next System scholarship through workshops, conferences, teach-ins, publications, and collaborative research projects.

Immediate projects include building a shared Next System Learning Library and organizing the first major round of Next System Teach-Ins for the Fall of 2025 and the Next System Convergence planned for April of 2025, ahead of that. Click here for a description and here for resources from a pilot round of Next System Teach-Ins that took place in 2016, as well as here for a keynote from the teach-in at UCSB.

  • Click here to join us in making the NSSA possible.

Participants in "The Promise of Next System Studies," a 3 day workshop hosted at Mason in the Spring of 2023.
Participants in "The Promise of Next System Studies," a 3 day workshop hosted at Mason in the Spring of 2023.

Credit: Emma Lesley Wright Vetter